Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-02-07
Ghe Next Presidency.

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ton correspondence writer who evidences q
mind and position far superior to the majority
of epistleizers at the Capital--in his letter
of the 18th, thus speaks regarding the Wing
candidate for the next Presidency:
tits now, after all, probable that Mr.. Fill
| more will decline being a candidate for the
Presidency, with a view of giving Mr.. Webster
greater scope, If Mr.. Fillmore had followed
| the impulse of his own heart, and the dictates
| of his W reason, he would have done so long
ago; and yet no President before Mr.. Fillmore
from the time of Washington, has given more
universal satisfaction to the country. No one
can review Mr.. Fillmore's course, as President
of the Uuited States, without coming to the
conviction that he fulfilled the duties of his
office faithfully, and that he conducted the af-
fairs Of state as an honest, straightforward
man. Mr.. Fillmore, in voluntarily declining a
reelection, will cover himself and his admins
tration with immortal glory, and secure for
himself a higher historical fame, than if he had
Frustrated the power and patronage OF his high
position to secure his nomination. If Mr.. Fill
more retires now, he is sure to come up later as
the most available Wing candidate in 1856.
Mr.. Fillmore is yet a young man, and will yet
render important services to the country.
In a subsequent letter LIE Diable Boaeur,
again alludes to the same subject:
Mr.. Webster, left free to act for himself,
and his friends having no longer to discuss a
question of etiquette, will at once organize
their forces. 1t is confidently expected that
should Webster be nominated, he will receive
tho noydiat and ppopIDoona Sr1nporf of tho
Wing party, even in New York and Massachu-
sets. Mr.. Webster, under present circum-
stances, is, beyond q doubt, the most availa-
BILE, because the most national, Wing candidate
for the Presidency.
MI. FILLMORE declining, Mr.. WEBSTER will
undoubtedly be the unanimous choice of the
South.
But here is another extract from the same
correspondent, of a later date, which seems to
settle the matter-and Mr.. FILLMORE wiH be
a candidate for the Presidency if his friends
wish it:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The friends or MI.
Webster do not yet believe that Mr.. Fillmore
mas accepted the candidacy for the Presidency,
they admit that Mr.. Fillmore has chan
5ed his mind since last week. 1t is, indeed, not
yet a week since Mr.. Fillmore introduced a
1raft of a letter ofdeclination in Cabinet coun-
Cabinet ministers but Mr.. Webster pre-
sent; but representations have since been made |
o him, and it seems that he has yielded to them.
then Mr.. Fillmore is a candidate, and so is
and Scott: the Wing party will have
o select between the three. If | am not mis-
of these three candidates Mr.. Fillmore
the choice of Mr.. Clay.
The relative position of Messrs. Webster
Fillmore is an anomaly, but there is no rea-
o to fear at present that Mr.. Webster will leave
he Cabinet. 1t is clear that if Messrs Fill
lore and Webster oppose each other Gen. Scott
I'LL obtain an easy victory over both. Fillmore
acked by Webster's friends, or Webster back
d by Fillmore's friends, might enlist the whole
Conservative influence of the country, and OBJ
&c Gen. Scott to do what he never did be-
're-surrender at discretion.