Winchester Gazette

ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

From the Western Herald, published at Steubenville, (Ohio)

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR—It appears that the Kentucky papers are chuck full of Clay for President the western states are called upon loudly, and implored and begged to stick out for a western President.—A writer in the Kentucky Argus is very eloquent upon this subject, speaking at John Q. Adams, he being, it is supposed, rather in the way of said Clay.—Now, as it so happens that Ohio has greater weight in this election than Kentucky, and as the great man of that state has been the foremost in aiding and counselling the enemy in surrounding, capturing, imprisoning and plundering the Treasurer and rifling the treasury of Ohio—and as we have a citizen of our own, not inferior in point of talents, and infinitely superior as to public services, we shall, in due time take the liberty of offering him to the consideration of the people of the west. He is a man that even Kentucky would be proud to own as her son, and is the same in whose favour she, upon one occasion, over stepped the bounds of her constitution. He is the man who during the late war, was more than once designated, by our eastern brethren, as the Washington of the West—we mean General William H. Harrison. General H. is a farmer—he is a friend to domestic manufactures and to state rights—and his repugnance to slavery is manifested by the act of emancipating several slaves which had been bequeathed to him.

A MANUFACTURER.