The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-14
AboIionists In the Cabinst-The jackson MISSY Post
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in which the patronage OF the government divided
among the heads of departments, and pointed out the
evils which flow from that inequality The relative
positions of the Secretary Of the Interior and the Post
master General makes coalition between them matter
of Both of them from the section OF
the Union and entertain similar views, and cherish the
bitter and sectional feelings The power lodged in
their hands is least four ffths of that which
is available for political movements They-along with
the Secretary OF the Treasury who from the
section of the Unon-have the entire control of the inter-
nal affairs of the Union. This circumstance taken in
connexon with the fact generally conceded, that Gen
Taylor only votes member OF the cabinet, and that
he allows the council composed of the heads of depart
ments and himself TO fix the policy OF the administration
and determine the character OF the government, claims
the serious consideration of the people, and espe-
caly of the southern wings who sustained Taylor and
Fillmore The influence of Ewing and Collamer over
the cabinet is easily 10 be traced The character which
the administration has acquiredmarked and distinctive
it s-nus have been given by these two, for II bears
their impress, and their impress alone. They constitute
the power behind the throne greater than the throne
ITSELF and that power, like the rod OF Aaron will swal
low up the rods of the political magicans who surround
General Taylor.
The southern wings surely had right to expect that
if General Taylor should find it necessary give the
Post Office Department OF his northern supporters,
in order TO retain the strength given him in the north by
his Signal letter. and by his Truman Smith letter, and
the letter of the Rev. Mr.. Lamb he would have at
least selected who not hostile to them and TO
their Institutions and given him control over their mails
and their channels of information. The southern peo-
Mo md hav ara1 and
grevous wrongs from improper use OF the public mails
by the circulation among them of ncendiary documents
and doctrines They have been denounced as steaers
and murderers, and their slaves have been melted
belion and nsurrecton Not many years ago the whole
South justly ncensed and excited almost to madness
by this Surely then, if the southern wings mad
right demand anything from General Taylor-a south
President-they had right to demand the General
Post Office. The South do no harm TO the North by
controlling that department The North has no peculiar
interests and peculiar institutions which the South
can assail by improper of the public mails 1t
to that in these days of slavery agitation and
sectional excitement, statesman of any sagaciiy-more
especially he from the South-would have been
mindful OF these circumstances. But General Taylor has
overlooked this matter. He seems to have formed his
cabinet with eye to the OF his party than
the peace permanency, and prosperity of the Union He
has selected his cabinet councillors from the man
illness OF the whg party, but he has surrounded himself
with inferior and the country expect to witness
the ortuous policy and the intriguing spirit which always
mark the conduct of weak in high places. Strata
gem and cunning supply the place of strength among
men, among other animals; and southern wings will
learn that fact their COST or we know but little of the
springs OF human action.
When General Taylor candidate for the presi-
dency he shrunk back from the slavery question. His
friends in the North either had pretended to have
assurances that he with them. The Signal letter
quoted. Truman Smh-the veritable god father OF
the Observation-Disclosures him, and General Taylor
endorsed Truman Smith by offering him the Department
of the Interior with all its power and patronage Abbott
Lawrence endorsed him, and he has endorsed Abbott
Lawrence by offering him the Navy Department and the
mission to England For neither of which is he fit unless
Lamb endorsed him by saying that he could do more to
restrain slavery than any northern President would be
permitted 10 do and General Taylor is making his words
good by giving abotonsts the most powerful positions
in his cabinet-by giving the Home Department and the
General Post Office to Northumberland by giving the
whole control of our internal affairs to men from the
mitted to 60 so far as that The Rev. Mr.. Lamb, al
though he is politician, right. coalition firm
and compact has taken place between the wings and the
aboonists, under the shield and protection of Gen
eral Taylor; and William H. Seward Thomas Ew-
ing, and Jacob Coamer, whose political life is breath
ed into them by the social agtations of Lloyd Gar
rson and Wendell Philips the peculiar favorites of
the Louisiana sugar planter Southern wings still pre-
tend to look confidently to Gen. Tayors two hundred
negroes their security while these things are going
on and they endeavor to justify their unmanly position
by pratng of the bugbear disunion, and shaking with
simulated horror at the union of the northern democrats
and free soil men. when they know that every wing in
the North sustns the principles of the Buffalo platform
and when they that not only eesoiers but abo-
onists, are in the confidence of their President ruling
his cabinet and shaping his administration.
The distribution of the power and patronage of the
government is so manfesty unjust and the abolition in.
luence in Gen. Tayors cabinet prominent and pow
erfu that expected would manifest some regard for
public opinion, if not commiseraon for the position OF
southern wings, and consideration for their feelings by
avoiding for season, at least, any immediate outrage
But IT seems that we mistaken II appears from
the southern papers that Mr. Colamer is needless of the
well founded jealousy in the South towards the Post
Ofhce Department His course towards the people of