The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-02-13

Walker is railroad stock and rat contract gang
OF Spectators, but the Walker. clique at Wash
ingtoD is political clique, which is sctuated by
asy other motives than thcee Of friendship for
Ar. Buchanan. This clique, for example, is AZ
the very head Of Improvement in the Senate to
defeat the Dallas Clarendon treaty. In the State
elections Of the last year General Cas- was over
thrown in Michigan, and Mr.. Douglas was Sc
verely rebuked by the people Of Illinois Add
these singing mifortunes to the records of the
Cincinnati Convention, and we discover at once
the suspicious party elements of this Walker
movement at Washington. 1t is but little if
anything better than disafected and treache-
rous conspiracy to manage the administration Of
Mr. Buchanan or to distract, divide and des-
troy it.
What is to be the end Of these Cabinet plots
and cOunterplots we cannot yet determine. Our
confidence remains mistaken, however, in the
GOODNESS, sagacjty and discretion of Mr.. Buchar
nan. We still believe that in any event he will
first secare himself as the master Of his situa
ton, and will be particularly careful against the
introduction of over-ambitiOus or treacherous
elements into bis ministry. He is now at Wheat
land, removed from the sinister Influences of a
debauched capital and in position calmly to
take his ground and to select bis principal official
adviser without regard to the warnings or
threats of aspiring demagogues, OF scheming enc
mics in the party camp.
In this view, the appointment of Mr.. Cobb,
of Georgia, as Secretary Of State, would
no mi IU 1ndin 10 aiv,ct
him, in some quarters that he has had
no experience in diplomacy, and is there
fore unqualified to grapple with the high
responsibilities Of the State Department But the
same objection might have been urged against
Marcy in 1853; and yet, if we have passed through
this Pierce administration without war against
the great naval Powers of Europe it is due to the
diplomacy of Marcy. Why may not Mr.. Cobb
equally distinguish himself in this new depart
ment Of official duty? His antecedents are those
Of safe, consistent, conservative statesman
He is young, vigorous mana man of talents
ability, industry, energy, character, and distin-
guished particularly for his practical common
sense views upon all the great political issues Of
the day. This was illustrated, to q considerable
extent in his stump speeches Of the late cam
paign, notwithstanding the prevailing democratic
hue and cry Of niggers, disuuion, and civil war.
In word, with Southern conservative on To-
reign and domestic affairs, like Mr.. Cobb as Pre-.
mier, Mr.. Buchanan would secure the initial ap.
pointment Of q Cabinet which might safely chal-
lenge the respect and confidence of the country.
We understand that the President elect will
not again leave Wheatland for Washington till
perhaps the very last day of February, from
the admonitions concerning his health,
resulting from his late visit. In the
We are further advised that his inau-
gural is substantially completed and that the
only material question to be solved is his Secre
tay of State, upon which we may lock for de-
cision within very few days. Mr. Buchanan
has doubtless discovered that he will not be per-
mite TO sleep upon bed of roses, but that dis
sensions are already creeping into the camp He
Harrsburg-from the proceedings in the Senate
upon the Dallas treaty-from the Cass move
ment, the Walker movement, and other Cabinet
intrigues that he must be the master of his posi-
tion, like Jackson or the victim Of fatal conces
sions TO clisues and factions, like Pierce. Mr.
Buchanan will also have observed the remarka-
bic fact that while the opposition journals of the
country are disposed to treat him with fairness and
even with generosity, the strongest symptoms Of
dttrust and hostility have been leaking out
from this Or tina! factious quarter of the demo
cratic camp.
The solution of all these developementsis sim
pie enough. 1t is this: that broad, conserva
tive, Independent national aud honest admins
tration will be sustained by the masses of the
American people, whatever may be the small
reyepges of bafled democratic spolsrnen or poll
ticiaDs in The traitors policy Of rule or ruin.