The Arkansas advocate., 1831-06-08
POLITICAL.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
 THE CABINET.

The following letter from Washing ton. is submitted to our discretion. We may err, but we have determined to lay it before the public. ssYou will provoke the strictures of the opposition" Be 1t so-but in a government of the people, 1t is right that they should understand the acts and motives of those whom they have appointed to serve them. The President disdains concealment. We admire his principles-and we follow it up, by lifting up the curtain, and per hitting him, as 1t were, to explain his reason for organizing the Cabinet inthe manner it is done. We repeat that we entertain objections 10 Mr. Livingston, as Secretary of State. We expressed the hope that one of them had no foun- dation. The following letter meets that objection fairly. It was said that Mr.
 L. is defaulter. The following let ter confidently afiirms, that he is not now a defaalter. and that the money. with which he has been charged, has never passed though his fingers. We are hap py that this error is corrected; and this objection weakened if not extinguished; ]; whatever others may remain against him.
 Noone will deny, who has any sort of claims toimpartiality, that the castsofthe projected cabinet,is remarkably strong one. Nor can any one effect to deny the difficuityc of organizing a cabinetin such way as to please every politician. We can all form the 5eau tdeal of q acsbinet we can take all the elements that should enter into its composition--integrity, public spirit, ,unshrinking energy, weight of character, purity of purpose, justncss of principles, uneommitment to any po- litieal aspirant-take all these, and you may please yourself, but will you please every body else? And after you have laid down the standard toeplease your, sell, where arc the four CT five men, who will in every respect, come up to the rule? Ransaek the whole country from Maine to Georgia-cali over the roll of great men of which every State can boast, and how many meneould you ob- tain, who would suit the Department oi State, whom 1t would suit, and who would be willing to take it's honors and responsibilities For our own parts. going no farther than this letter, we do not hesitate to say We would have pre- fcrred Mir. White to Mr. Livingston. But the reader will see what the President himself says upon the subject. We diff T,r ,,,;+b Mr. on cart,;n ro;,fr rrLo o President says, that he differs from him sell, and that it will be his province to give his Secretaries the Rule, and theirs to aequiesce. The people therefore, all look to ilim-;,nd from his integrity of purpose and Grmness of character, they will hope for the correction of any ec- centricitv into which any of his Secre. taries may be betrayed:
 Extract of letter, dated
 WASHINGTON, April 18th.
 had Il very free conversation with the President yesterday on the subject of the new Cabinet. It was mention cd, in my presence, that the appoint ment of MT. Livingston was objected to by some of the friends of the Admi,,- istration-and with that spirit of frank ness which characterises him on all oe. casiona, he entered yer, freely into the reasons which induced him to make this appointment. Some of these I will state to you. In the first place, must remark to you the story of Mir. Living ston being once defaulter, is misunder- stood. The President examined into that matter some time ago whenhe turn cd his attention7towards nominating him as Minister to France. MT. Livingston has documents in his possession to prove, that not one cent of the. money ever came into his hands. The bonds on 1siiicii, suits were instituted, were col lected by his Deputies and Agents and squandered by them, whilst he was sick in bed, where he had been confined for three months. The money notwith- standing has been paid up by lairn, and his account closed some time ago; as the Comptroller informed me this morning.
 tsThe President stated that when Mir. Van Buren first communicated his wish to resign, he had made his business to cast about and see where he was to fund his successor: That he,found the subject full of difficulty. That it was all i'm portant to him at this period of the world, that he should have manatthe head of the State Department who was well versed in the principles of mari time and international law: That the