Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1855-03-03
MARES NEsT-PREsiDENTI PRO-
GRAMME.

GRAMME.
The Washington correspondent Of the N. Yorl
Herald has recently discovered mares nest
He grayely writes to the Herald thatsome Demo
cratic Southern Senators and members Of the
House Of Representatives have held meeting
for the purpose Of considering the Presidential
question, and that they have decided that nc
| Southern man shall be the candidate. They
have determined that Daniel s. Dickinson, OF
New York, is to be the man. These Senators
and Representatives according to the Heralds
correspondent intend to issue an address and
to recommend a convention to be held in Vir-
GINA in July next.
The account of the HeTald's correspondent
is very circumstantial-so much so as to have
impressed many persons with the belief that
the plan he so ingeniously conceives and elab-
orately details is actually on foot So much
importance is attached to it by the conductors
Of the Herald, that they, the other day, made it
the subject of an extended editorial notice.
But for these things We should not have
deemed it necessary to make it the subject of
comment.
The people of Washington, and the public
men whose duties call them here, know what
estimate to place on the startling revelations
and the astonishing developments Of the Wash
ington correspondents of the distant Northern
Press. But the good plain people of the coun-
Try who piously believe all that they see in print
are often imposed upon.
We have observed these things with much
care, and can say truly, that for one of the re-
Violations Of these rumor starters that has turned
out true, dozen have utterly failed. They
guess constantly. 1t is their business to guess
and to write to the newspapers that employ
them their guesses, conjectures, and specula.
tons. The time, perhaps, was, under late ad-
ministrations, when they were admitted into
the confidence Of ambitious schening politi.
clans here abouts, who made them the instru-
ments by which to accomplish certain ends.
That time has passed. There are few--very
few Of them, whose associations with the states
men of the country are Of SO intimate char.
acter as to give them the opportunity of ascer.
tanning their plans and purposes These few,
we are happy to believe, would scorn to abuse
confidence, the privileges of which they en-
Joy. In regard to this great secret Presidential
scheme, detailed with such circumstantial ex-
actness and such vouble fippancy, we have
only to say, that we know nothing about it
have heard nothing about it, and have seen
nobody who either knows or has heard of it.
1t is no doubt the coinage of the writer's fruit
full brain.
The idea is simply absurd-that a few South
ern Senators and members Of the House of
Representatives should undertake, with Know
nothing secrecy and imperial arrogance, to
prescribe to the Democracy of the North, the
South, the East, and the West, candidate for
the Presidency, and mode of operation.
Who the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency will be is beyond the ken of the
wisest and most farseeing. 1t is demanded by
the necessities Of the nation, and by the perils
that menace the Constitution, that whosoever
he may be, he shall be fair, true constitutional
State Rights Democrat.
We shall not here speculate on the subject.
II is too far in advance of the time. Besides,
we leave it to wiser heads than our own to in
dictate the man. AS we have said before, we
hope that the Presidentmaking power will be
altogether taken out of the hands Of the poll
ticians and wire-workers, and that the honest
people Of the country, who made the Govern
ment and support the Government will take
the matter into their own hands, assert their
own supremacy and make their own choice.
The Democracy-the constitutional State
Rights Democracy of these thirty-one States,
can boast of a large number Of eminent states
men and faithful public servants who would
do no discredit to the mantle Of Washington,
Jefferson, and Jackson. 1t can boast Of some
who, in purity of character, honesty Of pur-
pose, in learning and ability, are worthy to sit
side by side with the Fathers Of the Republic.
That good, and loyal, and eminent citizen,
will be the Democratic candidate, we believe.
The exigencies and perils Of this dark period
demand it. But we have ample time to cast
about us and make our choice.
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