New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-31
1880

The aggregate pay which these dignitsries last
received l. Just doubled BY their part Of the pro-
c,,s. This is "A sort Of rotation which Gov. Marcy
is accused Of saying, lever makes a man sea--ich
Floyd, Brown and Thompson are excluded from
the account though tWO of the three had a long
tuIn al the public Glib
la order to facilitate the investigation Of the case,
of retired officers who have sought the benefit of
the rect M law the Secretary 81 the Navy viii I'M
medletcy authorize two additional Courts to be
convened here, and then assign their spec al duties
by 9Nig The eases belonging To each particular
rank. to each of the three Courts thus established
This preceding has been rendered airy by the
delay Which has already occurred, and the certainty
that no ,mge Court could complete the proposed
inquiry for several years.
Tie foreign appointments are under cOnsiiera
ton, bat the President is anxious To settle them by
one general execution: they NAV not be an
Lounced until May or June. Now sad then a hcad
may tall, just ~ way pt giving the AK exercise
MI Dallas had rs well prepare for his congt for il
u dccrted behind the throne, and was early on the
morning Of the 9th Of November, after the clouds
II doubt that rather d4rkencd the nor zon about
teailand had cleared away. Mr.. Buchanan has
neither forgotten nor forgiven the former rivalry
and whoever expects fOrbearance, from 4 sense of
dcicacy 10 an old opponent cann"t know the mao.
h re Is strong belief prevailing here that some
81 the Competitor Tor the leading Offices
comIHodaled through All arrangement applicable 10
more than one imp rtant point, by which the erGl
uncnts were TO be dlstr butcd among several "a the
faithful. Where the Indirect benefits beyond the
salary sum up twenty or thirty thousand year, a.
Hey do in two or three of the appointments 81
New York, thir ~ stem t. ight be introduced with
beneficial enlargement oi the area OF patronage.
There Is no such thing ~ getting at the opln on
of Judge TancI n 'le Set case. Codn>rOrs
have epphcd ior IT. publishers have applied for il,
citizens have applied for it, and the general answer
has been that II Is not yet filed IN the clerks Office
and therefore not printed. II has been copied
twice for revision, and many of the angles rOunde
of Ia The process. One remarkable feature about
this opinion ~ that 1t precisely Conforms to thu
views expressed by Mr.. Buchanan in bS Inaugural
in regard To- the rights Of the people in the Terrific
res over the question Of Slavery, denying the doc
trirc of Douglas and Cass entirely, and condnng
the exercise Of any power to the period OF true
when state Constitution IS about to be formed.
II will rot be- forgotten, in this connection, that
Mr.. buchanan went out of his wa, ~ express conf
dcnce in the Judgment OF the Court thea on the
eve Of being delivered The position taken BY
Judge TaIy is shat negroes are {" bc treated ld@t
~ property ~ d" horses Che sSed that word or
other ch4,tels aud u,ay be carried by the ConstI-
.ui ION INTO any Territory and projected there, with
all the privileges and ri2hts ot ownership. IRE
%. ciiye Of ary res riction This WAS one OF he
latter. day doguas Of Ca houn, asserted when all :
other s,phrtIes had * Dudcd. and taken up the
| asst refuge OF a desperate aud dlsopp"ntef auI-
bitiou. And II is curious 20 observe that the judge
| whom he at oue TINE prosecuted with an intense
| bitterness, following MS nomination INTO the Senate
| with open and unqualified denunciation, and pro.
eur d. It's rejection there, should from his high
| portion aud IN the evening of his days become tht
| v"iary and the yicIlm ot theory winch he has
| heretofore consistently desplsed and unqualfcdly
| condemned. linden.