Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-04-26

per. to be- .,v0uching and celebrating .h. psrss.s
harmony or inc cabinet, when discoFd had already
vacated the four dep,t tmcnts 1t is asked whsther
each OF the other three secretaries supposed himself
to be deemed candidate for the Office Of President
whether Mr. CahUuH's pamphlet and the reveia-
tions Of the Washington Telegraph produced or
fastened the catastrophe! whether Mr. Raudolph in
to return speedily from London via ST. Petersburph
IN order to succeed one Of the scceders,
We have, to-day, the correspondence between the
President and General Eaton II is little vague on
the part of ,lse Secretary of War; to motives but
sympathetic, fond and encomisstic on both sids,
This is a busy, talking world, which, it'll ,cent
Gus breath, blows the wind as freely on the n,Jac,
as the cottage" But no one enquiries who wrote
the Presidents answer to the General, though most
people insist that his letter the other Secretary
~as prepared by another hand than his own. and the
wiekedest ascribe it to NJ. Van Buren,. The common
wonder 10, that President and having p,im
'ted confidence in each others abilities and virtues
should have consented ssparate,-an act which i'm.
plies that they could not trust the judgment JUS
0ce OF the People. To experience hostility and cal
jimmy is the universal and inevitable lot Of political
administrations. Suicide has never been admired
President himself, dismayed Disguised with the SEN
timents which are widely and roundly expressed
concerning his incompetence, should abruptly resign
toof-shoud act towards the People, as the Secreta.
.res of State and War have done towards him, the
fsponsible Chief Then would come Mr. Calhoun to
6ll his place. with the editor Of the Washington Tele
sgrsph his standard bearer, and train of Nuler.
from South Carolina sworn to against those
>'.vtai principles of our Union" which the exsecre
saries had "aid aside every thing but desire sup
port"
How will this total change Washington be con-
srued abroad 1t vii! be seen unfavoraby in refer
either the President his minister's his court
the very Of institutions. 1t is there
fore. sort of national scandal which mag assimi-
late government, in the estimation OF the Euro
pea6s and South Americans, to the governments of
France and Great Britain, wherein such cabinet
revolutions affect the very Of things, and
arise, indeed, believed to result, from radical
vices of constitutions and politicians. An earty
frequent recurrence of it would then inure the
cause itself of republicanism; a crisis too whsa
the principles of freedom and despotism in des-
perate conflict forethe mastery. The mischief at
home would be considerable, moreover. in the ope-
rations of the several branches of our federal sys-
tenn New men in high and arduous Office, whatever
may be their general intellectual vigor and culture
have cara their businss IN detail intuition does not
exist here; experience is indspensa Se for eff
cheney. There is no government, in which missters
OF state and the chief ma sistrate himself directly
charged with much particular enquiry and employ
ment:-so much drudgery and minute responsibility,
they in that of our Onion Hence, there ia none
in which frequent substutons, least
are so announcement and disadvanta geous for mere
business: With suitable President, they not like
" to happen,-end with such head, when they
do occur, they will admit of full, candid sa-
tsf etory explanation On the present sion, all 10
involved, mysterious or vague, that hes been sub -
mitted to the public We annex the reading of the
National IRteligenceF not only because is plausible
but it shews how variously the explosion 10 IN
Serstoed even GA the immediate thestse.
T The New York Courier and Enquirer publish
ss in letter from the seat Of Government, the
scheme of the new Cabinet, in which Mr. FORSYTH is
eomprehended Secretary Of the Navy, and Col.
Drayton, of War. MAY. Noah is said to be in
Washington; and this letter may be his, and possibly
near the mark Perhaps contemporary, if he
would condescend, could tell all about it.
ey The Rhode Island State Elections have result
ed in the absolute overthrow of the jackson party.
TIE New BEDFORD NEws.-The Lunar, arriv-
I'd at New York, left Antwerp and Flushing after
the Franklin at N. Bedford bot the Captain heard
nothing Of the war reports
The CouaHtrR DIES ErArs USts asks, "may no.
France have to battle all Europe. after the Poles
are exterminsted by the Russians. after Italy has
been reducca SUBJ lection by the Austrans Antwerp
in possession of England, and Belgium invaded by
the Prussianss
EXECUTION OF THE PrRArEs-Jamss D. JEFF
fors, alias Charles Gibbs, and Thomas ]. Wansley.
were executed on Friday at IL o'clock, upsn Billie
island. pursuant to their sentence.
9ibbss statement of horrible atrocities in which he
pretended have been conspicuous actor il satis-
factorily proved to be sheer fabrication, pro
nounced it to be when first it--phe lauda BILE
eagerness of the Editors of the Journal of Commerce
TO be before hand with their contemporaries in every
thing got the ascendancy of their good judgment
this occasion. They have enough to boast Of, after
ahis item is subtracted from the catalogue of their
achievements in the of giving the earliest and
most authentic information, Foreign and Domestic,
to enable them with a good grace to own they we've
in this instance imposed on-The fellow had heard
that "one murder makes vlain-many hero !"
and having natural anxiety for posthumous fame,
made himself the hero of all the tales of Piracy told
on the forecaste, by sailors in the first watch, when
sailing in the neighborhood of the of their
depreciation, well hero of the late war, claim
ing to have belonged to the Hornet and Chesapeake
in their actions The tale it SEEMS did very welLtO
'tell to marines, but not to sailors for Of the
gallant lars of the Hornet and Chesapeake soon
detected and caused him to own the irnposture, as