°l ME. EVANS THE PRESIDENCY. >y ik^ '^H- To the People of the United States : I offer myself for this august position. Let there be an open field, and the election no longer managed and controlled by Politi- cians, apt, often, to be tainted, more or less, with knavery; and, if the step I am here taking be termed eccentric, let the hack- neyed charge, so narrow and peccant, pass for all it is worth. But it should be borne in mind that the times tend to tangency, and there may be needed a corresponding course in candidacy. Suppose a party, in a democratic State, were, in its corruptions and power, overriding her liberties, there might be occasion for a Dictatorship ; and does the f world suppose I would not be on hand? Bnt we will hope better things for ourselves, at least for a while, and travel a'.ong in a, comparatively, moderate way. I have one qualification for the Presidency, certainly not com- mon, and which ought to commend me to every man — oh ! and every woman, too, for the office ; and this is, that I have not the slightest desire for its honors, or power, or its remuneration ; and that I would not accept it but to Save the country, and enable her to reassume her dignity, and glory, amidst an unprecedented growth of loose theories, and a vast field of peculation and cur- rent frauds — ruinous, at once, to her morals and her treasury. I can say but little of details, nothing of the wide subject of slavery, and the disposal of the freedman, and but a word on the E i/r? war, in the small space of a Circular. I will, however, remark, generally, that if any one wishes to know who the, comparative- ly, obscure and humble individual, now writing, is, let him look, in pa,7't, to the New Hampshire Gazette, (Portsmouth, my native place,) for my fourteen Numbers over the signature of Junius Brutus, in 1811 ; to the Bar of that State, confronted with "Web- ster, in 1S13 ; to my Pedestrian tour of four thousand miles through the western wildernesses with my rifle and dogs, the latter destroyed by a herd of wolves in the great Miami swamp — the tour commencing in the winter of 1818; to the Legislature of New Hampshire in 1823, '4, '5, '7; to my embarcation for Greece, against the Turks, in 1825, with a very high testimonial from General LaFayette ; and to my re-election tef the Legisla- tuee of New Hampshire, whilst on my voyage home, beating for six weeks, and half-wrecked, on our wintry coast, after an absence of fourteen months, bringing with me encomiums from the great officials of that country ; to fourteen Numbers over the signa- ture of "A Marylander," in the National Intelligencer of "Wash- ington City; pending the election of General Harrison. The old citizens of "Washington will remember them, though the author- ship has remained secret until now — all the time the Hon. Pever- dy Johnson having the credit of them. My Platform for the Presidency, if any one should desire it, will always be ready — nothing kept back — 'a loophole for the equivocations of political casuistry. Every ( uestion, proper, and respectfully presented, will be promptly met, with a sincerity and candor, the glory of which shall cast into the shade all the Presi- dencies of earth. "With respect, again, to the, certainly, novel step — the tender- ing of myself for the Chief Executive Chaii of the Nation, the present eventful state of the country makes it my Duty ; for I here feel amwcrahle to (iod, for the powers he has given me, and which She has fostered by making me specially acquainted with her Spirit. And, besides, it is now quite too late to talk of a retiring delicacy — seeing the numerous stealthy aspirants for the ollice. And further, the man, whoever he may be, that hankers for the Presidency, and gloats over its emoluments, should not be trusted. Think you, People of the United States, that the South has found no itching palms at the North ? The South is wealthy. She had cause to speak loftily, aye, sarcastically, of King Cotton, for, she has hoarded up gold even now. Still- fur- ther : In addition to the first great purpose — crushing the Rebel- lion — there should now be a new Epoch of official disinterested- ness, and rectitude, and moral courage — harpooning off that loathsome shoal of sharks following in the wake of our ship of State, careening on a sea of blood ! As to the war, it must be cut short by success. The courage of our Leaders has not sufficiently savored of intrepidity, celerity of movement, combination, and the following up of achievments ; and our disasters, some of them having but little excuse, have been too slow in their recuperations. But I have, nevertheless, a favorable opinion of the patriotism, talents, and current wis- dom of the Administration. As just suggested, the war should be speedily ended ; and it can be. Long wars are exhausting ; and our expenditures of life and treasure alarm History, and blink of the throes ff Eevolution. I hope for, and expect, soon coming triumphs —