Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-01-14
Wing majority. L
Dem. maj. 1850
FOURTH DISTRICT
Mr.. Badger md the Judseshfp.

So far, the Senate has taken action upon the
recent nomination of Mr.. Badger TO the Supreme
Court Bench for the South Western Circuit, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death Of Judge Nc
Kinley. Although probable his confirmation is by
no means certain. 1t may be urged that the ap
pointment should have been made from the Circuit
which is to be the field of labor for the Judge,
as has been the usage in snch cases; and perhaps,
also some prejudice may exist against retiring ad
mnstraton filing life Office in the last days of its
! own existence Upon the other hand, it is hardly
probable that Mr.. Badger would have permitted his
name to go before the body of which he is mem
Der, without pretty we'll grounded confidence of
being confirmed.
Time will show how this will result as wei as also
who will be selected by Gov. Reid to supply the
cancy. We feel assured that the selection will be
such to accord with the wishes of majority of
the people of the State.
| We copy from the Savannah Georgian, the Editor
of which paper a member of the Baltimore
Conventions a high and we'll -meritcd compliment 10
Hon. James C. Dobbn, and to his influence in that
body. Public opinion at the South certainly as
signs to him place in the Cabinet:
Hon. James c. DobbIn, of North Carolina.
Among the gentlemen recently brought promi
nently before the public likely to constitute the
abinet of Gen Pierce, we are gratied to find him
whose name heads this article The manly fights
which North Carolina has for yeal s, amid many dis
cOura gements made in behalf of Democratic princi
ples-a fight which terminated last fall in glorious
victory render the appointment of one of
her to place in the cabinet peculiarly appro-
pirate. The fact that her Democratic Legislature
sustained by nearly quite all the Democratic
presses Of the State, lately selected MIR. Dobin, as
their first choice for the high post of U S. Senator
designate him as the man to whom cabinet ap.
pointmcnt should be given in case North Carolni
is to be selected The fact that the unfaltering
avowal of his thorough going Democracy, in the day
of trial, probably prevented him from receiving the
honor which his party in his State desired so
much to confer upon him. should constitute, next to
his intellectual qualifications, his highest claim up
on the favor Of Gen. Pierce.
Furthermore To those who felt the intense de-
| light which i'd at the termination of the ardu-
Gus struggle in The Baltimore Convention by the
nomination of Franklin Pierce, when it seemed that
to bring about nomination by that body had be-
come impossible, the selection of Mr. Dobbn, for the
cabinet, would be peculiarly agreeable, from the i'm
porant and conspicuous part which he played in eff
fecting that nomination. The forty sixth ballot had
been given with no nearer approach to unanimi-
ty than that which marked the first The members
of the Convention were wearied out; nearly all dis
satisfied most of them disappointed not few pre-
parei-some perhaps desiring see the assemblage
break up without accomplishing the purpose for
which 1t had convened. Then il was. on the mem
Orabe torty-seventh ballot Gen PIERCE having pre-
viousy received only the vote of Virginia and few
other States that North Carolina being called, Mr.
Dobbin electrified the convention by an eloquent ad-
dress, which he concluded amid intense excitement
by announcing the vote of his State for Franklin
Pierce, OF New Hampshire Georgia, by previous
concert between the two States, through MIR Cohen,
the spokesman of her delegation, instantly followed
Nerth Carolina Scarcely had tie outburst of APP
plause, awakened by the remarks of Mes~rs Dobbin
and Cohen, died away when it was known that Gen,