The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-10-09

The RECENT ELECTION, AND THE CABINET
The organs Of the Cabinet at Washington, and
the wing papers generally throughout the country,
are doing all IN their power to reconcile the party
to the result of the elections which have recently
taken place in several of the States, and which,
our readers are aware have detracted from, rather
than added to, the strength of the administration
of General Tay or although the personal popularity
of the old hero has not been IN the slightest degree
impaired or lessened. Nor should it be lessened;
for when the people of the United States put him in
nomination for the presidency, they were perfectly
aware, even if he had not himself confessed it, that
he had spent the greater part ofhis te In the camp
and was unacquainted with the details of govern
ment business. These he was not expected to
perform, and he committed them, and the shaping
of the general policy of his administration, to his
cabinet advisers-placmg before them, as their
chart guide III the performance OF that duty, the
numerous letters which he wrote during the can
VASE, and the pledges which he voluntarily gave
previous to his election. The independent people
of the country were delighted at the opportunity
which presented itself to them of bestOwing the
highest office within their gift on man who him.
self was Observation-Disclosures virtue, honor, and
bravery were beyond dispute. and whose character
throughout long life spotless; and their OPT
Mon of him has not been changed
Such was the manner and such the circun-
stances under which General Taylor was elected
TO the Presidency. The result of the recent cleo
tons, therefore, cannot detract from the popa-
larlty and the estimation in which he is held by
the people at large, and cannot be traced to any
desire on their part 70 repudiate HIM. What, then,
can they be attributed to! We think there can
be no difficulty IN answering this question. Ask
any one who has watched the course which the
members of the cabinet have pursued since their
appointment and he cannot but pronounce con-
demnation on both them and it, especially that
part Of it which had reference to our foreign po-
hey. When the future historian depicts the year
lS49 he will point with amszenent to the conduct
of the cabinet in our foreign relations; and when
the rotten and corrupt despotisms Of Europe shall
have been overwhelmed and destroyed by Indg-
nlnt and outraged millions-when republicanism
shall prevail throughout that quarter Of the world
our posterity will blush for US, and sincerely regret
that our government did not avail itself of the
glorious opportunity which was presented.to it OF
extending a helping hand to oppressed and down
todden Europe, and assisting them in the struggle
in which they engaged for their Legitimate rights.
They will entertain of us of the present day, an
opinion similar to that which we hold in reference
to Louis Napoleon, and the subjugation Of the Ro-
man republic. Our cabinet refused to give help
ing hand. or q symptom If encouragement. to
either Rome or Hungary. Louis Napoleon en-
ployed the resources Of the French nation in the
destruction of Roman republicansm our ca
bnet employed the naval forces of the United
States 10 prevent the unfortunate inhabitants
of Cuba, from the sweat Of whose brows the I'm
Rense sum of twenty millions of dollars is an
nually drawn by the corrupt and imsec1e govern
ment Of Spain, from achieving their indepen-
dence Louis Napoleon's crimnslity in the one
case il not greater than that Of our cabinet in
the other. In both cases, liberty and republi-
cani.m were suppressed. While 1t cannot be
denied, on the one hand, that Rome would be a
republic at this hour if France had not interfercd
to replace IN power her sacerdotal sovereign and his
hooded satellites there is but little doubt that the
people of Cuba, with such assistance they cali
culated upon from tn. United States, without vio-
lstlpg the law of nations, would have been, ere
tis, free of the tyranny which brushes them. In
fact, the whole foreign policy of the cabinet, since
their induction into Office, has been at variance
with the spirit of the age, contrary to the feelings
and sympathies of the American people, and will,
in future times, be considered stain, b,emsb,
black spo, on our national escutcheon.
This wa. one OF the causes which produced the
results in the elections which have recently been
held and when we give to 1t the weight to which
il is entitled, and connect it with the domestic po
hey of the cabinet, tar as the exercise OF the ap
pointing power Is concerned, the organs of the
cabinet need not wonder that Mr.. Ewing and his
associates are not sustained by the country. They
have failed to discharge the responsibilities which
General Taylor, in his magnanlmity and openness
Of heart, conferred upon HIM, and brought about
the spectacle which we now behold, Of President
elected by reclamation, being without majority
in the House of Representatives.; tor such will be
the condition Of things a, the next session Of Con-
gres. General Taylor himself, has not had any
influence in producing these deporsble results, as
is well known II the policy which he sketched
IN his letters and speeches previous his election,
and which he placed before the cabinet as their
guide in conducting the affairs Of the government
If that policy and those views had been adhered
TO by the cabinet, they and their organs would not,
in all probability, be lamenng at this time, as they
are, the unfavorable results Of the elections that
have recently taken place. In few weeks New
York will pronounce her verdict, and we shall see
what Judgment the Empire State will pronounce in
the matter Let us wait PATIENTLY, and watch the
tigns Of the times.
OsR WEEK LATER PROM CuRAcoA.-By the ar
rival of the schooner Village Bell, Captain Wed