The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-02-11

any Importance was to be attached to the |
general and most industriously circulated ru-
NOR, that he was to be taken into the Cabi-
net.
We are now advised BY very authentic
sources that large portion Of the Democrat
ic members of the Legislature, of the men,
bers of the Presidential Electoral College,
and &C the Democratic delegation in Congress
have each signed memorials to the President
elect, Urging him to bes,ow Cabinet posi-
ton ufpn Samuel Medary. We understand,
too, thut special messengers have safely
borne these papers to Concord and laid them
before the President. We understand, too,
that pilgrimages have been made, by other
parties than these in Ohio, for alike purpose,
to make up an ostensible public opinion in
favcs of Iedary. We have also understood
that interference in his favor has been made
by parties laborng in one or two other States,
some of them gentlemen enjoying position
ard speet.
These all serve to exhibit to the people--thc
mass who rote the party into poUer, and to
its principles gives vitality, and to its repre-
sentatiyes dignity and influence, what appi
anccs are used by political managers to gain
personal end They show to what extent,
beyond their legitimate sphere, men who
have been chosen by the Democracy for spe-
cilic public duties, can be cajoled, or intimi-
dated, or how readily they will sometimes
bend to outside pressure, or give in to the
prospect Of rcward, or the fear of political
immula;ion upon the altar of revorge--all
ouch influences, by tura, being brought in %
rcfuisiton TO buy or purchase the weight Of
their names and example. These are the
influences that have been arrayed in this
case. How much importance should be at
tached TO such combination, when formed
for such n man, is boldly apparent in Ohio,
since we do not hesitate to affirm, as or CEN
yicton, that not tithe of these parties, thus
affecting TO reflect the will and wishes Of
the Democratic party, would now wear the
dignity pretiNed to their names, if they had
before their election, avowcd To their constit-
uency, that, independent Of egslating ut Co
lumbus or Washington, or Of passing through
3 the mere Formally Of hearing their names
, counted as Presidential Electors, they woulc
i also wander out Of the bounds of their posi-.
. tons and assuming new dignites and duties
: in the name Of the party and for the party
instruct the National executive iOho he mus
> sclcct as his Cabiad ministers -who he mus
iahe 10 his conyfdencs
While these petitioners, therefore, afTrclin.
. to represent the party will, tire bat followin!
= after sinister cnds--some from fcur--somt
: from cXample--sOpc from the hope OF remote
t political elevatiOn-some from down righ
corruption Of purpose, bold in the resolve tina
o "thrilt shall follow iawGng"--we, as conduc
: tors Of a Democratic organ. responsive to I'll,
', indignant feelings CT the PEOPLE OF ou
i Democracy a.! home. do make oar protest, am
TIER protest, against such an urAyise and unii
r, selection, and do not hesitate to write dowl
: before the opcn.day world, the weghty reas
ons why the head of the American Democra
cy should not be outraged by conspiracy t
thrust upon his approval such man as Sam
ucl Mcdary.
We shall make no representation but thu
which is matter of history, in some regions a
least, and shall call up no "reminiscences t
. excite new or arouse old prejudices, but thos
! which involved political integrity in the par
= ty implicated, and at the time, as now, estab
= lshed his utter unworthiness of public conf
dcnce as Democrat. In a word. we shn
, submit Samuel Medary, asprnnt to the hg
dignity Of Postmaster General, or any othe
confidential relation with the new Admins
y traton, to the Je0GrSonian test,-is he hone,
is he cdpabic?
SAMUEL MEDARY IS NOT CAPABLE.
Probably no public man in this Union ha
;, made 80 much notoriety by the use of othe
mems brains as this gentleman. All the rep
! ulation he has, or nolorety, has been derve
= from the talent, spirit, industry and boldncs
exhibited few years back in the columns o
. the Ohio Statesman. II was not Samuel Me
Diary . talent, spirit or industry there so bold
, ly developed; but that Of the talented Demo
Gratis Of Ohio many Of them the young .'anl
vigorous, who, condding in his integrity then
were ever on hand with all their zeal and al
their intellectual yigor, to fight the battles o.
their party through the columns of it's centra
organ. They made Mr.. Melary reputation
for great talent; for the world could not deny
that M one man could thus maintain the side
he cspouses, against formidable antugonism
and not DO man of intellectual greatness.
To sum up his capacity in brief, Mr.. Media
ry is poor writcr---rough, disjointed; he is
neither scholar nor student; his intellect is
OF considerable native vigor, but undscip! n
ed, and as loose -jointed, as we shall soon
show, Rre his principles. He ia in mental sta
turc not higher than Lhrd,ratc man, but
lacking the lcayening, the experience, the po.
lsh, tho drill which makes many third-rate
men seem 80 greatly his superiors. lie has
no jGSincsS elements in his composition. Ey-
cry business effort Is but sham, and loose
ness and total lack Of directness and concen-
tration are his prominent traits. Passionate
and Violent he never could command himself
and Is most untitled TO command or direct
others. In u word, he is unfit for subordi.
mate place in the department, because he
lacks industry and n knowledge of business;
aud it he IL thus untitled for subordinate
post, how unworthy 10 become the heaa: to
sit with great minds in council of Stat, di.
rcctng tile complex machinery OF this great
milton, and before the Christian world main
taining the dignity of the model Republic,
and Fastening II on in its crowning crrand a.
mong nations. But, how more than incom.
al.