Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-24
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The administration of Mr. Buchanan
opens with decision of the United States
Supreme Court highly favorable to his
views of public policy, and affording scope
forahis most intense nationality" With
g doughfaee President, a slaveholding
Cabinet, and the. power of the Constitution
declared non-existent by the highest Court
in the land, to stay the vandalism OF hui
man slavery, either in States or Territories,
the people of the North may well say to
the South as Basque said of Macbeth:
Thou hast it now, Glsms, Cawdor, KIM,
And that the weird sisters promised,
And yet fear thou'st played most foully for It,
A., The Cabinet of Mr.. Buchanan is itself
significant With the exception of Secre-
tary of State, every important department
has at its head a Southern stakeholder
The South with less than half the popula-
ton of the North, has four out of the sew
en- Cabinet officers, a clear majority of the
whole. The North with its enterprise,
commerce, thrift, population, wealth, has
really no voice in the present Cabinet.
But the South, itappears was not salts
fed with having four of the seven Secre-
taries, and five-sixths of the National pat
ronage, which are in the Post Office, lnte-
rior, Treasury and War Departments
They cI,imed, and succeeded in choosing,
their Northern associates. They chose
men whom they could manage easily, men
who had been discarded and sent adrift by
their local constituency. They chose Cass
and Toucy, neither Of whom ever ex-
pressed bold Northern sentiment, and
neither probably ever entertained ONE
The same may be said of the President
himself Tt.y are three superannuated
dourhfaces, and they have been selected
) because they are doughfaces. We do not
believe that Mr.. Buchanan had really any
thing to do with making his Cabinet far
ther than having to say to the South, 81
will acquiesce in any selection You may
make for me-" So
Gov. Wise forced Floyd upon him
jeff. Davis forced his man Thompson up
:, on him. Toombs and Stephens spoke for
Howell Cobb and Aaron Vail Brown, of
whom John Quincy Adams once said, that
+, "he only spoke his name that he might
: embalm it in his speech as atty IN amber,
: WAS regarded as safe Postmaster General.
!. He would see that no man who has ever
spoken a word for freedom would get an
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The Northern office seekers will have
Y to bow their abiect necks in submission to
/ the representatives Of the oligarchy, when
they approach them for Office, for the pat
:, ronage of the Government is Ill their
Il hands.
: While the States of Virginia, Georgia,
Tennessee and Mississippi have four Sec
j. retaries, and nearly the whole national
= patronage, the great Northwest, with its
y active, glorious, advancing civilization, is
pushed off with one Secretary, and that one
1t aged, superannuated and timid--a man be-
L. hind the time. if he ever had a time.
s While the Northwestern Democracy
were wrangling about the Cabinet, one par
ty claiming a place for Ohio, and another
is for Indiana, and third for Illinois, Media
L ry, Allen. Bright, Wright, Richard dson
ot Hrrris-all Western men, and majority
of them young, active and efficient, the
:. Oligarchy steps in, ignores the whole o
i' them, and requests them to stand aside
IN The South is king here. We cannot trus
es Western Democrat with the charge O
70 the General Postoffice. We have
|
- We cannot permit a Western Democrat t
c; take the keys of the Department OF tn
of Interior. We have Mississippi slave
D. holder and secessonist for that place. II
ne will have power over the Territories an
we demand them for Slavery. Nor can W
4" hermit either Northern or a Western ma
to hold possession of the Treasury Th
'. South demands that also; and SO they too
possession. A STAKEHOLDER must also hav
command of the army We must have
Southern Secretary Of War and we hay
nu cot him; and the Free State Democrac
Oh lust crawlcd off, and they are now asking
oS' with bowed heads and hats in hand, fc
whatever their slave driving masters WI
1' in mercy give them, God grant that IL
time will come in 1860, when the Mort
will unite as one man, and drive this rae
of drivelers and oligarchs where the Ill
-, clean spirits drove the swine Ohio Sta
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