THE NEXT PRESIDENCY.
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The Washington correspondent Of the Baltirrars
Patriot watches closely the menoeuvring Of n.
aspirants for the next Presidency, and write, :.
follows:
may rely upon. Mr.. Calhoun will be a capd;5,,u
for the Presidency noiens uoLens, He viii rrs
against The Caucus or Convention system or no,,
nation His friends will speedily bring him ~
the field. They expect scrub race in the nav,
campaign with four or FIVE candidates IN the 6nla
and they contend that the country and its irs,;,r
iions will be likely TO suffer less from an ele,;
of President, by the House of Represents,irsaa
from one Of those four five candidates, Vybn I.
course, would be first rate men, strongly innrss
mated with the s'odor Of nationality than 10 rs.
the risk Of getting Inefficient, incompetrnt
fourth-ratc man, through Caucus nominatioa'
selected solely account of his negative opsr'
ties, and because be IS not knOtca to the America,
people.


Mr. Cass's friends are busy very busy, ~.
mean that the old General shall be the demOcra,;ss
Oregon candidatei They mean he shall 4, NJ
Convention candidate. And as for the Gens.us "
he considers himself just good as elected 80
IS4Si


Meantime Mr.. Polk i not idle The power ~
The patronage Of the Government are in his ban5s,
The Oregon question in his hands. The ,riss.
that turn the machinery that keeps all his rivals 7
bay, or pits them against each other Ar VI III
han sl Mr.. Polk is ambitious as well as his = Is
and will not easily be taken, in this matter. 4, Il.
word Mark ID.


Now then is the time for the Wings. in an -.
tons Of the Union-east, west, north and soutt ..
be united. IL they will, they can gam 4 pIor;on-, i
victory!


An incident occurred in tie House of Ro,-.-
taiives few days ago, well worth reading NJ
Chas- J. Ingersoll and John Quincy Adams " i
generally known, have been anything but perso,.1 =
friends for years past The other dav. howera-
Mr.. Ingersoll was seen at Mr.. Adams desL MI
two venerable gentlemen Were conversing toreha9
in the most courteous and friendly manner AZ
ter Mr.. Ingersoli had repaired TO his own sea,
member observed to Mr. Adams that he had been
pleased in witnessing the meeting between Pl,,a
and Hercd, Mr.. Adams thanked the gentleman ror
the remark and then observed thar, Just befara
the downfall Of Mark Antony, Cicero made frenss
with several OF the Roman Tribunes with whom
he had been on terms of bitter enmity for wears
Ills friends charged him with Inconsistency,
NhereuPon Cicero replied, IL desire that nv IN.
Hifies may be Temporary: my friendships eternal