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Show OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. I.V these times of intense excitement Who would have suspected that any One would bo calculating, who would bp Mr. Lincoln successor? Aud yet, If "Occasional," "Oc-casional," the correspondent of the Pliita-ddphia Pliita-ddphia i'mt js to bo believed, suchis the: cac Ho writes to that paper, A new light has beamed upon pur co pic Wt have discovered that our public pub-lic opinion Is not weakened, but rather strengthe;ucd, by an admixture of the' martial mar-tial spirit; and wo arc now rciiliiing that, lain government of ours is to succeed, it wil ouly be when the edicts of the people, fairly expressed, are hekcd up" by Hie strong arm of the government, aided by a powerful army nud.ntfvy. It is true the merepplitiehmj may uot like .to see their trade of seeking and securing oBjcc,6upcr-icded oBjcc,6upcr-icded by ourgalhurt soldiers aud spamen; but may jiot the people, in tho long run, be aulcdf 1 here- may bc-inany candidates tor the presidency tmiong those who lire aiwsiing the government lu its present peril. 1 have heard theuanto of thoyouugi governor or Rhode Island, Mr. Spruguo,; suggested; ami more than one observerof bis disinterested and patriotic nction has remarked that all that he has dono has-been has-been dictated with a single eye to the high-1 Cstpositiou in the gift of the people. .Major Anderson, the silent and unostentatious unosten-tatious soldier, is another of those who have been naiucU in the same connection, and doubtless there are many unfledged candidates among tho thousands now ready to defend tho flag of the country. tor my own part, ara giai that the tempting prize of the presidency is held out to alt who are ambitious of distinction in tills great struggle. It will nervo them to rcucwed exertions and to renewed' sacrifices, and if rc can emergp from it with an established government, able to' protect and jicrpctuatc itself, it matters not to me whether Captain General Smith or.Ucucral John Urown tills the placo now occupied, by his KxcellencyTAbwham k |