The Arkansas banner., 1849-07-03
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Afrr% flfihH W&&VNAf NN4M&&NA4h hAsAte {ttHtf .a Exsest ysss fks sssrs hinpry q aAk Csbisss K. ,s Wisihydfox, Jans 2, istg, I have, iS sse q my Presseas Iesisss, pFeaissd you sboFt essay on ehbhct making ks Appllet 70 il,e history es ta day. aaa aai Asm ssaite rsssm my promIss Cahinsls do aet spring 6sisssd ssd dfsilef eap bs out of the heads of Pfesidsuts. ~ Minerva of old sprung from .lhse head of lGpsssr, neither eam tii Nds q Presidents hS tFepanned for tkat pwnose &illi ImpaElty. The eppoiu1nent Of
 satlaile tahinst has alwnys been, and still s. aas cf the most dEiiicult things utdestakea bv ns& of his administration, unless hs b a man q exps- ti~nce saa saKaeisys whas aheash acespiins aud listening ts advice, SUI rernins HlnsteF Of his own pctioes. Hstweea taking ndyIcs and shaping ene's Artions to saIs the fancy of esheFs, there s vast differences; tle former iS the part of wise Ban- ilss lasisf has besn ahy commented upen in . wsll know fable ef EAepus. which ai is needess hesp to repeat
 Bat the history of cablnets is yst remarkable lh oshes respects; t shews the original bias ef tns Reeniapnt, aad the eauses which make hlm take whM callers call q new tack. The recital of thens things Is always entertaining, and. h tnay eases fall of valuable instruction. may lhsFefeTe. hope so he paFdohsd If place before the readers Of the issKsS isasst of the OFgaaisassSH ss shs present cnbiHet
 It l. well knOwa that Mfr CgsstsndeA was the souI Of that combination Of whigysia Washington who had detsuBingi to feFsake the feFtaAes sf HeaFy Clay, and that. up to the very election of General Taylor, he considered the leader of the socalled Taylor party. lt was he wAo conceived tho plan not only to abandon bir. Clay, but siso soms of sMs. Claws aEowed principles, and among these, especially thatof Prqsefpsioa. Mir. Crlitenden was . popaIaF man, and numbered many friends and admirers even among the democratic party. He afterwards forsshaAewed Cen. Tayier'e oourso ia his speeches. and in his Inaugural as Governor of Kentucky, preeioss te Gea- IsyisTs sssif e Fsaak Js4 fss1 This course of Mr. CFitteadea. which was con- sissent with his professions beuse the election of Gen. Taylor, did noi receive the unqualified appfo- Uifion either of tie Washington or of.hs southwest etn eiiqae which hoped 10 inaacmee Gen.. Tayiog's -akilninisfration; aad Mr. Cittenden twas fouad inaexihe, Il was determined to place hip al once hors ds combat. Letter writers from Washington in the service of the clique then gave out that Gen. Taylor woaldo offer, not press eabnet appuintment on Ma. -Crssenaen, and in this lhey were right General Taylor did aoi press Mir Criitenen to come into his cabinet, and what is more. Mr. Csitfenden had no hand either in the organization fthe cabinet ev in any ofits sabscqaeni dnings. sss 4 The way ihis was managed is this :--Cen. Taylor was srtfnlly impressed with the belief that to be President of tie people, t was necessafy to invite k~n'iesDan from as many different States 10 his cab met possible, in order to satisfy them all and to odsr bat one appointment 10 each State, which be-
 
 thai Stale, and allow him t0 invite gemtiemsn from sne,her stsie q the Union. With this aotina wel kxed es bis miml, he leil Batoa Rouge. The letter writers tn Washington tn the secret of the c.iques published al once the name of Hon. John M CIay- ton. as Secretary of State. Gen. Taylor thought of ao oss but Mf. crtieaden, snd of bis. Hossee .Blaney. a~ .s..4. .s .ss...s.
 Arrived a, Frankfort. Kentucky, lis interview with mT. Cfitienden was short one, on which oc- tassos neither the letter writers nor the papers had mach % say; the knowing feeling ae disposi- t,ea to tack, and the rest knowing aolhipg about what transpired.
 Mr. Critiehden. while taking the stump in Ken- lucky. was re4shtiy obliged to say thu, he did not eetsisler the goyefnotship Of Kentucky the means ot walning place loF him in Gen. TsyIor's cabi- net, Mir Manguin, in the Senate, agreed with hn Osi that subject J and when it became certain that BtE. Clay would be returned to the Senate, re- f solved atioDce not to embasrass General Taylor F administration by allowing himself to be whipped | over Old Zacks shoulders, but 10 substitute ex- Governor fletcher, a mataal friend of Henry Clay aud haasef. in his place So certain was he oi the the exIediepey aad sueeess of this arangem and so sure was Mr. Letcher of being Postinaster Gen. eta that he wroe letters to his friends in sshing tun desiring them to procure for him the necessary acfotimosislioas in the metropolis. .s, e, .e.
 Gen. Taylor at last arrived at Frankfort, with his lesson well prepared, and h once offered Mr. Crit tcndeB place in his cabinet The offer, however, was. as the letter writer's had predicted il woad be, not as pressing aad eesdial as Mr. Crittenden had exrecteds aud when Mir. crittenden proposed Mir, ! Leteher as hts substitute Gen. Tayiorfrplied ,hathe had but one effss toinake to Kentucky, and that Mfr Cnlteaea declining. he must offer the Postotce to Tennessee. Mr, Gsniry was accordingly invited, | but declined. The ehsoniclers Of that day do not speaks of the balls and dinner parties which were given tn hoI0r of Gen. Txvlor; bat the hext day selegraphc dispatch, dated Ciacinnati invited NT. Clay'en.io ihrtSecretaryAhiPo of State. Mir. Wm. C. ktves hadlbeen spoksh of as Secretary Of Sate but the eilques quickly overruIcd he conservative, ,iD- practicable vrginian"-the man who, as Daniel Webster said, scond ride with all his friends Ia ain o,nnibas; !; andwih tiie suptty ef fhshiaiag blocked u,at game. Mr. Clay,oB's acceptance vas conveyed back with the same speed of Joye's thupderboF.
 MT: Corwiu, of Ohio, never stood high among the cllques. aud he was consequently passed over without ceremony. Bt Mir vintuli was not So f easiy disposed ois He had been rsier of the House. shsisMsr oi ie Coipipiitee of Ways and Means, and man ofdeeiled, though moderate talents. Yet General Taylor was al Cincinnati, and powerfully impressed et the imfoFahee oi inc support of the Baekeyes, he stated his desire to have gentleman iron Ono in his cabinet, and he was too young in the exercise of power fOr any to dare to oppose hnn. There was crevasse tn the arrangements of the ciques a io stop Il they seized m the nearest eea lAfsess insn ihsy edsald lay hold oa, and the Hon. Thomas Ewing was accordingly thrown into It. He was selected 10 keep out vintop, who was committed en niany questions; bat he was mt se- N iecet Tor the Iseasar. ss hs TfeasaTy report sent to Congress under Gsh, lIauisan, was yei fresh in eveIybodys mind, and his unGiness foi that office mashema,icaiiy iefaonsirateds He was selected ior the PesoIiee, and addressed by letter to the Post master Gegesal by Criiteadea himself. ...f
 Tue "cxt difficulty tha, presented itself was the seiectiYa ei a proper person l.em Georgia. Dir. IooiBbs had no objections 10 be Secretary of War, white NJ fhtmas Buffer King was looking forward, m'th greai eonfhience, 10 the SecretaFyship of the Navy. Mr Tasmbs at once perceived that his teice could hot prevail against King long as him sell Was candidate, and as " the killing offs of i king was se hisnsa msites of greater, impostanee K ihsn eveR Dts own appanmeat, he at oaee resigned his eaipas, and brought forward those of MT. Craw- soId. who was also supported by Mir. Stevens, oG GrosgiA, and fhe new Sens,sr Dawson, eistied in the Plaes af JohnsoR. Thus was MT. King oxss- | slanghed. and Secretary of War made iur the old General who ohleets, to nobody. aa he vas not ac- quaiHted with anyeody,s merit. 4'f. " l; NJ. Ahbott i.awrence's tnFn'cafne next He was