Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-04-22

enter into the constitution of the cqbnci-
such certainly will be the fact, if he aud the
Hero have parted the good friends they have
Tvcd-and OF course the patronage of the Govern
men will still be directed to his succession. While lie
is exempted from the righteousness cf directing it
toward his aggrandizem.nt
Such arc, unque>tioaab!y, the calculations Of tire
little Magician and they appear to sag1cioas and
worthy of his repulo alton. One thing, how ever, VII
defeat. them, and that is, their being haoca-as
known they arc and will be.
The motives Of the Calhoun portion OF the min
isry in resigning, different from those of the
Van Buren, portion. The latter follow Mr. Van
Buren's example, and that OF ministries in England
the former, resign from Gisgust-from contempt
We must oscrihe different sctt of motives to he
two divisions Of the cabinet, though some conceive,
that the Joint movement the result of comnro-
mise We are disposed TO think that Messrs Ing
ham and Branch conceived it 4 favorable opportunity
to carry into execution what they had long designed
Had Gen. Jackson himself resigned, the country
would have had cause of serious congratulations
Wild clements are abroad al the ,corid, ogitatcI
by change and innovation. We may seriously expect
to be drawn within the vortex Of European politics.
The Pilot who now steers the vessel of State, ought
to possess an experienced and disciplined mind,
nerves of hardy texture, land the abilities to command
public confidence. 1t is no time TO make the exper-
imeut which Oxenstiern recommended to the obser-
vance of his son-to sce not by how little wisdom
the world governed, but by how little it couId be
governed. 1t is time to lay aside Indian fighters,
and resort to statcsmen-men whose expanded
minds embrace one view, the affairs and interests
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servaton, takes in at once, the past, present and
future, and by knowing the rocks and quicksands
upon which nations have been wrecked, Apply the
wisdom and experience of the pas, to provide for
the present and the future In the name OF Heaven,
is the understanding, is the information of Andrew
Jackson, equal to the exlgency of the Christian
world?
Curiosity is already awake as TO the sccessors of
those who have abdicatcd. Louis Mclean it is
supp sed, will into the Cabinet. One speaks
of MIR. Livingston; another of townsman Of our
own another Of Richard NJ Johnson: another of
Mr.. Buchanan: another of Judge White. Whosov
ever they may be- if united and brought together on
the principle of Van Burcnism, we venture to pre-
Dict that they cannot command the confidence of
the country.
o. The Expose of the Policy Of the French
Ministry, and the highly interesting Debate in the
French Chamber of Deputies, in which Lafayette
freely expressed his views, VIII be read with deep
interest. See Foreign head.
COMMODORE CREIGHTON has received fair and
honorable acquittal from the Court Martial, on all
the charges and specifications aiedged against him
except the one which charges him with having twice
received pay for the month Of July 1929 In re-
gard to this specilr alton he Court express belief
that he was not guilty of any int eniio on to deceive
the accounting officers of the Department. and re-
mark that notwithstanding the rreguIarity of the
proceedings, there nothing suspicious connected
with them.-.Jour Com