The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-05
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.

late letter to his paper:
1t really would be curious if the
world could be made acquainted. with all
those who really aspire for the next nomna-
ton, and their views, ideas, intentions and
intrigues, in order to obtlin it. Still more
curious and amusing would it be to know all
those who are looking forward with hope
/ and expectation to the coveted prize, in iu-
ture years. could name certainly one-hal'
| OF the Senate, who are kROiDn to be- aspirants,
and probably there are not two members of
that body who are not openly or secretly an
tlcipating with strong hopes their own sue
cess, and studying the proper course and
means to attain it. That large majority of
the Lower House have similar aspirations
there is no doubt-soine hoping for it nj
shorter, and the younger portion ut longer
| periods in the future.
As regards those whose names have long
been before the people, there is scarcely one
! OF them that is not full Of hope. Gov. Marcy
is fully determined TO be in the field If possi-
bic IN 1896, SO is Gen. Cnss and so is Mr..
Buchanan-eacE and all of them. take it for
! GRANTED, IRE convinced it is their last chance
Tough there is a strange inatuaton with
many, and indeed with almost every man, us
| * S"lNo nli'SS'l' OuIlg Sd\S.
"Al men think all men mortal but themselves"
Dean Swift tells Of an Irish nobleman who
| left London at the age Of eighty. four intend.
! ing to live in retirement for II few years on
/ his estates in Ireland, In order to nurse his
! fortune, with view to return and enjoy
again the expensive gaities and dissipation Of
the Capital!! The "three score years and ten"
which have frosted the heads of all the above
| three statesmen do not seem to be received
| by either as in intmation that it is time to
think Of the calm and private life, and no long
or to struggle for position, which ii either
were now to obtain, would bring the success
full one nearer to eighty than seventy years
before his term in laborious and anxious
office would expire,
buchanan is writing deprecatorv letters TO
his friends on the subject of the Presidential
canvass, apparently TO dissuade them from
attempting TO ''buckle honor on his back"
but they very resoluely refuse to be govern
ed by his earnest cntreaties on the subject,
and persist in their intentions to push him
forward.
| Dallas, of Pennsylvania. is also to be in the
field, with jeff. Davis us Vice A prominent
politician of Louisiana has taken charge OfhiS
interests in that section, and has already
bought mp, or bought ont, several presses
there TO support the cause, and of which you
will ere long see the Indications
Hunters friends IN Virginia are determined
to push his pretensions to the utmost, and
for my own part, among all the Democratic
candidates, | like Hunter quite rs well MS any
Of them, and should like HIM still betterwere
| he from any other State than Virginia. But
it is Il serious objection to all Virginia politi-
clans, that they are so cannish--so Virginia.
ish. With most of them, as President, it
would be "the United States of Virginia.
Mr.. Hunter is also rather tainted with too
much of the Estates Rights" heresv; but in
the White House think he would mend of
! that.
But among the richest Of the rich jokes of
the season, is, that Henry A. Wise is putting
forward his pretensions for the nominatlou!ll
Oh Lordy! Oh l.ordy! that is certainly hard to
beat. George Law and Sam Houston, after
| that, may venture boldly TO avow their inten-
! lions and pretensions.
You will probably be surprised to learn
that President Pierce has great confidence
of being re-nominated. Now the preten-
| tons of Wise are supremacy preSumptuouS,
but Mr. Pierce's expectations are perfect
| infdiuatiOn.
In the first place there is, and always will
be, too many influential asprants near the
succession Cat least in their own opinion) ev-
er TO allow any man to be elected to two sue
cessive terms, IN event which none of US are
ever again destined to see. But besides this,
Mr.. Pierce has no party, and he is, so com
pletely out with his own party and friends
or at least what lcere his friends and party
thnt in n nnmppruti,. { tinn ha lnl,l,
could not obtain the vote of single State
and though, if such m improbable event MS
his nomination could be obtained, he would
probably, by party vote obtain some few
States, do not believe that if the election
came off tomorrow, he could obtain the
unbiased vote of Il single State in the Union
Seward and Dickinson, from your State, of
course, intend to be in the field, if they can
possibly do so by any means or Influence at
their command.
! Sam Houston, of course, has, or had the
strongest kind of hopes, but he has recently,
in consequence of some public speech of his,
in Texas, had Il dreadful onslaught made up.
on him over the signatures of several of the
leading men of Texas, accusing him in the
| broadcast terms of rank cowardce ut the bat
| tie of San Jacinto. Such charge, so sus.
tanned, would tell with terrible effect in Il
Presidential canvass, and would make any
party very chnrry how they took up man
against whom it could be brought
Hale, ! suppose, has his hopes also, but
| the ultra aboitionist of the Union, with all
their noise and raving, are fortunately pow.
erless, as n distinct party
Bell, of Tennessee and Crittenden, of
! Kentucky, on the Wing side of the contest,
are both prominent aspirants. Mr.. Fillmore,
now in Europe, out of the vortex of politics,
! ! believe is himself sincerely DESTROYS of re-
naming in private life. His truly severe do.
nestle affections have been hard to bear, and
indisposes him for the hustle of such a po-
! siton. But there is very general and
strong desire to bring him forward, and if he
will consent the effort to nominate and elect
him WILL in all probability, be made, and with
very high probability OF success.
Let us look calmly around and sean the
| strength and the prospects of all the candi-
dates named above, and Others of the small
err fry that may occur TO our minds, and the
conclusion think is inevitable that Mr.. Fill
more's chances are better than that of any
other man North of Mason and Dixons line,
| that can be named and he is probably the
only man North Of that line that can be cleo
ted. He is strong, very strong, at the South,
which cannot be said Of any other probable
candidate from the North, and he could get
as strong n vote as any other Northern man
in the Free States. Under present circum.
Stances and the state Of sectional feeling
North and South, doubt if any other North.
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