Tri-weekly journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1847-188?, 1847-10-05
A CABINET CONVERSATION.
ScENE-Room in The White House.
PREsENr-President Poll and Secretary

Marcy, did you ever play travelling the Map,
and after spinning your tee-totum for about
fifty times and getting along famously through
the counties, suddenly have yourself told of a
mistake that you had committed and be COM
PEELED to go half way back.
Marcy. Never. | never play games. But /
can understand your meaning; for spun tee
totunson the Albany regency board long enough
to comprehend the meaning of the word
fail
Polk. Soft is with the Mexican war; thought
had got nearly through with it and here's the
the letter from Scott, that you handed me, tel
ling us the war is only commencing.
Marcy. Don't be alarmed-all he wants is his
line of communication opened, and I'm going to
withdraw or 5000 men from Taylor immedi-
ately.
Polk. (alarmed:) What? Don't you think, Bill
we've done enough at weakening his force?
Won't il make US more unpopular?
During last sentence enter Mr.. Ritchic.)
Richie. Make you more unpopular! that
would be impossible. If you had to wade
through the papers that | scissors every day,
think you you weuld believe as firmly as do,
spite of what my pen says, that your days were
numbered from the very hour you turned war
rior. No, no, smash ahead at old Taylor
you've done the deed, and you may as well fin
ish the damage in a complete manner.
Polk (sighing:) should like to be President
again, after all, but unless succeed in doing
some thing highly popular before my remain
ing year and half is up, I'm afraid / shall re-
turn home as did Van Buren, and Tyler, to
vegetate unnoticed, like blackbeuies in a for
est.
Marcy. "Away with melancholy" as DIR.
Watts says-this Wing House of Representa-
tives will get into mess and take the odium of
the war all Off our hands.
Richie. Don't flatter yourself. They'll make
you ask for supplies-vote all you desire and
compel you to conduct the war properly, or
end Il as disgracefully as it began.
Marcy. Disgracefully! think of Palo Alto.
Richie. Yes, but no thanks to you for that.
You know Taylor wrote long before his arri
val at Point Isabel, that he wanted pickaxes
and horses and wagons and cannon carriages,
and the deuce knows what all.
Polk (goaning,) Oh!when heard olhis be-
ing cut off, and then glanced over the long
items Of that letter, thought my hour had
come.
Marcy Well, well, let bygones be bygones;
we are out Of that scrape, and here's another to
get out Of.
Polk. Oh these guerrillas
Marcy And that Paredes!
Richie. Ifyou had done as | advised you
long ago, and had boarding officers for those
English steamships, you'd have caught the ras-
eral. you think you're Napoleon.
Polk. Thomas, Thomas!-no hard words.
Marcy. Never mind-hard words break no
bones, as General Pillow remarked to us about
Haskelrs letter,
kitcnIe. There was another faur pas. Pill
low for Major General Suppose Scott should
die, Pillow would succeed, and then--
whew! only TO think fit.
Marcy. Don't imagine it, you make me ner-
vous.
Polk. That would be easily fixed. We'd
send out special commission to Worth to
help us out.
Richie. Special commission! you forget,
Congress would have something to do with
that.
Polk. As Old Hickory used to say, what a
nice berth President Would be, if it wasn't for
Congress.
Marcy. (who has been ruminating.) I'm
rather afraid to pass by the way of Vera Cruz,
the regiments that are to 'clear the track for
Scott-the yellow fever is very bad.
Richie. say, Marcy, you couldn't manage
suppose TO send old lack among it?
Polk. Thomas you are getting immoral.
Marcy. (aside) No new thing for him-that.
Enter Walker.)
Polk. Why Bob what's the matter-you
look as if you had just been reading Evans old
speech in review of our Treasury report.
Walker. Confound Van Buren, and his Sub
Treasury!
Richie. Confound them by all means-they
will always go together.
Walker. This New York broker, it seems,
was humbugging me about his placing the
gold and silver at New Orleans, for my New
York deposit. He refuses, and suppose | shall
have to detail couple ofclerks TO mountguard
over the specie as it travels just as an old wo-
man watches her pet band box.
Polk. Send on your treasury drafts.
Walker. But that Englishman of whom
Scott has borrowed money, at ID per cent. in
order to enable the army to advance from Pue-
bla, refuses them.
Marcy. Let him 60 without for the present
and send him some Of your figures to muddle
his brain.
Richie. Hal ha! ha!
Polk. Thomas Thomas entreat.
Walker. Must this fellow always be in the
cabinet,
Marcy. (aside:) Now for breeze
Richie. Engrate! Do not employ my tai
ents for you daily?
Walker with emphasis:) Talents!
Richie. Do | not pile the Pelion of Rhetor-
ic on the Ossa Of Logic, in defence of your
plans?
Walker. No thanks for that. 1t was in the
bond you should do it; you are the paid soph-
list of the administration.