Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1852-01-26
The Next Presidency.

The Washington Republic of Monday
morning has the following remarks on the
wirc-working among the friends Of the
several candiJatcsffor the nomination for
President, of the Democratic National
Convention. They graphically describe
the conflict, and they draw faom it les
son which the friends of the administration
should nd, allow to be lost or forgotten:
We observe that our Democratic friends
speak with halHtual'conhdencc Of cffccting
change in the ADM nsiraiion at the next
election. If we remember rightly, Colo
mel Bissell has expressed Lims,Hf' strongly
on this port in the House; and Gen. Cass
has spoken Of the Democratic triumph as
n matter Of aeccrtained certainty. 1t is
well enough, perhaps. that these g.vings
out shonld be noticed. and that the pco-
pie should understand that the confidence
of the opposition rests upon no aequies-
ccnce oradmission of the Wings in Wash
ington We are well persuaded that tho
result ofihe next Presidential election will
depend on the nominations made by the
two parties. The Democrats have fixed
lifetime for holding their National Con
venion. The Wings. we presume. will
select later day, and govern themselves
in measure by the actinn Of the opposi-
ton. 1t seems to us that the Democrats
will find difficulty in selecting a candi-
date whom the Wings will find great diff
ficuity in defeating.
The confidence ofthe opposition arises
from the union of the Abolition and Dem
ocra,ic parties in the Northern States -
The result in Massachusetts has taught
them. as they think, the way to succeed
on the national stage. BY clubbing their
strength they expect to carry Ohio, New
York, Illinois. Indiana, and some of the
New England States; and they regard
Virginia as too safe for the Democracy to
be endangered by any alliance with aboli-
ton. The movements of the Barnburn-
ers. and the facility with which the main
body of the Democratic party has fallen
into the schemes of Blair. Preston King.
and the Van Burens; the extraordinary
manner in which these men came, saw,
and conquered at the Congressional eau
cus--compeling Major Polk to disavow
before the House the measure which he
had himself introduced into that caucus.
and which his friends had preannounccd
" 18th formalities in the newspapcrs--all
these things indicate the grounds of the
confidence in which Col. Bisscl and Gen.
Cass indulge when they speak OF the APP
preaching Presidential election.
In ourpolitical experience, we have new
err seen or heard ofan operation more sue
ccssful than that Of the Aboliionists at the
preliminary caucus. Ifii had been part
Of the functions of this bodyto elect Pre-
sidcni, we should have had an Aboiiiionist
in the Presidency as easily as we have
Linn Boyd in the Speakers chair Wheth-
crit was that fnc Abo.i,ioniss started the
caucus by their audacity and carried the
body by surprise, or " neither their strength
was so overwhelming as to defy opposi-
ton, We cannot undertake to say. Certain
it is. however, that men who have been in
disgrace in their own party for the last ten
years-mcn who have been supposed po-
lineaily defunct since lS40-a cabel of
l"galvanized corpses," as Mr.. Clay once
described some of them-marchcd into
the caucus and dictated their own terms,
not even permitting the Compromise men
to march out with the honors of war
/ his feat was accomplished by Preston
King, Cleveland, Rantoul. Molony, Camp
bell, Blair, and the Ferry correspondent
ofthe New York Evening Post. who was
she masier-spirit of the concern, and the
immediate representative of the Buffers
Dives, and Van Burcns.
These worthy men imagine that they
can work with the American people after
the same fashion in which they control the
caucus of politicians. They suppose that
the masses will sympa,hize in their shame
less combinations, and aid in the resiora-
ton of the Wan Burens and Benions,in the
falling, and the ground of their hope and
confidence -crumbies beneath them. D
vest the party OF the support of Sumner
Giddings, Hale, and ihc Van Burens, and
their confidence has nothing'te rcpoee upon
General Butler out of the questionable
coalition breaking lown-and what is left!
General 'Cass ard Mr.. Buclianan-J Judge
Douglas and g eneral %ool-Commodure
Stockton and The two Walkers--run
through the " hole list and where will you
find man who can stand aganstshc united
and harmonious movement of file Wing
pariy1
The policy Of the fire nds of the admins
,ruion Is obvious. Stand frm-co-uperate
ARRANGE hfierenccs-harmonize conflict
ing sentiments; organize; understand &c Oh
ntler-esrrifce i,rrsnnsl interest. and D;