Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1822-01-26
NEXT PRESIDENT.

"is ID tbo iuSuuIie tOpic IN tne
newspapers. 1t Is so in some respects
perhaps from the want of any other
very interesting subject 10 attract the
attention of the Few OF
the newspapers too have come out We
ry fully upon it.-Not one in fifty has
discussed the pretensions of particu-
lar eandidaies-but they content them
selves with skirmisking about the
question. Very few of them even pre-
tend to state new fact touching it,
We observe in the last Boston Patriot,
that its Editor Processes to state the
following fact derived from an un-
questionable source:"- II has been sta
ted to us by friend not very remote
from the scene of operations, and who
has had considerable experience in po-
HtIcai management, that on or absut
the Asst inst. a deputatioD from the
Pennsylvania delegation waited upon
Mr.. Calhoun to request him to permit
himsslfto be considered a candidate
for the Presidency, and that he, after
having gently declined this oitar, st
last, as favor, consented TO be so
considered."-A corresI ondent from
Washington in the last Philsdelph ia
Franklin Gazette, on the other hand,
denies the statement made in N. Y.
paper, e" that meeting of the 8. Car
DINA delegation ard others had taken
place IN this city, and fixed on can
didate tMr. Calhoun for President.-
All this is erroneous, There has been
e" meeting here in relation to that
question. Tile n. Y. National Al.
vocate objects 10 this agitation Of the
question AT all; aud proposes, if his
republican colleagues throughout the
Union concur in this opinion, 10 ex.
eiude from our respective columns the
discussion of the preside atiai question,
an;it by general consent, the time shall
have arrived 70 settle it," We think,
however, that Mr.. Noah errs on the
other eide. 50 Four months { says lie
prior TO the election Of President,
nomination can be made with perfect
ease, ard the Executive elected with.
out difficulty" Does MIR. n. wish
congress to make the nomination. If
so, they must sit until the last of July;
for the electors vote early in Dece-
The great difficulty indeed, after all,
is this very nomination, In case Of "a
severe and irritating contest.-W Who is
TO make itP Is Congress to do it? or is
there any batter mode of collecting the
sense of the country? This is point
upon which we confess our opinion
that calm and disinterested discussion
might ''do the state some service."-
The n. Orleans Advertiser of the 1Sth
ult. is still moro pointed, He advises
his "bro!her editors, not to be too fsrs.
ward in urging the preteDsious Of their
respective tavoTites in consideration Of
promise, or hope of contingent re
ward-that the person so designated
may die, or peratyepture," tthe Ad-
yertiser uery coarsety remarks J be
hanged, long before we shal!heve an OPP
portunity 10 vote for him-that should
such an accident befali Que Of the can
d;iates, those WIN have asserted bis
claims, will be reduced 10 very awk-
ward di'emma-they cannot change
hands and cross over to another can
didate, because it is to be presumed
that they will have previously convict.
ed every other aspirant except their
own favorite, of every crime prohibited
in the decalogue," &c. &.--Rich. Eng.