The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-25
From the Nashville Union.
THE NEW CABINET.

Prom Ne -NdsHtlue Jita0h'
THE NEW CABINET.
II is gratifying to observe that, IN selecting ms
Cabinet MIR. Polk has cut loose from all equss and
introduced into his political family none OF the asp
rants for the succession. Mr.. Buchanan IS the only
one in his Cabinet whose name has been associated
with the Presidency, and he goes into II with the
distinct understanding that he must waive his aspira.
tons for the present The rock on which il was
feared the new administration might be wrecked,
was presented in the supposed jeaousies and amino
sites between the Calhoun and Van Buren, cllques.
II any such iealousies exist, Mr.. Polk has had the
wisdom and caution TO avoid giving just offence to
either. In selecting Gov. Marcy from New YORK,
justice done to that State, whilst no fair exceP'
ton be taken TO him on the score Of his oonnec-
ton with any peculiar dlysisn of the party. He Is
said to occupy kind Of middle ground between the
two divisions Of the party in New York. whilst the
Wings eoncede TO him high talents as they yield to
any other Democrat in the State.
1t cannot be necessary that we should speak in de-
tail Of the qualifications and capacities Of the several
members of the Cabinet. Nor is it at all necessary
that we should take the trouble to defend them
against the capous aud actlous aspersions OF some
of the fault.6nding Wing presses They are all
men of eminent abilities and of long experience IN
public affairs. To MIR Buchanan all concede talents
of the highest order. For several years he was
abroad as one of our minister's and for many years
in the Senate he has been on the Committee Of 70
reign Relations 10 these stations he has qualified
himself emnenty for the post to which he has been
called. The groundless charge that he was once
Federalist, can have no influence against one who
has been so jealous and efficient Democrat for the
last sixteen years.
From no quarter have we heard any objections to
Mr.. Mason, of Virginia His appointment is entire
ly satisfactory.
Our own distinguished fellow. citizen, Cave John
son, will have labor to perform and more diff.
culties to encounter than any other member of the
Cabinet. The office of Postmaster General is at all
times Of great labor and trouble, but Mr. John
son enters upon under order Of things, crea-
ted by the late Tost Office law, which will make his
situation peculiarly embarrassing. But we have an
abiding confidence in his high qualifications for any
station requiring eminent business habits, which in
duces us to look for his entire success in the
nasement of his new office.
great learning and statesman of great industry
and research In the Treasury Department he will
find full use for all his industry and his talents and
by that kind of application which he will give to his
duties we have no fears of his filling the station no.
morally and satisfactorily.
Objections have been made to Mr.. Bancroft, but
we participate in the general anxiety TO learn the
grounds. As historian, he has few rivals and no
superors. If there is any substantial for the
opposition to his confirmation, of which see ac-
counts in the papers, we are not aware of it.
Taking the cabinet as body, we are satisfied that
it will be as favorably received as any that could
have been formed If any dsappointments have
been felt time will show that the President has
acted wisely in this delicate matter.
The case of MIR. Ward having excited much
interest both in this country and Great Britain
on account of the principles involved in it, we
insert the following notice of it from the Lon
don Weekly Chronicle:
OXFORD AND Mr.. WARD
The Oxford Convocation has ended as every body
of common sense anticipated that it would end by
condemning certain propositions contained in Mr..
Wards "Ideal of Christian Church" which, how
ever unObJecuonaDlc per sc, are PERFECTLY lnCOmpa-
b e. as we conceive, with his POSITION and duties as
Clergyman of the Protestant Church.
For this is the peculiarly of MIR. Wards case. He
has perfect right to become Catholic if he think
it, and to proclaim, as he did on Thursday in the
most unequivoca terms, his adoption of all the princ
pies and enets of the Church of Rome, "to the full
erten 10 ,chich they sanctioned by the Pope" 1--WE
assured that be used these very words though not
reported IN the Times.) But he has no right in
adopting such principles, TO incucate them in the
name of an establishment, to which he virtually
es to belong. He has right to call himself Pro-
tesant, while he repudiates the reformation sin
A Catholic may be just as good Christian as a men,
Der of the Church of England, but no Christian, be-
fore Mr.. Ward, ever tried to be both a Catholic and
Protestant at once; or if any have tried it, they
have had the prudence TO keep singular an ambi-
ton little more in the back ground.
MIR. w ards Authorization, (for as such we regard
it, consists in an apparently genuine belief that he
can unite in his own person Iwo perfectly incompa-
BILE things, without anybody having The right to find
fault with this combination anomalous or obec-
tonable. He seems surprised that he should be CEN
sured or thought deserving Of censure at all: and
juses his rejection of everything that constitutes
the distinction between the English and Romsh
Churches, by dwelling upon smaller points of doc
trlne with regard TO which members of the English
Church avowedly disagree.
But while it IS wise to provide for smaller dfferen
ces, there fundamental principles upon which i, is
impossible for to differ if they are to form Re-
lgous Community at all and straw splitting-no
appeals to Councisno TRADES about the blessings of
unity and the desirabless of cooperation apsns, To-
moran and Dslncerlty, and vcewill ever convince
an earnest Protestant that there is not a broad and
Ineligible distinction between the Church. from
which his ancestors seeded, and the Church to
which he himself belongs do believe that il is
desirable possible to bridge the gulf between
them, without destroying both Churches by the at
tempt.
We rejoice, therefore, at the censure passed upon
Mr.. Wards Book at Oxford by majority of more
than two to one (the numbers were III to $50, J
and though we regret his degradation, we think thai
he has brought il upon himself On the second vote,
the majority was small-56g 10 5ll-hnt this va.