The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-11
rhe Presidential Election.

The partv Dress and the party men are laborlng
with all thei. might to get up an excitement on the
subject of the Presidential election; but for some
reason to the popular leaders utterly inexpcable,
the people have no inclination to become excited
in relation to the matter. They take things with
remarkable GOODNESS; neither the laundering lead
ers of the wing and democratic journals not the
pathetic appeals of the gentlemen in Office, of
the disinterested patriots who want to get ill., has
the power to arouse the masses and induce them to
transfer their allegiance from General Apathy to
General Turmoil. But though the people are not
disposed to lose their senses, sing silly songs, and
play mad antics, we suspect that they feel just as
much interest in the result as though they made
more noise. Who will be President is question
at all times of great public nerest-and atthis
time involved in an impenetrable fog. Hitherto the
parties-whigs and democrats-have generally
ptted their favorites against each other in fair
and single handed contest; and we could form some
shrewd guesses as to who would get this, that and
the other State, and consequently as to who would
bear off the trophies of victory. But now and then
parties have been divided and broken up, and the
duel has assumed the character of Triangular
fight The last setto Of this kind was in 1886
when Van Buren,, Harrison, and White, with two
or three others, were put forward by themselves or
their friends For the last two elections it has been
wing against Democrat fair fight, and alternate
victory. Now, however, there is chance for va
riety. We shall in all probability have another
three-sided contest. Who the democrats may nom-
mate, depends very much upon luck and the
&c barnburners, but whomsoever he may be, they
will in all probability unite upon him, except it may
be the peculiar democrats of South Carolina, who
will go just as they please. With the wing party,
on the contrary, it may be considered as settled
matter, that Mr.. Clay will obtain the nomination.
And it is certain that General Taylor will run
against and in spite Of both parties-the indepen-
dent, southern, constitutional, heroic candidate.
Assuming that three run, can either of them be
elected by the electoral colleges! We think this
exceedingly doubtful Mr. Clay may, and proba-
bly, would get New York, in addition to the vote
which he formerly received, butthen Old Rough
and Ready would take away from him Tennessee
and Maryland, two States upon which the indie
pendents count with the greatest certainty. But
can Mr.. Clay carry any States which formerly
went for the democrats, SO as to secure him ma
jority even with New York. That is what no one
at present can say. Surprising however, that he
do not, but that many of thosewhich voted for him
and for Mr.. Polk, should now wheel into the Buena
Vista column, the force of General Taylor will be
sufficient if not to elect the old hero at least to
defeat both of the other aspirants. Upon looking
at the following table, the reader will see how the
different States voted at the last election, and it
will materially aid him in calculating the proba.
biiities of the next