The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-22
Waking Up NJ Last-Ihe Proposed Cabinet
and Diplons1sie Changes at Washington.


rattl Dg hail of the late elections have walked
up The administration at Washington to a hveiy
sense OF its de-, craze sitn II II ,he terror
stricken c.ptaD, with tie b. eakers e. milling
ard ,oarirg around him, has resolved upon
sope very bid ard desp rte expedients to
avoid shipwrecb. Marcy is to be removed fro n
the wieel of the Cabinet, and Gushing is to
take bis place. Eucban is to mske room at
he Cc,rt II s.. james fr Marcy, and v .rious
other important minister al ana diplomatic
charges, IN connection with these primary
movements, are to be made
According to cur telcgYaphie advices, the
time tx y for 81 ee nom. NOUS experiments is
the nj die of ext January, after the Presi-
dent shall have FULLY consulted ,he heads Of the
party in the two houses Of Congress. 1t is
thought thu tn new aud tempting appropri-
alton of the spoils which these contemplated
changes will ring abOat u ust result In rally
ing agaib the q, mo,rasic members OF the two
bouses ayjDg only lire months to run, In a
solid body, to the support of the administration
ar d its measures, and to its defence as the head
ana front OF tn real ginger-blue, Simon Pure
democr tic psrty.
Well, we said in tie tegn ing that nothing
,o,,a ..ve -ha administration from disgust
C0OlQ Save sI%
ing failure, or the party from decentralization,
dissolution and destruction, bat change in
the Cabinet, in the diplomatic corps, and in toe
domestic and foreign policy with which Gene
raj Pierce helter-tkelter, set out upon the "road
to ruin" We rejoice that the late elections
have opened his eyes; it is late in the day--it
is the eleventh hour; but still he may save his
distance.
struction Of his Cabinet and his diplomatic
corps. If we get nothing else, we shall get a
change; any ng f. change. Butt is two
months yet ill the mdoe Of January, and we
have our fears. If the business were to be done
upon the spot, we might feel satisfied. We
agree with Macbeth, that it ought to be "done
quickly" Before the middle of January, Con-
gressionsl caucuscs and the plots of the Kitchen,
lnay break up the scheme. But being deci-
dedly in favor oil y change in the Cabinet, and
in our diplomatic corps, the President may
rely upon our assistance in holding him to it,
against all plots and counrerplots, from this day
till the middle Of January; and we Call upon
every other Independent Journal in the country
to come up to the aid OF the executive, and hold
him to it, just as Douglas and Mason held
him to the N,braska bill, or he may slip
through our fingers We must stand guard
over him, and Jeat. off all Congressional or
Kitchen consl iracies against him, from this time
to the m;ddlc OF Januaiy. II we do this we may
secure a lecons ruction of the Cabinet, a new
set of diplomats in Europe, and the admins
tration may yet BE- redeemed in 9 perfect blaze
OF glory, to one extent.
1t is PROF osed to remove Marcy from the
State Del ar ment. Good. He has been the Mar
plot, the Micawber, Of the whole concern. 1t Is
proposed 10 put c. sbing---General Caleb Cush-
iDg-in his place. Very we'll Reduced as the
democratic party now is, il would be difficult
to find a more available stick of timber. Cush-
ing is q remarkable man. A gentleman in his
manners, scholar by education, Puritan in
his looks diplomat from experience soldier
from discipline, and perhaps, the most elastic
and INSCRIPTIONS demagogue in the United
States. Gushing is the man for Premier. He
thoroughly understands the party politics of
the country, for he has belonged to all parties
''every thing by turns, and nothing long, He
has been the pride Of the wings, the forlorn
hope of Captain Tyler, the right arm of Colonel
Polk, a leader If the free sellers, aud the cham
pion Of the South AMI at present he is very
| likely m ster amorg the Know NOthings.
And, as in our party politics he has been
every thine, and knows everything, 30 in
! diplomacy, he has literally accomplished the
circumnaviga'on of the globe. Yes, he has
sailed round the world. As Commissioner 10
China he went ,ut via the Mediterranean, the
! Red Sea, Boml ay and the Indian Ocean; and
having made his famous treaty with the Impe-
! rial Co MN; ssioner of the Central Flowery King
| dom, he returned via the Sandwich Islands and
Mexico. The in, DRY Of Columbus was, that
from the rotuDdity of tie earth he could make
trip to the East Indies by Western passage.
Cushing, reversing this theory, actually made o
trip to the West Indies by going East all the
| time. And if Columbus opened new world to
civilized man in his discoy err, g. SO did Cushing
| in his Chinese treaty.
Furthermore, in the event Of bloody rup-
ture with France and Spain, the active expe
rence of General Gushing in our late glorious
Mexican war, will be o. immense practical ser.
vice to him in the S ate Department, in the
matter of our wsrlike operations by land and
sea. AS a scho ar, politician, diplomat
and soldier, therefore, the vast learning and
remarkable experience and lexibility of Cush-
ing will render HIM a highly desirable exchange
for Marcy as Premier. The gentleman from
Massachusetts,, too, has been promised the place
tor a long time; and he has been waiting long
enough. 1T Marcy 60 out, and let Gushing 20
in, at least ny the middle of January.
We cannot approve the plan Of exchanging
Marcy for Buchanan as our Minister to England.
We believe this has been purpose with Gen.
Pierce for year or two, but the exchange will