The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-12

an THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE GssssriAL LET THERE
AK usIrr--is sos-EssKsrIALs, LIBERTY AND IN ALL
THINGS CnAKirT.-Ausastin
The following article from the Boston Post
speaks, If we are not mistaken, the views and
purposes, in several material particulars, Of the
President; aud our readers will, we think, fully
concur in them:
From us BoS {, Post
THE NEW PRESIDENT AND THE NEW
CABINET
The long expectation is over The advisers with
President Polk TO carry out his views in the sd-
minisraton, are announced to the country. The dis
erection with which the President reserved TO himself
the selection; the sagaeity with which il 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 10 all its depart
ments. The democracy will be grathed, and the
whoIe'country satisfied with these appoin ments Now
that they made, and udieousy adjusted to the
general interests and claims Of the whole country,
there will be but sentiment with the friends OF the
administration, and that will be PoLX AND CABI-
NET!
local views and personal preferences, will forget that
they desired any other choice for they will see, with
cordial aequieseenee, tina, the calm and elevated
yey which the position and the judgment OF the 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.
IL is good oco aston for the beginning Of the
else of that magnanimty and generosity Of spirit which
is about to distinguish this administration, by the con-
ceniraon of all the energies Of the democracy in its
support. Here were twenty-sx States the democ-
racy in each have some citizen they would have de-
lighted TO see honored Of Mr.. Folks political
family. Twenty out of the t~enty-sir could not be
gratihed but they will now vie with the six in show
ing that they claim the selection a chOis-not as
drawn from belonging any particular State, but
the broad Union.
And here we may be permitted to say, with the
frankness that becomes organ Of the people, that
the success and harmony of this well-selected Cab
net and its utility the President and the country
will mainly depend upon their forgetting ho. they be-
long to any State, but to the Unioa. Each member
OF the Cabinet should regard himself not appeI-
tanning to any State but to the whole twentys six
States and, in ell his official relations, citizen not
of State but Of the United States. Here is the
remedy for all local sectional divisions and the
guaranty of unity in all official action. With these
views, Mr.. Polk has selected his Cabinet, aud these
views he will carry out in it, o: reform the deficiency
with the pomptness and manly energy of his charac-
ter, if i, shall be found that there is employed
in the public service too to take in the whole
country.
That such result is to be apprehended, the firm
of the President and the homogeneous character
of his official family give the highest guaranty to the
friends of the administration.
We start then at the outset, and will go on in the
course with the cooperation Of every democratic
press in the Union, that State is to be less regard
ed because it has not Cabinet officer, and State
TO be more so because ii has We state this not dog
maticaiy, but with distinct assurance from two
who compose the Cabinet, but more confidently,
the character and purpose Of the President They
will counsel aid, advise, assist cooperate, strength
en-, support; but they will neither direct control
The democracy 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 Union always
ready consult and advise in doubt and danger, but
always himself the prompt and self.possessed COM
msnder.
We say this not to disparage any Of the Presidents
official advisers, nor the people themselves, from
whom in their private capacity confident Mr..
Polk will be as ready to derive aid and cooperation
from the highest in place around him for he will
h. n h., IF, q ~ bat
of the PEorLE--of The phoe democratic family Of the
Union.
If it is necessary, however TO speak decidedly on
this point, that an error may he corrected out of
which grew most of the unnecessary anxiety that
isted before the selection of the Cabinet, ard from
which all the little disappointment that may exist if
indeed there can be any, will emanate. For our own
part should have left the selection Of his Cabine,
70 the President with as much confidence and quiet
the choice of his private secretary and in the
start of the administration, there would be as much
proprety in complaining of the other exercise
of official discretion. 1t will only justly arise when
there shall be any substantial cause of complaint
in relation to either of the executive departments az
to the integrity and ability with which they
Quoted, and the manner IN which they fulfil the OBJ
ects of their creation. In such the public int
rests will not long remain in unskilful or perverst
hands, and we doubt not the remedy will be applied
with discretion and energy-two qualities that will
we apPr,hend, be found most happily combined in the
new President.
Too much Importance has been attached to the
formation ofthe Cabinet from the fact that the wings
under the administration of General Harrison, re-
Al 20 tbo INN data
which the country was TO be parcelIed out in poli
cal provinces, for the dspeDsation Of patronage a
the will Of each department. Such dspensatior