The daily union., 1856-10-10
THE POSITION OF SENATOR BELL, OF TEN
y NESSEE

The Richmond Enquirer says that letters from WAshing
ton fact that the black republicans in their
flush confidence Of success begin already select cabinet
and the carved out most generally received is State
Department Speaker Banks Treasury John Bell Of Ten
nessee Interior John Minor Bots OF virginia Wa De
Winter Davis, of Maryland Postmaster General, titz
Henry Warren, Of Iowa Attorney General Gov Chase, Of
Ohio. This Is seriously the programme Of cabinet.
At all events this does look very much like that pro-
scrPon Of the Soah and exclusion Of shareholders from Of
ce and refusal Of southern to accept Office about which
the Richmond Enquirer and its affiliated prints have made
such rumpus Even the Commercial Advertiser of this
city, which copies this paragraph with great guso must ad
init that three members Of the cabinet ofseven pretty
fair allowance Nor the persons proposed according
these Washington letters to be selected puppets
Is too often the with the northern cabinet officers select
ed by southern Presidents Nobody dispute that with
Bell Botts and Winter Davis in the cabinet the savehod
ing interest would be strongly well
sented though the Richmond Enquirer certainly and per-
haps the Commercial Advertiser would prefer Brooks
and Herbert joint Secretaries OF War, with Stngow
Achson Secretary of the Interior perhaps Mayor Wood
at the head OF the Treasury-N. Y. Tribune.
The foregoing remarks of the New York Tribune are
calculated and probably intended make the impression
that the three southern gentlemen named in connexon
with Colonel Fremons cabinet in the contingency of his
election sympahize with the back-repubcan party and
If be true that either of them would entertain propo
son of the kind it would be conclusive as TO the drec-
non OF ns sympatne5 Whetner the report as 10 einef
of them has any foundation, have information,
have any such knowledge Of two Of them
Messrs Bolts and Davs-as to justify opinion in
regard to their probable acceptance of places in the
cabinet of abolition President but to Senator
Bell feel constrained to say that satisfied the
insnuaton of the Tribune that he would accept such
position does that gentleman the grossest injustice Our
understanding of Mr. Bells position s that he is de-
cdedy and earnestly opposed to Fremont any south
northern be- and that he would deprecate
his election national calamity. Entertaining these
views hold it to be utterly impossible that he could
entertain for moment the proposition to go into his cab
met We may further add, that Mr. Bell enertains and
expresses high opinion of the craftsmanship and the quail
i6caons of Mr. Buchanan, and that his determination to
support Mr. Fillmore in place of Mr. Buchanan only
taken upon the apprehension that the latter could not be
elected by the electoral colleges but that he would at any
time give him his support if by doing he could insure
the defeat of Col Fremont We think Mr. Bell has
soned badly the subject and that his support of Mr.
Fillmore is calculated defeat choice by the people, and
the chances of Fremonts election but have
idea that Mr. Bell looks such consequences of his
position and therefore reject without hesitation the
suspicion that he would accept place in the cabinet of
an abolition President