Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1857-03-13


cannot fail to promote the prosperity and
happiness of the country.
THE New CABINET. following
Cabinet nominations were sent in by the
President at noon on Friday last, and
Immediately afterwards confirmed by the
Senate, viz:
Secretary of Statc-LEwIs CAss, Of
Michigan.
Secretary of the Treasury-HowELL
Com, of Georgia.
Secretary of the Interior = JACOB
THOMSON, of Mississippi
Secretary of War-JoHN B. FLOYD,
of Virginia.
Secretary of the Navy-IsAAc ToUcEY,
of Connecticut.
Postmaster General--A v. BRowN,
of Tennessee
Attorney General-JEREMIAHS. BLACK.
of Pennsylvania.
The above array of distinguished names
is enough to satisfy even the most skep.
teal that the new administration will
move on most gloriously in its mission O.
devotion to the public good Mr.. BU-
CmAYAN has exhibited the wisest discrim.
ination, not only in selecting his Cabi
net, but in assigning to each member hi'
appropriate sphere of action. The re.
Spouse of the country, says the Union
will be, that in this FIRST great step in the
administration of the government, thu
President has fully realized the expect
ations of his countrymen. He has sur
rounded himself with sound, conserva
tive, honest, talented, and worthy men
and with such platform as he has laiC
down in his Inaugural Address, and sucl
counsellors as constitute his Cabinet tc
aid him in carrying out the great princi
pies announced, we look for an admins
tration that will not only give satisfaction
to the country, but promote its perma
nent peace and repose, and advance it
present unparalleled prosperity and hap
piness.
re-" The National IatcHigencer thu
notices the inaugural address of Presiden
BUCHANAN:
!" In country like ours, the genius o
whose institutions, as well as the mani
fold relations of its complex civil organ
ism, tend to the production of new pc
iticai issues, it is manifcstiy irnpossitbi'
to foretell what mutations and consequen
influences even the quadrenial term o
an administration may bring forth. |
any one, therefore, should be disposed t.
complain that the inaugural address o
Mr.. Buchanan consists rather of genera
statements than of precise definitions re
speeding the future course of his policy
it must be admitted in candor shat sucl
reticence has Legitimate foundation
not only in the very nature of such pc
litical oratory, but in the prudent reserve
of wise craftsmanship, which ever act
in the living present and leaves the deaf
past to bury its dead.
/" We are free to confess that the pc
rusal of the address has given us SINGER,
satisfaction, so entirely unexceptionabl'
does it appear to be in thought and ex
preston. Indeed, we may say that
alike in matter and in manner, it remind
us of those sterling attributes of gooC
Judgment and common sense which char
acterized the State papers of Presiden
Monroe; and we can only hope that a
the close of Mr. Buchanan's administra
ton the comparison thus suggested MAJ
extend not only to the well-temperet
sentiment and unambitious diction o
these two statesmen, but also to the re
storation of that good feeling which
marked the era of the earlier President
and which we fain hope will be the con
scientious aim of his veteran successor.