The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-08-20
From the New York Express.
President Fillmore and his Cabinet.

The President and his Cabinet remained
in Washington all last summer and autumn
under ,orrid sun, amid labor and excite
mcni, that broke down many and killed some.
and this summer they are taking, not so
much recreation, as choice Of place to do
the public business in Nevertheless, from
such journals as the Albany Atlas" and
kindred prints, we have such articles rs the
following;-
THE STATE OF THE NAr1oS.-The ru-
mors of rupture with Mexico-of conspir-
cy against Cuba-of secession at the South,
OF monetary revulsions at the North, can
hardely bo true, or we would not record that
the President has chosen this crisis 10 go to
Western Virginia, taking with him his Sec
retary Of War, and the Secretary Of the |
Interior (; MIR. Webster, being. engaged in
New England and Mr.. Crittenden being
busy regulating the desperate polite, of Ken
lucky.
The reins Of government are now in the
prcbcnsile fingers Of Mr.. Corwin, just re-
turned from Ohio, and of Mr. Graham just
returned from North Carolina, where the
Congressional elections are coming of.
Never has country passed through so
many crises as this has within the last year.
an 4 never did an administration take il so cool.
ly. They cry thst the Union is in danger,
that civil war and bloodshed are close i'm.
vending, that manufactures are in ruin, and
then start off tor watering place They
seem to have scattered in all directions to
find some pool of Bethesda, to cure the all
menis of The body polite"
The Administration, it is very true, Jake all
things cooly, even TIE most alarming. When
Texas was asprepnting her host for an onset up
OH New Mexico, Mr.. Fillmore coolly indited
his now famous message, and said it should
not be done ; and AS cool was his delermina-
ton to execute the law in the North, when such
Aboltionists as those of the Atlas" school
used all their power TO have them nullifed
a Government conducted on sound,
steady, unswerving principles is like good
clock that needs only its occasional winding,
or like large manulaclory, where it id the
system that works, not the presence of the
owners, If wisdom, order, cooness only
stand at the helm, well will 60 the ship Of
statej even amid the breakers.
1t is the highest credit of Mr.. Fillmore,
that he has never for a moment lost his cool
ness, or sell.command, even on the most try>
ing occasions. He was not overawed by the
loud boisierous Southern storm that threat.
ened him. if he resisted in New Mexico the
, invasion Of Texas. He never quailed one
moment before the violent Northern Abol-
ton howl, that threatened him with Instant
political death, and eventually persecution,
) for signing the Fugitive Slave Bill, and the
Ten Million Taxas Bill. lie kept cool amid
il all, and in the highest excitement declared
in his first message, the law should be main
tanned and tho Compromise measures must
lie considered final"
1t is now beautiful spectacle that we see,
, and something for US, and the world, too, TO
think of and 10 dwell upon. Elections or
discussions are going on in North Carolina,
Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi and
Tennessee in which is incaculated secession
from the Union, that is, revolution-a princi-
pie involving the very existence of the Gov
ernment, and the elections turn On that point.
The President is so cool amid the excitement,
that is, so confident that the majority which
inculcates obedience to the law, will prevail,
that he does not deem his presence neces-
sary in the Capitol, but goes to neighbor-
; ing State to breathe better and purer air
among her mountains. Under what Euro>
pean Government could its head trust him
sell 10 do that-when revolutionary princi>
pes were thus plotting the Cover nments
subvefsion So in the matter of Cuba.
The President has calmly looked at all that
lu!l in the face. He has studied the laws Of
his country; in Proclamation, he has SOL
, emnly assured the public that he would cx'
ecule them at all hazards, and he has issued
all necessary orders for their execution.
! That being done, his presence in the Cdpi
WI 10 ho "SNSse"'s w "''SS ~
, his countrymen are as ready to aid in the OK
: ecution of the laws as he is to obey them.
! As to The monetary revulsion in the coun-
try, the necessary and inevitable results Of
over mporiaiions he cannot check or con-
, troi them. The Purse is not in his hands.
All he could, he did in his Annual Message
recommending the revision OF Tariff which
leads to the exports Of specie that pay for
; these excessive importations.
The Presidents coolness calmness, self
possession, and patriotic devotion to the con
stitution, as il is--not as passion construes
it, Mort or South-hdVc carried the coun-
try through the crises which the Atlas"
mimics and mocks, as do all such journals o.
the Abolition school; but this devotion to the
laws and the Constitution, the county ap>
precistes, and history will well reward here
after.
WEBSTER AND DEMosrHENEs The Hon.
ii. j. Gilcnrist, Chief Justice uf New Hamp-
shire delivered an address before tho Phi Beta
Society of Hanover College on the 2sih ult 10