The Evansville Journal

THE SUCCESSION.—The able and well-informed Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot writes thus under date of the 14th ult.

I will give a piece of information that you may rely upon. Mr. Calhoun will be a candidate for the Presidency nolens volens!—He will run against the caucus or convention system or nomination. His friends will speedily bring him into the field. They expect a scrub race in the next campaign with four or five candidates in the field, and they contend that the country and its institutions will be likely to suffer less from an election of a President, by the House of Representatives, from one of those four or five candidates, who of course would be first-rate men strongly impregnated with the odor of nationality, than to run the risk of getting an inefficient, incompetent, fourth-rate man, through a caucus nomination, selected solely on account of his negative qualities, and because he is not known to the American people!

Mr. Cass's friends are busy, very! They mean that the old General shall be the Democratic, Oregon candidate! They mean he shall be the convention candidate! And as for the General, he considers himself just as good as elected for 1848!

Meantime Mr. Polk is not idle. The power and the patronage of the government are in his hands! The Oregon question is in his hands! The wires that turn the machinery that keeps all his rivals at bay, or pits them against each other, are in his hands! Mr. Polk is ambitious as well as his rivals, and will not easily be taken, in this matter, at his word. Mark it!

Now then is the time for the Whigs, in all portions of the Union—East, West, North and South—to be united! If they will, they can gain a glorious victory!