Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-29
From the Richmond Wing.
Lifting the Curtain.

Inc Washington correspondent of the Charles
r ton Mercury gives us different reason for Mr..
hunters declining seat in the Cabinet from that
which has been rumored. His friends feared he
would not be sufficiently proscriptve, and there.
lore got up fire in the rear, by nominating Mr.
'ohn >. Barbour! This may be so-though we are
ralher disposed to doubt it. Our belief is that MI
hunter never had any serious thought of going in
10 the Cabinet;-and the nomination of Mr. Bar
oour never looked farther Than the placing that
venerable and disnterested patriot in position to
command some fat subordinate post. Mr.. Hunter
Is too prudent a man to leopard his Presidential
prospects by uniting his fortunes with an obscure
New Hampshire Attorney-whose capacitv for nd.
mnStratlon was unknown, and whose failure
Ju1Eing ny his antecedents, was highly probable
Inc MetcuryS correspondent gives us to under
slane. mat there is good understanding between
tue eaters and Free SoilerS-and that they are
ready TO coalesce against their common enemies
me Union and Compromise men of every shade
MeSSrs. 'Foote q CO.. are specially mentioned as
persons TO be excluded from all favor-and that
20 as we understand Il, embraces the Union
democracy of every decentralization of Neu,
Hork, as well IS Cobb of Georgia. We are not
surprised at this combination-it is a union of ex-
uemeS-ultra pro-slavery men and ultra abolition
% iii asteeing IN nothing but a common hatred
vi an Onlon men-and common love for the
spoils They may succeed in orga nizing coalition
ana taxing possession of the Government--hut
Whether they will be able to command the conf
ue.ce Oh tne country and to conduct the admins
uauon oil affairs, is different question Time will
solve that. -'"e " III
we copy from the correspondent of the Mercurv
-tnat some OF the green's, who went off half
cooked, III denunclatlon OF Dix & Co.. may under
stand the cue, and prepare themselves IN sine bo-
Sannahs TO the Free Sellers: "
MI. hunters positive declination has taken the
r!eSioent anu his own personal friends Tout of
VlFsinla) entirely abnck. Mr.. Muson's name is now
mentioned i'll connection with thu. State Dan.rt
ment, as also that of Senator Div of Ner, VI,
one OF the most eminent of the Van Buren, LoIters
IN That State. Mr.. Hunters reasons for IecIin;n
nave oeen Varously stated: but the truth is it was
ptedIcated chiefly on two considerations. irstI,
his personal dSinclination to leave his seat nj 10
poSlton IN the Senate; and secondly the strony
eApoStulatlons OF his Virginia partizans who
tnought mat they could not spare him. and toubt
Gu MS popularity as Cab5het officer, because of
ms ant-proScrip:ive ideas. If he had gone inf
Virginia would not have got her usual ouantum n
loaVeS anu hShes, for which her appetite was enor.
nous. 1t looks curious that while the whol.conn
uy Iaiieo on hunter to accept, Virginia not only
Pui'eo MN back, but got up a fire in his rear hy
recommending Mr.. Barbour Mr. Hunters own
nice Senslbllity must have been wounded NV This
demonstration, of which the least that is SAID The
peter. Jefferson Davis, it is now supposed will
oe IN the Cabinet After the signal mark of con-
hdence shown by G eneral Pierce towards Nh. Stota
hghtS patty, they cannot insist on his second choice
oelng made from their ranks for the Premiership
MOI can they with any Show OF honesty or pro-
ooJeet 10 me selection ofany man who has
cordially and honestly o-operated in the camgagn
irrespective OF past differences. Men, whose 40
Hohs Were IN concert with the Wings and only
noninal'y IN cooperation with the party, such as
foote d Co., are of course ruled out-but none
others. ~ o"e
AS Soule we'll said when one of the Comnron;sa
cnlonlStS was beseeching him to join in denoun
eng me Northern antagonists OF the compromise.
ana declaring the barnburnerS out of the Pierce.
pale "Dld we unite in battle to be separated in
victory! Is it honest or honorable to invite and
eAp pee cooperation, and then prescribed" That
Is the question, and, however hard to swallow II
ADMITS OF but one answer. In the stern State Rights
principles OF Gen. Pierce, we have guaranty of
the SoundnesS of his Administration on points most
vital to us. Let us not by any unworthy susp
cions seek to paralyze that is ready to WELD wea-
Pons IN our defence. five had confidence in Gen
Pierce before the election, what has he done to
forfeit it! Certainly not in his first and yet only
choice OF Secretary of State. Therefore beseech
our friends not to raise mp OF straw for the pur
puSe of knocking them down. f''