Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-03-26
THE STANDARD.
oALE1GH, SATURDAY, MARCH 90. 1853.
THE CABINET.

constrained by the force of public feeling 20 do
;ustice to the positions announced by the President
in his Inaugural, are entering objections to mem
bers of the Cabinet and imputing to them senti-
ments which they never entertained.
The Raleigh Star states that Mr.. McClelland,
the Secretary of the Interior is Freesoiler. This
charge is unfounded. Mr.. McClelland was a firm
friend of the compromise" and as such was cleo
ted Governor of Michigan, which post he resigned
to go into the Cabinet.
The Old North State, edited by Stephen u.
Pool Clerk of the House of Commons, says:
:. Re,ow we give the Cabinet of Gen. Pierce.
North Carolina it will be is represented in it, in
the person of the Hon. James g. Do6bln. We be-
come acquainted with Mr. Dobbin this past winter,
and we think he will discharge the new duties which
he has been called perform creditablc to himself
and his State.
Messrs Guthrie, McClelIand and Campbell have
but little national reputation, and Messrs Marcy, Da
Wis and Gushing have been known EdUornbke.
Mr.. Marcy is known as the man who had his
6ritches patched at the expense of the State of "
and having received most severe and merited
IaspiRg from Gen. Taylor, while in Mexico. MIR.
Davis is ultra southern man and Mr.. Gushing is
a renegade whig, who once known of the
body guard of John Tyler"
We have given Mr. POOLS opinion in full, with
his nice touches of good English, which we have
italicised; but the opinion of an Editor who can
not spell breeches, is not worth much The "rasp-
ing from Gen. Taylor" is some ching new to us );
we do remember, however, that one Gen. Scott
was once quite tenderIy handled by Gov. Marcy
Other Wing papers charging that Gov. Mar
cy is Freesoiler-that he agrees in opinion on
the Slavery question with the Van Burens! The
following extract from letter written by Gov
Marcy, in August, 1851, will nail this charge to
the counter:
tIf we look for the continuance of the Union,
there must be-in my serious opinion, there ought to
be-a fugitive slave law; an effective law that will
answer its protested Objects that will be practi-
cal in its operation, and make the remedy less exPen
sve than the value of the right it is designed to
cure. As democrat, and what is more, staunch
friend of the Union, in faUor Of such laoU, and
willing TO make it substantial article of my politi
cal faith"
The truth is, those members of the Cabinet who
are from the free States were standing up like men
and patriots for the fugitive-slave law, while Sou
thern Wings, by spirit of submission to Adolf
ton encroachments, were encouraging these very
entertainments and contributing to involve the
Union in still deeper peril. Marcy, Cushing,
Campbell, and McClelIand are all sound upon this
vital question: as the record of their public actions
In selecting his Cabinet Gen. Pierce not only
paid due regard to the talent of the party and to
localities, but he was careful to call to his
counsels who is net thoroughly devoted to the
rights of the States and the Union of the States.
H- We find in the Wilmington Herald an ar
ticle from the Fayetteville Observer, in which,
matter of course, gross injustice is done to the
re hot, off
falsely charging that Gov. Reid has endeavored to
make the Central Railroad "a partizan affair,
adds-in reply to the Goldsborough Patriot-that
it does not know whether Wing Governors have
been in the habit of appointing none but Wings
Bank Directors &c Now, the Observer very
we'll knows that Wing Governors nsVer did, as a
general rule, appoint Directors in Banks and
Railroads any but Wings. The fact is notorious
that, during the period of twelve or thirteen years
in which the Wings held power in this State, the
Democrats were excluded both from political offices
and corporation appointments so far as Governors
and Wing Cliques could do it. The exceptions
which were made only proved the existence of the
rule. And look now at the Banks in which the
State has an interest? Who are filing the Offices
Wings we believe, IN every instance-there is not
Democrat, so far as we know, in any salaried
Office in the Bank of the State or in the Bank of
Cape Fear!
The Observer, after feigning ignorance as to the
above facts, says:
"But if true, we consider it all right. For it W ould
have been very discoureous, say the least of it,
appoint Director of what he considered or
pretended to consider, I" swindling shop such
having formerly been the language of the Locofoco
party leaders regarding the Banks"
The above is untrue. 1t breathes spirit of
meannsss and bitterness in every respect character
iStc of the Fayetteville Observer Again, that
paper says:
w Mig Governors, we imagine, usually appoint as
directors OF works of Internal improvement, Banks,
Co. men VINO invested their means in such works.
VINO "'Sheo Them 10 succeed and who had expert
Snce anu ability to secure success when possible.
we uo not mink that Gov. Reid has followed their
e1Hn'Pie' Ha proxies have usually managed to Sc
pao somnlng nearly approaching unanimity ," in
'"e oPFo"'Hoh OF the stockholders in such works."
we nave copied the foregoing for the purpose
OF showing decent and intelligent Wings and fair
minded men generally, the lengths to which such
paper can 20.
hale is enraged because a Democrat is Govern
Or and he spits forth his venom and falsehoods
against ooV' Reid simply as a matter of habit, and
by way OF relieving himself from his superabun-
dant bile, Nothing would more sunrise his in