Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-09-03
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| II VI.
 We have reviewed as briefly as we could this correspondence. Our readers can now judge for themselves. That General Jackson has acted as becomes man and friend, we
 have abundant reason to believe; and that he felt for his friend, it is most true; but that he acted as IS represented in the correspondence ot MT lngham, we do not, cannot, believe.- The subsequent conduct of Messrs Ingham and Branch shows that the cabinet was politi- cally divided. These two gentlemen are SUD- porters of MT Calhoun for the presidency.-
 The friends of MT Ingham in Philadelphia. have, to the number of six, already come out with an address to the people of the United States, in which they declare their abandon ment of General Jackson, for reelection to the Presidency. This address has been CO., pied with eXultation in the United States Tele- graph. Very shortly Mir Calhoun will be an- nounced by them all as the candidate of the fachon for the Presidency, in opposition to Gen. Jackson. This maneuvre proves that the cabinet was politically divided, and that the dismissal of Messrs Ingham, Branch and Berrien, is not to be ascribed to their refusal to associate with MT Eaton's wife, but cer- tainly to the attempt to make their respective offices, their influence and patronage, sub serve the views of their principal, MT John C. Calhoun. If General Jackson had kept in his cabinet, MT Eaton and MT Van Buren. he would have been to blame. and desor, e., tbe eccsfsJifc ot-his fiiehas. But Inc dismissed them all; and has made choice of men to com pose his cabinet, who, it is expected, will have the public interests constantly in view; who will discharge faithfully the duties assigned them; who will not make their offices, influ- ence and patronage, subserve the political ambition of other men; and who will not stoop so low as to be involved in quarrels which do not suit the gravity of men who pretend to be "rulers of the naton"
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 Notwithstanding the discord in the cabinet, the public business did not suffer, and the loperations of the government went on as Ismoothly as if Messrs Ingham, Branch and Berricn, had condeScendcd to invite Mrs Ea- ton to their "large harties." Why? Be- cause the master spirit which presided at these operations had energy enough to keep all the officers of the government, great and small, secretaries and subordinates, within their proper sphere, and to compel them to discharge their official duties with despatch and faithfulness, if not with pleasure and good intention. By his energy he silenced the factious conduct of the members of his cabi- net, and by the wisdom of his measures, he elicited from them an unanimous assent. But at the same time, how the man must have grievedl To see himself surrounded, not by friends, as he had right to expect, who would with cheerfulness help him to do jus tice to the public voice which had called him to the chief magistracy of the Union; not by men who had only the public good in view; but by men who were striving to oust one ano- ther from the offices they respectively held, and who were endeavoring, by plots and schemes, to establish the election of favorite candidates on some sure foundation, and that at the expense of the public business, and to the detriment of the public good. Laboring under such conflicting elements, and having constantly displayed before him the jarring pretensions and political ambition of the mem- bers of his cabinet, who, besides General Jackson, could have withstood it so long? Who could have with all these disadvantages, carried on so successfully the business of the government? No one else. But he was soon aware that he could not stand it much longer; hence the complete change of his cabinet; which we are glad to perceive, meets the ap- probation of the people ofthe United States