The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

CINCINNATI

FRIDAY...........DECEMBER 13. 1833.

EVENTS THICKEN.

In Ohio, politics are rapidly reaching a crisis. Political feelings have insinuated themselves into the Senate of the State. In every county the people are drawing lines and taking sides. It is, therefore, necessary for us all to speak out.

The state of Ohio has presented to the nation a candidate for the Presidency in the person of the Hon. John M'Lean. The pretensions of Mr. M'Lean to that elevated station have been, and continue to be, advocated with zeal by many. Let us enquire—who are those advocates: and what are the grounds of their preference?

To answer the first enquiry, we must advert to the political press of the State. We there find newspapers supporting his claims that have never been identified with the Republican party. In the list, we discover the Cincinnati Gazette, the Cincinnati Commercial Advertiser, the Hamilton Intelligencer, the Lebanon Star—in our immediate neighborhood—all active and untiring opponents of the Jackson Republican party. The same is the case with the whole opposition press throughout the State. It goes, with scarcely an exception, for Mr. M'Lean. But three cases have come within our knowledge of Republican newspapers in the State having hoisted the M'Lean flag—the Lebanon Argus, the Columbus Sentinel, and the Massillon Gazette—and in each case a change of editors has been the preparatory step. Wherever Mr. M'Lean has been nominated as a Presidential candidate, in Ohio, it has been done by the men of the opposition, and upon distinctly alleged grounds of opposition to the present administration. Mr. M'Lean is, therefore, unequivocally and ostensibly, the candidate of the Anti-Jackson party of Ohio.

The Republicans of Ohio have, as yet, made no nomination. They have uniformly, since the re-election of Andrew Jackson, expressed their determination to abide by the nomination of a Democratic National Convention. Two distinguished members of the Republican party have been named as probable candidates before this Convention,—Mr. Van Buren of New York, the present Vice President of the United States, and Colonel Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky, an old and valued member of Congress. For each of these gentlemen, the Republicans of Ohio entertain feelings of the highest personal and political regard. The name of the first has been long associated with the principles of the great democratic party of the Union, and, since the election of 1828, has been closely identified with the history of the present administration. The latter was a gallant soldier in the last war, and since then, has maintained a high and honorable distinction as a statesman and a Republican. In deciding upon the claims of these gentlemen, the republican party of Ohio will be governed solely by one motive—the wish to preserve the integrity and identity of the party. With Mr. Van Buren nominated as the presidential candidate, the twenty-one electoral votes of Ohio can be certainly secured to the cause of Republicanism. Such we are satisfied, is the decision of the Jackson Republicans of Ohio. Martin Van Buren Is Their Candidate

The Cincinnati Republican has, thus far, avoided a direct committal upon the subject of the next presidency. It has advocated, and will continue to advocate, the project of a National Democratic Convention; but the time and the motive for non-committal have passed by, and it now avows its decided preference for MARTIN VAN BUREN, as the presidential candidate for whom it is anxious to obtain the nomination of the National Convention. This gentleman's name is, therefore, placed at the head of the Republican—subject to the nomination of a National Convention—and the efforts of the paper are henceforth pledged to procure his nomination and election. As to a candidate for the Vice Presidency we cannot, at this time, make a public avowal, but we have no hesitation in admitting that our private preferences are in favor of a candidate from the West.

In conclusion, we wish to assure our readers, that this early annunciation of our views and intentions has been induced by a calm and deliberate conviction of the duty we owe to the party with which we have always co-operated. To maintain the integrity and preponderance of the Jackson Republican party of Ohio and of the Union is our object; and that object, we conceive, can best be effected by the nomination of the candidate we have chosen.