The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-08-12
PORT TRAIT BY A MASTER,
Mr. Polk .eorkiAg ,tor Second Term.

Mr.. Polk tcorking for a Second Term. IS
The following admirable letter speaks for it
self. 1t is from the pen Of one of the most dis
inguished Democrats in Louisiana and is
written 10 an independent Journal whose sym
pathes are Democratic. The writer's pen is
gifted with the power Of divining mems mo-
tives'a prefguring the future with an aston.
ishing facility. Our readers will remember
that the burden of number OF our leading ar
ticles in the National Wing, during the month
Of May last was, to show The key to President
Folks administrative policy, from the begin.
ming, to be--a desire and determination 10 be
elected second time. We have never ceased
to believe that the Mexican war in its inception
and progress was and is the great engine by
which he hoped, and still hopes to reach the
object Of his aspirations. We put these words
again on record, and calmly await their verifi
cation in the future. But to the portrait by
master hand. Here il is. Mr.. Polk will start
back in establishment at the truthfulness of the
picture. The writer he will at once recognize
in the person Of one who knows the Presiden-
tial mind from A TO Z-of one who had more
10 do in placing Mr.. Polk where he is, and in
helping 10 bring on the Presidential Mexican
war. than any man in the country. Ell tu,
Brme2
Correspondence Of The Coneordia InteHgencer.
New ORLEANS, July 10, l847.
The impression is growing more strong here
every day, that MIR. Polk is playing deep game
for re-sleclion. He has never avowed such
design TO his cabinet, for the fact is well known,
that he has little personal association with any
Of them, except with Marcy and Cave John.
son. He is indebted to Mr.. Walker for his
nomination, and enc day Mr.. w. will have to
answer for it but there are no secrets between
them. Be does consult Mr. Johnson, and is
somswha, influenced by him, but by none 9th
er, There is chamber influence over the
President much stronger than any exercised by
his cabinet the influence that often rules in
camp and court, i'll palace and bower. That
is the quarter through which Mr.. Polk must
be approached. He is man of illimitable
ambition. Cold and saturnine in his exterior,
with no relish for society, no taste for letters,
and too suspicious for confidence, he has but
one absorbing passion, and that he has grali6ed
thus far by career oil extraordinary success.
Patient, persevering, silent and circumspect,
with mind disciplined by self restraint and
trained to labor, too timid TO be in advance Of
aul
experiments, he is Of the right temperament to
succeed in politics. And this is all he cares
for. Aside from his immediate household,
doubt whether there is one human being tina,
he really loves. There are few with whom he
has any ntimacy-less still in whom he has
confidence, and this includes hundreds among
the leaders Of his party, and many very near
his person. Mr.. Polk out OF Office would be
very miserable and rather an obscure man.
Cut off from the most respectable Of his rela.
lives by political differences, -childless OF
small fortune and unsocal habits suddenly re-
moved (ron,,he only business Of le-he would
become complete hypochrondrac, in six
months. Besides, he has tasted power. For
four years he has had the privilege Of pa
tronising adherents and revenging himself
on his opponents and it is not to be suppos-
ed that such man will neglect any means
10 lengthen his term of service, Those who
have lately been 10 Washington say, that he
does not repent the distracted state Of the dem
ocra,ic party that members OF his household
moot the availability Of Cass, Woodbury., &c. that
his lale grand tours have been made with reference
to the next election and that all his appointments
to office have this one o. jet in yisw The fealty
of every Office holder is counted upon. One can
ferent pretexs, by this Administration and, strange
as it may SEEM these appointments are not made, as
heretofore, by the heads Of department. but by the
President, and nine out Of ten his creatures, alb,
solutely commissioned 10 huckster for his reelection
And, mark the prediction-he will be the candidate
Of the party. His whole power and patronage are
now directed 10 that object, and he is an adept at
management Mr.. Ritchie's declarations to the con.
tlary are all pro torma He made the same posi-.
tive assurance TO the 50 40 men, at the instant that
he KNEW the President was prepared to desert them
and he now knows perfectly well (and he himse' is
party to the intrsuc) tina, James X. Polk is strain.
ing every nerve for reelection He desires to get
up a second edition Of tho baltimore Convention,
and there trample down again the timohonored
principles and usages Of the Democrat c party-eve-
ny one of which were violated 10 ensure his nomina-
ton. Col. Benton knows this, and hence we now
hear him denouncing conventions. Silas Wright
knows this, and he knows moreover, that the innu-
Of the admins ration especially Of two Of its
departments, was sec, city, hut powerfully exercised
to defeat him at the late election in New York, and
thus get rid Of powerful rival for the Presidency.
Marcy and Cave johnson favor Mr.. Folks views
the former from hatred Of Wright and Van Buren,,
neither Of whom recognise or respect him. the latter
because he prefers Polk to any one else. Mr.
Mason's position is doubtful. He Las heretofore