Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-06-21


Eence-more than any Cabinet did before. They
take vote in Cabinet meetings. all prominent appoint
mens and removals. and GAneral Taylor, President,
has votP-bui ss II would does override any
,decison made by the majority of the Cabinet.
We cannot credit this statement, without more con-
Icusive evidence II is not 10 be supposed that Gen.
Taylor can forget the powers and responsibilities of
his ofcial position, that members Of lis cabinet
would pssume to offer 10 him the indgniy of ballot
ing with him for selection between applicants for
appointments to Office. He may very properly con-
suit with them on appointments and other subjects
but the responsibility Of appointments falls him.
We have doubt he does consult his cabinet; that
their COUNSEL which is # red in the spirit Of wisdom
and patriotism has proper weight with him but we
cannot give credence TO story absurd, ridiculous
and disparagng the President, that he enters
into ballots with his secretaries in the selection of
Iotfcers.-Cin. Chronicle.
However humiliating the fact may be the coun-
try well TO that portion of the whig party whoi
hoped and believed they had found in Gen. Taylor a.
second Washington, and man every way fit 10 be-
IPresdent,-it is nevertheless true that Taylor has
been overreached by the cunning wing managers
They have. prelext and another taken all the
power of his hands which properly apperiains TO-
the Presidential Office and he is compelled to sit
puppei, an idle spectator Of the doings Of.
that reckless cabal. called cabinet, into whose hands,
he has thrown himself from sheer imbeciiy and in-
competency There is in fact President; r-
responsible persons not elected by the people, nor an
sswerabe to them, control everything, and occupy;
their time in dividing the sPoils between their re-
gspective friends The Cincinnati Chronicle may well
regard all this ridiculous and disparagng to the
President but lis want of credence" does not alter
1 the facts.
In proof of what we say we cite facts well known
Ito all informed persons. In the first place, General
sTayors previous life, which had been spent the
Frontiers, in the camp and field, wholly untitled him.
for the intricate and difficult duties of the Presiden-
zcy. The wings knew this as well as the democrats,
and they began Immediately after his nomination TO-
sprepare the public mind for tie reputation of the
functions of President by General Taylor. which,
+ were to he performed by others while he held the
4 office.
Hence the first step, (says the Union,) the re-
pudiation Of the veto power and the pledge contain
ed in the Allison letter. that he would abstain from
interfering with the legislation of Congress. This
releired him from the necessity The responsibility
ef rginating and carrying into effect any system Of
measures. or government policy. And thus did bel
repudiae the duty imposed upon him by the consttu
ftion TO give to Congress- from time to time, "nor-
nation of the state Of the Union, and recommend to
their consideration such he shall deem
necessary and expedeDt."
This was the inception of the scheme of the wing
Headers Introduce this country the odous and
dangerous example of electpg man to the Presi-
5 dency who incompetent discharge the duties
of the Office, and would be compelled by necessity tc
delegate them irresponsible concave called al
cabinet. The next step to induce Gen. Taylor
10 abdicats the appointing pOrer. This was accom-
pshed by pursuading him into the belief that all ap
Epointments should be made BY the Secretary of The
department to which the Office appertaned. There
fore, Immediately upon the assumption of the Office
of President, it was given out in oil the organs of
the whig party that the President would receive
Recommendations for Office, but that they all 10
be presented to the Secretary of the department to
which the Office sought attached; and that Gen.
EIaylor, holding the Secretary responsible, permitted
him to make the appointment; or, what is the same
thing, designate the TO be appointed. And very
I soon the daily development of events proved the
Estatement to be true. Gen. Taylor refused receive
applications for office, and the applicants all re-
kferrcd 10 the Secretaries. The WING press affirmed
tbst candidates were designated by the Secretaries
and Gen. Taylor commissioned such were thus de-
sMr. Ewing, heads of bureaus, land officers, &c.
and the Postmaster General appointed postmasters,
even those whom the law expressly required the Pre-
ksident to appoint In short, if the daily statements
Eof the wing press and wing etter-writers, and, we
may add, the declarations Of General Taylor him.
Hself are to be credited, the heads of departments
made all The appointments, and not the nominal Pre-
Esident. We might cite the declarations of hundred
Ewbig papers, and correspondents from Washington
Getty to that effect if had time and space, and ifit
Ewere necessary. We have large number before
Eus of that very character Thus the second point
gained in the usurpaton by the cabinet of the unc-
Etons of the President.
The third and last step in this culpable procedure
twas, 10 reduce the President TO an equality pih
cabinet minister This point in the grand scheme Of
federalism to abolish the Presidential power was
Egained by persuading General Taylor that the cabi-
net were, fact, the government; that it like
Ecourt-martal, in which every member at the board
had an equal vote and that in such council the
kPresi6snt should exercise power than of
his cabinet officers; thus making Thomas Ewing and
Jacob Coamer much the President of the United
Estates as General Taylor himsef-more so, in fact,
Sbecause they had directly in their hands. under the
System of appointments which they had introduced,
Hmore patronage and more influence. The proofs of
of this third point in the grand scheme of
the willy consprators around the President as nu-
Hmerous those which prove the second and first
EThey consist of the declarations of General Taylor
Ehmself and of numerous declarations to that effect
Hby whig papers and letter writer's In the simplicity
of his nature, General Taylor assigns to his friends
las a reason why they do not get appointments, the
that he in their favor, but voted down by
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