The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-11-13
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 1916.

A curious state of things prevail about The
transfer of MIR Buchanan 10 the Supreme
Court. That gentleman's friends in Penn
s~ylvania are, for the most part, warmly OPP
posed to the step. One of his friends in of
flee in this city told me, yesterday, in the
most earnest terms, that Mr.. Buchanan would
disgrace himself, after all that has been said
and done, TO voluntarily leave the State De-
partment and take the ~judgeship; and furth
err, said he, the act would exclude him from
being the candidate of our party for the next
Presidency
| understand, from friends of Mr.. Buchan-
an, that he has said that he never would
have withdrawn from the Presidential race
If he had not been forced to do so! and that
he has ever since regretted the step!
The Harrisburg Union, one of Mir. Buchan-
ans Pennsylvania organs, insists upon i: that
its great %favorite shall not condescend to
give up the State Department for a pension
like the salary of the judgeship, of 1890 a
year! 1t lets its Parthian arrows fly at Mr..
A. Stevenson and Mr.. J. Y. Mason, in great
style, as two "ardent" Virginians (although
it names them mott who are ambitious 10 OBJ
tain Mr.. BIS present exalted place. And il
seems TO understand perfectly certain wire
pulling operations by which a late numberoi
the Richmond Enquirer was made 10 puff MI
Buchanan immoderately as a marvellous
proper man for a seat on the bench of the
Supreme Court. The Harrisburg organ snaps
its finger in the direction Of Washington and
laughs at the shallow mGn@urfe! The So
luton of all this is, Mr.. Buchanan is to be
prevailed upon by his friends 10 remain long
er in the Cabinet. Ii Mr.. Polk wishes 10
get rid of him he must assume the response
bilty of giving him his walking-paPers d.
RECTLY. An INDIRECT tender of them will
not be understood. Mr.. BIS friends advise
him not to interpret as readily as did Mr..
Calhoun, who was politely offered the En-
glish Missioni They think, moreover, that
Mr.. Polk will not dare TO turn MIR. b. out Of
office, because it might endanger bis own
chance ola nomination for reelection, while
it would place the discarded Secretary sin
The line of safe precedents:' the very place
of all others which Mr.. Polk wants neither
Mr.. Buchanan, nor Mr.. Calhoun, poE Gov
Cass, nor Gov. Wright, nor anybody else
save his own choice self, to occupy.
A long time ago | wrote TO you that Mr.
Polk would make everything bend 10 effect
mis- own nomination for reelection, notwith-
standing his own or organs solemn disclaim.
ers. And now perceive various journals il
different sections of the country have came
to The same conclusion!
Thus far it is said, he has feared Mir. Cal
houn and Gov. Cass. Hence the CELEBRITY
with which the friends of the former who
would not yield their preference for the
/ splendid C%arolinian, have been hurled from
Office in the Custom-houses of New Orleans
Mobile, Philadelphia, New York, Boston. &
Portsmouth And hence, too, the mrning
Of 4 tha4 Adaa ninjs ftffa94iRHRs 4 f8pAtt shit 8hhfH1i ifbfr he faftt
duced by office to follow 10 the wake ofNor-
veil, United States district attorney for MI
chigan, and Bagg, postmasters at Detroit,
and quarrel with the Governor One ofthe
Cass men an ex-editor of some note, and
strongly recommended by the Governor as
efficient, upright, and deserving, has been in
this city for some months, as applicant for a
respectable cousulship or other Office. Blu
he is a frank man, true TO his friends. He
honestly prefers Lewis Cass for the mex
President. The Polk Administration 1,
sorry to sag that nothing can be done fo'
him! And SO they go.
l am credibly informed that an ex-membeI
of Congress a warm and confidential friend
ofSilas Wright, has been in this city within
the last few days and set the President and
the Cabinet and the official editor-alI, al
Into a most frightful state of alarm! BY
warning them plainly and au;horitatively
that, if they caused the repeal of the present
tariff, or even harmed hair or hide oft, they
would be visited with the determined oppo
sition ofGov. Wright and his northern friends
The gentleman who gives me this intelli
gence is a prominent Locofoco ofhigh stand
ing and character, and is on intimate term;
of political social friendship with members o
the Cabinet! He assures me that the infor
nation is true. The leading editorial in The
organ oflast evening, in relation 10 the course
of Mr.. Wright and Mr.. Buchanan IN rotjn.
for The present Tariff, and the a~wahenin.
which the editor confess has overtaken hin
on the subject, goes to confirm my inform
ants statement. POTOMAC.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.1