Litchfield enquirer., 1832-02-16

signing tnetr respective Onaces, anu ask tor them your serious consideration" Sir" replied the astOnished Secretary, " am plain man, and your friend. Our intercourse has been Of long duration. and you know that diplomacy is no part Of my character or yours. Be so good, therefore, a: to tell me frankly, what you intend, and what you de- sire of me.' '.Then, sir, will inform you, that mean to re-Organize my cabinet.''- Very well, sir, hope you will profit by the change. have not been>yOur friend for !he sake of office, and1 wish only to be informed whether my conduct while in your cabinet was satifact0ry to you" " Sir" said the President, st have no fault to find with yOu.'' '' With this assurance" said the Secretary, {" am eontented; but allow me tO inquire who is to be your Secretary of fState?" |" Mir. Lisingston." was the reply. ''Who is to take the Treasury Department 2" MT. McLane, now Minister i1 England" "Who will occupy the Navy Department 2" Mr. WOodbury." '' And pray, sir, who is to re- place MT. McLane in England !'' '' Mr. VAN BUREN," And suthe conversation ended.
 The inference which is inseparable from these disclosures. must be obvious to every man whose mind is in search of truth, and whose judgment is free from the malign infu- ence c prejudice.
 The finger of disciplined iDtriguer is visi- ble in ali the various efforts made to dismiss particular members of the cabinet, from an early period after the inauguration of Gene ral Jackson, until it was effected in 1881: The object cannot be mistaken and at this day
 the mandgers scarcely attempt to conceal
 their fixed purpose of designating MT. Van
 Buren as the successor of the present Chief Magistrate, " nolens VoLens,'' as they are plea sed to express it. Sir, on what data can we reconcile the prompt and unhesitatipg answer given by the President to each inquiry rela- ting to the individuals who were to compose the new cabinet, other than a precOncerted and explicit arrangement, formed on mature deliberation, and free and full consideration with those whose political opinions he was accustomed to take on all subjects of great and absorbing interest to the country?
 Is not the fact as distinctly known to every one acquainted with the political movements at the seat of the National Government, as any on record, that for more than year pre- ceding the rupture of the late cabinet, no consultations were held, and but formal in- tercourse kept np between the President and three of his constitutional advisers? It can- not, and, presume, will not be denied, that
 the Secretary of State had SO managed as to
 occupy, the first place in the confidence and
 affections of the Chief Magistrate. The only
 rational conclusion. therefore, to which can
 bring my mind. after a careful and impartial
 examination of whole subject, is, that the
 Secretary of State. prior to his own volunta- ry resignation, had not only ascertained that a general sweep was to be made of all those
 whose influence he dreaded, and who could not be induced "to bend the knee to Baal," but had organized new cabinet, and ''though last not levst," had taken especial care to open an avenue, through which he might with safe A54~4A.Aak I ..1 1.l~s.G -h;rsseR .iu situaIios still more commanding in the public eye, and better calculated 10 accelerate the consumma- ton of his ulterior purposes. Who is to replace MT. McLane in England ," "Mr. Van Buren." "Sir, the time at which this declaration was made is very remarkable; it preceded the publication of the modest diplo- matic letter of resignation, in which the Sec reta'y of State attempts to mystify the caus. es which had operated. on his mind, in sur rendering the high trust to which he had been called by the President. He artfuIly seeks in that anomalous communication. to excite the sympathies of the American People by pretended sel immolation, at the shrine of pure, disinterested patriotism. He retired to the shades of private lite, to disentangle the Administration of President Jackson, and to restore harmony in his councils! No sinister motives fingered in the mind of the unbought patriOt-nO mission to London in the vista but the noble sacrifice is magnanimously of fered up on the altar of public good, with the reservation of such future rewards as a grate- ful people might bestow. on one whose merits could only be excelled by the pnritE of his intentions Sir. would it be credited by a vi:tuOus and enlightened People, that, at the very moment when these high -souled senti. ments and patriotic professions were unblusli- ingly thrown before the world, the individual who appropriated them to himself, held the guarantee, that in lieu of the office which he resigned, he should forthwith be created En- voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary to the Court of St. James And yet the fact is established, by the conversation have quoted. and strongly corroborated by the letter of tho President. in which he rsluc- tantiy accepts the resignation.
 Mr. President, can view this nomination in no other light, than the result of systs- matic course ofpolitical gambling and intrigue, originating in personal ambition, and prose- cuted with unTelenting ostracism and pro- scriPtiOn, on every high minded statesman in the nation who refused to subscribe to the articles of faith dictated by this nominee, and prescribed as test by which the patronage nt the Government should be dispensed throughout this widely extended country.- The succession to the Presidential Chair must be secured to this Court favorite, and the means to accomplish this end, were placed at