The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1845-03-25
From the Nashville Union.
THE NEW CABINET.

REIMBURSEMENT OF California.
/ From the Nashville Union.
/ THE NEW CABINET.
| 1t is gratifying to observe that, in selecting hi
Cabinet Mr.. Polk has cut loose from all ciiques,
introduced into his political family Of the aspi
rants for The succession. Mr.. Buchanan is the on
one in his Cabinet whose name has been associates
with the Presidency, and he goes into it with tn
distinct understanding that he must waive his aspira
tons tor the present The rock on which it wa
feared the new administration might be wrecked
was presented in the supposed jeaouses and amino
sites between the Calhoun and Van Buren, chques
If any such jealousies exist, Mr.. Polk has had tn
wisdom and caution to avoid giving just offence t.
either. In selecting Gov Marcy from New York
justice was done to that State, whilst no fair excep
ton be taken to him on the score of his connec
ton with any peculiar division of the party He il
said 70 occupy kind of middle ground between the
two divisions of the party in New York, whilst the
Wings concede to him as high talents as they yield tt
any o!her Democrat in the State.
1t cannot be necessary that should speak in de-
tail of the qualifications and capacities of the several
members of the Cabinet. Nor is it at all necessary
against the captous and actious aspersions of
of the fault-6nding Wing presses They all
men of eminent abilities and of long experience in
public affairs. To Mr.. Buchanan all concede talents
of the highest order. For several years be was
abroad as one of our ministers, and for many years
in the Senate he has been on the Committee Of Fo-
reign Relations. In these stations he has qualified
himself emnently for the post to which he has been
called. The groundless charge that he was once a
Federast, can have no influence against one no
has been so Jealous and efficient Democrat for the
last sixteen years.
From 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 more labor to perform and more diff
cultes to encounter than any other member of the
Cabinet. The Office Of Postmaster General is at all
times one of grea, labor and trouble, but MI John
son enters upon it under order of things,
ted by the late Fost 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 10 tie ma
nayement of his new Office.
Mr. Walker has high reputation as lawyer OF
great learning, and as a statesman of great industry
and research. In the Treasury Department he will
find full for all his industry and his talents; and
by that kind of application which he will give to his
dutes we have no fears of his filling the station ho-
morally and satisfactorily.
| Objections have been made to Mr. Bancroft but
l t,oiv>a IN, sba
grounds As historian, he has few rivals and no
superors. If there is any substantial reason for the
opposition to his confirmation, of which we see ac-
counts in the papers, not aware of it,
Taking the cabinet body, we are satisfied that
it will be as favorably received as any that could
have been formed. If any disappointment have
been felt, time will show that the President has
acted wisely in this delicate matter.
The case of Mr.. Ward having excited much
interest both in this country and Great Britain
on account of the principles involved in il, we
insert the following notice of it from the Lon
don Weekly Chronicle:
OXFORD AND MR. WARD.
The Oxford Convocaton has ended as every body
of common anticipated that it would end, by
r.
Wards "ldeal of Christian Church, which how
ever unobjectonabe per Sc are perfectly incompati-
be, We conceive, with his position and duties as
Clergyman of the Protestant Church.
For this IS the peculiarly of Mr.. Wards Gaze he
has perfect night to become Catholic # he think
IT. and to proclaim, as he did on Thursday in the
uDequiVocal terms his adoption of all the princ,-
pies and enets Of the Church OF Rome 10 The fun
erent 10 phieh they sanctioned by the Pope" 1--WE
assured that he used hese very words though
reported IN the Tmes) But he has no right, in
adopting such rincples, to incolcate them in the
of estabshmen mt, to which be virtually ceas-
es to belong. He has right to call himself Pro.
,esant, while he repudiates the reformai ion sin.
A Catholic may he just good Chris ian as me IN.
Der Of the Church OF England but Christian, be-
fore Mr.. Ward, tried to be both Catholic and
Protestant at once; or if any have tried it, they
have bad the prudence 20 keep singular an ambi-
ton little in the back ground
Mr.. Wards bsIlucnation, (or such we regard
IT'D consists in an apparently genuine belief that he
can unite IN his own person wo perfectly ncompati-
bic things without anybody having he right to find
fault with this combln alton anomalous or obiec-
tionabe. He seems surprised that he should he CEN
sured, or thought deserving of censure at all: and
usli6es his rejection of everything that constitutes
the distinction between the English and Romis h
Churches, by dwelling upon smaller points Of doc
trine, with regard 10 which members of the English
Church avowsdly disagree.
But while it IS wise to provide for smaller deren
ces, there are fundamental principles upon which
impossible for men to differ, if they are to form Re-
gious Community at all and sra W. pttnp-po
appeals TO CounciIs-po trades about the blessings Of
unity end The desrabless OF cooperation against ~
norance and nsincerity, and vice--w ever convince
an earnest Protestant that there is no, broad, and
ineligible distinction between the Church, from
which his ancestors seeded, and the Church 10
which he himself belongs; do believe that it is
desirable or possible to bridge over the gulf between
them, without destroying both Churches by the al
tempt.
We rejoice therefore, at the censure passed upon
Mr.. Wards Book at Oxford by majority of more
than two to one (tbc numbers III to 3s6. y
and though regre, his degradation we think thai
he has brought il upon himself On the second vote
the majority was small-569 to 5ll--but this wa.
owing partly to the kindly feeling entertained on ali