Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-07-19
The Cabinet.

President FILLMORE has accepted the designations
of all the members of the late Cabinet ofthe COM
position of the new Cabinet it is impossible yet to
speak unless from surmise. All accounts agree in
assigning the post of Secretary of State to MI WEB
sTER, provided that gentleman will accept which is
considered doubtful Various gentlemen are spoken
of for the other Offices in the Cabinet among Others
Eek. Governor GRAHAM of this State, who is mention
ed in connection with the Navy Department; Gov
CR1rrENDEN, of Kentucky with the Office of Attor-
new General: and Mr.. CoRw1N with the Home De-
partment One thing seems agreed upon-that the
new Cabinet is to be selected from the old CLAY and
WEBSTER wing of the Wing party-and another
thing is equally certain, that it may easily be bet
ter than its predecessor and cannot well be worse.
We await the developments which must soon come.
P S-The Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun under date of the 10th ns says that it
is now definitely settled that the new Cabinet of
President Fillmore will be composed of the following
named gentlemen:
ROBERT C. WINTHROP, Secretary of State.
| SAMUEL F. VINToN, Secretary of the Interior.
McKENNoN, of Pa, Secretary of the Treasury.
GRAHAM, of N. c., Secretary of War
T. BUTLER KING, Secretary of the Navy.
! JOHN T. MoREHEAD, Postmaster General.
HOPKINS, of Alabama, Attorney General
Editorial Courtesy.
We ourself set up peculiar pretentions to cour-
tho. ~ n5 same time i'm ~, we must con
buse and denunciation in which some of our cotem.
poraries indulge towards each other. We cpl
thets banded weekly and daily which man in pri
vate life of common spirit, could tolerate for mo-
ment. The lie given and returned with the mos
perfect GOODNESS, and as a matter of course. Now
this is wrong-an wrong. Editors ought to observe
toward, and exact FROM each other, all the courte
sizes which regulate the intercourse of gentlemen il
private life and if unworthy characters creep int
the profession, who will not abide by such rules
they ought to be regarded tabooed men, beyond
the pale of civilization, to say nothing of friendly in
tercourse. This matter has struck more forcibl,
during the present campaign for Governor, than ev
er before. As general thing the tone of the pres
is pretty nearly it should be but there excep
tions which are brought out into stronger relief b,
their comparative isolation they to sure are rath
er poor affairs and if their scurrility confined
their own columns it would be nicucous, as nobod
would ever see it Or at least regard it but unfor
tunately papers of higher standing, who woult
shrink from being guilty of such things themselves
apparently have scruples about copying and Civ
of small circulation, which lies on our table, we no
tice the word "lie"" lie,' &C., quite prominent il
nearly every paragraph and other choice and
adectives of the class spread over the pag
as thickly as sprinkled from caster. ALI forms
abuse-of Sunderland unfortunately must add
of direct falsehood against the Democratic party
candidate embellish the elegant affair." and ad
that spice to it's columns which the talents of the ed
itor would fail to impart. Unfortunately, too W
must confess, that of the presses of part
have been weak enough to descend to similar tactic
at Times, but we hope that the days ofsuch thing
s!era and men conducting public presses, are
not wit, nor denunciation argument. If all tn
presses which inclined to be decent and avoi
the contamination of Billngsgate slang, would
once stop exchanging with those who indulge in tn
use Of that choice vocabulary, it would be one ste
towards the desired reformation.