The North-Carolina standard., 1849-02-28
NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD.
RALEIGH:
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARYes 90. 1s49.
GEN. TAYLoR's CABINET.

1t is now pretty generally understood that Mr..
Crttenden has positively declined seat in General
Taylor's Cabinet, and on the other hand, that the
Hon. John M. Clayton of Delaware, will be Secre-
tary of State Mr. Crittenden's for declining
this position, has been generally supposed to be the
GOODNESS and embarrassed relations which exist be-
tween himself and Mr.. Clay; but other consldeFa-
TONS we apprehend, must have had still greater
weight in the formation of the determination at which
he has arrived. AS the Washington Correspondent
of the New York Herald very justly observes: The
examples of history full of saving instruction
Mr. CLAY it was who elected John Quincy Adams in
1924 Mr.. Clay it was who accepted the department
of State under that administrations and the public
mind was visited with the neradcabe suspicion that
this arrangement was the result of bargain and
sale-of the man for the Office and the Office for the
patronage of the man. In lS49, almost simultane-
ously with the coming forward of Mr. Crittenden to
the support of Gen. Taylor, it understood that
in the event of the election of the hero of Monterey
Mr.. Crttenden was to take the place of Secretary
of State" No doubt Mr.. Crittenden had this view
of the matter in his mind also and added to this the
fact that he has but recently been chosen Governor
of kentucky by large majority, and would like to
keep himself clear of the strifes and difficulties of
Washington City for the next four years. to be
in safe - line of succession to the old Hero, it is
not at all wonderful that he should have declined the
proffered honor.
Mr.. Clayton, of Delaware, is decided Whig, but
he does not exactly belong to the Webster and Cor
win school. He is the author of the celebrated Com
promise on the Slavery question at the last session,
violently opposed by Mr.. Badger, and which. after
having passed the Senate was lost in the House of
ID vic he fion
are generally regarded as moderate and conciliaory
any rate, far that point is concerned he is
greatly to be preferred to number of Gen. Taylor's
most prominent and influential supporters.
The Correspondent of the Herald, in speaking of
Gen. Taylors other Cabinet appointments, very sig
ni6cantly says: :" Mr.. Mangum, of North CaroliAa,
desires nothing, and will accept nothing Ofcourse
not. He would not be Minister to Spain, We
presume-though it is said, by some of his friends,
that the appointment will be rendered him. :,
The same Correspondent says that Mr.. Badger is
spoken of among others for the office of Attorney
General If this rumor should turn out to be well
founded and Mr.. Badger should go into the Cabinet,
and Mr.. Mangum should get his consent to his
country at some foreign Court, shall have a
pie of vacancies here in North Carolina-and then!
w ould the wishes of the Great Western Reserve"
be consulted by the appointment of MIR. Clingman;
or would Mr.. StanIy and Mr.. Rayner be the fortu-
nate men?
So far so good for Whigism. That "no-party
President" elect, Gen. Taylor, is to have party
Cabinet for the purpose of carrying out his nO1par
ty'' views; but as this is age of wonders, there
is telling how far the old gentleman may succeed.
At any rate, he is determined to try-to do some
thing; for find, at the latest dates, that he is
pushing forward through and ice, and amid the
pressure of clamorous and excited crowds, in order
to reach the Federal City by the fourth Of March.
May the Fates in their mercy grant him " safe de-
liverance" from the horde of oce-seekers who hang
upon his path