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not qualified for the responsible stations which they
hold. is the gross which they have already
fallen. 1t is the motley of the cabinet which
has been fomed-he elements and composition OF which
ars so amusingly portrayed in the following spicy sx-
tracts OF letter from Washington, of the 18th instant
in the New York Herald:
The organs of tho administration pursuing an unwi,,
Except what is given by themselves alone
they deny eveyhing-as we'll what is doubtful, what
clear daylight With melodramatic fury they declare
there is truth in Chrstendom, except in their e.
pecial revelations, and the luckless wretch WIN
attempts hint that any member of the administrao ton
mortal or lalble Such hereto is seized once and
denounced in language oil magnoquent wrath, goddess
and malicious deamer The cabinet they asseveaie are
like even uredoves-Johnson fraiernizes with Col amer
Meredith suffers daily the aecona,e embrace of Ewing
and Clayton and Crawford loving the babes in
the wood-ndeed that such family party has yet
been eaousies no msunderstandngs. no differ.
of opinion; but, instead OF these harmony, unity
and brotheriy love.
Now this is empha,icslly CANNON. Tho cabinet i, a
very good cabinet, got up it short notice
could be much better. and it might be great deal worse
1t men of the greatest ability and purity Of
character and contains Of quite contrary descrip
ton. II all like Meredith, Clayton, would
be much better. Ii ali were like Colamer and Ewing il
would be much perfect cabinet would be mira
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DO their sentiments accord the slavery question tina
question Of protection, The question OF extension the que
lion OF prescription Not any single OF them; and
perhaps it is we'll that there should be diferen Of
opinion most, if all those questions. But it is not
improbable that they will yet differ to such thai
they hold together The only question Of import
yet presented to hom, that OF the distribution of
ecutive patronage; and on that there has been
sential disagreement When other and grave question,
press for consde ration what will be the result will DO
good augury for the stability of General Taylors admin
sraon if he hold out against the minority OF his cab
net backed by the great majority OF the whg party B
,la ,f ptNha
in New York ul himself and the majority of his cabinet
into false security, and induce them TO believe they will
be in a majority in the county, whatever may DO their
course regard the distribution OF office Ii thoy be
heve the whig press, OF course they will think so
said in a former letter that General Taylor, his a.
rival Washington, found such state of things existing
induced him to materially alter the programme Of bis
cabinet; and this assertion the Courier and Enquirer
indecent and elaborate sycophancy, denies This
denial is wholly gratuitous General Taylor placed any
the cabinet appontme mier down to Auor
ney Genera-at disposal Of Mr. Cr,enden, and would
preferred him Secretary OF State. Mr. Clayton
fills that Office Before Con. Tayor's arrival in Washnguu
the prominent his thoughts for tho Treasury
Department Horace Binney; Mr. Meredith is its Secr
tary. Mr. Abbott Lawrence at first fixed upon o tho
Navy Department. Mr. Preston is its present head NJ
Gentry of Tennessee selected to be Postmaster Gen.
eral MIR. Collamer is the head OF that department Nh.
Truman Smith General Taylos choice for the Depau.
OF the Interior Mr.. Ewing is now Home Secretary.
Mr. Ballard Preston first fixed upon for the Attorney
Whether Mr. Crawford General Taylors first choice
for the War Department. / shall pretend say-my
impression is he was not but here arc six of the
members of the cabinet who the original selections,
of General ylo and yet the Courier says there
material alteration in the programme OF the cabinet Five
Of the six from different States Mr. Crttcndeu
from Kentucky, Mr.. Clayton from Delaware Mr.. Lawencs
from Massachusetts, Mr. Preston from Virginia. Mr. Smtt
from Connecticut, Mr. Ewing from Ohio Mr. Gentry from
Tennessee, Mr. Coamer from Vermont, Mr. Johnson from
MARYLAND and no m ateria alteration
But the composition of the cabinet is not the only OBJ
lection. Its proscrp.ve spirit, in the face Of its
pledges and professons-he removal of postmaster
through the land-the nomination of McGaughey, oS
Penrose, and Pennington-lhe appointment of Warren,
and his retention spite of the accumulated evidence
his conduct in Massachusetts, and Iowa-the reatmen
of Douglass, and of Stubbs, and of McCalIa-are
evidences of the want OF discretion and of fmness
which marks their Another of its gross blum
ders is the establishment of another organ in this city
supersede in whole in part the long established
deeply rooted National Intelgencer We have strong
disposition to trace out this movement to its conse
quences. But forbear all comment for the present.
and content ourselves with publishing few extract,
upon this subject from other papers and our first extract
is from the National Integencer itself of yestenay
morning:
We had occasion to notice, the other day. the fanc
of Information which, for of facts any
quence out of which TO makeup letter, is Frequently
communicated from Washington by correspondents pub
lie journals who bound make up daily letter about
something other-about facts, they can but, any
rate, about SOMETHING that is the public Bali
more New York, dc. 1t is not in the least surprising that
il shond happen that these statements are now wholly
goundless, and now so compounded OF truth and false
hood, to give entirely false impression what
part OF them is We dare say that these correspond
ents sometimes imposed upon by persons who practise
their faith but, probably, in number Of tho
cases in which they speak Of thing being "unverss
believed here '-as "the opinion almost all ntelgent
wings in this quarter"-as ga generally credited
&c, they express only their personal belief Thoughts
wishes BE that ms it may, find in papers lying
before illusions to the proprietors Of this paper which,
# suffered to pass unnotccd may be believed and which
il concerns therefore TO contradict
The first is in the Washington Correspondence Of tho
Baltimore San OF the 18th instant, and is in tho following
TERMS
''Mr. Bulitt, OF the Picayune, am enabled to state On
unquestionabe authority sW commence new daily Jour
ua here about the lst June He and his present
associates have been in negotiation here for The Nations
ntegencer, for which, earn $4,000 is asked but h
purchase it is understood will not be made, and new
wing organ will be established, as above stated"
In justice TO the gentleman who is namsd in thspaf
graph, state that there is truth in the assertion con
tanned in the paragraph, that either he hs present
they may be-have made any
proposition suggestion for tho purchase OF tho IA
tional Inegencer. In Justice ourselves, state far
the that the National Inteligencer could any tint
be bought for less than twice the stated nor, at
present time, for any whatever h any one b
senses would be likely to offer for it.
The second contained ia the correspondence of the N
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