Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-05-06
The Cabinet and the Wings.

President Tay lor, such total disregard
,ave they shown of the solemn and oft re-
seated pledges to the people, and such a
orofigate and lavish waste of the public
money for the benefit Of Cabinet officers
and their favorites, have they made, that
some of the earliest and most ardent advo-
Gates and supporters of Gen. Taylor, are
constrained to to denounce them The
New York Herald, a paper that was a.
lnong the first and foremost of the advo-
Gates of Gen. Taylor's election, and which
contributed in no small degree to his sue
cess, thus speaks of his Cabinet and its
corruptions:
at is our firm belief that a more attro-
cious, imbecile, designing and dangerous
Cabinet, have never been in office in w ash
ington, than the present set of men, who
got into office by false pretences, and by
deceiving the incorruptible honesty and
generosity of Gen. Taylor. Months ago,
the very person whom they appointed
Minister to Austria, termed them, in the
columns Of his paper, the most corrupt
Cabinet that were ever in power, and Of
perpetrating more despotism, fanaticism,
and rascality, in the distribution of appoint
ments and offices, than any other Cabinet
from the commencement of the Govern
ment to that time. This charge was open
ly promulgated by Mr.. Webb, and in the
face of that declaration, the same Cabinet,
e., of bair info
him as Minister to Austria, in order to shut
his mouth. Since then, new Developments
have been made, particularly in reference to
their passing and allowing claims of
doubtful and equivocal character, which
were refused by previous Administrations.
Thousands and thousands of dollars, it
seems, have been paid out in this way by
order of the Cabinet, for the settlement of
claims, in which the members of the Cabi-
net, or their connections and friends, were
concerned. Hence arose the necessity Of
of increasing the appropriations, and of de-
manding additional supplies to the extraor-
dinary amount of sixteen millions of dol
lars beyond the revenue of the country"
The Herald is by no means the only whig
paper that denounces the course of the
Cabinet, and that charges them with cor
ruption; and it is said land that by whig pa.
pers and letter writers, that large major
ity Of the whig members of Congress de-
sire and demand change in the Cabinet;
and yet they all seek to exhonerate the
President from all blame or responsibility,
and to make the country believe that these
outrages can be perpetrated under the very
eye of the President, by his own Cabinet,
and still he be entirely blameless- "a man Of
"incorruptible honesty!" Are the sacred
pledges made to the people to obtain their
suffrages, basely violated and utterly disre-
.garded, Gen. Taylor is entirely blameless
Is the Treasury plundered to put money
into the pockets of the cabinet officers and
their friends, still these cabinet officers are
retained in power, and the people are asked
to believe that Gen. Taylor is man of
@incorruptible honestly" But the people
will hold the President amenable for these
outrages. They have already taken cog
nizance of them, and in nearly every in.
stance in which they have been called up
on for their verdict, has the administration
been condemned.
O. Whiggery in Ohio and whiggery in
Michigan are far from being identical
In this county the wing convention to nom.
mate a candidate..for delegate to the Conven
ton held in March last, adopted but one
solitary resolution in regard to the consti
tutional amendments they desired to see eff
fected, and that was to give to the entire
@colored population" the right of suffrage
Such was their attachment and devotion te
the "gemmen Oh color" that they wanted
a convention to amend the constitution, al
an expense of sixty or seventy thousand
dollars, for the sole and only purpose Of
conferring the privileges of the elective fran
chise upon the negro population!
The people of Michigan are shortly to hold
a convention to amend the constitution Of
that State, and prominent among the ques-
tions in agitation is that of nergro suffrage.
The Cass County Advocate, whig paper,
thus sets forth the wbig sentiment upon
the subject:
sThe fact of this matter is, that there is
not whig Of our acquaintance in the coun-
ty, who is in favor of negro suffrage with
out any qualifications. and that as to time
of residence, instead of the aristocratic
property qualification. We have not heard
any wbig set less than ten gears, and
some of them have put it as high as fifteen,
and then that proposition to be submitted
to the people for them to vote direct upon
it, their approval or rejection.-In any
other form they are decidedly opposed to it.
We have been informed by several strong
free soilers that they are not in favor of
negro suffrage without proper and just
qualification, one that would protect a.
gainst the abuses Of the right, and that
whatever rule was thought best to be "a
dopted by the conv ention should be submit
ted to vote of the people. In fact the
free soilers say that it would be an injury
to the negro to give him such a privilege
before he was qualified to exercise it prop