Herald Of The Valley

From the Louisville Advertiser.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Some important movements have recently been made in the State of Ohio. A meeting of the citizens of Cincinnati was called on the evening of the 7th inst. at McFarland's Hotel, for the purpose of designating a suitable person for the office of President of the United States. The Cincinnati Spy of the same date says: "We understand that an attempt will be made to induce the Legislature of Ohio to follow the example of Kentucky, which we are inclined to believe will not succeed." The Inquisitor of the 10th is silent with regard to the meeting that was solicited at McFarland's Hotel; and we are therefore inclined to believe that the citizens of Cincinnati have very wisely concluded, that they were not, as yet, prepared to pledge themselves to any particular candidate.

On the subject of the contest for the presidency the Cincinnati Inquisitor remarks:

"An advanced age we consider indispensable to a candidate for the Presidential office of the U. States. It presents a most excellent test, by it we can determine the character of a man, and decide, with certainty, upon his firmness, capability, sincerity, and uniformity of conduct; and whether his career has not been marked with acts of folly or cunning schemes of apostasy.

"Tried by age, we shall find that Adams, Clinton, Crawford, and Jackson, are alone entitled to consideration. Clinton is about 53, Adams 56, Crawford 58, and Jackson 59; while Calhoun is about 37, and Clay not more than 40 or 42. Our readers must at once perceive that, on the score of age, Calhoun and Clay have no claims whatever on the suffrages of the people; and cautious and considerate men are left to regret the imprudence of their friends in thus announcing their premature ambition.

"The presumption of Clay and Calhoun is more remarkable when we refer to Washington, who had reached the ripe age of 67; to John Adams, who had arrived at 61; to Thomas Jefferson, who was about 56; to James Monroe, who had attained the age of 58; and to James Madison, who, although the youngest chief magistrate we ever had, had arrived at the age of about 55; before they were respectively elevated to the Presidential chair. They had all, also, been long in public life, and were conspicuous revolutionary characters.

Our readers cannot but admit, with us, that age is an important test, and one before which Calhoun of 37, and Clay of 41 years of age, should not, neither can they, expect to stand, when the maturity and experience of an Adams, a Clinton, Crawford or Jackson offer to the nation's choice."