The Nevada Democrat. [volume] (Nevada, Calif.) 1854-1863, 1857-04-15
Policy of the New Adm,nlstration.

From the statements published, enough is
known of the Cabinet of Mr.. Buchanan, to rem
der it certain, says the Philadelphia Ledger,
that the policy of his administration will be
conservative. The choice of Gen. Cass and
Howell Cobb is an assurance that extreme meas
ures, from either North or South, will receive
no countenance. Gen. Cass, who is to take the
post of Secretary of State, is generally consid-
cred the author of what is called "squatter SOW
ereignty." He deprecated, from his place in
the Senate, the introduction of the Kansas bill
repeating the Missouri Compromise, because.
forcseeing the agitation which would follow that
measure, he doubted if the theoretical good
wonld compensate for the convulsions into
which the country would be thrown; yet he felt
constrained to vote for the bill, because it was
abstractly constitutional, and was one of those
issues which could be met in but one way, even
when unnecessarily raised. He represents
therefore, on this question, what we may call
its middle ground, and is as far removed from
the seceessionists of the South as he is from the
abolitionists of the North.
Howell Cobb has been eminentfor many years
as leader of the Union party of the South
Mr.. Cobb stands in direct political antagonisn
to the slave party at the South which seeks tC
reopen the slave trade, and to annex Cuba OF
dissolve the Union. That such party actually
exists, it would be folly to deny; but its members
and influence have been greatly over-rated. Its
own members at the South exaggerate their
strength, in the hope of advancing its aims
while extremists at the North magnify its power
in order to make a tool of public sentiment here
1t is really in minority at the South. 1t has
against it the great States of Virginia, Georgia
Kentucky and Lonisania, wields but a divided
influence in the other States and has probably
no State on its side--not even Mississippi OF
South Carolina. All the merchants most O
the richest planters, and majority of the whites
who do not own slaves, are its bitter foes.
faction had not exalted it into a temporary i'm
pOrtance, we should not have considered it wor
thy even of these few words.
| Mr.. Buchanan, by refusing to admit repre-
sentative of this party into his Cabinet, has done
wisely for himself as well as for his country
for the party is really a disunion one, and i
working to that end even while it processes t
be obeying the Constitution. 1t is party o
reasonable purposes, that only bides its time
With such a party wise and Constitutions
administration can have nothing to do. A maj
who believes the South would get along bes
alone, and who is secretly plotting to bring
things to such pass that the South will secede
has no business to be in the Cabinet; and
President who would place him there would no
only do an injury to the Republic, but would
prepare troubles Of all sorts for his administers
tion. A Conservative Executive ought to have
a conservative Cabinet-one on which he could
fully depend and this we believe Mr. Buchanan
has. Even in its foreign policy it will be moder-
ate, though American.