Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-04-18
CHANGES IN THE CABINET.

Rumor often times feeds upon idle stories
some of which are mere conectules, stated bv
the over wise, as facts. And it not unfreouentlv
occurs, that our hopes create our expectations.
which expectations, malignity converts, piior to
their realization, into actual occurrences. We
do not pretend to assert, fact that the chanr-
es, which rumor is making in General TAYLOR :
Cabinet are mere idle stories, but we do pretend
that such is our belief And we, further believe
that they are mere con- lectures, or have oriqna-
ted IN the malIgnlty of his opponents. There is
something remarkable in the changes that have
been rumored. The efficient and able Secretary
OF State meets with difficulty in dischargine the
duties of his Office and in consequence thereof
his resignation is TO ensue. But it is remarkably
strange, that. while this difficulty is the cause Of
resignation, his resignation should be withheld
until its adjustment was effected vet such was
the rumor. A similar case occurs with the Sec
rotary of War, and the same rumors are put afloa.
But this time the scene thcken7. First, the Sc
cretaIy OF War resigns. But the keen penetra-
ton OF those men, who are apt at discerning Sc
Cret things and pryIng into the private matters
OF men and bodies, detect dissatisfaction in the
entire Cabinet; and Immediately they pour into
the ever ready ear of rumor the supposed re.or-
ganization of the whole. Rumor, needing only
conjecture, out of which to create fact, asserts,
that owing to the dissatisfaction prevalent in Gen
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is adjusted, it will be recognized There is one
remarkable feature in these rumors. The desires
for resigS tons are all reported to arise out of
some es9dayg difficulties; but strange that these
difficulties should prevent resignation, and their
adjustment IN every instance, should be report
cd as necessary to the proposed change, or at all
events, being prior to the resignation The
'story is badly framed, or, it NAV be, badly told
II MAJ or may not. be truei the probabilities,
however, lean TO the latter. We are not inclined
to believe the rumor; and though possibly it may
be accurate, it assuredly is not manufactured IN
10 such form as to induce cleduty.
AL We shall much regret change in the Cabi-
net. To be candid, Gen. Taylor might have OBJ
tanned Cabinet superior, in some respects to
the present, but now, since the Cabinet has been
formed, it will be much better TO allow il to re-
main unchanged. There are other men, who
would, no doubt, have made a better Cabinetbut
the same remark is applicable to every Cabinet,
which has been formed. The services of these
other men probably cannot be commanded But
be this as it may the Cabinet of General TAYLOR is
fully adequate to discharge the duties assigned it.
Tho fact, that some ofthe members can be surpass-
ed,s no proof of,tlIeir deficiency, and it can only
be convertible into proof of the superatve abilities
OF those who surpass them But while it is true
that upon the whole, better Cabinet might have
been formed, il is equally true, that, to effect this
result, would require vast amount of effort aud
an unusual degree of good fortune. And Justice
requires, that we should say of some members of
the Cabinet, that they without superiors--
they may have equals but in the nation
can surpass them in the discharge of their duiies
among them is the present able Secretary OF State
the most important officer in the Cabinet. Take
the Cabinet upon the whole, and il will stand
remarkably favorable comparison with any other
to- which the affairs of our nation have been en-
trusted. The members of The Cabinet have dis
charged their duties with credit to themselves
the country is contented; and intriguing dem
asosucs may triumph over achaDse, but tbs eoun-
try, al large, willregret il.