The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-27

BosroN, Dec. 10, 1913.
More Cabinet Mak,mg-Judge Woodbury. found to
be a Coed Stick of 1Ymber-1he Political Lun,-
Der Business Down East.
JAS. GORDON BENNETT, ESQ:
SRI am IN possession of sufficient informa-
ton to positively state that letter has been re-
celved in this quarter, from distinguished gen.
tleman and statesman of the South, (uow at
Washington, and who, though friendly to Mr..
Calhoun was one of the very first IN his State to
declare publicly for Gen. Taylor,) IN which the
writer asseverates that Judge Woodbury. will be
offered the Department of State by Gen. Taylor
unless his Judge WIS., supposed friends in the
present Congress should be lmprudent enough 10
create " wider breach between Gen. Taylor, on
his real opinions, and the more liberal portion OF
the democratic party, than at present exists
And, indeed, that writer susans his asseveratlon
with somewhat plausible reasoning, which IS at
least worthy of consideration. He predicts, that
from very mistaken idea OF the grounds Of Gen.
Cass's defeat. the friends OF that gentleman in
Congress will presume to be "paylng OIL the
South" by assum ng open ground IN favor OF me
Wilmot proyiso. In such crisis, he (the writer
looks with hope to the friends of Judge Wood
bury from the free States, few though they may
chance to be, to adhere with Spartan valor to
their uniform opposition to all such attempts a,
violation of the sacred nights OF the sovereign
STATES. linus formed In OTQeT OF Ddttie, tuC
"true men of the North will be found ION this
question: openly arrayed against the Cass faction,
the Van Buren, faction, and the northern and
western wing of the wing party combined, Now,
Gen. Taylor is a southern man, and, whatever
ideas may have been coined by certain political
spectators OF the North, will firmly maintain
the rights of that section, at whatever hazard
The tremendous collision expected to take place
upon the question as TO the rights OF the slave
States In common with their cO-partners, may
ma he uupkP-Such
spirit of the two extremes. The South are an
unit, with sold Zack" to endorse them with the
same bold hand that defied the summons a. Buena
Vista. But Gen. Taylor, in his ardent sympathy
for the security of the Union, will look for fellow
ship in the North; and If that fellowship can be
secured, he will not be so lmprudent as to draw
geographical line on his cabinet in the manner
that some have predicted And when was there
political boards, that the South looked for this fel-
lowship in vain Lew Woodbury. was a man OF
the nation-his policy was as broad as the Union,
resting upon the solid basis of the constitution
aud while he was to his constituency IN the
North as the needle ID to the pole, SO was
he alike the ready defender of the constltu-
tional rights of the most remote members
OF the confederacy. Can any one doubt. then,
from which political class in the North this
aid in the preservation o. our glorious Union will
most likely be rendered! General Taylor will
have no Earring IN his cabinet upon this vital
question. He will hold the defeat of this insulting
provlso SYNONYMOUS with the preservation OF the
most sacred rights Of the saveholdlng States. Ii
he have a northern man IN his cabinet, that man,
under the circumstances which will probably ex-
st must have what northern demagogues term
''southem principles" but what General Taylor
holds as constitutional principle.
The above manner of reasoning, together with
| The fact that Judge Woodbury. has had no particl
patton IN the miserable party sqabbles tor the las
! ply lht" era, down 10 the diseased spawning o
| Brink e,hof and Wimot--woud seem to afford
some degree OF pauslbIlity to the DIT which pre-
| faces this article.
Your correspondent is no "cabinet-maker," and
does not often put his pen to task tor newspaper
article. He has been, however. some years a con-
slant rel der of the NeW York Herald, which paper
he believes has done more efiectual service in
causing General Taylor to be elevated to the chair
he will soon occupy, than all the wing papers IN
The free States