The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-03-17

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APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT,
By and pith the aduics and consent of the Senate
WILLIAM l.. MARCY, of New York. to be
Secretary of State OF the United States.
JAMES GUTHRIE, of Kentucky, to be Secre.
tary of the Treasury of the United States.
| ROBERT McCLELLAND, of Michigan, to be
Secretary of the Interior.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, of Mississippi, to be Sec
rotary of War.
JAMES c. DoBBIN, of North Carolina, to be
Secretary Of the Navy.
JAMES CAMPBELL, of Pennsylvania, to be
Postmaster General
CALEB CUSHING, of Massachusetts,, to be At
torney General for the United States.
Department of State, March 8, 1853
Such il the Cabinet of the new Administra-
ton. Marcy and Guthrie are we'll advanced
in years having been born near the close of the
last century; Gushing is ffty-two; Davis must
be near fifty; McClelland is forty-fve; Dobbin
and Campbell are about forty. Sectionally,
the slave States are represented by three, and
the free States by four members, the President
also being from the North
OF the administrative ability of MIR. Marcy
there can be no doubt his conduct as men,
Der of Mr. Folks Cabinet is conclusive on this
| point. The others have yet to be tried
Mr.. Marcy served as volunteer in the war
of 1912, was appointed Adjutant General of
the State of New York in 1921, was transferred
in 1924 to the Treasury Department of that
| State, then to the Supreme Bench, then to the
Senate of the United States. In 1882 he was
elected Governor in 1886 took high ground
against free discussion on the Slavery question
in 1910 was selected by President Van Buren,
as member of the mixed Board of Commits
sioners to adjust American claims against
Mexico; in ls45 was called to a seat in the
Cabinet of Mr.. Polk.
He is an able man, thoroughbred polit-
clan, devoted to Party, an inexorable foe to
| Anti Slavery agitation, no matter what its form
or prominence, and generally hostile to the
liberal ideas and progressive section of the
Democracy
The Radical Democrats Of New York were
anxious that the honor of seat in the Cabinet
should fall upon Mr.. Dix and Mr.. Pierce, we
presume, was willing to crafty them but the
| opposition of the South and of the friends of
MIR. Dickinson was too formidable Mr.
Marcy, as widely separated in principle and
policy from the Radical Democrats as Mr.
Dickinson himself was more tolerant in rela-
ton to patronage, being willing, for the sake of
party success, to equalze Offices between the
two sections of the Party; and for this reason,
his appointment is to be regarded as a kind of
compromise.
Mr. Guthrie is classed with the foremost
lawyers of his State; served for twelve years
in the Senate of Kentucky, of which he was
President, and was chosen President of the
Convention called in lS49 to revise the Const-
tuition of the State
He has a fair reputation for energy, indus.
try, talent, and prObity.
MIR McCleland is familiar with the duties
of public life. A member of the Convention to
revise the Constitution of Michigan, several
times elected to the State Legislature, repre-
senting his State in Congress for six years, and
twice elected Governor, he has always enjoyed
the confidence of his Party. While in Congress,
he acted uniformly, we believe, with the sup
porters of the Wilmot Proviso and we arc not
sure that any vote of his is on record to which
an Anti-Slavery Democrat can object. He is
man of good abilities, gentlemanly deport-
ment and we should think, free from partisan
prejudice or bitterness
Mr. Davis was educated at West Point WAS
subsequently elected to Congress, in which he
represented the State of Mississippi for six or
seven years raised regiment Of volunteers in
the Mexican war; and fought CALAMITY at
Buena Vista afterwards served as Senator of
the United States, until $780, when he resigned.
In the struggle on the Compromise measures he
took his stand with the State Rights Party, as
an advocate Of extreme Pro-Slavery doctrines
and policy; and his appointment may be con-
sidered concession to that important wing OF
the Southern Democracy. He is able, severe,
self.confdent, positive, and Incorporating,
and will exert we doubt not, commanding
influence in the Cabinet He is the last man
to tolerate any concession to the Anti-Slavery
feeling of the country.
Mr. DobbR was once q member of Congress,
served subsequently in the Legislature of North
Carolina, and was the unsuccessful candidate
of the Democratic Party for the Senate OF the
United States, at the late session Of that Legs-
lature The most signal act in his public ca
reer, we believe, was his leading of in the
Baltimore Convention last May, in favor of the
nomination of General Pierce for the Presi-
dency.
Mr.. Campbell is a lawyer, was judge OF
the Court of Common Pleas, of Philadelphia,
received the nomination Of his Party for the
Supreme Court of the State, but was defeated,
and was then appointed Attorney General
His defeat the Union says NJ caused solely
by sectarian bigotry and intolerance" Mr.
Campbell being Catholic, and an anti Native
American. The same paper, enumerating his
ser vices in the late Presidential contest in Penn
sylvsnia, remarks--
"The result in Pennsylvania was everywhere
| regarded with deep interest; and, on account
| of circumstances which we need not name, it
was at one time considered very doubtful At
that critical period, Judge Campbell forgetting