The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-05-18

SPscuLArroSs ON rHK Next PREsTDKScY-CLAY,
VAN buren,, TYLER, CALHOUN, WEBsTKR-TAkINe
PosrroNs-Nkw CoMBrNATIoNs.-lt is not often
that we see anv rational, sober reflections in the
"Courier and Enquirer" on any subject, except 1t
be on duelIing or " Amazone bonnets"-and least
of all did we expect SEINE calm and plausible
reflections and specuations the candidates for
the next presidency-the movements OF parties, or
the positions ot the great men ard great humbugs of
the day To find such sober realities in the " Cou
rier and Enquirer" is like finding " oasis in the
desert"-a fragment OF the Apollo Belvdere in a
Missouri prarie-or a specimen OF modesty in Col
Webb himself. Violence, brutality, beastiality,
vulgary nsoence, absurdlty, ignorance and folly,
all combined, for one day voluntarily land aside by
that concern, is as great rarity virtue IT, po
cian-honesty in a stock STANDARDIZATION in IA
natic-or meekness and long suffering in Fennimore
Cooper.
We therefore hail the following paragraphs, ex-
tracted from the Courier of yesterday as we
would the first blue birds of spring-or the early
green peas, asparagus, and salmon from Florence's
saloon, TO be repaid by powerful puff price one
cent.
From the Courier and Enquirer
One Of the first in this break down
Van Buren, and which has carried alarm into the
gency ranks is the determination very clearly avowed
of the ncy and the legislature relation the time
of holding the convention for the nomination of ocofoco
candidate This bodies the sage Of Underwood no good
Under this state of things but two alt rnatives are left
party and pack convenon OF next fall and thus
run up an independent fag or retire from the contest
who think they know the little gentleman of Kinder
hook quite as we'll DO that he and his fri have
to have the semSsnes Of convention next
not under any place his claims before the
convention of ls4 This we are assured is fully deter
mined upon; and the friends OF the other candidates
will not qu tly submit TO be thus whipped into the sup
port Mr. Van Buren,, follows Of course that there
to he hut little harmony in their ranks and little hoSe
of success.
In the meantime Mr. Calhoun is not idle. Always frank
and manly in his course and beyond doubt universally
esteemed for his genemsnly feelings and admitted ia
Tents he knows that if he only get rid of the tariff
question he would unite every ocofoco vote in the Uni
ted staes How he to get rid of that stumbling block
IN time to answer his purposes, cannot well perceve
treaty which shall for the fifteen years least dis
pose of that vexed question If England WILL by treaty
admit our agricultural products favorable terms
are perfectly willing to spuate admit her manufsc
lures generally at twenty per cent her woollens at
competition without destroying Of that
necessary articles but this cannot be accomplished in
few months and therefore will not avail Mr. Calhoun in
In connection with this subject are assured on high
authority that Mr. Webster during his recent visit to the
his former whg friends upon the possibility
OF producing division the whig ranks favor of Mr.
Calhoun Strange and almost Incredible this may sp
pear comes to us in shape which warrants abiding
t. and strengthened by the fact that his SEA- Mr.
Fletcher Webster has very recently proclaimed his ad
herence to the South Caronan Is there truth in this
rumor The Commercial Advertiser the Boston Atlas
and other papers in the confidence of Mr. Webster could
probably answer this question they thought advisable
so to de- and if they should not will editor of the
Boston Advertiser tell US what he knows in relation
We do not desire his opinions the subject the time
may not vet have arrived for him but desire
know neither Mr. Webster during his late visit the
East did or did not endeavor to convince the Lowell
nuscturers any body else, that their interest
and the interest OF the whg party to sustain Mr. Cal
What Mr.. Webster will ultimately determine
upon at present exceedingly doubtful although be-
tunes with those of Mr. Calhoun. But be this as il may
the why party stands firm and united while all the fac
loss how to unite upon any candidate with the slightest
prospect of We only therefore to stand by
our principles and all will be well.
The mixture of fact and falsehood-sense and
nonsense-sagacity and absurdty IN these specula-
tons, is very moderate and quite unexpected. The
idea held forth of the weakness of Mr.. Van Buren,
among the locofocos, is just as preposterous as to
suppose that his friends this State will insist the
November Convention at all hazards. Mr. Van Bu-
rem is not the weak that the Courier represents
him At this moment he is decidedly the strongest
candidate Of the " democracie" and the idea Of at
taching such importance to the time, or mode, of
assembling the convention, is preposterous. Mr.
Van 9uren's friends and supporters are interviewer
and is comparatively matter Of little importance
what time or how the convention may be const-
tuted.
Neither are we 10 believe that the strength and
popularity Of Clay certain and positive as the
Courier represents. The many defeats hitherto met
by Mr.. Clay and his friends have arisen from this
talse-this faDcled security Of his silly friends
From present appearances, we consider Nh. Clay's
chances as hazardous as they ever have been on any
former occasion. This hazard Is particularly imm-
nent at the present conjunction of affairs. One
OF the greatest combinations of great men-from all
sectons-and of every interes-in possession also Of
the General and of many of the State governments,
is now gradually forming, that menaces the fortunes
OF MIR. Clay TO an equal. If not much greater ex-
tent than those of Mr.. Van Buren,.
Let US explain. This new-this vast, this singular
coalatlon seems also to be known to the Courier,
without its possessing ssgacy enough TO its
tendencles-its power-and its influence on the fu-
ture movements of parties. We alude particularly
TO the magnificent project of a new Commercial
Treaty with England, embracing mutual arrange
Inent of tarits-of Duties which appears to have Sc
cured the concurrence OF the great manufacturers of
the East, the cotton planters of the south-the stock
jobbers OF Wall street-and the commercial interest
throughout-thus forming weapon entirely in the
hands OF Calhoun, Webster and Spencer to change
the whole party action of the country for years TO
The Courier does not seem to see that the be-
ginning and consummatlon of a great system of
this magnitude, in the present monetary and financial
position OF the United States and England, would
forever lay on the shelf, and set aslde all the ultra
measures OF Mr. Clay well as those of Mr. Van Bu-
rem National Bank, or a Sub-Treasury-the
distribution OF the public lands or the non distribu-
uon-'he assumption OF State debts, or the contra
ry-wouid then be considered obsolete ideas, and
nose men VINO trusted to such obsolete ideas 10
rise TO power would be trusting to feeble reeds