Southern shield., 1851-02-08
Correspondence of the Louisville Courier. l PRESIDENT MAKING AT WASH
 IMGTOM,
WAsHINGToN. Jan. 1


 busily at work in this city in making and unmakng candidates for the Presd dency, both on the Whig and Locofoco sides of the House. But think l can with great confidence assert, that all use of MT. Gays name with the next election is not only wholly unauthorized by him, but repugnant to all his feelings and wishes. The move. ment at this time is premature and untor
 tunate, for it necessarily creates ]ealousies and intrigues as between friends of the same political faith, where there should exist, espe- cially at crisis like the paesent, the kind est of feelings and the strongest degree of confidence.
 There is a very strong, and 1 think con- trolling Whig influence, in favor of the nomination of MT. Fillmore for President, and of the Hon. Wm. c. Dawson, of Geor- gia, for Vice President, provided old party lines are 10 be kept up, and strict party nominations made. No person could give more general satisfaction than has our pat rotic President, and he being from the North, the South would be entitled to the second office, which by common consent, would fall upon Georgia, she being the en- pire State of the South. All Union Wings are in favor of such a ticket, upon the con- tingency first named by me.
 There is also a very strong influence, and by far the busiest one in the city, that is for making Gen. Scott the candidate of the Wings for the first office, and Mir. Crit tenden for the second. This also would be a strong ticket, and be hard 10 beat. But
 the indiscretion of many Northern Free Soil Wings is calculated 10 do Gen. Scott more injury than all the guns united loco focoism could bring 10 bear upon him. A Virginan by birth, and a conservative by education, habit and practice, no man with the least regard for truth could mpute any thing like FreesoiIiSm 10 the gallant and patriotic Scott But when suspicion and distrust turks in every mans mind, the ve- ry fact that certain interests, who do not hesitate 10 eviEce their bitterness towards Messrs. Fillmore, Clay, and Webster, for their conservative course on the slavery question, are exhibiting unnecessarily heat ed and incorporate zeal in favor of General Scott, which will have the tendency 10 in- jure him in the Southern Whig States.
 We have also third interest, that is de- voted the Hon. Daniel Webster, and who are determined to risk every interest upon making him either the Whg or Union can didate, to be called the Constitutionalist, and which will make its appearance in a few weeks, first weekly sheet, and 10 be published in this city, originated with the friends of the great New England States man, and is in their hands. It is, there fore, no more than natural to believe, that this paper will be conducted with zeal and ability, will give its support and influence to MT. Webster
 l learn from sources that regard as ad- hitting of no doubt, that majority of the Cabinet are in favor of the nomination off MT. Fillmore, bat that probably MT. Cor win favors the election of General Scott, This, am satisfied, however, is only upon the hypothesis that MT. Fillmore will not permit his name to go before the Conven- tion, should one be called, as thus far he has refused to allow his best friends to talk with him upon the subject, save to discourage all movements of the kind. This is the condi- ton of the Presidential contest for 1852, on our side of the House.
 Among our opponents, a still more divi- ded and difficult opinion prevails as to who shall be their standard bearer; and they have gone 10 work systematically 10 kill each other off, among the aspirants. Gen. Cass is no doubt the choice of the leaders rank and file. But some more ambitious
 ,.uo already dragged to light the pledge he gave in his letter to the Balt- more Convention, when nominated thereat in 1S4S, not again to be candidate for nomination, under any circumstances. A printed copy of this letter, l saw in the hands of strong partisan of Judge Wood bury, this afternoon, at the National Hotel. and who was insisting most vehementv to a small number of the Democracy that had gathered around him, that Gen. Cass mustI be held to that pledge, or the Democrats would have less faith in him than they did before. With his consent, l copied the : paragraph containing the pledge. threads as follows:
 My immediate. predecessor in the nom- inaton by the democratic party, announced his determination not to be candidate for reelection. Coinciding with him in his views so we'll expressed and so faithfully carried out, beg leave 10 say, that no cir- cumstomces can possibly arise which would induce me again to permit my name to be- brought forward in connection with the Chief Magistracy of the country. My in- cination and my sense of duty equally dc- tate this course"
 It is certainly poser, and far more diffi- cult tr be explained away, than was his eel ebrated Chicago letter of an inch and quarter in length. And his political rivals in his own party are using it with great ef- feet in weakening the attachment of his