The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-10
THE UNION.


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We find the following sketch OF Gen Taslors cabinet
and administration among the letters from This city pub
ishad in the New York Herald AS that paper claims to
have been the first TO nomnaehe General for the presi-
dency the picture should be received correct likeness,
drawn by friend Referring to General Taylor. the
writer says:
Igaoant OF the administration Of afairsig
norau OF the politics. the parties the politicians. and olit-
cal aspians Of The day. his first step Of necessity the
selection OF acabnet upon whom ne could throw The re-
sponsibilty OF doing the work He had TO do IL. There
help for him. He therefore assigned each cab
net officer the actual duties OF his department subject 70 the
decision Of cabinet councils, from which he soon learned
ugh believe his cabinet about the best that
convened at the White House
This has been the most serious impeachment tn his sue
cesshs overweenng faith in the infallibiy OF his cabi
net, We should think him man whose confidence Is
easily gained and that esabshed nothing short OF
trial by jury and verdict Of treason would shake It.
But he Is convinced q as q The aasasnery s1 81
believe that they are not as popular as he thought they
ought to be- and that the wings IN Congress don. like his
support him In this exgency, the Old man Is IN tight
he can that Is TO say let him keep his cabinet as il ill
something done way or the Other this negro cues
pary but now IN the present unsettled state Of things il
he were 10 dismiss his detachable council Of seven he
therefore, has wait, and the refractory wings Of the
House must be patient.
between General Taylor and his party in Congress these
the President actually thinks they have carried his
ION and swing and that while Clayton Is the chief Of d.
plomass Ewing is the Napoleon of politicians and that
sspty that wa" born
nancer and that Colamer 10 tho perfection Of
that all the ouicy from Richie and Burke and
few disappointed ocolocos and that the great wing party
with the cabinet sound to the because the cabinet
When asked some time ago by Mr.. Clay il he had con-
suited his friends IN Congress as % the policy to be pursued
have consulted my cabinet and my mind Is made up"
Give Is The who holds q his bargain Ola zack
ec,ed The cabinet his advisers and he sticks e their add
deemed his peoge II he has been humbugged he at
least sincere.
The whigshe body of the wings Of Congress with few
the other hand that the cabinet
ure and that the administration is failing, and that the
party sinking under the weight Of such cabinets that
while Clayton has become laughing stock Ewing Is, in
the public opinion, butcher, and only butchea
cuatng butchera party butcher without without
feeling without charity and without respect that the first
rendered The administration contemplate, and the
second has made it deestabe; that Clayton is subject
Of and Ewing of execraon and that the
of the nfaibe Of straw, auomata, moveat
BILE, like skip jacks, BY pulling q string.
With reference the great subjects Of our foreign affairs,
the finances the tariff, appointments % office, @c the
tem--nothing more The President takes il for granted
so roundly abused By Riicnie and Burke.
But old lack has learned, on all that, something since
even an independent administration must have some hold
upon Congress TO do snyhng and hat Congress will not
neon, peencv and unpcpniarty es,eblished Having
learned this the Presiden. fall back upon first prn
cPles The people expect MIN to DO something one
ALL He will do ii yet The cabinet itself would have
saved him The trouble 4 he had p permitted month sso
down around his ears, they must 70 with him. They
responsible They must not dodge and cut out and rum
Just they coming the brnnt Of the fight They
hold t the struggle is over and then we shall
In every view Of the case we hold that this is the proper
course and that odous may be Congress- the
'present cabinet is good enough to break up on"