Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-09-03

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 From the Georgia Journal.
 Paragraphs on the circumstances avhich led to the Lqte
 changes im President Jackson's Cabinet.
 1T l.
 It is well known that we did not approve the choice by General Jackson of Messrs Eaton, Ingham, and Branch, as heads of three of the four principal departments of the Executive. It was then our impression that talents and industry, virtue and patriotism, would be wanting in the discharge of the duties attach ed to those offices, and that harmony would or could not prevail among the members of cabinet thus composed. The event has ve- rihed our impression, Discord prevailed in the Cabinet, and Gen. Jackson had to change five of the principal officers of the Govern ment, in order to introduce harmony in the councils of the Executive department, so es- sentlal to a wise and beneficial administration of the internal and foreign affairs of the coun- try. The correspondence before the public shows plainly that discord, both personal and political, prevailed in the cabinet, which, whatever may have been it's origin, did em- barrass the operations of the Executive Whether it originated in the political ambi- tion of MT Calhoun and MT Van Buren; or wh ,tssr it originated in the refusal of Messrs ngham, Branch, and Berrien, to permit their respective families to associate with that of MT Eaton, it matters not. General Jackson found that he could not proceed in the dis charge of his duties, and do justice to the country, and to the friends who placed him in the Executive chair, with divided cabi- | net, with discord and personal enmty pre- vailing among all the members-among men from whom he expected that assistance which he needed in the discharge of the arduous du- ties of his office.
 We have said that it mattered not how dis cord originated among the members of the cabinet. The American people are satisfied that discord did exist, which the President had no agency in creating, and that, there fore, General Jackson is justified in dismissing the members of his cabinet, and in choosing others in their stead. But as the dismissed members of the cabinet are men of ambition, and aspiring to the high offices of the coun- try, it is proper that their conduct, in this bu- siness, should be investigated, in order to as- certain whether they have not forfeited the confidence of the people, by acting in an un- becoming and reprehensible manner in every stage of the transaction under consideration We must then keep in mind, that this cores pondence informs us of this position assumed by Messrs 1ngham, Branch, and Berrien, in the controversy, that the discord in the Cabi- net, had its origin in refusal on their part, to let their respective families associate with the family of MT Eaton. But at the same 'time this correspondence gives to understand sthat this discord is mainly to be ascribed to another and higher source, namely the am bition and aspiring views of Messrs Van Bu- ren and Calhoun.
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 Immediately after the formation of the cabinet, in March, 1899, the two parties were distinctly marked and established in it, and stood in battle array against each other. MT Eaton and MT Van Buren, on one side, and Messrs 1ngham, Branch and Berrien, on the other. It was the character and energy of the President which prevented an explosion from taking place sooner than it did. But the moment the correspondence of Mr Calhoun with General Jackson appeared, no restraint could prevent the division in the Cabinet from being publicly exhibited, and discord among all the members from being publicly manifest ed, to the injury and confusion of the public business. The four Secretaries and the At torney General, took their favorite sides, and approved or dsapproved measures proposed by the President, according as the hrincihais for whom they were working, were or were not to be benefited. The true origin of the discord, is in the division of the members of the Cabinet for MT Van Buren or Mr Cal houn. The refusal to associate with Mrs Ea- ton, on the part of Messrs Ingham, Branch and Berrien, was only of secondary impor- tance to the harmony of the cabinet, being n- cidental in remote degree to the main point of division. For, if harmony had prevailed in the cabinet, with respect to political mea- sures, and especially with respect to the suc- cessor of General Jackson to the Presidency, it cannot be believed that dissentions would have sprung up with regard to an association between the families of the members. Politi- cal harmony would have had strength enough to subdue the discord which female jealousy and female jeers, social etiquette and social scandal, were apt to create among the heads of those families, and to influence them in