The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-11-06
THE PRESIDENCY.

date in the field for the Presidency, and 9
dozen Democrats. So far the friends of the
old fogies, calling themselves veterans, have
made stont fight for ascendaney but a
country is never older than one generation
the living one being considerably less than
third of century.
You may rely; pretty certainly, on the
candidacy OF Henry Clay, who will certain
ly be in the field, having juvanised al Ash
land, and drank largely of the waters of po.
litical oblivion. He is every inch a man
an entire mana patriot, and will electrify
the country once more with his name.
Next comes the 'Cod-like Daniel" He
looks fresh, hale and heary-wihout a yes
tge of gout, rheumatism or hmbago. He
feels he has mission to fulfil, and is ready
for the crisis. His friends are very active,
and his admirers as numerous as the friends
o: The Union.
Mr.. Fillmore has resolved TO wait till he
is asked and bushes with maiden fnodesty
as often as the Presidency is mentioned IN
his presence.
MIR. Crittenden has selected screw-pro-
peller for the race he is thus ready to go
| ahead, fair wind or foul.
Gen. Scott's friends seem 10 be dishearen-
ell by the results in Pennsylvania and Ohio
but hope for better things after the meeting
of Congress. Their motto is nil desperan.
dun
General Wool has been here on a recon-
noitering expedition; but the result has no.
yet transpired.
General Cass is strong as ever in the affec-
tons of the people though powerful COM
binalion of politicians is arayed in arms a.
gainst him.
Every young man under fifty have seen
expresses preference for Donglas but the
latter is ready TO yield TO any man who can
unite the party better than himself A very
fair and safe offer
The Southern Press proposes that the ex-
trene South should no, go INTO Convention
at all, but run Mason of Virginia, and some
other Nu;fier, for President and Vice Presi-
dent, with view 10 unite tie Southern vote.
This, believe, is The sixty-sixih humbug
within the last three years."
In subsequent letter he says -
"There are considerable troubles growing
out Of the 18th Article Of the Mexican Trea-
Y, by which our government; pledged itself
TO protect the Mexicans from the ravages of
the Indians. If some more energetic meas
ures are not resoried 10, Mexico will soon
figure up claims against our treasury, equal
TO the whole revenue from customs. II was
this 18th Article that caused all the trouble
in the Senate, at me time the treaty was be-
fore that body, in secret session, and it is
precisely the article which MIR. Trist, then
chief clerk of the State Department, inserted
in the treaty, against the instructions of the
government. Eir Douglas voted against the
treaty on that account, and foretold the
trouble and expense it would put us TO.
Speaking of Judge Douglas, must not
forget pretty remark of his, made the 9TH
er day 10 some of his friends. The conver-
sation turning on the next Presidency, ''Gen-
tlemen," said Mr.. Douglas, ~ care not one
straw what the Convention al Baltimore may
do in regard TO that matter, provided they
nominate man who can unite the party
and be elected. If there are men who will
not stump it for me, will stump it for them
there is no mar whom the Convention can
nominate that will cheerfully support"
General Wool is still here, planning bat
ties it is however suspected that he will
have TO be satisfied with Bucna Vista, "a fine
yiew.)
The most prominen: candidate for the
Speakership, seems TO be Linn Boyd, Of
KY, and the most prommeut candidate for
Clerk Of the House, Col. John w. Forney,
of our city, who he's more than twice earned
that honor. There seems 10 be a general
feeling here that the Office is due 10 him, and
he will, no doubt, prove the strongest candi.
date fol the place.
l have not been able, as yet, 10 do justice
TO the work of Calhoun, the political Hamlet
soliloquizing among the dry bones of South
Carolina but If Mr.. Calhoun were not
known as Statesman, no one, from merely
reading his book, would have had the slight
est suspicion of tie fact. He labors through
sixty pages TO prove that We are not a nation
and that our government being 'Jederap for
bids all such natl ons as reasonable, though
the word "federaln is not TO be found in the
Constitution The book also evinces to-
tai obsence-I may say suppression-of
historical knowledge, coupled with an i'm
mense elaboration of few abstract notions,
which no scientific mind would receive oh.
erwise than as so many hypothesis, but
which Mr.. Calhoun lays Gown as axioms
from which he fcrmuiaes and argues, with
vast anou.i of slippery dialectics. He
.orge.s that thern is nothing SO hasy as the
demonstration of a proposition which he
takes for granted in the outset. This work
OF Calhoun's will no more add 70 his fame
as Statesman, than Sir Isaac Newton's
work on the Apocalypse has added to his
reputation as mathematician. Says Meph-
istopheles to the student;
tI tell thee friend, q man who speeuiates,
| Is like beas, upon barren heath,
Starving, and led in circles by the devil;
While far beyond him fresh the meadows
bloom"
OBSERVER,