The Arkansas banner., 1849-09-11
The cabinet.


 and pubiished to the world thers arOso nuiver- cal msrner of discontsst. Few were sAtsiied, and both friends and foes alike disappoinicao o ihe mis- erable selection made, by the ''Secoad washiag- ! ton" from among so many distinguished statesmen. Ills friends and supporters throughout the Union, : induced to bellevs,-by the success of the good honest old man. that they had arrived that hap Py period, when all party strife-aIi the ills Of Po litieal warfare, would be at an end. But this long cherished belief, this encouraging hope, proved dslasion-a mere phantom nugget to the soul until too late.
 The announcement, Of his eabinet officers dashed 10 the ground the bright hopes of ao honest but deIaded portion of the people and showed them too plainly the policy which to be pursued, and the bitter bloody, heariess warfare which was 10 Se waged. This was a severe disappois.,0ent and one by one. we his hOnest supporters turning aside aud arrayiag themselves in opposition. The storm then gathering ia the distance has broken over his head with the uagoyernabls aad irresisa- be violence-Ond t is still raging and roaring while every shift of his cabinet bu, to increase the vehernenee of i.s fary. The people have spoken and that too in thunder tones of indignation. What can he dof From q majority of l2 CT Is iu the House of Representatives he has been reduced into a miserable hopeless minority. The Ssn'te Too is in opposition. and now. in the very opening of his Executive career. hs presents the un que picture of minority President in minority in Con- ! gresS.
 l In the short space of six months he has lost his boasted strength, and well nigh thread bare his military popularity.
 1 The reasons for this state of things very ev- dent. They are to be founA in "broken pied ges," 'faithless promises" ''hear,ess prescription" de- ception and treaehery to the South The recent elections prove that these things will not, cannot be endured. They are too gross, too paPable for vir;uous and moral people to tolerate.
 We quote the following from able paper, ain the ssiguiory of Mir Clayton himsef-Llttle Del aware, which was one of the first to rua up the Taylor flag The Blue Hsas ChiekeR, now speaks thus of the administration:
 .'We were among the very first to hoist the flag of General Taylor for the Presidency, because we thou ght him honest, Independent, and capable. All admit that but for our support, Ire would have lost Delaware; ali the the independent, unpurehaseable whigs and democrats went for the Old Hero. We understood from his .eIters &c.. that he would ad minister the government with principles ot the gar Iy Merchandising f1esds to reeard, Ho 'Re- mies 70 punish. We have been disappointed; pro- scription has been the order of the day We might quote innumerabe instances of this sort-the murmurs and complaints of his old friends are breaking forth every day, and each day seems to increase the discontent.
 The two most important offices to the peace aad welfare of the South in th- gift of the ''5econd Washington, are the departments of the Interior ard Post Office. IT the South b. injured aud endangered by the aboiitionists, it will and must come through the instrulnen;ality of these officers the Secretary of the Interior and Post Master General. Tho cue has every advantage tho facili- ty of our mails can afford, the other every power the entire couro of our internal ar,irs furnish Iasead of their being friends of hs South. stern, infiexible opposers of interference with cur dones tic institutions, they uufeelng, relentless foes, ever ready to distress and harrass
 In the Fprth and the South there are many able. wise, mo1erae e men, who would have filled these offices with dignity and ability, but instead of ab " wisdom or moderation, have. saddled upon us a set of narrow nded bitter, iinbece, parti- gan politicians, the height, length and breadth of whose ambition is to enjoy and divide oat the "sPoils of office F"
 We cannot close without another quotation from an " original Taylor paper" whose fusome nattery of the "Second Washington before the election, was as disgusting as his unmeasured abuse is now bitter and scathing. The following is from the Neo York Herald which, after euumerating many acts of bad faith. wrechsd Deglect, and reachery 10 the South, says:
 "Here then we have \ clue to the furious oppo- siton which begins to manifes. itself against he new administration. An immense amount of the patronage Of the government has beeu deposited in the hands of men who altoge her sectional in their views and feelings 1t Is not surprising that the South should feel indignant under these creum- stances. That portion of the union beholds with great alarm, not uamixed with indignatiou the dispensation of large amount of the patronage Of the general government, by persoaages openly hos tile to the views and feelings of the South The outcry against wholesale removals from office has been altogether without excuse or without pro- vocation"