The New York herald., 1850-05-20

The CABINET AND rs AsPEcrs.-It is hardly
worth the time TO enumerate the causes which
have led the cai,inet of General Taylor into its
present conditions. These men have literally and
politically done those things which they ought
not 10 have done, and have left undone those
things viii ch they ought TO have done, and there
is no health in them" They nearly disgraced the
first year Of honest old General Taylor's admins
,zation, in all sorts of ways, and almost rendered
him an object of pity to all good citizens Pres-
dent Taylor is worse of in Congress than our old
friend, President Tyler Captain Tyler had a
corporaps guard, and paid them bountfuy for
their services. General Taylor has not corporal's
guard though he has corporal-Corporal Truman
Smith.
Unpleasant il is 10 us to allude to the dis
tressing, humiating position TO which the cabinet
have reduced the good old chief, whom we were
the first 10 nominate for the high office, and to
whom independent support contributed some
what TO elevate, yet we have duty to perform TO
the public-wc must speak the truth. The cabinet
of General Taylor are not only the laughing-stock
of the whole Union, North and South, as the seven
great clowns of the national circus, but they are
beginning to be looked upon in a more serious
light. The old story of the Forty Thieves" will
be swallowed up in the enormous robberies ofa
less number OF men, who are engaged in 'GulpPing'
and Chckasaw excursions of all sorts and kinds
All these things are awful, and would have crushed
any minisTation into smaller particles than this
one. 1t has been saved thus far by the general
belief which the community still retain, in spite of
his associations that the President himself is
hon. ST, though deceived man.
Perhaps, among all the causes of complaint, which
are legion, against the cabinet Of Generel Taylor,
there is more serious, and none more detr-
mental at the present alarming crisis than the fact
that ajority Of the cabinet are free soilers and
abolitionsts in disguise. We judge of them by
their acts, although il was well known, at the COM
mencement of the administration, that some Of
them were open and avowed abotionists, and had
voted, when in Congress, for the abolition OF
slavery in the district The abolition feeling has
prevailed in the cabinet, and its acts have been such
to present the President TO the American people,
falsher of his pledges, as almost renegade
TO the section which gave him BIRTH They have
brought about him the abolitionsts of both houses.
Their confidential friends are Seward and Truman
Smith, of the Senate; and their associates, such
men Hale, Chase, Giddngs, Preston King, and
all that k The measures they have induced him
10 recommend TO Congress, are such as are satis-
factory 10 Benton and the free soil party. They in
duced the President TO send agents to California,
to urge those specializing politicians out there to
form State, which, if admitted, will make the
fortunes of the agents, and those in and out of the
cabinet, who are engaged in the land purchases
and Mexican titles. II is this open and avowed
alliance, offensive and defensive, between the
administration and the free soilers, into which the
honest old General has been led by his constitu-
tional advisers, that has brought Congress into the
present anarchical condition, and from which there
is the slightest hope Of its being delivered, until
General Taylor displays some Of that stern, prompt,
and determined action, which has characterized
his in less critical periods Of his career and
which, in former days, stamped him with the well
nerited soubriquet of Z" Old Rough and Ready"