Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-03-17
From the Boston COURIER

rom The Boston Courier
Tie .Nep Cabinet.-We DO not and cannot be-
ileve that the President has organized his cabinet
WIN the persons whose names have been announced
IN tile Telegraph, nor will we believe without fur
ti,er evidence. Ihe friends aud advocates of his
election have told that he was to concentrate and
put into activity the first talents of the country and
glowing pictures have been drawn of the brilliant cir
Gle OF intellectual, moral and patriotic individuals
which should surround the new President. Gen.
Jacksons friends have been liberal in their snecrs at
Ell. Barbour of the War Department, whom tIley
nave courteousy misnamcd Count of the Empty Bar
Ireland their contenptuous opinions of Messrs Rush
ana S>outhard have been expressed on all occasions
ana IN all places, where the of those gentlemen
could be mentioned, or even indirect ausion to
their official stations be introduced The people
therefore, had right to expect that the new cabinet
would be selected with reference 10 the conpc-
tency of the individuals. But how are they disap-
pointed! Without comparing the gentlemen now
supposed to be selected with those who will retire
from the corresponding departments, compare them
with those who might be selected from the friends OF
Gen. Jackson, and they sink into less than absolute
nothlngness. With the exception of Mr. Van Blu
rem, the new Secretary of State, and MIR. Mclean
the who is to be called into the
CABINET council, there is not man OF them who can
boast of talents a5orc mcdocrity, and some of them
are so far bci2W, that standing on the dividing
line would not be able to perceive them in the clark
profound
ters no other materials wherewth to make Secreta-
RES ofthe Navy and War Departments, than Messrs.
Branch and Eaton' What has become of his friend
Co!. Drayton-a gentleman whom he strongly and
very properly recommended to Mr.. Monroe to preside
IN the war department. Where is his late fast
TREND though once active enemy, Col. Benton?-
Where are the shrew and polite McDuffie the sar-
castle anu eloquent Hamilton, the sober and ploddnG
MeAaHe OF Delaware, those constant and active labo-
rers for his advancement to the Presidency? And
where;--yes, where is the friend to whom pertains
he owes more than all he has attained Edward Ii
v1ngston? We would ask, where is Levi Woodbu-
Hp hoIn to
sufficient to disqualify him. though he possessed the
genius of Canning, the eloquence of Burke and tho
integrity Of Job.
What has Mr.. Branch ever done to draw the eye
OF the President upon him suitable person for
Secretary Of the Navy? Whence did he derive and
when did he acquire such enviable notoriety7 Tire
people will indeed. ask, where? for not one in thou
sand OF them ever heard of the man, and those who
have heard nothing that should him to be re-
mernbered.
1t need not DC asked, what has Mr. Eaton done 70
deserve an appointment in the Cabinet? He has
written Il biography of Gen. Jackson, and though
the General has declared that if his left hand knew
or ntermeddled with what his right hand was doing,
he would cut off the offending member, yet it can
hardly be doubted that he suffered himself to know
his bographer.
IfGen. jackson has not forgotten some declarations
that he has made in letters to his friends and address
es to the Tennessee Legislature within few years
past he has probably perceived the folly of those de-
edTatIons and the naccuracy Of the doctrines they
ly casust who place all memorials of them in that
wonderful region lately discovered by his predeces-
sor, "the receptacle ofthings lost upon earth"
From The National Journal.
When the Telegraph recently informed its readers
that the object Of "arranging Mr.. Mclean into the
Cabinet" was sto place the immense patronage OF
his department directly under the control ofthe
President" presume its Editor had become some
What Obvious. He would otherwise have rccollec
ted the prominent part which he himself took scarce
ly twelve months ago, in heaping suspicion on the mo-
tives, and ccnsure on the conduct of Mr.. Adams fo
supposed interference with the independence oft
Postmaster General in reference to the change ofthe
Postmaster at Nashville. It was, at that time, no
thing short Of corruption, and not to be spoke ofir
other terms than those Of Indignation and rbaldry
that the President should presume to exercise an,
control over the appointments ofthe Postmaster Gen
eTal. Now, forsOoth, the same modest and consist
ent journal, tells that all the immense patronag
of rhe Departments is intended to be placed ditect
under the control of the President &nd because th
late faithful and able officer at the head of the Pos
fIs11.~ g.