Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-06-28
COMPOSITION OF THE GARNET

ihe ire of The Union wakes fercer the more il ri
inmates upon the composition Of the Cabinet. 1t will nei-
Their take comfort 10 itself, nor give resi- to its readers IN
I'll the administration is remodelled upon a plan of its own
devlslng. Ii takes for granted that every member Of the
Cabinet selected from the North is an Abolitionist-mcve
thereto by the recent absorption of its party in sundry
States by the Abolition laclionists-and that, in as much
as the Secretary of the Interior, the Postmaster General.
and The Secretary Of the Treasury have large share of
patronage, they compose a trinmvIrate, DANGEROUS to the
South and destructive of the liberties of fhe people. Our
%cotemporary can draw no consolation from the fact that
the bulk OF the patronage subordinate to these Depart
menis was offered to the South and refused-a truth
known to the Union, and which Of itself proves, beyond
cavll, that there IS no ground for the alarm which it af
fects to feel At this particular juncture, nothing short
Of eJecilng from the Cabinet every member from the free
States, and filling their places with Southern Locofocos,
would reassure our cotemporary. And were this done,
we doubt III more dangerous terror would not aflict it.
In snch an event. the Union would descry a deliberate
purpose to Justify and inflaIne the hostility of the North
"a policy calculated to produce a chronic dread which
nothing could relieve but the election to the Presidency
Of a Locofoco. born, p~erchance, Of The incestuous anal
gamatlon of factious Free Soil and Old-Hunkerisrn.
Entertaining very serious doubts if the Cabinet will
or can be remodelled to relieve our inability to administer
In a case like this, may we not refer it to It's own col
umns for the consolation which it will not receive from
other sources. The Union has repeatedly asserted that
General TAYLOR and his Cabinet constitute a sort of
siar-chambeT court, where measures and men are discuss
ed and disposed of by ballot. 1hat the Presidents vote
counts one, ard is equal only to that ofany other Member
OF the Cabinet, and that the vote Of any other is equal to
his, or that Of any colleague. This is a fancy of the
Untop; bnt its disease being fanciful, the rmedy may be
so too. Now in this star chamber, as it is called. there
ire eight votes; and when we analyze them there are
found fire Southern to three Northern ballots-and one of
these Southern votes may be absolute or not. The sec
llonal disparity In the patronage Of these voters is more
thar neuiraLZed by the difference in numerical strength,
when we regard them as an executive body, making dis
lrlbutlon Of The offices. Ought not that to satisfy the
Cnion2 But, on looking more narrowly Into the compo-
siton ofthe Cabinet, we find that the Secretaries of both
Army and Navy are Southern gentlemen. The South
according to the Unions mode Of reasoning, is in posses
sion Of both branches of the military force Of the nation.
The poor North is left without defence. This consola-
ton has nothing in it az showing the bias of the Exec
uhVe, because General TAYLOR offered the NAVY De
partment to the North; but acknow Lodging, as we do, its
unsoundness, we claim It to be as good for a remedy as
the Unions logic is for a disease.
Hence 1t would appear, that the Union's apprehen-
slons for the South are based, upon its own showing that
the South has i've votes TO three in the Cabinet, and
both branches has military power into the baroa in
The same causes would scarcely produce the same effect
upon any but an oycr-wrought and perplexed imnpinl
ton. May not our cotempoary's ailing be hysterical
merely.
The more this matter is looked into, the more it will
appear that General Taylor's mind, in selecting his con-
stitutloual advisers, was wholly without prejudice against
either section Of the Union. He received a majority Of cleo
toral votes of both Northern and Southern States. He
was proposed to the National Wing Convention at Phil
adelpha upon national grounds, and thus far, there has
been nothing done in conflict with what was then and
there said for him by the delegation from his own State
Re1ubEc.