DOCKYMENT.
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,
while 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 (Pa.) 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 favor 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 anybody 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 wished 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.
