New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-09
THE .a,EW ADMINISTRATION

Son Of this, and, therefore, though il may be
only as matter of form, we are disposed to say
briefly what ideas we entertain concerning it,
always reserving distinctly eur difference of
political sentiment and political faith
As whole, the Cabinet may be considered a
good one. There is a fair prospect that, in ac-
tion, 1t will be an unit, and its members cordi-
ally cooperate in forwarding public business
Itmay reasonably be anticipated that it will be
national in tone. Gen. Pierce's determined hos
tlity to the fanaticism of the NewHampshire
free-soilers, is matter to which we did full
justice in the heat of the Presidential cam
paign, though politically opposed to him. Four
Of the members of his Cabinet are from the
North, but only one of these Gov McClelland
and he but slightly is open to the suspicion of
having INDUCED in any soft dalliance with free
soilism. Of the three members frem the South,
only one, Colonel Davis, an able and accom-
piished gentleman,) can be charged with
sectional ultraism, and he has measurably re-
ceded from the extreme anti-compromse posi-
tion which he at first assumed We believe
they are all gentlemen of that character, which
will feel and recognize the large and solemn re-
sponsibilities of high national position. The
Cabinet is, moreover, Of good working material.
1t will not be brilliant; indeed, there is really
only one brilliant man (CushiDg) in it. 1t will
be laborious. earnest, practical Cabinet. 1t
will not be free from the ultrasms of radical
democracy, but it will theorize chiefly upon the
past upon tariffs, currency, etc, and will
scarcely meet the progressive" and annexative
views of Young America This glance at
the composition of the Cabinet shows
Gov. Marcy, the Secretary Of State, is an
adroit politician, and not deficient in ability.
lie is not, however, to be compared to such men
as Cass, Buchanan, or Hunter He is not
man Of elegant scholarship, nor has he broad
ana intelligent views upon the relations of ma
lions. Such State paper as Webster's Hulse- |
mann Letter or EvereSt's Letter on the Cuba |
Question, is beyond the reach of his powers |
he has all the caution of the Network poll |
tician, and this may stand him in stead of more
brilliant ard distinguishing qualities. He is.
at all times and in all places, thorough paced
partisan, and can never know men except as
wings Or democrats. PROFESSIONALLY man OF
business tact, industry and system, we, yet, con-
slider him the worst of the Cabinet selections
James Guthrie, the Secretary of the Urea
sury, is what we would term strong man in
the rough" He has long stood with the fore
most at the Kentucky bar; and, though a most
tedious and undressing speaker, his natural
lower Of mini has given him the acllno gledged
leadership of the democracy of TINT State We
believe he hacks all pretensions to liberal eduea-
ton. His sentences are commonly ungramati-
cal, and his attempts to quote even law Latin,
amusing plumbers.
We remember an amusing illustration. De-
Tending a man charged with having murdered
another. known as an habitual drunkard and
whom the accused, it was alleged, had killed by
a blow inflicted with tougs, shovel, poker, or
BONE cher dangerous instrument, he solemnly
assured the Court that the man died of named
poea. Irritated by the tittering Of On i'm
mense audience, gathered in the large hall in
the western end of the Louisville Court House.
he dehanty repeated, that the man died of
aadnea -poca, and nothing else. And when the
litter again ran round, at the top of his loud,
harsh voice, he proclaimed, for the third time,
hat the man did die of manca- poea A dry ,
suggestion, from the Prosecuting Attorney, that
ie died OF another kind of poker, upset all the
iecorous gravity appropriate to the place and
ne occasion. A hint that he probably meant 1
% say mania a potu, drove him into the exclu-
i've use of the vernacular, then, and for several
1onths succeeding.
but James Guthrie is withal a strong man p
physically and intellectually he is massive
nan and we are much deceived if the opportu- h
MY OF position does not reveal in him an able p
tatesman and the master mind of the Cabinet. Il
n all business, he is indefatigable, and colos.
81 fortune shows with what success he has la
'ored In his private affairs. As a partisan he o
bitterly ultra we have even known him to '
lrge upon some German democrats, in public :,
peech, to remember that bullies might obstruct
heir way to the polls, but if necessary to wade
Q them, even if they did so knee-deep in =
'iooo' As man, Mr. Guthrie has many ex- @
'eent qualities, and none of the bury violence IL
'nich marks him as politician His manners IL
a.e austere, but he is, we believe, genuinely 81
Aino man, hard exterior concealing a humane
ha.ure' as the rock hides the coolest and fresh
ISL waters of the fountain. He is, in brief vi
ather man Of character, than man of non. &c
llarity. F'P NJ
Inc other members of the Cabinet NAV be n,
0fieny grouped together. Dobbins the Score. oV
:" VI 'he Navy, is business man, and will I,
800" ms duties creditably. McClelland. Il,
oi the Interior, was in Congress an
advocate OF Western interests He leaves tho
euoernatorlal chair of Michigan 10 entor tho ne
Cabinet Neither he nor Dobbins durino the;r a.
PUBLIC life have betrayed much sympatby with
ihe present tendencies Of s. Young Amsr;c. ;, to
Judge Campbell is only known as Bueh.non,s at
right hand man" in Pennsylvania, and tho as
bject of the bitter enmity of the Cameron fac. "'
ion. Caleb Cushing, the Attorney General is
he trained statesman and accomplished scholar g
the Cabinet. He will gracefully ornament :,
is position. v
With such Cabinet Gen Pierce enters with a
air prospects upon the career of his Admins g :.
ration. His predecessors leave him prosperity !
M peace, and no embarrassment, domestic or il
oreign American feeling, genuinely national h
no liberal, demands that the country should 2
auentiy await the progress of events, on which h
base censure or eulogy The common game b
partisanship is to decry an Administration of N
political faith and tendencies from p'
ie very outset and in every act. Even imsgi- an
alton is drawn upon, and suspicious presented :.
facts and charges. This is neither wise moi, -
ust We have no rolitjcal svpna.L;s..