Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-04-28
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1850
HON. WIN. Z. DAYTON,
Of New Jersey.
OUR NEXT PRESIDENT.

Oar thanks are due to the numerous friends
who have co~mplimented our action in placing
the n M of WILLIAM l.. DAYTON at the head
of our columns, as the man for the next Pres
idential contest. Some congratulate us on our
~'ssagacity" IN taking the initiative in this
nomination. We lay claim to no merit in this
particular; for We ara sure that the mention
of Mr.. Dayton's name in connection with the
Presidency, commends itself, at once, to intel
ligent minds in all parts Of the land. Any
one who joins with ardent attachment to the
American Union, an ~uaconquerable aversion
TO everything which interposes a barrier to
the onward course of free institutions, must
see ia the name of Dayton, a noble promise of
a new era in the Government. And not less
will be the respect of those who, with these
views, cherish d belief that the fabric of ma
tional welfare can only be surely maintained
and carried up, by the stern application of
and conformity to Constitutional lines, both
North aud South.
Some people are surprised at the nomi
nation OF MIR Dayton. At this, we are not
surprised; for there are individuals who are
surprised at any thing, and every thing. Be-
yond this common impulse to surprises" af
Ter careful sitting, we find the principle reason
for establishment, is the fact that Mr.. Dayton
is Je%rseymanl Had we run up the name Of
some obscure lawyer Of New Hampshire, like
Pierce; or some forgotten Congressman, as
was Polk, when he was SO mysteriously evoked
from Tennessee. there would have been little
wonderment. But a hint of the possibility of
q Jerseyman being selected Chief Magistrate,
Is regarded as presumptuous-if not profanel
more fully represent the intelligent and con-
e~rvatire frieads of freedom, than Mr.. Day
on; but these persons take it that, in such
high matters, New Jersey must always be
counted "out of the United States" We
take it that the people, generally, are ready to
accept the right man, no matter where his To-
cal habitation. We apprehend that they are
sick Of men of narrow views and small states
manship, like Pierce; and, yet more heartily
sick of men who, like Buchanan, have grown
haary-headed in Office holding. There is a
general anxiety for a candidate thoroughly ac-
quainted with the principles on which our Gov
eminent is founded-known to be firmly we'd
ded to the Constitution, and, who sees in the
Declaration of Independence, more than gilt
tering gensralities." Added to this, there is
a demand for a man who has acquitted himself
with credit, in the field of practical statesman
ship; and. above all, for a man of undoubted
integrity. who. while faithful to principle, will
not be the slave of party. We believe a
true portraiture of our man and his career,
show so accurate a correspondence to the pop
ular demand, that his name will grow in favor
with every successive week.
Is there any reason why Neg Jersey should
not have q President We should like to
learn whether a State, having battle fields
which are the pride of the whole Union, and
whose sons have a record CT glory lasting as
the Confederacy, can not procure a man wor-
Thy to occupy the White House. One of the
first waves of the rising tide has borne to the
United States Senate a representative whom
Jerseymen viii not blush to own; and there is
no reason why another should not bear New
Jerseys foremost man To the highest station
In the Republic.