Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-29
AfR CALHoUN ANp ME pRESIpENc,

Mr. CALHOUN AND THE PRESIDENCY
a new Locofoco paper, called the Morning Post
published in New York. has unfIred the banner
OF MIR. Calhoun. IL processes a willingness TO sui =
init his pretensions to National Convention
but II proclaims him TO be its favouriie over all
o:hers-and from the indications at the North, pro =
nounees him the fivouIitc OF the Democracy in all
that region. We give this information gratis and
for the benefit Of Mr.. Is friends in this Stato-who
if they rely upon the Enquirer, ths sworn friend
Of the honest nullif,r. will never hear any good
news about his prospects.
Ii is manifest, that a most energetic movement is
in progress to secure the nomination to MIR Calhoun.
His friends every where wherever he has any, are
busily at work for the contamination Of this grea
end. 1t is surmised, that Captain Tyler, despair
ing Of obtaining the vote Of single County, or
town or hamlet in the Union. TO say nothing of a
Ssate-has determined, in consideration of the
promise Of an Office, when his term expires to use
The pat onnge of the Go vernment, TO advance MIR.
Calhoun's prospects. All appointments arc to he
made with view to this object. What Office Ills
ExcelIeney will stipula,e foE we know not
We presume it will be foreign Mission-for there
will no; DO room enough in this country for him
when he ceases to b, PrGsident-so utterly offensive
will he be to the moral sense Of the whole peop
But the aid Of Captain Tyler and the public
Treasury-backed though it be by jealous friends
will avail nothing-if Mr. Calhoun's Claims are
submitted TO u national convention. lie will bo
juggled there as certainly as he goes before an as
| sembly Of that kind. All the Fuckers are not dead
yet-nnd the Richmond and Albany Jln.os are
yet in existence, and animated by the sime bitter
hatred towards the South Carolinian, which the v
have ever cnieTtained-nnj il will prove the more
fatal now because il wears tho guse of friend
ship. II MIR. G. wishes 70 know what he has to
expect from either Of these cliques-et him or any
OF his friends ask the Editor OF the Enquirer if he
will support MIR C. for the Presidency at tho next
election. II they get any answer, life upon il,
it will be ovasiye and unsisfaciory one. In adj
diiion to tho Editors old and inve,crate dislike Of
MIR. Calhoun, he entertains settled conviction that
the Honest Nuifer cannot be elected.
We are anxious that Mr.. c. shall DO tho candi
date Of the Loeoioco party.-Not that ws wish TO
see him eecled--bul because:
1. lie is gentleman, and In a contest between
him and Mr. Clay we should have the assurance
that whichever succeeded we should have gem
tleman 10 the Executive Chair.
2. II he carried out his docirincs-and brought
the country down to hard money currency and d-
rect taEos, he would animate Locofocosm forever
and Il he did not do that but go, into one Of his
revolving moods, he might become a thorough
Whig-when VIC should come Capt. Jack Tyler
over the Locos
T3. We believe Clay can beat Calhoun 10 a dead
certainty.
For these reasons, wo desire TO eco him in the
held-and the only chancs for him TO get there il
is TO repudiate a national caucus. We know that
some Of Mt C.'s most devoted friends concur with
US in dis opinion.