Presidential

Sevcral important moves have been made of lale by the Presidential candidates, defining their posilion. Mr. Buchanan, of Pennsylvanin, has withdrawn, as we before stoted. - Col. Johnson is not seriously thought of as an actual cnndklale by any one. Mr. Gillioun's Ion expccled letter, datcd Dec. 21, has been published, in which he declines subïnitting his cliiiins lo a National Convention. - ■ Bul lie intimntes that he will support the nominecs of the Democratie party, provided they are sound on the two great poinls or' ■ modern Dernocracy - Opposiíion to a TarifF and to Abolilion. On theTanfï'hcsfiysi "Be your decisión what it ma}', I shall be content. But I regard it as dne lo the occasion, to y ou, and myself, to declare hat vnder 7io circvmstanccs ichatever shall I support any candidatc toko is opposed lof ree tradc, vd ín favor of the protective polici. or luhose prominent and htjlventiul f rinitis and supportei s are. I hold the policy to be nnother name for a system of monopoly and p'nnder, and to be thoroughly nnti-repnbücan and federal in its character. J also hold that so long :is the dutics are so laid as to be m fact bnunties to one portion of the comrnunity, vvhilè they are oppressive on the other, there can he i;o hopo that the povernment can be reformed. or that iis exnenditnres wil! be reduced to the proper standard." Whether Mr. Calhoun means by Free Trade a rcduction of duü;s down to the reciprocily system, or a total abolishmcnt of a II commercial duties, we know not. When canvassing his District Jast fa] Ij Mr. McLelland read extracts . ftqrn. several leUers of Mr. Calhoun, showing fch,at be was decidedly opposed tothe nbohtion of a Tu riff for revenue, and opposed also to Direct Taxation. Bm he who would gain Mr. Calhoun's , Dort must be a supporter, not on'y of Free Trade, but of Slavery. This he regards as hc most impoitant of the two. Hear him: "Much hss, sUll, can ï give my support fo tny candida te who shill give his aid or covn enanco lo the agitation of abolition in sri-ess, or etsèiohere; or 'vmose prominent and njluenlial friends and supporters shall. l oubt the sincérity of any man, who declares ie is no alolitiormt whilst at the fame time ie aids or countennnces the agitation of the queslion, be his pretext what it mny. If we lave A right to our sJaves, we have a ri'írht to ïold them in peacennd quíer. [f the Constiution guaranties the une, it gúarontíes the other; and if it forbids the one from beinff ttacked, it equallv forbids the other. Indeed he one stands to the other, as means l.o an nd, and is so avowed by the aboliüonists; and n the plainest principies of moráis, if the end e prohibiled, the means of eflecling it also re." Thus the Democftitic candidales nre narovved down to two, Cass and Van Buren. - But there are demonstrations on the other side. Webster has declared that he is not a candidate. A letter to his friends in New [Jampshire, requests them to lay aside their )ariiality for him, and concéntrate in support of him to vvhom the attention of the Whigs ïas been generally directed. He says: "The election of the next autumn must involve, in general the same principies, and the snme qiiestions, as belonged to that of 1840. Tlie country, ils permanent prosperity and all ts great interests; the cause óf its peace, and ts honor; the cause of good government, truc iberry, nnd the preservation and the integrity of the Constitulion, and none should despair of i'.s sucoess." The present indications are. that Mr. Clay's nain chance of success lies in the support of he slaveholders. They must naturally preer one of their ovvn number to a Northern mnn, who has been born, educafed in, and represen' s a free Stal e. However obsequious he may be in some points, they have ground for the suspicion thrt he will not go asthoroughy for Slavery and Southern interests as a bona Jide slaveholder.