Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-08-04
The Travelling cabinet.

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President Fillmore 6nd his cabinet vi.
questionably go ahead of anything in the
shape Of cabinet that has heretofore exists
ed in travelling and speech making Were
Democratic President and Cabinet 10 iu.
dulge in one.lenth Of il The Whig press
would be working itself fairly irlo spasms
in potraying its enormity; but it is perfec;-
ly right, they appear To think. for Whig
officials to act in this manner. The follow
ing we clip from late Union, which will
furnish our readers an idea as 10 the way
the President and Cabinet conduct them
selves Trnm6uH Democrat
ABsENTEElsM.-We see from, :he Yves.
tern papers that Mr.. Corwin, who is now
on trip to Ohio--lhe second, We believe,
since he was placed in this cabinet, is tel.
ling very good story on his travels. He
representative trust that Mr.. Meredith
will see the representation, that when he
went into the Treasury Department he
found everything in confusion; that he
(Mr. Corwin) undertook to prescribe some
sanitary regulations for the benefit OF the
Treasury department, by issuing an order
that any clerk who was sick for given
time should have his pay reduced according
ly; if he was sick beyond week, he should
be required to die or resign. Mr. Corwin
ADDS that this order has had most salutary
effect, and that the clerks in the Treasury
Department are now as healthy as any men
to be found.
We have heard of this order before, but
we could not believe in its exictence.
Least of all could we believe that Mr.. Cor.
win had authorized, it, But i, seems from
his own statements that he claims the pas
ternity ofit-Now, speaking from memory,
we venture TO say that Mr.. Corwin himself
has been absent from his duties, on the
plea Of sickness, nj least one half the time
he has been Secretary Of the Treasury
If we overstale the time we ask the Repub.
lie to correct us, and to say whether Mr..
Corwin has followed the rules he has pro.
scribed for his clerks, who have nothing
but their salaries 10 live son-no Mexican
claims, or anything Of that sort. We ask
the Republic also to say whether Mr.. Cor.
win has ever refused to receive his salary
during the weeks, nay months-of sickness,
or thought he ought to be required to die
or resign for not attending 10 his duties.-
II our memory is not faulty, at least three>
lourths of the instructions, &C., emanaling
from the Treasury Department have been
signed by Mr. Hodge, and not by Mr.. Cor.
win.
While we are on this subject, we may
mention that we have heard something Of
"trarelliag cabinets, > and Of Wbig abuse
Of them. Mr.. Cerwin IS now absent, a
political canvass having just commenced
in Ohio. Mr.. Crittendon is sabsent-a
being in full blast in Kentucky.-
Mr.. Webster has just returned from the
CaPon Springs in Virginia. Mr. Fillmore,
Mr.. Hall, and Mr.. Stuart have just re
turned from Eastern Virginia. Mr.. Fill.
more, Mr.. Webster, Mr.. Criltenden, Mr..
Graham, and Mr.. Hall have been returned
from New York, whittier they had gone
on the eve of the 100000 election
The cabinet has been flying and speechi-
Tying at all points Of the compsss-E East,
w est, North and South, to say nothing of
Northeast and Southeast, Northwest and
Southwest. Verify. we doubt whether Mr..
Fillmere's cabinet has ever met together.
We do not speak positively; but we doubt
the fact whether Mr.. Fillmore and his sew.
en- whig counsellors ever met together in
one room a, the same time. VIII the Re-
public enlighten us? Will it condescend
to tell when and how long such thing
was possible? Will it dare to tell the coun-
try what time ench member of the cabinet
has been in Washington since he took the
oath Of office? We will see.