Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-15
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We perceive that sone Of our democratic CO.
teinpcraries are already beginning to look up
the necessary timber for nezv Cabinet for Mr..
buchanan itis not likely that lie xiii retain,a
single stick OF the ministry Of poor Pierce, al
though it Is said there Is strong personal at
tachrnent between Mr.. buchanan and Old NJ.
Marcy, the result Of many years Of harmonious
feeling Mt thesaIne democratic crib For all this
We may as vel resign ourselves to say goodbye
70 Marcy, knowing IS We do, that the leading
ssionists and iiilibusters Of the 0stend plot
viii make his dismissal siHo gQ.s 1oa NE
conclude therefore, that the Cabinet of lfr. BSl
ichanan viii be resv Cabinet, from beginning
to end. and the work Of compromising IL yili be
avery nice, very delicate and {. very Il ekiish
piece Of business.
Inc confidential administering and secession
organ of Jefferson Davis (tilc New Orleans Del
tn IS first in the field for a place in the new
Cabinet. and, though is Washington cores
pondcnt (doubtiess speaking BIZ authority mod
estly claims the Treasury Department ana
names Hon. George S, Honston of ilaf,aIna, for
that important post We dare say. however.
that. Including such selfsacriiieing patriots as
Gov. Wise, Hunter, Mason and Floyd of yir-
GINA; Giingman, of North Carolina; Brooks.
Keitt and Boyce, OF South Carolina: Cobb and
johnson, Toombs and Stephens, OF Georgia;
SlidelI. Soule and Benjamin. of Louisiana; Tie
Johnsons and the Browns of Tennessee: the
Buffers of Kentucky; the Atciiisons and String-
/ fellows, Of Missouri, Douglas, Richardson and
Others, of Illinois; the glights, the Pettits and
1 the Nrights, OF Indiana, and those old fossil
i Wings, Pierce Of Maryland Cboafe and Vim
tllrop of Massachusetts, Barnard of New York.
and SUCH viii ail have their claims for consider
alton. Last, though not least, Martin Van Bu-
rem and his hopeful son, Prince John, and Dix
and Dickinson, on account OF their Invaluable
services In this election, vii, be entItled to a
plum, and viii be disappointed in anything less
than Cabinet Office, foreign mission, or
i Custom House
/ only difficulty being to make such selections
from the mass as will constitute practical har-
rnonieus, popular and satisfactory cabinet. As
preliminary step, however, Mr.. Buchanan
should first determine, in his own mind, what
tpclicy he Is to pursue, and what are to be tile
settled principles of his administration. The
party eleciing him is not Homogeneous party.
In the South it IS administering, secession and
disunion party; in the North it is a conservative
and Union party, but exceedingly weak in the
| knees. In the South it IS clamorous for the adj
mission of Kansas as slave State, the general
extension of slavery, and the revival of the AT.
rican slave trade; in the North 1t has eyaded or
fought the Kansas question upon the plea that
Mr.. Buchanan is opposed to the extension of sla-
very. Many of the democratic Northern gains
| to the next Congress have been secured by this
evasion or upon this plea. The first difficulty
therefore, and the first dnty of Mr. Buchanan, is
the adoption of such policy. foreign and domes-
/ tic, cabinet and spoils as will blend the North
fern and Southern sections of the party into a
Homogeneous mass. Above oil he must resolve
1 to be the master of his situation, and not the
tool of q clique Of conspiiators in the Kitchen.
/ ike the unfortunate Mr.. Pierce.
i late article In the New Orleans Deitu which
/ designates the election of Buchanan as nothing
moro than . Southern armistice for four years
with the North, lays down the law of Jefferson
Davis with q very bold hand Reduced to its
simple essence, IN this manifesto of tie mouth
piece Of Jefferson Davis his policy is declared
to be the old nnlliiication policy of rule or ruin
with reference to the Incoming administration
Mr. Buchanan must follow. the ultra slavery cx-4
tension programme Of Mr.. Davis, or suffer the
i consequences. Mr.. Davis viii have no arms.
i tce-no Compromise. BE holds that between
/ the North and South there can be- and must be.
no peace short of the suhjngation of the one sec.
ton or the other, and that it is the Immediate
duty of the South, I'm the spirit of Carnot, to
organize for victory. -
Such is the game of the disnnion faction of
the south. they must be met at the threshold,
they will ruin Buchanan as they have ruined
/ poor Pierce. A constitutional and conservative
policy is simple enough butagainst this south
ern disunion wing of the democracy something
Of the will OF Jackson viii be needed to en-
seem to comprehend the late Fremont campaign,
was not a war: against the south, nor against
the constitutional rights of the south; twas not
q war against slavery in the States, nor yet
against slavery In Kansas; but it was resistance
70 the lawless aud ruffianly policy of making.
Kansas slave State by fire and sword We
believe that the system of free laborin the north
and of slave labor in the south, may be reduced
to peace, harmony and friendly reciprocities
within the Union By an honest adhesion to the
checks, balances, compromises and conipacts of
the constitution Assureslly there can be Moth
ing but war with. the disruption Of the Union.
nor from the policy of snhjngating the north or
the south
We are opposed, and the bulk of the Northern
people are opposed, to any sectional war against
slavery in the South, or against the Shareholders
as a class. The Southern States form an impor-
ntspart of our common country-their people
are our people, and we share In their prosneri-
ties and their reyerses. But they must not be
led astray by plotting traitors and disunionsts--
they must rather be brought back TO the consti-
tuition, to reason, and aspirt of Cancellation and
compromise Let Mr. Bucianan look TO this.
and he may command the support Of all sec
lions; let him fai and his downfall will be
speedier and more iguominious than that of poor
Pierce.
ITEMS.
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common form of salutations Is How do you
stand In drunken Glasgow the usual style of
saiutation is: hat are you going TO stand =
a MOST trustworthy witness, Lieut. Gnnnison
states that when he was In Utah, the three
members OF the Presidency had no less than