New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-26
The Next President.

think of candidates, the kind souls who
would gladly take the trouble of thinking
off their hands are hard at work arranging
and engineering for their several favorites.
We do not pretend to know all, nor half,
that is doing to bring this or that aspirant
favorably before the public, but there are
some efforts so palpable that they cannot
well be mistaken, And as the Opposition
have just now an apparent ascendency in
popular regard, it is but natural that there
should be more anxiety, more maneuvering,
with reference to their nomination than to
that of the Wings. Had the recent cleo
tons generally gone our way, the case
would have been quite different.
Gen. LEWIS CAss evidently imagines
himself still prominent candidate for the
next Baltimore nomination, and therein he
is grievously mistaken, or we are. He
was never truly popular man, and defeat
ed candidates are not favorites with : the
Democracy On the subject of Slavery
he has managed to repel the North without
winning the confidence of the Slavery Pro-
paganda of the South. He has few infu-
entail supporters, and only o few, though a
good many seem to favor him in pursuance
of their own selfish ends Thus Gen. Cam
eron and his clique are using his name in
Pennsylvania onip Mr.. Buchanan's aspira
tions; but, that accomplished, you will not
find them seriously supporting o can
didate who lost their State by so large
majority in '48. Gen. Scott could beat
Gen. Cass in Pennsylvania; so could John
Mclean, so I'VE think) could almost any
Wing Statesman. The Generals recent de-
feat in his own Michigan, in the election of
two Wing Free Soil Members of Congress
out of three, expressly on the ground Of
their hostility to Peace measures was
calculated to injure his prospects had they
not already been past praying for. We
consider his chance to lose the Baltimore
nomination fully equal to that of any other
man who is looking for it.
Mr.. BUCHANAN will have no better luck.
He is light stick at best for mainmast,
popular in his own State, and with no
strength abroad bat a little he has acquired
at the South by offering in effect to run the
Missouri Compromise line through to the
Pacific But even he seemed unwilling to
stipulate for the positive legalization of
Slavery South of that line, so that his offer
did not really satisfy the Propaganda, while
it was calculated to prejudice him seriously
at the North. We consider 'Old Buck
an impossible candidate,
Nor has Col. BENTON any real look for
the nomination. The Free Soil Demo-
Gratis whether of the John Van Buren, or
John Wentworth school, 60 in to win, and
will take care to have candidate with
whom they can win. Now Col, Benton is
utterly detested by the entire Southern
Democracy Though he always voted
against the Wilmot Proviso and is himself
STAKEHOLDER, yet his sentiments with re-
gard to the peculiar institution are of the
old-fashioned Jefersonian stamp and not at
all of the Calhoun order. South Carolina
would vote for Webster any day to defeat
Benton. Now the two Johns and their dis
sciples mean to talk Free Soil yet succeed
by the Southern vote, and they are well
aware that Col. Benton is unavailable.
His name may be used in Wisconsin,
Northern Illinois, &c. to elect Delegates,
but when they come to vote in earnest they
will not vote for him.
Col. Isaac P. WALKER, Senator from
Wisconsin, is the candidate of the Young
Democracy the men with whom Demo
crazy is not mere catchword but prac-
teal and fruitful reality. The earnest
Land Reformers are enthusiastic in his
favor, and he can hardly fail to have some
votes in the Convention. But he won't be
nominated-the Slavery Propaganda and
old Fogyism in general will be great deal
too strong for that in any National Conven-
ton. The men who livSon the product of
their own labor, and only ask to have that
product fully secured to them, are not
up to the packing of Baltimore Conven-
tions-not many of them can afford even
to attend. Senator Walker must tarry at
Jericho for while yet.
We have supposed Judge LEVI WooD-
BURY of New-Hampshire would stand
well for the next nomination. He is a
man Of good abilities, fair character, anti
/ Proyiso and Southern in his bearings and
would make a respectable President. We