The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-12-11


dency.
A great deal Of nonsense is written BY Wash
ington correspondents, and published in all the
journals Of consequence in New York We do
not except eur own columns. One correspondent
seriously advises the public, by letter and by tee.
graph that he has " ascertained, beyond the posi-
bilty Of . doubt" that Mr.. Fillmore is the only
wing candidate for the next Presidency and that
Webster, Scott, and all others, are Of no account
whatever. Another correspondent, of another
color, writes directly the contrary, and says that
"Mr. Webster is the only candidate" and that
Fillmore, Scott, and all others give in to these views
and these projects. Correspondents too, will fire.
quently write editorial articles and send them to
US by telegraph, at an expense which We would
willingly incur for news and facts but We are
not DESTROYS of paying for specu,ions and opinions
frequently in conflict with our own.
Now, against the whole of this business we enter
our solemn protest, ami hope that our correspon-
dents at east viii no longer send as any rumors
picked up in the bar rooms or streets Of Washing
ton. We want nothing but sober, serious, and in
dubitable facts, relative to the opinions Of men,
their acts, their purposes, and not the wishes of
particular cliques or coteries of politicians
We have studied the political chess board some
what recently, and have taken . glance into the
iuture of the next Presidency. We have An expo
rience of thirty long years on the subject, and
from our perfectly Independent position, caring
only for the whole country, but nothing for
the success Of either party, We are more natu-
rally inclined to tell the truth of all parties, and
arrive at more accurate conclusions and decisions
than the partisans of either side. Now, after
looking the whole field from this central point
of view, and taking into calculation the results of
the recen. elections and those Of the elections fer
thirty years past, We are deliberately 6xed in the
opinion, that the only candidate Of any standing
among the wings, whom they can safely run for the
next Presidency, is General Scott; and that if they
hold national convention and construct . national
platform, he, and he alone, viii be their candidate
at the ensuing election. The democrats, on the
other hand, have whole rabble Of candidates-of
all sorts and Sizes and Of almost every color We
will not stop at this time to examine the preten-
sions, with more or less foundation, put forward
by cert ain ephemeral journals favor of Houston,
Douglas, the two Walkers, Marcy, Dickinson,
Stockton, Allen, Lane, and others too incon-
siderable to be remembered. The only batch
from which q national convention of the demo-
cratic party can select q candidate, with chance
of success, consists Of Cas-, Buchanan and Butler
According to all appearances Cass and Buchanan
will knock their heads against each other; for
neither can receive the vote of Pennsylvania or
New York. The best chances are that William o.
Butler, of Kentucky, from the little that is known
Of him, and the general rsspectability Of the igno
rance which prevails respecting his history, will
be selected as the fair weather, Union, compromise
or "spoils" candidate of the democracy, in much
the same way as Mr.. Polk was selected ia 1874
The next best chance is in favor Of q scrub race,
such as there was in ls2o-24 provided the slavery
question set in motion by Mr.. Foote start up
again and break down the old parties, as the
Missouri question did in its day and generation.
Between the years $50 and 1924, the Missouri
question had entirely broken up the old organiza-
tion Of the dem ocratic and federal parties Of the
first quarter Of the present century. 1t was q
tional and slavery question then, exactly alike in
principle to the free soil controversy Of the prssen.
day. On the ruins rose up number Of personal
factions, under the standards of Jackson, Calhoun,
Adams, Crawford, and Clay, who all ran a scrub
race for the Presidency. The result was the cleo
tion Of Adams by the House Of Representatives,
produced by union Of the parties of Adams and
Clay. This Immediately caused coalition between
the other Naturalization, Calhoun, and Craw-
ford-which led to the election Of Jackson in 1873
and the establishment Of modern democracy in op-
position to modern whggery. During the last tive
years these parties have been in similar state Of
decomposition as their predecessors were in 1870
"a. But in consequence Of the power Of the press
the rapidity Of communication by steam and cleo
trcity, We perceive already strong indications that
the cohesive power Of public plumber will bring
more rapidly all the utras and factions of the two
parties-democrAts aud whigs-to act each on its
own hook during the coming contest. Both parties
In Washington are trying TO assume the com pro-
mice platform for election purposes, and to give the
quiet gobye to secession and abolition for the next
year at least We see strong indica ion that Toombs
Stephens, e III genus Of the South, will unite
On the same whig candidate with Seward, Weed,
and others Of their cabre at the North ong before
the close Of the present session Of Congress. Gen
Scott VIII be their man. Among the democracy
like movement is pereeptible. Van Buren,, Benton,
Sumner, and others Of the North, are gradually ap-
preaching towards the secessionsts Of the South,
on platform Of the "spoils Of victory" aud in
favor Of Gen Butler, Of Kentucky, their standard
bearer. 10 will take few months to make all
these arrangements, but the machinery Is already
in molten tina. will produce the expected result.
The motive power is equal to fA pnlions of syOils
pr Gnnrn, and what can resist that
With su eh programme as we now indicate, il
there be no scrub race, as in ls2O2 (and we doub.
whether Gen. Foote can produce IT'D the next Pre-
dency will be one Of the highest contests that has
taken place in many years, bet Ween General Scott
andGeneral Batter, with military glory and bunkum
on each side. We make prediction to this effect,
and in few days we will show the premises on
which We form this opinion, by figures that can
not lie.
More Mysteries coming-Barnum entirely
Outdone.