The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1845-03-14
THE Nj ADISO N A N.
WEDNESDAY, EVENING, MARCH -, ls45


The following article from the Boston Post
speaks, if we are not mistaken, the views and
purposes, in several material particulars, OF the
President and our readers will, we think, fully
concur in them:
From the Boston Post.
THE NEW PRESIDENT AND THE NEW
CABINET.
The long expectation is The advisers with
President Polk to carry out his views in the new sd-
mnisraton, are announced to the county. The dis
creton with which the President reserved to himself
the selection; the sagacity with which It has been
made and the high qualities of the distinguished men
he has called around him, give assurance Of the firm
ness and wisdom that will mark the conduct OF the
public concerns by the Executive, in all its depart
ments. The democracy will be grati6ed, and the
wholec country satisfied with these apponm ents Now
that they made, and udiciousy adjusted to the
general interests and claim, of the whole country,
there will be but sentiment with the friends OF the
administration and that will be Polk AND HIS CABI-
NET!
Those that may be disappointed in reference to their
local views and personal preferences, will forget that
they desired any other choice; for they will see, with
cordial that the calm and elevated sur
vey which the position and the judgment ofhe Pres-
dent enabled him to take of the entire country, has
brought about a wiser adjustment of the whole than
could have been effected by the prevalence of their
individual wishes in the selection.
It is good occasion for the beginning of the eIer-
else of that mgnanmty and generosity spirit which
is about to distinguish this administration by the con-
centraon of all the energies of the democracy in its
support. Here were twenty-six States the democ-
racy in each have some citizen they would have de-
lighted to see honored one of Mr. Folks political
family. Twenty out of the twenty-six could not be
gratifed but they will now vie with the six in show
ing that they claim the selection ,chos-not as
drawn from or belonging to any particular State, but
the broad Union.
And here we may be permitted to say, with the
ranknsss that becomes organ of the people, that
the success and harmony of this wel-seected Cabi-
net, and its utility the President and the country,
will mainly depend upon their forgetting hat they be-
long to any State, but to the Union. Each member
of the Cabinet should regard himself not az appeI-
tanning to any State but to the whole twenty'sn
States, and in all his official relations, citizen not
of State but of the United States. Here is the
remedy for all local sectional divisions and the
auara,ty of unity 10 all official action. With these
y;ews Mr.. Polk has selected his Cabinet, and these
v,evs he will carry out in it, reform the deficiency
with the promptness and manly energy OF his charac-
ter if it shall be found that there is man employed
n the public service too narrow to take In the whole
country.
That no such result is to be apprehended, the firm
ness of the President and the homogeneous character
of his official family, give the highest guaranty to the
friends Of the admin stration
We start then at the outset aud will go on in the
course with the cooperation of every democratic
press in the Union that State to be less regard
ed because il has not Cabinet officer, and no State
to be more SO because it has We state this not dog
n.atcally, but with distinct assurance from two I'M
questioned sources, viz the character of the men
who compose the Cabinet but even more confidently
the character and purpose Of the President. They
will counsel, aid advise assist, cooperate, strength
en- support; but they will neither direct nor control
The democracy once more have placed at the helm
pilot who will weather the storm if it arises from any
quarter, and who will steer the ship himself by the
polar star Of the Constitution and the Unon always
ready to consult and advise in doubt and danger, but
always himself the prompt and selfpossessed com
mander.
We say this not to disparage any of the Presidents
official advisers, the people themselves, from
whom in their private capacity we are confident Mr.
Polk i'll be ready to derive aid and cooperation
as from the highest in place around him for he will
be not the President of a Cabinet Congress, but
of the PEoPLg-of The ,ohoe democratic famiiy Of the
Union,
If il is necessary, however 10 speak decidedly on
this point, that an error may I've corrected, out Of
which grew most Of the unnecessary anxiety that ex-
isted before the selection of The Cabinet, and from
which all the little disappointment that may exist if
indeed there be any, will emanate For our own
part we should have left the selection of bis Cabinet
to the President with as much confidence and quiet
ness as the choice Of his private secretary and in the
atari of the administration, there would be much
propriey in complaining of the other exercise
of official discretion. 1t will only justly arise, when
ever there shalt be any substantial of complaint
in relation TO either Of the executive departments, as
to the integrity and ability with which they are con-
Quoted. and the manner In which they fulfil the OBJ
iects of their creation In such case the public nte-
rests will not long remain in unskifu or perverse
hands, and we doubt not the remedy will be applied
with discretion and energy-two qualities that VIII,
we appr,hend be found most happily combined IN The
new President
Too much Importance has been attached 10 inc
formation of the Cabinet from the TACT That the wings,
under the administration of General Harrison, re-
carded it as the immediate executive power, among
which the country to be parcelled out IN poltl-
cal Provinces for the dspensation OF patronage at
the will of each department. Such dspensaton
need not be apprebended. The President
while he will give to each department its just inhu-
ence, will take that justice is done to all and
the whole harmoplzed in general action No man,
therefore, has just cause to expect or apprehend that
he or his section has gained or lost any thing by the
,--..s-. Of q unernher of the Cabinet whom be in.i