The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-12-19
(FIon, H.e .Nep York Tribune.
The next President.

!, A little less then two years will bring US
, TO another Presidential election, and al.
though the People have scarcely begun Ia
, think Of candidates, the kind souls who
would gladly take the trouble Of thinking
offtheir hands are hardat work arranging
and engineering for their several lavori,es.
f We do not pretend to know all, nor half.
that is doing 10 bring this or that aspirant
favorabiy before the public, but there are
some efforts so palpably that they cannot
we'll be mistaken. And as the Opposition
have just now an apparent ascendancy in
popular regard, il is but natural that there
should be more anxiety, more manGuvering,
with reference 10 their nomination than to
that ofthe Wings. Had the recent elec-
,ions generally gone our way the case
would have been quite different.
Gen. LEWIS CAss evidently imagines
himself still prominent candidate tor the
next Baltimore nomination, and therein he
is grievously mistaken, or we are. lie
was never truly popular man, and defeat
ed candidates are not favorites with tho
Democracy On the subject Of Slavery
he has managed 10 repel tho North without
winning the confidence Of the Slavery Pro-
paganda ofthe South. He has few influ-
entiaI supporters. and only a few, though II
good manv seem TO favor him in pursuance
Of their own selfish ends. Thus Gen. Cam
eron and his clique are using his name in
Pennsylvania TO nip MIR. Bachanan's aspir.
ations; but, that accomplished, you will not
find them seriously supporting candidate
/ IL l. h. g
in AS. Gen, Scott could beat Gen. Cass
in Pennsylvania; 50 could John Mclean.
SO 1--WE Think could almos, any Wing States
man. The Generals recent defes, in his
own Michigan. il the election Of two Wing
Free Soil Members Of Congress out OF three,
expressly on the grounds Of their hostility
to speace measures was calculated TO in
| iure 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 il.
Mr.. BUCHANAN will have no better luck.
He is light stick at best for manmast,
popular in his own State, and with no
strength abroad la, n little he has acquired
ii, the South by Offering in etfec, TO run the
|, Missouri Compromise line through 10 the
Pacific. Bat even he seemed unwilling te
f s,ipula,e for the positive legalizalion o
: Slavery South of,hat 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 my real look for
the nomination. The 'Free Soil Demo
Gratis whether Of the john Van Buren or
John Wen, worth school, sgo 10 wn,' and
will take care to have candidate with
whom ,hev can win. Now Col. Benton is
utterly detcsted by the entire Southern
sDemocracy.' Though he always voted
against the Wilmt Proviso md is himself
a STAKEHOLDER, vet his sentiments with re-
gard to the peculiar institution are Of the
o.d,fashioned Jeilersonan stamp and not al
all ofihe Calhoun order. South Carolina
would vote for Webster any day to defeat
Benton. Now the two Johns and their dis
ciples mean to talk Free Soil yet succeed
by the Southern vote, and they are all 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-
!, cracy is not mere catchword but prac.
tical and fruitful reality. The earnest
Land Reformers are enthusiastic in his
favor, and be can hardly fail 10 have some
, votes in the Convention. But he won't b
nominated the slavery Propaganda an'
old Fogyism in general will be great dea
too strong for that in any National Conven
!, ton. The men who live on the product o
their own labor, and only ask to have thai
product fully secured to them, are moi
/ 'up to- the packing Of Baltimore conven
tions--not many of them can afford even
! to attend. Senator Walker must ,arry a
Jericho for while yet.
We have supposed Judge LEVI Woop
BURY of New Hampshire would stand vel
for the next nomination. He is maI
of good abilities, fair character, antl-Pto
vso and Southern in his bearings, ant
; would make respectable President. We
. think he would run better than any one w
: have named before him. Yet he does no
; seem to be set forward much by recen
: operations, nor even TO be cordially sup
: ported in his own State, while there exists
general prejudice against taking cand'
date for President off the bench Of the Su
i preme Court which will weigh agans
II him. His chance just now seems siende
n indeed.
o Nor do we believe Col. WM. Q, BUTLEI
IS Of Kentucky destined to be tho candidate
i though our intelligent New hampshire cor
4 respondent considers him the favorite Will
V the party managers in New England. Got
J. Butler was beaten az candidate 'or HoV
ernor in 1914 (,hough he made great run