The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-04
Our New Hsmpshirs correspondence.

CONCORD, N. ID, Nov. -, looA.
General Pierce Descrtbed-C CABINET SyecutatioSs-
Prospect of Laying the old Presidential Candi.
dates All on the Shslf-Dh. Brchawan and the
Cuba Corespondence-Ihe Cabinet to be Unit
on that Question-Di6fc,aA Situation Of Marcy
Dickinso~ Rather Doicn-Bar~bwnns Looking
Up-No Chance for Cobb and that Set-NoxH for
Captain Tyler's Corpmal's Guard Prospect of a
Nt,c Deal all Round-G General Piercs's Estimate
of his Position, &c &c.
have had the pleasure Of several little inter-
views with General Pierce. He ID q man Of mark,
a man Of education, man Of accomplishments in
the ways Of the world; shrewd politician, and of
broad and comprehensive views rs statesman.
His face is expressive, and genial, and intelligent
He is affable and pleasing in his manners, modest
and unpresuming, yet cool and self possessed in .
remark able degree. He evidently feels shat he has
not yet been tried to the Of his capacities;
and, what is better, he has the power nvoluntarily
Of convincing you Of the fact He has an agreeable
voice. speaks readily, freely, fuenty, and correctly;
but he keeps his own counses in al matters re-
curing the exercise of . saving discretion.
In person he is about five feet nine inches high,
straight, and slenderly built. He has not that
breadth of shoulders, nor that depth Of chest, in
dicating the most vigorous constitution. His COM
plexon, too pale and his face thin, excepting the
extraordinary expansion Of his lower jaw; but he is
one Of that wrey, active class of men, all muscle
and nerve and capable of all sorts of bardships and
endurance. Fremont, who has sustained the most
incredible trials Of starvation, and cold, and snow
in the depth Of winter, among the inhospitable
peaks and dreary defles Of the Rocky mountains,
and the Sierra Nevada, Is one of the same sort
spare and delicate but elastic, and muscular, and
tough, and hardy as Kit Carson. James X Polk,
who could ride on horse back sixty miles day, in
the middle Of July, aud make three or four stump
speeches Of quarter of an hour each, was of the
same spare construction. 30 was Marion; 80 was
Napoleon in his prime; 80 was wellington; so was
Horatio Nelson; 50 was Jefferson; so was Old
Hickory, and so was Harry Clay. General Pierce
has prscedents in the grsAtest abundance to make
merit Of being neither Falstaf nor q Hercules.
Thus much for the man Now, what is he going
to do! 1t is very likely that no man can answer
that ousstion-not even General Pierce himself.
The circumstances and necessities Of the hour must,
to a great extent, control his future actions. He
will have to judge Of events, and psdients, and
men, as the time may demand. 1t is Impossible
that he can now say such and such men shall con-
stitute my cabinet and such shall be the policy, in
detail Of my administration He can't do it. He
must cast about hm-he must study the antecs-
dents and qualifications Of his men, the situation Of
the party, the condition Of the country, the cem-
pexites of our foreign affairs the requirements of
the time and the spirit of the age. The Baltimore
pa storm does not cover the exigencies of his posi-
ton. He must initiate new epoch-he must take
. new departure. The horizon has widened all
around him, Of which the old landmarks compass
but contracted circle.
Still. there lie q stake hare and thers like those
which formerly marked the route I'll L'anos Estaca-
do across the desert table l.n's OF New Mexico,
by which he must be guided in his course. And
first. upon the Cuba question, you may take it for
granted that the acquisition of that island is fore
gone conclusion. There is every reason to believe
that General Pierce has SO considered it, aimee the
late tremendous election, if not before prim my
object, then. must be the selection of cabinet that
win be unit upon that question, to enable its
several parts to work barmoniously and efficiently
together. How is this to be done! VINO will be
good enough to name such a cabinet for General
Pierce? Take, for example, the foil o wing, and
every one Of the men named in it has been put for
ward in various quarters, as very likely to be APP
pointed and then let US exa mine it for moment
For Secretary Of State James Buchanan, Of Penn
Treasury. William L. Marcy, OF n Y.
Interior. j A. Wright. of Indiana.
$" War.......... Sam Houston, OF Texas
Nsvy.......... Howell Cobb, OF Georgia
Postmaster General. Edmond Burke OF n. II.
Attorney General. H. A. Wise, Of Virginia
fair cabinet good stiff cabinet, in fact !; but
it is probable that not che of the men named will
be appointed Wright and Burke, as being new
men, and ehgby located in every respect. are, per-
hsps, of the list, the most likely to come in; for,
however true or fictitious it may be, an idea is
gaining ground up here that there is to be o new
shuttle and cut and new deal all round.
Perpend Why so! Because it is said Gen Pierce
intends TO have an administration of his own, and
not for the benefit of either Buchanan or M ar
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Their Cass, Douglas, nor Dickinson desire to come
in; and is it likely that. waving their own preten
sions, they will willingly suffer any Of
the old Presidential set--the old fogies y
poin'ment Not likely. In any event, it is hardly
possible that more than one of Folks cabinet can
be chosen, either Buchanan or Marcy. But un'ortu
nately for Mr.. Buchanan, the publication of his
Cuba correspondence with Gen. Saunders. has dish.
ed him. Mark, now, If it has not dshed him. The
policy of the new administration FIRST requires that
the tracks of Mr.. Buchanan should be covered up.
To appoint him now would be to re-proclaim his
offer OF hundred millions in he face of the whole
world and all "the rest of mankind" Is it not pail
pably manifest that President Fillmore has put the
veto to Mr.. Buchanan.
The appointment of Gen Marcy appears almost
impracticabe account of the bitter feud still
existing between him and Senator Dickinson. |
rather suspect, however, that the Barnburners are
in better odor up here just now than some of the
leading Hunkers Dickinson did not work so cheer.
1uHy IN tne Ca1npaiHH aS nc UlSut nave lOue, Wuuc
John Van Buren, and Dix stumped it all over the
land with the enthusiasm of Methodist preachers at
. great revival. 'He that beleveth and is bap-
tized. shall be saved but he that believeth not
ali his fate sawful. And if any compromise is made
for New York, it is as likely to foil upon Dix
as upon anybody else In fact, it is supposed by
ZONE very wise looking men on the Merrimack, that
If the two New York factions can harm onize upon
the Cuba question, such division will be made Of
the 8 oils between the cabinet, the custom house
and the post office, cannot fail to satisfy them.
But il would not be matter of surprise it, for the
cake Of peace in the family, New York were left en-.
tirely out of the cabinet
Howell Cobb is out of the question. He belongs
TO that small wing, ofishoot, of the Southern
mocratic party which, year or two ago, went of
with the wings 10 Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and
Mississippi on the Union tack, and some of who n
very reluctantly came back into line the heel Of
the late election. Cobb, Foote, Clemens, DO sns,
and company will therefore have to undergo a sort
of purgatorisl publication of some years to come,
before they can be admitted, (without destroying
the party in the South into the high seats of the
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