The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-25
TIE PRESIDENTIAL MANIA.

The lurking devil in our politics i;
the strife among a certain class of pro-
minent public men for the Presidential
oMcs. So far as one mans bad efforts
could make our great troubles, John c.
Calhoun produced them. He brought
about their cause by having "policy.n
lie was induced te invent and insist
upon that policy by no better reason
than An ambition to occupy the Presi-
dental Chair. His thirst for that Office
was so great as to cause his reruncia-
ton of his earlier political doctrines
which were Enthusiastically of Federal
type, embracing an advocacy of high
tariff and the plan of Internal Improve
positions simply because be thought
a change of tactics necessary to secure
for hiEsself the support Of a united
South in his efforts to attain the Presi-
dency. Il was merely cold, deliberate
calculation in his own favor which
prompted him to repudate his earlier
declarations and oppose them with that
lanentab!e policy which led on to nulli,
fcation and secession and which culmi-
mated in rebellion. Henry Clay's great
efforts in behalf of the tenets of whig-
gery were bereft of much of their inau-
ence upon the country by his known
.aspiEstions 10 the Presidency; Webster
.dlmmed the luster OF his great name
through the miserable concessions he
was wiling TO make in order to secure
the nomination which was tie canker-
lag ambition OF his later years Cass
belittled his powers in the vain struggle
10 become the incumbent of the White
House Andrew Johnson s lust of office
iacited him to the treason against his
party which be chose to name my
policy :" and Salmon p. Chase, pos |
sessed of a very devil of greedy ambi- |
ton, has gone the way of Calhoun, and |
shamelessly identified himself with all |.
that is groveiling and debasing in the
Presidential career IF Andrew Johnson.
The pas: history of the country affords /
10 Instance Of the success of a standing
candidate TO the Presidency-or perhaps
i. may better be stated, that no man
W hose policy has been devised for the
purpose Of securing that prize has been
successful. If there be a n exception to
this general statement it is in the case
Of President Jackson. Bat the Chief
Ma sistracy has uniformly evaded the
grasp Of its professional candidates.
Chase stands out in marked contrast
With the leading statesmen of the times.
The strong men who have made their
James distinguished in the Senate,
sumner, Fessenden, Coiamer, Sherman,
Trumbull, Morrill,, Cameron, Morton, :
ieverdy Johnson, and men of that
alibre, are as little associated, by any =
curse Of action of their own with the U
'resiiential candidacy as the nest uu- :.
nbitious of their fellow citizens. Com n
are Chase's constant itching and rest =
esq scheming to attain the position to p
'hich bis morbid mbition alone directs ;
i'm with the more self-respectfnl atti- a
lde of these his peers in intellect and n
Suppose him holding the b
flee to which he SC persistently aspires, C.
ttained by his selfish and inscriptions W
lettings, and how much is he to be ap- II
lauded or admired above his fellow p
tizens of hum bier station The great n
sss which he seeks is the temptation
hich besrays his weakness; and his q;
iIIingness to desert friends and party Il,
ID life long principles and associations tie
become the nominee of . convention bo
place hunters stamps him as lament 10
~ asd utterly unit for The position to ~
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