The Arkansas advocate., 1834-09-05
Fr m the New ' ofker. THE PRESIDENCY IN PROSPECT.

THE PRESIDENCY IN PROSPECT.
 It was a common remark, We believe, up to the commencement of the last Session of Congress, that nothing would be definite ly known with regard to the competitors for the succession until near the period of ad- journment. But the adjournment has come and we are vel as much in the dark as ever; and we doubt whether there Is a sharp sighted politician, even among the famed sporting circles of the Old Dominion, who lwould venture oh an even wager 10 name fthe candidates for the ensuing Presidential contest, That there viii be q National
 Convention appears to be no longer doubt fu; and that Mir. VAN BUREN will be the candidate of that Convention appears a matter of nearly equal certainty. though ] Col. JOHNSON will have some warm friends in the assemblace. True, we have seen it intimated in the journals of the Opposition, that, in the event of the defeat of the Ad- minissra:ion parry of this State in the ensu- ing taii contest, Mr. Vuii BtiieTi will no I8fl- ger be the ralying point of the great body of that party; but such d result does not ap- pear to enter at all into the calculations of 1 the party whose defeat IS therein contenl- plated But who will be the opposing can- didate or candidates? h Ohio and Penn syvania, Judge MILAN would seem to be the most popular individual yet named; while in both, as in other States, Mir. CLAY has yet strong body of devoted admirers, who will be de.erred {if at all) from renew Ing the struggle in his favor only by con viction of Its utter hopelesshess. And then, toe, there arc Messrs. WEBSTER and CAL HouN, who have each their supporters; while l in Virginia Messrs. LEIGH and P. r. BAR BoUR have been proposed from the respec- tive parties; and Ex-Governor TROUT is still favorite with hls political associates in Georgia. We do not presume that all, or even half, of these gentlemen will be ul- timately pressed as candidates for the high station; but what may be the order which will ultimately arise out of this chaos IS be- yond our conjecture.
 Meanwhile, there are various sugges- tons from time to time put forward in the political journals, which, whatever be the prospect or the propriety of their adoption, are-yet deserving of passing remark. The most important which we have noted on the part of the Opposition is proposal that, in the event of Mir. Van Buren's becoming a formidable candidate, the opponents of his elevation shall select their Electoral Colleges. But, while it can not be ques- toned that the Constitution originally con- templated the choice of President by the free and.unbiassed action of the Electors l-the prevailing usage rendering their very
 existence but ar idle ceremonv-it may we'll be doubted that the spirit of the age
 would tolerate so serious an innovation on
 the unvarying usage of the last thirty years.
 The arrangement would be likely to be de- feated, unless cemented by strong com
 munity of feeling on cardinal points, by the
 eagerness of personal preference and the
 influence of mutual jealousy. We can revert to several instances in which the friends of two acknowledged candidates have been driven by a sense of common
 danger into coalition against the claims of third aspirant, numerically stronger
 than either-as in the union of the friends , of Adams and Jackson against the tlcke
 favorable to Crawford ill New Jersey and North Carolina in the contest of "A and the more recent support of the same
 ticket in several States by the respective partisaps of Mir. Clay and Mir. Wirt in tht ' struggle of '32, but we can recall no m
 stance since the organization of parties II
 which ticket has been selected by the DO