Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-01-24
CABINET INTRIGUES.


The subjoiued extract from the Washington cor
responsiveness of the Charleston Mercury, throws
light on certain matters hitherto imperfectly uu-
derstood by the uninitiated. The fact that the
Virginia Democracy generally averse to
Mr.. Hunters acceptance of place in the Cab-
net is we'll known, but the motives of their OPP
position have been singularly misinterpreted, if
tho explanation which this Democratic writer
gives of the matter, is entitled to any weight
We have always understood that the reason why
Mr.. Hunters friends in Virginia desired that
he should not 60 into the Cabinet was, that they
looked upon him as prominent candidate for the
Presidential nomination in 1856, and thought
that his present fatterng prospect of attaining
TINT high honor ight possibly be blasted by
abandoning his safe position in the Senate, and
sinking himself up'' with the measures of the
incoming administration. 1t appears, however,
according to high Democratic authority, that the
real motives of our locofoco friends in this State
were of far less elevated and disinterested
ture, and that they killed off their favorite States
man. not through kindness to HIM, but to THEM
SELVES. They feared his -proscriptive ideas
and therefore opened fire in his rear by re-,
commenting Mr.. Barbour, gentleman "who
knows his friends What say the Virginia De-
lnocracy to the uncharitable imputations of this
writer and his sneering allusion to their "enor
mons appetite" for the loaves and fishes Far be
be it from us to endorse charge so absurdly at
variance with all that we know of the spoils-
hitting and principle loving Disuni o1ist of the
old Dominion. 1t cannot be otherwise than that
the fre.eating correspondent of the Mercury Eas
slaudered them
It appears further from this Washington epis-
tie that the Union Democrats of the South, such
as Foote Cobb & Co. are ''of COURSE to be put
under the ban by General Pierce-but none 9TH
ers. The writer, who belongs to the States
Rights wing Of the Democracy, is willing to
tend the right hand of fellowship to the Free
Sellers, and to allow them full participation in
the spoils, but tho Union Democrats he would
unceremoniously thrust beyond the pale of the
,arty. Thus tits that opposite extremes run into
each other, and the Democrats of the South are
found to be the most forward in the work of af
fiIiation with the Free Sellers of the North.
( Mr.. Hunters positive declination has taken the
President and his own personal friends tout OF
Vireinia) entirely aback. Mr.. Mason's name is
now mentioned in connexion with the State De-
partment as also that of Senator In. OF New
York. one of the most eminent of the Van Buren,
boilers in that State. Mr.. Hunters reasons for
declining have been variousy stated but the truth
ia it was predicated chiefly on two considerations:
: firstly, his personal disinclinaton to leave his
seat and his position in the Senate; and secondly,
The strong expostulations OF his Virginia partI-
= zans who thought that they could not spare hi21
,nd doubted his popularity asa cabinet oihcer' be-
cause of his anti-proscriptive IDEAS Ii he mad
gone in, Virginia would not have got her usua
uranium of loaves aud fishes. for which her
-,nnst;ta was enormous. 1t looks curious
that while the whole country called on Hun-
Ter 70 accept Virginia not only pulled him
back bnt gnt. ND n fire in his rear. by recon-
amending Mr.. Barbour. Mr.. Hunters own nice
sensibility must have been wounded by this de
snonstration, of which the least that Is said the
better Jefferson Davis, tits now supposed, VIII
be in the Cabinet. After the signal mark OF con-
fdence shown by Gen. Pierce towards the States
RIGHT party, they cannot Insist on his second
choice heinz made from their ranks for the FIRE.
nieership. Nor can they, with any show OF homes
ty or propriety object to the selection OF any man
who has cordially and honestly CO. operated In
the campaign. irrespective OF past differences.
Men whose action was IN concert WIZ" .ie
Wings, and only nominaily in cooperation with
the party-such as F0ote anu &c. ato Vi Souioo
ruled out--but none Others
n A Soule we'll said when one OF the Conpfo-
mise Unionsts was beseechng him to join In
denouncing the Northern ANTAGONISTS OF the com
promise and declaring the BarnDarnefs out OF
the Perce-pale, did we unite in battle to be Sc
rated in victory Is it honest or honorable to
invite and accept cooperation aud then proscrIoe!
sPhat ia the onestion, and, however, hard to
swallow, tit admits of hut one answer Ia the
stern State Rights principles of General Pierce
we have guaranty of the soundness oil MS AZ
,n;nistration ON points most vital to Let US
not by any unworthy suspicious seekito paralyze
the arm that is ready WELD weapons 10 our
defence If we had confidence in Gen. Pierce
before the election. what has he done to forfeit
it! Certainly not in his first aud as yet only
choice of a Secretary OF State. therefore pc
seech our friends not to raise up men OF straw tor
the purpose of knocking them down.
- The Latin quotation occurring near the
close of Mr.. Everett's Colonization address Is
borr;blv butcbered in all the newspapers, our
own not excepted, The following is the true rea-
ding OF the passage 90 tortunaf' a"'oo' - qua
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