Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-12-26
EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Cabinet Rumors.-The Republican press
continue, very busily engaged in making a
cabinet for Mr.. Buchanan; or, perhaps We
should more justly say, in speculating upon
the probability of the selection of particular
individuals. AS an apt illustration of the way
in which the thing is done, We quote the fol-
lowing brief paragraph from Washington
letter in northern journal
GA hard fight is going on here between tn e
friends Of j. CLANCY Jones, and those of Judge
Black, Of Pennsylvania, with reference to a
seat in the Cabinet from that State. Bets arc
freely offered against Jones'"
We entertain the idea that no one sees and
hears more being said and done among the
Democrats in Washington than ourself. Yet
this paragraph is the first we have seen or
heard of this hard fight.
| Apropos: The Star has carefully steered
clear of interference with Cabinet making,
being content to let the wisdom, experience
and patriotism of the President elect work out
the puzzling problem. Yet so many newspa-
per assaults-among which there is no reason
to class the above quotation-on Mr.. j. Clan
cy Jones have of late appeared in connection
with speculations as to the probability that he
may 20 into the Cabinet, as to make it our
duty to explain the sentiment of the public
men of the Democratic party assembled here
on the subject. We do so with no little pleas.
ure, because we can announce the existence
of happy state Of things in this connection
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politics. That is to say, however much the
Democratic members Of Congress and other
leading Democrats who may have been in
Washington this winter may be divided in
sentiment with reference to others, we have to
| find the first ono of them all who would not
| hail the selection Of Mr.. Jones to hold a Cabi
net portfolio with great qualification. The
truth is, all the public men of the Democratic
party place implicit confidence in him, the re-
suit of his extensive experience in public life,
and the remarkable sagacity, good temper and
capability in all emergencies he has invaria-
bly, evinced. We care not how wide asunder
gentlemen may be upon open questions in the
Democratic party, all are willing to trust j.
CLANCY Jones, and appear anxious that in the
| difficulties by which, as we'll informed men
know, the new administration is to be sur
rounded, it may have the benefit of his inti-
mate knowledge, not only of the requirements
of the living questions, but of the men of the
party from Maine to Oregon. Whether Mr.
Buchanan does or does not call him into the
| Cabinet, must be a matter of very little mo.
ment to Mr.. jones' for he can hardly fail to be
aware Of the existence Of this state of things
here, which, to gentleman Of his we'll bal
anced mind and honorable ambition, must be
more gratifying than aught else conceivable.
The Italian Political Refugee Colony
The abolition press to the contrary notwith-
standing, the people Of Virginia will not per
NIT the settlement among them Of Italian or
other colonies of European political culprits or
refugees. While every Southern State has
gladly welcomed individual emigrants settling
each for himself on his own resources, and not
coming among them under circumstances lead
ing to the conviction that they are to prove
little else besides political agitators striving
stitution by which they are surrounded, these
arc not times when Virginia will willingly
harbor any such population as described
above; more especially when, as in the case
of this effort to settle Italian political refu-
gees in the Old Dominion, the scheme to that
end is notoriously an enterprise of pseudo
philanthropic abolitiOnism, which has been
boasting for year past its purpose of warring
on slavery in the States by means of just such
emigrant aid operations.
Since the European revolutions Of 1o40
considerable portion of the emigration to our
shores has been Of this dangerous and unde-
sirable class. Hence the late strength of the
Know Nothing party, notwithstanding the
many more dangerous and anti-American
principles, features and associations of that
organization. These latter, and the fact that
some Of the very worst classes Of the natives
of our country instantly assumed the direc
ton of its affairs and maintained thoir places
| at it's head in most cases up to its death or
disintegratioD, caused the conservative men
OF the land to set their faces against it. They
| wisely determined to put up for the time be-
| ing with the admitted evils of the undesirable
immigration to which we. refer, rather than
| risk the greater evils to result from placing
the United States Government in the hands of
such men as those who openly encouraged
such outrages on popular right as have marked
the conduct of the Know Nothing party in st.
Louis, Louisville, New Orleans, Baltimore,
| Washington City and elsewhere, and its on
slaught every whore on the constitutional and
legal rights of all members of the Catholic
Church ON account of their religion.
But for the turn Know Nothingism took from
its birth, we sincerely believe that effective
measures would by this time have been taken
to guard against the admitted evils of the
late heavy emigration of continental political
refugees to this country. The remedy as pro-
posed (the installation of the Know Nothing
party in the GovernmenD however, promised
to prove more disastrous than the disease. So,
| conservative men wisely preferred to submit