Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-11-20
The Incoming Administration.

CaOinet ana pOllcy or the incoming ADMINS
~tration. With respect TO the former, a host
gentlemen have already been mentioned as ca
tain to constitute the sic counsellors of Pres
dent PIERCE; no doubt that many of thes
induced or seduced their editorial and CORE.
ponding friends into the trick of showing the
names forward to court applause and admire
ton, that the President might be biased in hi
judgment. The latest batch of gentlemen +
fill up the Cabinet, whose names have bee
published, appears in a letter from Washingto
in the Charleston Courier. This correspon
dent is not so partial as SOM others, who sin
gle out one gentleman alone as sure to get tn
Secretaryship that follows his name, but in hi
letter we find that for the State Department
Mr.. Buchanan, Judge Douglas and Judge Cush
ing are mentioned Mr.. Burt of South Carroll
ma, Mr.. Davis of Mississippi, and Mr.. Wise O
Virginia, for the War Department; and for the
Post Office Department, Mr.. VIM. Allen o
Ohio, and Mr.. Penn of Louisiana. We dit
hear the name of a gentleman nearer home te
Us here even than Mr.. Penn, mentioned in con
nectior with this latter bureau but it is likely
that his home aspirations would prevent hin
from accepting. We do not perceive that the
name or Mr.. Soule is any where mentioned in
connection with the Cabinet.
With regard to the domestic policy of the
Administration, there can be no doubt that all
the great measures of the Democratic party
win be sustained and carried out, as that party
has the control of both the representative and
executive branches. We see it stated, howev-
er, that the prospect is that the present tariff
will be but little meddled with: and if we have
any idea of the feelings generally of the peo-
pie, internal Improvements will not find a very
bitter enemy in either department of the new
Administration.
The foreign policy, however, of the Admin
%istration of Mr.. PIERCE will doubtless be en-
tirely different in many essentials from that of
any President that has preceded him; and in
our opinion two of those essentials are, that
our army and navy will be vastly increased in
both arm and material, and that the policy of
peace heretofore observed by all administra-
tons and recommended to be cultivated abroad
under almost all exigencies, will, whether for
good or evil now be conducted upon quite
a different principle and that in our relations
foreign powers during the incoming Ad-
m n of rofInn tho - $50. ~,-I - L..
little Of the olive branch will be exhibited in
our negotiations. With regard to this foreign
policy of P1ERcE's Administration, we make the
following extract from an exec lIent article in
he New York Times:
1t is in regard to the Foreign policy Of his
Administration that the greatest degree of dis
will be felt. The commercial policy to
which his party is pledged will tend to strength
70 the bonds of amity between England and the
United States; and Great Britain will not risk
var, upon any but the largest and most ~inevita-
lie necessities, with a country which offers her
he coveted boon of supplying twenty-five mill
ons of people with manufactured goods. The
;uban question presses for solution; and unless
he new President shall resist very firmly the
ressure of a very powerful section of his own
art.y, he will be very apt to take or %counte-
ance measures in this connection which will
serious embarrassments. We think it
cry probable that a War with Spain may be
mong the events destined to distinguish the
Administration; but we do not be-.
eve that any other European power could be
ragged into its issues, or that it could fail to
suit in further accessions of territory to the
nited States. We have, moreover, important
still to settle with Mexico-the solu-
on of which involves many interests of the
most importance. s