The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-06
Political Prophecies.

To the Editer of the Cincinnati Commercial:
have inst been reading, in your issue
of to-day December 30), political
prophecy by some party in Portsmouth,
Over the signature of sd" in which it is
claimed that, to insure the success of a
candidate for the Presidency of the Uni
ted States, his name must terminate in
"oR," or some monosyllable signifylng
PROGRESSED pOSteriOri, he predicts that
either Salmon Z. Chase or George II.
Pcndleton will be the next President.
ID. evidently favsrs Salmon p, and de-
pends upon the feetness indicated
by his name (Chase). with a
slight support from the con in
Salmon. ID. should remember "the race
is not to the swift" But it is not my
purpose to prove that d. is a false
prophet: on the contrary, i am inclined
TO believe that he is endowed with true
prophetic wisdom, and is IN the direct
line. NY object is rather to indorse
his prediction, and to show that d. is
correct so far as he has gone, but that,
if he had looked little closer at the
"magic glass" he might have learned
,rhiCh of the two named would be the
next President.
As far back as when Henry Clay was
a candidate for the Office of President
there was republished an old prophecy
uttered, for aught / know, before the
foundation of the Government, in these
words: "No man whose name begins
with C. will ever be elected President OF
the United States of America Now, II
we reason in the same way by which u.
arrived at his conclusions, and look
back from the present time to the first
election under the Constitution, we
shall find this prediction has been
singularly verified and fulfilled. lake
the first election in rSS. We hnd
that one of the candidates pitted
against Washington was named George
Clinton, of New York. But Mr.. Z. was
defeated, and George Washington was
chosen President. But Mr.. George
Clinton, with a perseverance deserving
success, ran again in 1862, again N leOl,
and again in 1908. It's true he succeed
ed in getting votes enough in the last
two mentioned years to make him Vice
President. But in those days Presl-
dents, with singular obstinacy, refused
TO ule-SO t02U We nave hO iOoiuNns
C's, even by accident. In 1872, we have
another aspirsnt for Presidential hon
ors, whose name began with c. viz: De
Witt Clinton, of New York-but he, too,
failed to be elected. Again, in 1924, we
have t,ro candidates with the unfortu.
nate initial, viz: William II. Crawford
and Henry Clay; but, like their prede'
cessors, they were doomed to defeat
Henry Clay was also q candidate IN
1882, and again in 1874. But the hand
writing was on the wall, and Clay was
defeated both times. In lS4o, Lewis
Cass tried to break the charm; but the
Democracy were no more powerful &c
set aside the decree Of fate than had
been their old rivals, the Wings; and
Cass added another to the list OF defeat
ed C's.
But we have precedent for the Fl
in James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce
Can you not see,
Ny good friend D.,
It surely must be
Our George II. p,
Not salmon Ci
IL there be any so infdel as to doubt
the correctness of DIS prophecy, as ex
planned by myself, would advise them
him or her, to invest one dollar green
back with Madame Raphael. No. III
Richmond street. do not charge any
thing for what l have told; but as ar
ay;depco of my own faith i would say