Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-01-05

WE have several times alluded 20 the nconsis
fencv, nnreasonahleness and want of nerve dis
played BY those democratic journals. which, Will
denouneing certain members of the Cabinet AM
particular acts of the Administration, very scru
palousy avoid saying anything TINT could be con
sfrned into censure of the President. by an!
manly rule of Judgment, il would be considered
as little to the discredt of the President that HI
should have appointed VIM. J. Brown to Office
removed Judge Bronson, or done any other or al
of the obnoxious acts for which members OF th'
Cabinet are so roundly censured, as that be
should be too feeble aud timd to restrain anc
direct his Cabinet. But the disaffected democrat
ic organs seem to have thought differently, and
have striyen yaanty to screen him, at the ex-
pense Of Guthrie. Davis. Marcy and Gushing. A
late number of the Washington Union makes a
very positive and seemingly authorized assertion
on this subject, which we do not doubt correctly
defines the relation of the President to his Cabi-
net. 1t saws in response to the demand for n
change in the Cabinet;
1--WE hazard nothing in expressing the convic-
ton that this il demand which the President
will spurn. The cabinet will not be dissolved.
Neither Mr.. Marcy. nor Mr.. Guthrie, nor Mr.
Gushing, nor Mr. Davis. will go out of the ad-
minstrafion to eoneiliate the Now York boilers
The President and hiscabinet, we have reason TO
know. are a unit. The President holds himself
responsible for all the acts of his administration.
He has not, and will not shield himself behind n
nv member Of his cabinet. Their acts are his
acts. He directs-they execute. lie takes the
responsibility.
Such language as this so emphatic, so con
temptuously deiiunf. would not have been used by
u L 4. "A "A.
SO faithfully every varying shadow or smile of the
Presidential yisage, without certain assurance
that the President desired such proclamation to
be made. Not only does Gen. Pierce hold him
self responsible for the acts Of his cabinet but he
.,spurnsn those who have made contrary hypo-
thesis the basis of n demand upon him. He
takes upon his own broad shoulders Brown, and
Redfeld and John Van Buren, and "spurns" Dick
inson. the Washington Sentinel, the whole body
of National Democrats. and all who have uttered
or felt any discomfort with the members of the
cabinet. We shall soon how those yalorous
and ineorruptible patriots who were 50 prompt
to make an issue with Guthrie, Marcy and com
pany, will meet this one, rendered them by the
President. Will they who have charged so
dauntlessy upon the underlings and seryitors
around the Presidential tent lower their lances,
now that he, the captain of the ficld,oppcars in
NOR One of them, the New York Herald,
which until lately has confined its assaults to
members of the cabinet, comes up brayely to the
fight. Hear how il talks:
"A year ago chronicled as cheering events
the election Of Gen. Pierce and the unparalleled
unanmity with which the people of this country
had resolved TO sustain the integrity of the Union
against its enemies. AT that time not voice
was heard to disparage the President elect
Twelve months have elapsed, and now not voice,
save those of hirelings utters syllable in his
r.si~~. H. L.-e f~-f@;.~a .ha astnorn Of n whole
people, broken every pledge he gave violated
each separate promise of his inaugural trampled
on the sentiments which elected him, plunged the
country into disorders, whose issue appals the
most stout hearted, and for all this has earned
the indignant reproaches of an injured na,ion.--
His government has fallen lower after ten months
of office than any of its predecessors ever fell in
four years. A complete revolution, that will he
terrible in its effects the President and his adj
visers, has been effected during the past year
There has been NJ blood shed, no popular rising :;
but, as is the custom in highly enlightened COM
munities, each man has peaeeably and quietly
made up his mind, and resolved to act at the next
election"