Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-27
Washington News and Gossip.

attribute good motlyes-strfct integrity OF
purpose-to the manner in which the New
York TitbuHe is conducted. however widely
We may differ from many of the views of men
and things held by its editors. We know
most of them personally, to respect them for
their blameless lives as gentlemen, and for
the posses sion of talents and attainments sec
ond o those of no other editorial corps in the
United States. These are, We know, unfash-
ionable sentiments in this region of the coun-
try. Yet they are our convictions, drawn
principally from babitual and careful reading
of their very able journal 1t, therefore.
always pains us to find their prejudices, which
are strong and by no means few, leading them
into errors through which they do injustice.
We find them doing so in their issue of Tues
day last wherein, in correcting a silly mis-
take of one of their correspondents, who
attributes the appointment of Judge Camp
bell to be Postmaster General to the inter
ference of Archbishop Hughes in his behalf,
they take occasion to charge Mr. Buchanan
with asking his preferment to a Cabinet ap-
pointment IN ordey to propttiGte Tire CGthotics;
and adds that he was beaten when nominated
for o judgship in Pennsylvania, becau.e it
was known that, without proper qualifications,
he received the nomination through Catholic
influences. Our long connection with the
press at this point-with the press of both
parties, and the independent press-as
Washington correspondent, has enabled us to
learn quite as much concerning the unwritten
history of the public men of the country of
all shades of politics, as any other one man
knows, we care not whom he may be. The
fact that we possess such knowledge and are
in the habit of availing our readers of this
information in our Washington News column,
it is, which goes furthest in securing for that
department Of the Sur. such confidence from
the public, as was never before bestowed ON
such newspaper intelligence. We write the
foregoing only by way of showing that we
thoroughly the importance of
making no statements in our Washington
News, which will not bear the test of the
severest scrutiny.
With this preface, we have to say that in
the article first above mentioned, the Tribune
commits several plumbers First, in attributing
a sinister purpose to Mr.. Buchanan in urging
Judge Campbell for his present position We
have seen letters from under the hand of Mr.
B., addressed to his nearest friends in answer
to appeals from them to permit them to regard
him as open to receive the Democratic nomi
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patriotism. as we'll rs to his unselfish nature
He peremptorily refuses ever to think again
Of mixing in party strife; declaring that the
height of his ambition for the future is to pass
the remainder of his days in quiet, at Wheat
land Though most DESTROYS of preparing his
speeches and State papers for publication
which task he had commenced when summon
ed again into the public service by the present
Chief Magistrate, he gave over thatlabor, be-
cause he felt that his country's claims on his
diplomatic services-in view of the molnen-
tous condition of European affairs-and the
claims of 1.-The Democracy" upon all his ca
liabilities of Strengthening the present Ad-
before the country were higher,
much higher, than those of his own future
reputation and personal ease A man of his
actuated by such sentiments. is
not the man to recommend any one to Cabi-
net Office on the sinister grounds stated by the
TrtbmWe On the contrary. we know that for
n long series of years there has been strong
personal friendship existing between himself
and Judge Campbell, whom he suggested first
for the State Judgeship, to which he was not
elected, owing to Pen. sylvania Native Ameri-
can (not Whig) prejudices against his religion;
and next for the Postmaster Gencralship. on
account of the high estimate he set upon his
judgment. indefatigable and me-
thodical industry, and, above all on account
of his knowledge of the value Of the never
failing integrity Of that gentleman charac-
ter, public and private. 1t is well known in
political circles here, that such were the
grounds on which he urged Judge C.'s ap-
pointment to his present position, in preference
to that of either of some thirty or forty of his
immediate partizans from his own and other
States, all of whom having made more noise
Buchanan s. behalf conceived themselves en-
titled before Judge Campbell to his backing"
for seat in the Cabinet. We need hardly
add, that if the editors of the Tribune were
here, as we are, constantly Inspecting and
watching the doinSs in every branch of the
Government, they would not have charged q
sinister purpose on MIR. Buchanan in pointing
him out for the laborious and responsible DO.
stion he fills. For he has already become the
life and soul of lis department.; laboring like
mole, yet despatchins business with an ap
parent thorough appreciation of all the points
OF each case, great or small, coming before
him, which seems to us wonderful. when we
consider the number, diversity, importance
and complexity of the matters which he daily
adjudicates. Indeed, it has often struck ms
that the act OF seeking to place Judge C. where