The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-05-08
THE PRESIDENCY.

The whole country is rife with specula-
ton and conjecture in regard to who are
to be the candidates for the Presidency
at the next election. We have been
somewhat pleased to notice that in some
portions of the Union. the Republicans
are urging the nomination of Judge Nc
Lean.
We notice this movement with pleas.
ure from the fact that we have always
had great confidence in the man, and be.
cause we believe that were the interests of
this country in the keeping of such men
as Judge Mclean, our people would al
ways have an assurance that they would
be properly protected and cared for. In
the hands Of such men, the government
would be administered with an eye to the
welfare and prosperity of the Republic.
and not with view to the success of any
party, or the aggrandizement of political
favorites. .,s..ft
AS man Of integrity, and as chris
tian, Judge Mclean occupies as high and
enviable position as any man in the
land; and AS Statesman and jurist, be is
not surpassed by any man who has yet
been named in connection with the Pres
idency.
Ordinarily, when the contest for place
and power is confined to professed poll
ticians, we feel like standing back and al
lowing them to settle it among them
selves, for then it is matter of little con-
sequence who succeeds. But when q
man like Judge Mclean, who is celebra-
ted alike for his honesty Of purpose, pu-
rity OF heart, and patriotism. is dragged
into the arena, we feel that it is incumbent
upon us, as good citizen, to say thus
much in his behalf.
In these days of political intrigue, pee
lation and fraud, the people of this coun-
try want just such a man at the helm of
the great ship of State--a man in whose
integrity, honesty and ability, they have
the most implicit and unbounded conf
dence; man in whose hands they can
confide their interests without the least
fear of betrayal. In our opinion, he is
not only the best, but the strongest man,
named in connection with that Office.
A correspondent of the N. Y, Tribune
in speaking upon this subject. makes use
Of the following language:-
A leading Southern man. of large po-
iitical experience and acknon lodged saga
city, who has just returned from tour
through the States Of North Carolina,
Tennessee and Kentucky, expresses a
confident opinion as the result of his OBJ
servation and inquiry, thatif the anti-Ne
braska men select some such candidate
as John Mclean for President, and John
Bell or Sam Houston for Vice President,
the whole clamor of sectinnality will be
DESTROYED and a National complexion
given to the ticket. There is force in this
suggestion-not particularly as applied
to the South, from which no very materi-
al assistance can be expected under the
most propiiious circumstances-but with
reference to large and important inter-
est in the Free States, which, while op-
posed to the Nebraska bill in allits pha-
ses, is essentially conservative, and must
be addressed through candidate of tried
character and acknowledged weight with
fthe country. 1t is very well understood
here that Judge Mclean entertains the
opinion that the Missouri Compromise
| was constitutional, and its repeal was a
violation Of faith and compact. Neither
is it any secretthat he recognizes now. as
he has always heretofore done, the right
Of Congress to prohibit Slavery in the
Territories. deriving it from the police
power by which that or any other exclu-
sion might be exercised. In a word,
without being obnoxiously identified with
the issue. he is as sound upon it as any
who figured more prominently in the con-
test, and perhaps even more SO than some
of its professed champions. At all events,
his views have been most frankly express
sed throughout, and while they have not
been obtruded upon the public, his friends
have been aware that they could be OBJ
tanned on any proper occasion.