The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-03-09

ME-. CALHOUN,

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The Correapondens qE tho lilledgevill
Recorder entertaina poor opinion Of Mr.
ICqlhouifs prospects Tor the Presidency
which he deems utterly .Ilusory... Il
IOpinion ID which We fully c6ucuf viii
him, he idea cf his cblaininR Q Ma
ti0oal 'tiohvsuElon 6oitninatian ara. M,
Mr.. Van Bursh,wifla New York and Ger.
jackson against him. could only be indil.
ged bysa man whose eagss desires Ind
blinded his Judgement. ltia very imma.
teriai the issua how that convention
may be formed, whether by District cleo.
lions or S'ain Conventions The issue
will he all the same. The game which
the Van Buren, taciicians are now plav.
ing with Mr.. Calhoun. is conducted with
their usual address. They have trepaus
ned him by aft cted fears 0f the result.
into yielding hisicons-nt TO 60 Inn Conve.
tion, afer which he must. ia good faith.
abide by its decision.-Th~y well know
what that decision viii be. They have
imagni6ed his noithern strength with the
same wheedling in'ent. We are assur.
ed that in ,eality he has little or no
strength in any State north of the Poto
nae, and it is questionable If Isaac HIS
detection is not mere rase TO induce Mr..
Calhoun to commit himself to the fatal
step of going INTO Convention.
They say at Washington, that Mr..
Calhouns popularity ia with politician
only, and that on. -nf 3. Carolina he has
no hold on the mass of the People.
The Milledgeville Recorder has lei.
Ter from Washington which is well. wor
thy Of rerusal
Correspondence Of the MiLedgcvilze
Recorder.
WARRINGTON, JAN. 31st 1s43.
Tie political elements here are in a
stale ofgreat confusion and violence. The
recent movements Of General Jackson
and Others. in faver OF Mr., Van Buren,
has filed Mr.. Calhoun and his adherents
with dismay and trembling. Il is ANUS.
ing to witness the pigmy efforts of his
efriends-the giant strides they would seem
to- make for him.. Gro to the Senate, and
the first eye that meets yours is that of
Calhoun, whose yena eye is kept as stead
lastly fixed upon The door as the tabled
genius IF Avarice that presides over the
pits of Golconda. Let a stranger but en-.
ter. with whom he has but passing ac.
quaintance, and whom. he has not met be-
fore during the session, and he promptly
flies to shake his hand with all the ardours
Of devotion and anxious friendship. Ills
great eagerness, and zeal. Of his friends
| render HIM aud them the subject Of unl~
versal laughter. He has, by the insinceri-
lty Of his conduct, placed 'himselfin a po'
sitlon truly ridiculous. con'euptible, and
devoid Of all sym 5athy. You know thai
no man has gone farther than hi, TO ere
ate the belief IN fhe South. that the Dem
ocraiic pRrty at the North were adverse
in feeling to the institutions Of slavery.
This WIS done when his hatred was Sd
strong against Mr.. Van Duren. Wher
he turned over 10 the support Of Vans
fortunes, he declared that the Northern
Democracy were aft that ssheafs could des-
ire but that His was former allies, the
Northern Wings, could non be trusted
Well, events rolled on--Van was defsa
ted-and in due course Of time Mr.
Clay was spoken, of az the. Wing candi.
date FOR the Presfdency. To bias. an hi!
hopes, 10 freeze up public feeling for hin
| in the bud, the Northern Democracy nj
| ted with the AboE;t;Onist ID New York
Ohio, and Massachusetts; and BY that ia
ion defeated Mr.. Gays friends at ID,
Hate fall elections. For this triumph tn
whole Democratic party 1 ave srejoice,
with exceeding grest ioy land non
more so than JoHN G.. CALHOUN.
The Victory ID now thought TO besdecls