The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-21


the other may be dismissed at any moment, and
i responsible 10 the President for every act
IN each separate department Under the
United States constitution, the Cabinet IS
hound to rule the country well; If 1t does
net, Il can be dismissed, and another APP
pointed In its stead. The President, on the
other hand, is bound-not to rule directly
hut to appoint Cabinet that will do so, and to
dismiss that Cabinet when it fails to fulfil its
duty. The people have no right to assail the
President until be plainly refuses to perform
this act when Il is obviously required: until
then, the Cabinet is the proper mark for remon-
STRANGE. Attempts on the part of the latter to
identify itself with the President, are as cow
ardly and unmanly as personal attacks against
the President for the faults ofhs administration
That the Enquirer should seek to shield
Marcy. Davis and Guthrie under the cloak OF
the President, is, however, only natural. Hav-
ing abandoned principle and truth in one in
stance. the transition to another was easy In
fact IL must have required a more violent effort
TO enlist its sympathies on the side Of the free
soil agtators of the North than to pervert the
constitution. Ii has done both We will not
yet, in view of its fifty years of faithful service
denounce the Richmond Enquirer as traitor
10 the South but let it beware. 1t is rapidly
reaching the black gulf The approaching crisis
| Is a new and momentous one much depends
on the part IL takes in the affairs Of the present
Cabinet during the next few months. At the
next session of Congress applications will be
made to admit New Mexico and the southern
! portion of California into the Union as slave
| States. How will this proposal be received by
the Cabinet? How by the Enquirer? Howby
the revived ant-slavery Van Buren, party Of the
North, just set on its legs by Marcy. Guthrie
Davis and Cushing!
The Cabinet and Ccllector-V Which Ia
to- os
Between the Cabinet and our Collector the
issue is now fairly and squarely made up.
One or the other must go out. Our collector
modestly defers to his superors- He is await
ing the action of the Cabinet and the decision of
General Pierce thereon. If the President, in
the exercise Of his good Judgment, should de-
eide against the expediency of removing the
Judge, then it will be the duty Of Marcy,
Guthrie and Davis, at all events, to resign.
They can have no other alternative. Our Col
lector must be removed or they must leave
The issue is as plain Gs daylight. Which is to go?
The Cabinet are very much mistaken if they
suppose that we are anxiously laboring for their
immediate discharge. Nothing of the kind. As
far as we are concerned, we rather desire their
retention for twelveor eighteen months longer;
because we think that for year or year and
half to come, they will supply cash capital to
the newspapers too good to be thrown away.
We are, however, prepared to bow to the judg-
ment Of the President, if from the pressure
of public opinion, he shall consent to change
in his ministry little before or shortly after
the meeting Of Congress. But in a practical
newspaper point Of view, we should prefer the
retention Of Marcy and Guthrie and the re-
moval Of Bronson. The reason is obvious at a
glance. The removal Of the Collector would
give most surprising. exciting and tremen-
dous agitation to the civil war now raging
among the New York democracy. 1t would
bring the battle to charge bayonets' between
the Cabinet and the Van Buren, free sellers on
the one hand, and the national democrats, all
over the country, on the other. 1t would fur
nish us constant supply of materials sor the
most purgept, spicy and popular articles that
we have had since the days of John Tyler The
rush now for the HERALD is beyond our present
capacities Of supply; but remove our Collector,
and we shall be compelled te establish branch
of our establishment in Boston, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, before month is over. 1t viii
be the only way in which we can possibly sup
ply the public demands for an authentic, gra-
phic and Independent history Of the war, before
the scenes and behind the scenes, in the Cabinet
and in the kitchen cabinet up stairs and down
stairs. and in every hole and corner, from the
White House at Washington to the coal hole of
Tammany Hall.
When the war fairly broke out between the
wbig party and General Taylor's Cabinet, we
had counted upon very lively time for eighteen
months or so. We knew that General Taylor
had pluck, and that when he took his stand he
would be battered to pieces before he would
bulge peg. We knew that from Buena Vista.
We also saw that Clayton had pluck, and we
thought that the good old President and Clay
ton would stick together till it numbered; and
we made our calculations accordingly. But the
honest old soldier died, and his Cabinet were
dispersed; and thus our expectations Of pro-
tracted and spirited struggle, and its rich har
vest for the newspapers, were cut short, just as
the campaign was beginning to pay premium
Of twenty per cent on the capital invested.
Now, then, in this charming controversy be
tween the Cabinet and our Collector it is mani
fest that our policy runs in the same channel
As far, indeed as all the newspapers are con
cerned it will pay best to dismiss the Collector
and retain the Cabinet, because we think that
Guthrie, Marcy and company will supply plenty
Of ammunition and all the munitions of war
for profitable campaign Of twelve, fifteen or
eighteen months. Marcy has pluck, and a good
deal of summing, and would make an interesting