The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-13
The Clefts In tl,e Cabinet-The Coming
ERUPTION.

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| The Clefts In tl,o Cablnet-The Coming
/ Eruption.
knowledge of geology often enables it's
possessor to discover clefts, uplfts and assures
in strata, where the ignorant see no break in
the apparently even surface. Detrition from
above and volcanic action from below have
filed up the crevices, and by the unskilled
eye the foreign matter cannot be distinguished
rom the original formation. The clefts are
not, however, the less palpable to the man Of
science. He can trace their causes, measure
their extent and show how they divide pre-
viously homogeneous mass by an impossible
barrier. Just SO it is with thefpresent admins
tration To the vulgar eye 1T amay seem
smooth, uDbroken surface, composed of congo
NAL and harmonious materials; but to the ex-
perienced the most casual glance at once re-
veals wide clefts and broad. splits traversing it
from part to part, and interpreting an eternal
gulf between it's several sections. For while
these splits may be SO cunningly hidden, or so
| ingeDiously filled up with matter resembling
the original elements, that their existence may
remain secret; but no sooner shall the sub
terranean volcano Of Congress have renewed
| it's labors than the device will fail, the clefts
widen and huge chasms yawn between por-
| tions of the Cabinet which were deemed in
| separable. Even now its surface is throbbing
with the first culver Of the coming eruption.
We can see two if not. three broad clefts in
| the Marcy mosaic. One stares us in the face,
separating on the one side Marcy Guthrie, and
Davis, from their colleagues, Gushing. McClel-
land Campbell, and Dobbin. Oh the other. The
former section represents the Van Burenites
and the Southern secessionists-the opponents,
| on either extreme grounds, of the compro-
mise laws. This is the section whose funda-
mental and guiding rule it is never to allow
principle to stand in the way OF profit. From
this section emanate the letters in which the
theory of government in this country is re-
duced to a scramble for the spoils, and political
science degraded to huckster's trade. This
is the section, in fine, whose contemplate shut.
fling and deliberate teachers have brought
down upon the administration, in the short
space OF seven MONTHS load Of odium hardly
ever borne by any previous government.
If we cross the split we have mentioned. we
shall find little further on. another, equally
well defined and menacing, which divides the
balance OF the administration into two UNEQUAL
portions. In the furthest compartment, sepa-
rated by an infinite space from Marcy, Guthrie
and Davis and sharing the honors of his sove-
reignty with no associate stands Caleb
Cushing. He represents no particular princi-
pie in politics-has g.. everything, from
Tyler wing to MassaC4. asetts coalitionist, and
from coalitionist to an ally OF Marcy's-now
wears the disguise Of Dickinson democrat,
and may be best described as an apt embod-
ment of personal vanity and ambition He
would not cross the cleft which bounds his do
main for the world. Too well he knows the
ruin impending over the denizens Of the other
side. Too anxiously he looks for their fall, and
too eagerly covets the power that will be
wrested from their grasp. On the contrary all his
energies are devoted to widening the breach
He will even risk his own foothold rather than
not attempt to shake theirs. He has no allies
but, in exchange, ne presdes overs the kitchen
cabinet, and reads the proofs Of the Union arti-
cles lie is in short, the Presidents housemaid
In the third and last division, separated as
we have described from Marcy, Davis and
Guthrie, on the one side, and Cushing on the
other, are seen the only three members Of the
Cabinet who have escaped public censure--
Messrs. McClelland, Dobbin and Campbell. They
are, SO far as We know, respectable politicians,
and men who have made ii their sole aim and
business to discharge the duties Of their Office
without dabbling in the dirty pools in which
Marcy and Gushing have spent their time
Hence the storm which has fallen upon their
colleagues has left them untouched Not
voice throu shout the country has been raised
to attack them.
Such is the appearance which the Cabinet
presents to an experienced eye. More than
this, the political geologist soon detects 10 its
character evidence Of its belonging to the for
nation called metamorphic or transition, which
as everybody knows, is the least reliable and
most ephemeral Of all strata. A close inspec-
ton shows him the working Of the volcanic
action beneath, and enables him to predict con-
idently that. within time which may he de-
termined by mathematical calculations, a fresh
eruption will reopen the present clefts, and
very possibly precipitatc one or other Of the
isolated sections into the abyss. We who see
how Marcy. Davis and Guthrie, on the one side,
and Cushing on the other, are dealing with
honor and principle, con hardly hesitate in de-
Gliding on which Of the three the blow Of fate
is destined to fall Let it come-it will be soon
full time.
OUR CRY PoLIcE.--We have in another part
Of this days paper given review OF the go
vernment Of the Police Department with the