Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-10
pr..;d.,, Rvcb.non,s Appointments.


Whatever may have been said in favor Of M.
Buceanan as to his moderate and conservative
qualities heretofore, there can be no DOUBT q ".e
thing, that in his appointments, ne hAs eAni0t'
ed the most ultra and unmitigated hunker'snl--
The appointment Of that anteluvian FOSSIL Gen
Case with three.ouarters of century OF gears
imam his shoulders to the premiership, has been
well followed up by subsequent acts Of the new
President. in the men he has called to high posi-
tion, to reprepresent and help sustain his admin
istration. 1t was for a lung time given out that
men of the stamp of Clifford and Appleton of
Maine, were to be the chief recipients Of Presl-
Dental favor in New England. But that dein-
sion was dissipated when news came on OF the
selection of Toucey and Col. Greene, the two
most inscriptions hunkers in all New England
one for Secretary of the Navy, and the other for
NAVY Agent at Boston. Then it was pretended
place would be provided for Appleton as editor
of the administration organ at Washington; but
Mr.. Buchanan caused him to be thrust aside, to
make way for William A. Harris of Missouri, for
merly NJ, C. from Virginia, pIo-slaverg man OF
the Calhoun school, to officiate as chief fugiemah
of the new administration, post for which his
New England competitor, from his antecedents
and associations, could not be trusted
The composition Of the Cabinet, too, as whole,
is strikingly characteristic of the present dynas-
~. While Gen. Pierce, with all his proslayery
characteristics, had four members of it from the
North to three from the South, Mr.. Buchanan
makes up his Cabinet by taking four members
from the slave States, containing 100000 free IN
habitants, to three fromgthe free States contain
ing over "A OOO, 900 inhabitants. This is equality
with vengeance.
For Collector at Boston, the most lucrative Of
fee in New England, no man could be found SO
well adapted as that ultra Brad Wales bunker,
Arthur W. Austin Of West Roxbury, whose par
ty numbered all of five hundred in this State, three
or four years since, against forty or fifty thousand
Of the regular Democracy. Such shining lights
Of Massachusetts, Democracy in past years, as
BENJAMIN F. Rallett and Whiting Griswold, are
showed aside, in spite of the importantly
OF their friends, for the objectionable crime Of
having reported resolutions to the State Conven-
ton of lS49, in Opposition to slavery and in IA
vor of freedom and free soil, wherever man
lives, throughout Gods HERITAGE" and affirming
the unconstitutonality of the existence of slavery
in the territories. The total antagonistm be-
tween such doctrine, ana that which passes for
Democracy, nowadays, proved fatal to them.
Out of our own State, the appointments of
President Buchanan show like discrimination in
favor of the intensest hunkerism. In New York,
that original hard-shell, Augustus Schell, who
was discarded even by Pierce for his extreme hun
ker proclvities, and who refused TO support the
Pierce administration, because it was not sufici-
emily pro.slavery, has been rewarded with the
Collectorship; and that Chief Of bulles, Capt.
Rynders. whom no preceding administration has
ever degraded itself to select for any position has
been appointed Marshal, to represent the execu-
tive authority of the new administration, in the
Empire State. Verify, these curious times
As to Kanzas while Pierce appointed, sue
eessively, three Governors from the free States,
Mr. Buchanan appoints his from slave State,
and a Shareholder for Secretary, to boot. No free
State man could be trusted, to suit the South, for
so important positions.