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Z nd the SOutn (Sdss having ucCidIeu 'eiy '
w for Annexation) centred upon him. Stui Van
buren, had majority Of the whole number OF De-
lcgates who dared not openly oppose him and MS
nomination secured certain. But there was
another undcrcurren;. Pennsylvania had IN
s.ructed her Delegates for Van BuTen, but many
of them were at heart averse, and cherished
secret hope Of securing the nomination iof Du-
chanan, who mad taken ground for Annexation
Accordingly, though they voted Tor Van bufen
On the first. and some of them on two or three
other ballots, they took care to vote beforehand
for The rule requiring t,co-thrds Of all the votes
TO make nomination. thus blocking the door
agains, him. The moment this rule was adopted
his fate was sealed, aud he ought to have been
withdrawn after the second ballot, OF never
Blu, he was pushed on to utter discontinue; his
nominal friends but secret opponents dropped OIL
by pIeloons TO Cass and it seemed Obvious that
Cass would be nominated when an adjournment
vas carried on Tuesday evening Probably
another ballot then would have carried hun, AS
Kentucky. louisiana, and some other States "e!e
prepared to 20 over 10 him. But the Convention
adjourned for The night, and ceucuslng oegan'-
The Van Buren, men, themselves defeated, were
still! one hundred strong, and able to defeat any
nomination, though not TO make ono. hey were
fully resolved that Csss (or rather The backers o.
Cass) should not triumph. Their best man 10
pitch on was Siias Wright; but he would not
consent, and the Annexationsts would not take
han Next in order obviously stood alr Buchanan,
who might have made good run, perhaps restor-
ing their battle in Pennsylvania but the double
dealing of his friends had rendered hlm deeply
obnoxious The South had no feeling for CasS,
and had only used him as the best weapon to beat
Vau Burcn: thew were now ready 10 discard him
for any more devoted partisan. johnson would
have run well but he is mentally and physically
a wreck, and no filter for President than child.
Calhoun they could not touch and at last Polk
was hit on He was one Ot the earliest and most
determined Texas men, and SO acceptable TO the
South the Delegation from his State had sup
ported Cass throughout, but they had never pro
lessed TO be ior Van Buren,, and 50 had not cheat
ed him. The Calhoun interest could not claim
him as their man the Van Burcn men could
swallow him, though with some choking, and


they would not take Cass. So Polk was, at the
last moment, most ungraciously accepted by the
New-York men, though net Til they had ey
h.ustcd every effort for Van Burcn, and asked
leave to Withdraw from the Convention, which
vas denied them. And so James X. Polk
certainly not more than third rate p0iitlcian-
who never devised measure nor said thing
worth rcmcmberng-a tolerablc stump speaker,
with Z liberal flow Of words, but rather toe
much of a butioon-who got in Governor of Ten
nessee in '39 because the Wings ran a candidate
who could not speak and would not drink-but
was beaten on the stump, and turned ou; III a
fair iace-to-iace contest in 1871, by James c.
Jones, then a young man untIied and unknown,
and beaten again BY a larger majority in '43-is
to be the candidate of Il once powerful party for
President Certainly the man beaten twice in
succession by stripping of his own State, would
seem hardly the man topit against Henry Clay
But be this as they choose.


The nomination of Mr.. Dallas Cor Vice Prcsi-
dent is of piece with that of Col. Polk. He is
Philadelphia lawyer OF fair talents, who was
once in the L. 5. Senate, aud thence was sent on
the Russian Mission, pockcting SlS,000 for
very brief excursion 10 st. PeterSburgh. Since
then, lie has not been afflicted with the cares Of
office, and would not now have been thought of
for Vice President bat for the fact that he was
conspicuous at an Annexation Meeting in Phla
delphia some weeks ago. This, although he got
bat Is out of 260 votes on the first ballot, and
Gov. Fairfield of Maine had l05, gave him the
nomination the moment it was stated in Convcn-
ton.


Such is the Texas ticket, and such the laby-
rlnlh of chances through which it has emerged


into being. Can it be difficult to predict its fate


10" Our Philadelphia correspondent has a ru-


NOR that DALLAS refuses to run for Vice Pres-
dent, but we don't credit it. Dallas is not too


large TO run so-he must run. L the Locos can't
make him stand, the Why's must send Com
mttee and tram him. We are not to be cheated
out of q contest


Ii Dallas should decline, We suggest that
Polk and Tyler club their forces and toss cop
per to see which shall rum for President and
which for Vice. The second Office is not so ar
duous or so H. paid that it should go begging in
this uay-especially since there is no danger o.
