The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-02-03
W A S Fl | N G I 0 N.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 8, 1874.
MR.. CALHOUN WITHDRAWN.


candidates, has at length been given TO the world,
and he is no longer to be considered as one among
those from whom the Locofoco National Conven-
ton were to select the individual to be honored
by the support of their party for the high station
of Chief Magistrate. Speculation will now be on
tiptoe to know what course Mr. Calhoun and his
friends will pursue. Will they support the can
didate of convention SO unfairly formed that Mr..
Calhoun himself cannot allow his name to 60 be-
fore it! A convention not SO constituted that
he can consistently with his principles give it his
support 70 Or will they take the position of an
"armed neutrality" during the approaching can
vass! This would seem to follow from the Ian
guage of the distinguished Southern statesman,
who, while he condemns in unmeasured terms the
National Convention, as constituted, because he
sees in it an irresistible tendency to centraliza-
Observation-Disclosures of the control over the Presl-
dental election in the hands of few of the Gen.
trail large States at first, and finally in political
managers, Office -hoders. and offce-seekers," de-
clares most emphatically that he cannot give his
support to any candidate who shall give his aid or
countenance TO the agitation Of abolition in Con-
gress or elsewhere, or whose prominent inhuen-
tial friends and supporters shall"
We are at a loss to know who Mr.. Calhoun
aims at in the above expressions Surely MIR.
Clay is no abolitonist, nor do we know that any
of his prominent friends and supporters are. So
far from this, the Aboltonists of the North, East,
and West, are more bitter and unreentng in
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candidate heretofore named for the Presidency,
not even Mr.. Calhoun himself excepted. 1t must
be Mr.. Van Buren,, then, to whom allusion is
made, and who certainly has prominent friends
and supporters who are Abolitionisls-among
whom we may rank Mr.. Morris, late U. S. Sena-
tor from Ohio, Mr.. Tappan, now a US. Senator
from the same State Gerrt Smith, of New York;
Robert Rantoul Governor Morton, and Mr.. Ban
croft, Of Massachusetts the Req. Joshua Leavitt,
general travelling Abolition agent, delegate,
preacher, and stump speaker; Thomas Earl, and
others, of Philadelphia. 4.,a.
Mr.. Calhoun also declares that he "shall sup
port no candidate who is opposed to free trade and
in favor of the protective policy" Then, of
course, he cannot support Mr. Clay, nor any other
candidate, be he who he may, who can obtain the
votes of the Northern, Middle, Eastern, and
Western States, or of North Carolina, and Ten
nessee. Let the issue be- Free Trade against
Incidental Protection, and nine-tenths of the
Union will sustain the candidate who is opposed
TO the former and in favor of the latter. We are
quite willing this should be the issue put to the
people, and we desire nothing more ardently than
that our opponents viii make the issue clearly
clearly and distinctly, and then abide by it. What
say the Locofoco members from Pennsylvania
are they ready to accept such an issne! We
pause for reply.
The Spectator has justly characterised Mr.
Calhouns address calm, clear, dignified, and
impressive. The style is terse, and the language
that of a man strong in the conviction that his
course is just, and that he is advocating great and
important principles.
The Charleston Courier thus refers to the Ad-
dress
ave surrender large portion of our paper
this morning, to the Address of Mr. CALHOUN to
his political friends and supporters, announcing his
determination not to permit his name TO GO before
the Baltimore Convention, and assigning his rea-
sons at large for his course Ills reasoning
against the mode of organising the proposed Con-
venton, as calculated to invade one of the impor-
tant compromises of the Constitution, and rob the
smaller States of their due and constitutional
weight in the Presidential canvass, is ingenious
and forcible. In thus withholding his name from
the Baltimore Convention, Mr.. CALHOUN does
not expressly withhold it from the people, but we
apprehend that the one is equivalent to the other
for we scarcely suppose that his friends, into
whose hands he commits his future course, will
place him in nomination independently, divided
as the country is into two great parties each re-
solved on its candidate. We may then take it
for granted, that under existing auspices Mr.
CALHOUN leaves the field to Mr.. CLAY and Mr.
VAN buren,, and we are led TO infer, from two
significant passages near the close of his address,
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