The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-04
Prudential PrsparatiOns-Gensral Scott and
other Candidates.

Prudential OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Scott and
other Candidates.
The approach of two conventions-the demo.
cratic at Baltimore, and the wing at Philadel-
phia-for the nomination Of candidates at the
coming election for President has caused a
great deal of hustle and business in the way OF
preparatory movements The whig members of
the Massachusetts Legislature have just put
forth the name of Daniel Webster as their first
choice-giving, at the same time, their reasons
for taking such course, aud for their opposition
to M. Clay, and all the other candidates in the
field Judge Woodbury., as a democratic candi-
date, has also been very recently put forward as
a second choice, by convention of democrats In
Illinois, and by the democratic members of the
Legislature of Massachusetts as their first
choice; and this movement on his be-
half, has met with the support of seve-
raj journals in various parts of the country
We have already noticed, as a portion OF
all this hustle and preparation, the secret mea-
sures taken by the special supporters of Mr..
Polk for his rem ominston; and we now find
the organ of the President, at Washington-the
Union newspaper, under the control of Mr..
Ritchle-coming out, in fact for the re-nomina-
ton of Mr.. Polk for the Presidency, by recon-
mending the national convention at Baltimore, to
re-unite upon the same similar issues, as those
which were the foundation of Mr.. Folks sue
cess at the last Presidential election. Two new
developments, also, of the political opinions of
General Taylor, have been published, in which
that distinguished man decidedly indicates that
he is moderately in favor of the principles
which have heretofore marked the whig party
thus making, probably, about twenty letters
from the hero of Buena Vista, besides the chance
of two or three every week yet to come, until
the 7th of June shall have passed away.
Thus we go. The hustle and preparation for
the next Presidency are heard in every quarter
The noise, confusion and dust of May day in
New York are not more perplexing and contra
dictory than the hustle and confusion of the pre-
limnary proceedings among the two great par
ties for the nomination of their candidates at
the approaching general election.
In addition to the movements which we have
enumerated, we may now add that another and
mighty effort is preparing to be made in this
metropolis, and this region of country, in con-
nection with the name of General Scott.
BY the last accounts from Mexico, it appears
that General Scott is on the point Of leaving
Vera Cruz, in United States steamer, either for
New Orleans or New York. We are not certain
to which metropolis he will direct his course,
though some accounts give us reason to think it
probable that he is now already on the ocean, on
his way to our city of New York, where he pro-
poses to make his first landing on his return from
Mexico, after a most glorious and triumphant
campaign in that country-including, by the way,
the putting an end to the proceedings OF the
ob,b or ,bn
of inquiry.
We understand, from the latest authority, that
the political friends of General Scott, in the
whig party in this city, and in the States of New
York, New Jersey and New England, intend,
upon his arrival here, to made one of the greatest
efforts which has ever been conceived, having
for it's object to make hi n, in some way, by
hook or by crook, the candidate of the whig
convention in Philadelphia, in preference to Mr.
Clay, or any others who may have been thought
of. The steps taken by his friends to this end,
in these regions, will turn out to be calm, wise,
prudent, and probably successful. Hitherto, his
name has been kept out of the political field, in
order that all the stubble in the way might tho
roughly exhaust itself by the natural process Of
decay. Hitherto, Mr.. Clay and General Tay-
lor have been the only prominent whig
candidates before the country; but the
contention upon their respective merits has
over-heated the supporters of each of them,
to such an extent that it is now believed third
man may be adroitly brought into the field, who
will probably outrun both of them. The nomi-
nation of Mr.. Webster by the wing members of
the Massachusetts, Legislature, is readily under
stood to be merely mode of placing that gen.
teman in prominent position before the party,
in the movement which is intended to make
General Scott the candidate of the wings, and
ultimately the President of the Union.
We have no doubt, therefore, but that the sup
porters of General Scott among the whig ranks
in this part of the country, will organize very
powerful, and probably a very successful, move
ment in the Generals favor, Immediately on his
arrival at New York or at New Orleans, which
ever of the two cities he may land at.
Thus stands the question in relation to Gen.
Scott and the wings. Many OF those who now
support General Taylor in this city, and who
have been supposed TO be exclusively his friends,
were, it is well known, originally the supporters
of Gen. Scott as their first choice for the Presi-
dency. We need not go further for proof Of
this than to the revelations made on this subject
by the Hon. ogden Holman and others, upon the
organization OF the recent Taylor movement
Now, at the very first convenient opportunity,
those friends of Gen. Taylor who have for their
organ the Courier f. Enquirer of this city, will
all abandon that great chieftain, should there
appear TO be any chance of bringing forward
General Scott as the available candidate of the
whig convention; and they will willingly set
aside both General Tay lor and Mr.. Clay. These
politicians never had much confidence in Gene
raj Taylor; but their personal relations with Ge-
neral Scott are of such character as would give
them the complete contro of his administration
Mr.. Webster would be the master spirit among
them; and his nomination, as well as that Of Ge-
neral Taylor, though apparently made as hostile
to the nomination OF Mr.. Clay, was really and
truly, at bottom, all done with the object of the