Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-08-24


alone !-Nat. Int.
From the Ne,o York Euening Journal.
The New PREMIER. Since the memorable
" retiracy to private life," as the Courier pro-
nounced it, of MARTIN VAN buren,, some won
derment has been excited and indulged respecting
the dgnitary upon whose shoulders the said MAR
TIN might condescend to drop the robe of State.
1t is now, however, not very perplexing matter
to find clue whereby this curious intricacy may
be unravelled.
Mr.. LIVINGSTON, Secretary Of State, it is well
known, is man advanced in years. and much too
quietly disposed to seek extra-officia business in
the collateral turmois and intrigues that have
been thrust into the State Department by bis
predecessor. He IS too staid and conscientious
TO permit himself to leave Or to confuse the duties
of his office, by dabbIing in the electioneering
schemes hitherto. under the present regime, as
signed to the prime minister. He is not there
fore to be looked upon in that capacity.
Mr.. WOODBURY. is shrewd but timid man.
He will plod through the routine Of his depart
meet ndustriousy, and perhaps faithfully. He
may possibly do something at planning, but moth
ing at executing party maneuvres. As public
servant he will labor zealously in his vocation;
but as partisan, of the sort required by the ex-
ecutive, he will be found utterly nerveIess. He
and Gen. JACKSON must look askance at each
other, whenever ISAAC HILL makes his appear
ance. The priyy councillors wig, then, is too
narrow for Mr.. WoopnunY's crown.
Gov. CAss is man whom the President will
not dare to trust. He cannot keep State secrets,
for he scarcely believes in them. His mind is too
stiff for cunning, and his manners too flexible for
the courter's straight jacket. He might do some
unlucky blabbing, in consequence of long fami.
liarity with that free and easy policy, which rem
ders man perfectly unit for lofty stratagems.
Wherefore, the attempt to convert Major EAToN's
successor into aprime minister ''proper," is out
of the question unquestionaby.
Mr. TANEY, Attorney General. may assist
somewhat in those Incidental counsels which are
considered semi-confdential. But as he cannot
always be at hand for consultation in cases of
pressing and sudden exigency,it will not be deem
ed advisable to admit hun to full participation
in the mysteries of the inner circle. The tunic
Of Nessus is. not for him to wear-though Hercu-
les may occasionally cover him with his lions skin.
Major BARRY is not the man for this service.
He is too clumsy politician. Whenever he un-
dertakcs an intrigue he spos his work by begin
ming at the Wrong end. Sedulousin fulfilling his
portion of the huge object in view-viz: the eter-
in sitting and winnowlng the materials of his own
selecting the chaff from the grain.
opening new post oiicesa at the nearest grog shops
to every mile stone in the is. mail routes & thus
charging the borders of the true kingdom of de-
Inocracy. He shall have his say, but his dictum
may not be final.
His Excellency Louis M'LANE, of Delaware.
ex- Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraor-
binary to the King Of the United Kingdoms of
England and Ireland. present Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States-he is the NAH
idoneus homo!-The shirt of the Premier was fit
ted to- his back at the City Hotel, day or two at.
ter his arrival from the United Kingdoms. Upon
him, under the supervisory instruction of his su-
MARTIN VAN BUREE, IS to rest all
The responsibility of the Prime Ministership as
arranged for the State Department BY the last
named functonary. He has been duly invested
with the regular insignia, after UNDERGOING tho
-ough catechism-the dark macula of his feder.
llism have been carefully whitewashed, and he
stands forth in all the marble whiteness of genu-
ne republicanism. purified, and thus baptized:
"You shah be viceroy. it is true,
But I'll be Viceroy over you 4"
I'VE copy the above, for two reasons, entire
concurrence in its suggestions not being one of
hem. We copy it, first, as sample of able,
popular composition; and, secondly, to let or
eaders know what views our friends elsewhere
axe Of the Cabinet as newly arranged. That
We do not concur in all that the writer suggests,
We have already said but we have ourselves reach
d the same conclusion with him. and by nearly
imilar process. There IS great deal Of truth
nd knowledge Of men shown IN his deIineation
{ the characters Of the gentlemen who compose
he Cabinet. The portraits Of one or two of them
re struck out to the life, at single dash Of the
en-. II there be single feature misplaced, it is
/ the character of the Postmaster General, who.
} far from being a " clumsy" politician, is, we