The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-03-18
The Cabinet.

Tile Guernsey Times in speaking of Presi-
dent PIERoE's Cabinet, says:
This Cabinet, for strength, does not favor
ably compare, we think, with that formed by
Mr.. Polk-Buchanan, Walker, Marcy, Ban
croft, Mason and Johnson. Marcy is a man
Of eminent ability, and one of the most shrewd
and lucky politicians in the land. Amid all
the revolutions and conflicts oc his party in
New York, he generally turns up winning
card. He belongs to the "soft-shell' Dem
ocracy of his State.
Mr.. GUTHRIE is lawyer of Louisville and
hitherto. .unheard oI by the people Of the nation.
lie was, always, an opposer OF the Emancipa-
ton question in his State. In his selection
for the second place in the Cabinet the Whig
State of Kentucky has been highly compli-
mented.
Col. JEFF. DAVIS has a national reputa-
ton as one of the fre-eating opponents o!
| the Compromise measures. He resigned his
| sect in the Senate to run as the Anti Com
promise candidate for Governor of Mississippi
against Gen Foote, the Union candidate,
and was beaten about 1000 votes.
Mr.. DoBBIN, if diamond, has just been
dug up from the obscurty of the mine. He
has served term in Congress from which he
obtained no distinction. He was recently a
candidate before the Legislature of his State
for U. S. Senator, and with Locofoco ma
jority Of on joint ballot, he failed to get e.
lecte1.
Gov. McCLELLAYD is pretty fair sort Of
man. Has served in the Legislature OF
Michigan, in Congress six years, and elected
Governor in 1851. lie was backed for a
place in the Cabinet by Gen. Cass.
Mr.. Campbell is Philadelphia lawyer Of
small calibre, and his sudden rise to high
place is one of the curiosites OF politics. At the
election Of 1851, Campbell, because q Ro.
man Catholic, was placed upon the State tick
ct as candidate for Supreme Judge, but his
want of fitness for the station was so well
known that Gov. Bigler and four of the Loco
candidates for the Supreme Court were elec-
ted by 5000 minority, while Campbell was
beaten by 5000! Gov Bgler, considering
Campbell martyr to his religion, appointed
him Attorney General, from which office he
has been transplanted, by President Pierce,
into the Post Office Department. BY this
move Gen. Pierce has overleaped the bounds
OF New Hampshire religious toleration.
CALEB CUSHING, prior to the Tyler de-
fection of l84l, was u believer aud actor in
in Webster Whiggery. But choosing to try
his fortune with Captain Tyler, his fidelity to
his Accidency was rewarded by the appoint
ment, in 1874, as Commissioner to China.
He returned in is45, and as the transition
from Tylersm to Locofocoism was very easy,
he Joined himself to the house of Polk, vol
unteered for the Mexican war, was made a
Major-General by his master, went to the
Rio Grande. walked out ore evening with
one OF the dusky daughters Of the South and
broke his ancle, which rendered him useless,
so far as physical service was concerned. In
1913, he was the Locoioco candidate for Gov
ernor Of Massachusetts, but received small
vote. About year ago he was elected Judge
OF the Supreme Court Of his State by coal
ition of the Locos and Free Soilers.
1t is not little singular that in the COM
position of his Cabinet, Gen. Pierce has ta-
Ken two OF its members from Massachusetts
and Kentucky, States that uoted for Scott, and
u another from North Carolina, which, although
it voted for Pierce, has generally been one of
the most reliable Wing States. Had Ohio
no Claims to an honorable place in the allot-
ment OF the favors Of Gen. Pierce! Maybe
the remembrance that half dozen Ohio del
egates refused to vote for him in Convention
had some influence in shaping his choice.