The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-10

| Sol Pei. Yesi but twas IN confidence.
Old Ipszsr OH if he damn'd his soul in confidence.
that's another thing. Boz
| Events make mem but they never make men from
poor material There must be the indomtable will the
ready mind the abiding faith, and the deaihess zeal
From such materials and such alone events make men
You cannot learn an old dog new tricks an old man ne
habits or an old fool new folies. The who has
learned TO govern himself will govern others with
The man who has surmouned the ottiest heights, and
hung upon the dizzy verge will tremble at any ele
walton, feel gddy when he look, down upon the
below hun There is elevation OF soul, well
a elevation OF rank There is mental throne,
well material one, for every monarch who rules
empire and maintains unbroken power. Some
born to GOOD LUCK some men, by Divine PERMISSION by
common consent occupy stations Tor which they to
tally untitled By birth o! education to fill and which, but
for OF accidents AMI unforeseen clrcumstan
ces, forlu'oas events and counteracns efforts, would
oNerwhelm them with shame and confusion, and expose
them 10 the rldicue OF the world The weak monarchs
OF England, who had master minds behind the throne
greater than the throne ITSELF by withdrawing themselves
from the public gaze by throwing the OF State upon
the Ministerial governors who stood alone before the
people have lived without disgrace, and died without
locings And while the Charleses the Janeses and the
Georges have rioted with harots compounded cocka-
lekle with cooks pitched about the stuffed chambers
OF Windsor Castle like any other Bedlamtes, wondering
how apples could be put IN damplings without seam
and calling the Lords spiritual and temporal ''my lords
and peacocks, from the STEPS OF the throne the Oxtor
the Pitts and the Nohs have stained the character and
unarnished the crowns OF the Saxon and the Nornan
and handed them down 10 future ages glorious as
when they pressed the brow of Edward the Conessor
| or William the Conquer0r.
While therefore, a weak king with powerful ministry
responsible for the monarchs actions and liable 10 be
to the Tower the block for any improper advice
may rule the nation well and meet the subjects wants,
the republics whose Chief Magistrate but third OF the
surrene power, except State occasions, VIII, II that
Chief Magistrate is weak and unsuitable man, md itse
ruled by The legislative and checked by the judicial power
alone The Secretaries of the several departments, at
lached to the executive branch OF the government are
irresponsible to the people, possessed OF no power except
that reflected from the Executive made by his breath and
broken they made They therefore, properly, can
only manage the bureaus conded to them III the way thai
he points out executing his orders and perecng his pol
ICY ii necessary, they may advise him as respects the
bureaus, enlighten him with such knowledge as they
acquire IN the transaction OF his business, and gene
rally do everything but dictate his commands stay his
power, and counteract his designs
But who ever dreamed IN the days OF the Regency oil
England OF the supreme power being voted down III
council by its servants sworn to execute Its command
The voluntary REIMBURSEMENT of the BY the Presi-
dent cannot be approved by the friends of liberty IN the
States united and COMPOSING this blessed Union. Inc
Executive cannot relinquisl one power conferred upon
him by the constitution, without renqushns all thai
appertans to his Office He is sworn to execute all law
as well to act within the limitations OF law. he can
not shift his responsibilities with his coat an be Just as
much OF President he peases and leave the baiahce
Of his power TO his cabinet caucus lie must De the Pres
dent of the people He cannot be the Sultan
Haroun Araschd aud the BARRIERS boy at the mo-
men, And, besides how of all character for Pres
iden If possible, to dives himself OF his proper attr
butes Many monarch has laid his head upon the
DOCK INTO eNlle because ne WOntu nDt
his power to the barons, ani be their This SIT
ting around the green table, the President At the heal
green shoes not, the lntegencer pleases with
his cabinet placed according TO rank ON either hand ana
putting TO vote the propriey OF the Executives eNerc
sing his prerogaves, at his time, In his own
way is very much like the guests holding caucus over
the table OF their host, and regulating his cookery and
his crockery by preamble and resolutions II the Aner
can people had desired platoon of Presidents they
would have taken many others before the members OF
the present grasWng and overuins cabinet Certainly
they would have amended the record from OHIO and
Virginia and probably from the sheep walks OF Trenton
We are told that one of the first appointments made by
this admnisr alton after the cabinet naugurated
made through pous fraud on the part OF one OF
the kitchen cabinet. We allude the marshal of west
ern New York MIR. Fillmore, it is said favored one
aspant, and Mr., Seward another, for that office An
oficous friend of third and successful candidate, IN
derslandng that the appointment would be made when
the two worthless representing the right and lett wing OF
whgery in the Empire State should agree went to Mr..
Fillmore and asked him If he did not prefer his CHE
queris's) candidate TO Mr.. Stewards The BUFFALO OF
the affirmative Ine same genius then walei upon Mr.,
Seward and asked him il he did prefer his candidate
to Mr. Flllmores Mr. Seward, of course, answered IN
the affirmative The inqustve gentleman then waited
upon the Secretary OF State and informed hun that esss
Fillmore and Seward both preferred his candidate to
either of the others. And thereupon the appointment OF
an individual against the wishes of both gentlemen was
made 1t too good joke to agitate even IN secret
session, and the aforesaid nominee was confirmed. We
tell the tale told to us; and il 1t is not true,
| somebody else has bounced it, and not tre.
| From the signs of the times, and the way IN which
they nick them in Arkansas, led 10 inier that
more rain is at hand that General Taylor cannot resist
the bunting of the federal lambs at his full udders, and
must give down the milk of prescription or die. mes
senger of the State Department, removed few days
since by one of the gentle Gorlons" was IN formed
that charges preferred against HIM, but that the
outward pressure great 1t could not be resisted
What pressure that must be to make break Their
pledges and embrace what they have heretofore declared
to be damnablc heresy The cabinet, It is represent
ed are like turtle doves cooling and feeding each other
with sayings from willing bills, agreeing upon
every point and begetting harmony at every sitting We,
however are led to believe that sudden squalls visit that
quiet chamber of statesmen and heroes occasionally
that some of the hard swearing which my Uncle Toby
heard with the army Flanders is now and then suffer
ed to circulate there much to the asonishment OF the
Postmaster General, whose early pety was proveIbal,
and whose taste for political honesty was so pre,ernl-
nenty manifested in the selection of the ustrlons War
rem for the appointment bureau OF the Post Once De-
parment We however, live in strange and eventfui
era One world, according to Lieut. Marry IS all IN a
light blaze above us; while another, with blazing tan
that reaches from nothing to half past SIX s circulating
promiscuousIy and somewhat unpleasantly among the
planets The north is all Ice and the equator is like a
circle of fire. All the Old World is fighting for an alb
sracton kings and princes tumble about like nine pins
before ten stroke and none quiet but the King Of
the Sandwich islands and General Taylor Blessed are
the peace makers! How sweet and pretty they look
amid the luarreers of nations!
The strange appointment of the postmaster at Annapo
lis against the remonstrance of wings and democrats
an appointment the expense OF the consistency OF Gen
TAYLOR and to the detrimen of his party even sup
posing the removal of the old incumbent proper the
removal of the gallant Halle from the coectOrShip OF