New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-05
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uninitiaied sufficient time has elapsed snd sum-
cient conference bss been held TO justify something
more than mere speculation as to the intended
policy and pros ramme of Mr.. Buchanan. Without
affecting to be ole of the inspired letterwrters, or
claiming to have been pu. in confidential commun l.
ton, shall venture few suggestions on these
points which May or may not stand the test Of fu-
ture scrutiny. Let the public judge about the 18th
of March next as TO the extent of their correctness.
10 the mean time, it can afford to tolerate any DIFF
ference Of opinion.
The TRIBUNE was right as 10 the material fact,
in announcing Gen. Csss as the future Secretary of
State. Ii may have erred, and probably did err,
in the special ones stating that he had been for
mally invited to that post and bad accepted on
certain day. Mr.. Buchanan is committed against
any direct overture of this sort, Cor at least two
months to come. But, according to the old adage,
wink is as good as 8 nod to blind horse, not
meaning BY any means that the Senator from Mich
igan is in that category, although as much as ten
years age Col. Benton advised he should be 'cut
or the simplesr In word, then, il is settled
that the old General Is to be Premier, and st sew
eDty-four or five to emulate the example OF Meter
nieh and Nesselrode. He smiles geaiay at the
prospect, and turns up his ancient olfaetory at any
thing Michigan may threaten or do Even Gov.
Marcys friends surrender to this probability. So
it hardly can be considered doubtful.
The second point fixed beyond peradyenture is,
that Pennsy wanna is not TO have a seat in the
Cabinet Great efforts have been made to carry
this point, but these very movements have been the
principal cause of its defeat The number OF Mr..
Buchanan aspiring friends has satisfied him how
unequal would be the proportion between one
recipient foredoomed to be ungrateful, and whole
host of disappointed expectants. So he has wisely
concluded to avoid this difficulty, and tO assume the
responsibility for Pennsylvania without divided
empire. Many aspirations are dampeued, and not
few entirely doomed by this political foreclosure.
IL will go hard with a score or two of ready made
Cabinet Ministers, who, after the fashion OF Mr..
Micawber, have been waiting, the Lord knows how
long, for something TO turn up; and who cenhdlng
souls, have generation after generation, staked
their desperate hopes on the possible elevation OF
Jeemes Bewchanan, as, with charming indifference
IL Webster's pronOuncing dictionary, they insist
uIOn calling him.
The third point fixed is, that an Old-Line Wing
is TO be invited to the council board, in recognition
of their valuable services in the last campaign and In
illustration of the leading idea which Mr.. buchanan
will carry into Office of restoring the era OF good
feeling which historians tell existed when there
were no parties six and thirty years ago. Starting
authority from Wheatland that the Administration
will be unit. as well as union sentiment, ii is not
very difficult to spot the Identical men who are to
fiji the places not named
Three months before the Convention met at Gin
cinnati when Mr.. Buchanan was either hob-nooblng
or cold shoulderiUg with Lord Clarendon-tor they
had tffs as we'll postprendal tilts at Constantia,
and such good things-t was confidently asserted
NV one behind the scenes in this city, that in the
has hADDpQpt.
Cobb would be Secretary of the Treasury. And in
ninety DAYS more what was then prediction will
become reality. Mr.. Cobb would not allow his
name 10 be used as a candidate for the Vcs-Presi.
dency for reasons satisfactory to himself, which
may be more clearly demonstrated hereafter Thus
the two leading posts are disposed OF.
Mr.. Bright does not expect reelection from In
diana in the state of parties there bnt he does ex
pect and will get the Department Of the Interior
here. Ho has been at deadly feud with the present
Administration since 1t came into power. lie dld
hot bow down before Juggernaut Douglas. After
himself he preferred Buchanan. Certainly such
cons picuous merits cannot be consistently gnored.
Charles j. Faulkner, of the dlsnterested State
of Virginia, is booked for the War Department
He was. in old times, Wing, who advocated the
gradual emancipation of Slavery, and was not par
ticuary gracious in his public estimation, while
Member of the Legislature, OF that peculiar nstla'
ton He came to Congress sort OF cross between
Wbiggery and Know NOthingism, and after little
H. METROPOLITAN manipulation, settled down into
Thoroughbred, Democratic, Pro-Slavery prOpa-
randist A district which once bOasted its Wing
gerry, but has long since lapsed, returned him a
second time, when his Democratic zeal became
more intensified, until he was put at the head OF
the central party organization here, and acted In
that capacity throughout the canvass. He is a
man of respectable character and parts, meaning
IN he fair and is generally esteemed.
For Secretary of the Navy, William Preston OF
Kentucky is proposed as the person best calculated
to represent extinct Wh'ggery, and to disprove the
truth of Napoleons witticism, that the Bourbons
learnt nothing and forgot nothing. Like + rank
Granger he is six feet and well propOrtoned,
which is some capital to start upon lie has the
faculty, which all bis race inherited through Pat
rick Henry, of being eloquent. As speaker, ne IS
fluent. at times brilliant, and always effective
Though not born with silver spoon IN his mouth,
he was fortunate enough to marry gold one and
splendid woman on the same occaslon-she being
a daughter of the "Old Duke, as the CrGsus
Wickife is called in Kentucky. Fond OF society,
Genial and luxurious. Preston would shine at the
head of a Department, and be hailed as the town
Anphitryon, while dispensing hospitality 10 the
tune of fifteen or twenty thousand year His
case is vet undetermined, and IN the turn OF things
there possibly may be slip, but at present ne Ii
the preventative man 81 departed Whggery.
Next in order comes Cave Johnson who has been
deroulinated for the POs-Ofice Department, where,
in former days, he rejOced among canvas mal-oags,
ard was the terror Of depredatIng Postmastefs.
Mr. Buchanan shared the Joys and SORROWS Of Folks
Administration with him, and il is both natural and
becoming that their loves should be renewed to-
ward the evening Of their respective careers If the.
President elect will not take 1t alniss, 1t may De
sajd that he and Cave are about Of equal age;
that neither was ever disturbed by excess OF gem
erous emotions, aud that both are men of equable
nature and likely character. Mr.. Johnson's health