NOMINATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
From the National Intelligencer.
We do not know whether it be necessary, in copying
the subjoined effusion, to enter into a protest against
misinterpretation of our motives. We should be sorry
to be understood, whilst humoring a jest, as meaning
to burlesque so serious an action as the choice of President
of the United States. We copy the following for
the sake of its moral, as well as its wit, and we do not
like the moral the less for being taught with a smiling
countenance.
From the Mauch Chunk Courier.
Our next President.
Many of the papers in the United States have already
manifested a disposition to agitate the subject of the next
Presidency, and several distinguished individuals have
been informally named for that office, among whom are
Mr Van Buren, Mr M'Lean, Mr Cass, Mr Clay and Mr
Webster. As we are opposed to a premature discussion
of this ticklish question, we have not hitherto committed
ourself in favour of either of these individuals. Indeed,
we have considered it very imprudent in these times, for
any one who wishes to be an orthodox politician, to
“come out” for any body until he can ascertain who
will be most likely to succeed. Accordingly we have
stood upon our “reserved rights” of neutrality, to watch
the signs of the times, and see who would probably be
the most
popular candidate. Recent indications have
satisfactorily convinced us on that point, and as we wish
to be considered among the “originals” — the
real Simon
Pures, we would lose no time in nominating
For President,
MAJOR JACK DOWNING,
Of Downingville.
In recommending this distinguished personage to our
fellow citizens, it will be scarcely necessary to enumerate
his various claims to their suffrages. Suffice it to
say, his military renown, his valuable public services in
assisting President Jackson to put down the Nullifiers,
especially in shaking hands with the Yankees “down
east,” and last though not least, the fidelity with which
he and his uncle Joshua stuck to the Old Hero after he
found he was going to be President, eminently qualify
him for that exalted station.
