New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-06
THE GATHERING STORM.

ton of the confederacy, betokening anything but
good to Mr.. Buchanan's administration, is plainly
to every observer who takes the trouble to
look under the surface. predicted it months ago,
and our welposted and reliable Washington cores
poudent, Essex also predicted within few weeks
after the opening of the last Congress that twelve
months would not elapse before formidable Demo
cratic Southern Rights opposition would be found
arrayed against the administration of the placid old
sage of Wheatland az. .--.-
The complexion of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet has
not given satisfaction to the Democracy or to the
country generally In it there is not single man of
national reputation with the exception OF Gen. Cass,
and he is now grown so old that he is not more than
three removes from second childhood. Were he ten
or fifteen years younger the people OF We onol
would breathe freer and deeper"
The appointment of Howell Cobb, of Georgia, to
the secretaryshp of the Treasury is particularly dis
tasteful to a large portion of the Southern Demo-
cracv On this point the Natchez Free Trader OF the
oath, takes bold and decided ground Says the Free
Trader:
1t is known by our readers that we TOOK very ae-
cided grounds in opposition to the appointment oil
Howell Cobb to cabinet position. we gave ourr ea-
sons at the time that induced to this course, and
need not here repeat them 1t is suhclent 10 say 'l
mace part of Democratic administration, does not
change our opinion of him. We said that his ap
pointment would be indicative OF disposition on the
part of the President to prescribe the true Denio'
cracy of the South and install the mere canning WORDS
of Unionism p and we think so still. We said that
the mere men the President might call around MN
amounted to nothing but that the polltical com,
pexion and antecedentS of those he selected as MS
advisers would indicate the policy Of ms aanissta,
ton in reference to the true State Rights Democracy
of the South and that this account MS capnet a
pointments would be deeply significant and inpor-
tant. We said then that Mr.. Buchanan admnstra-
ton, to be successful, must be composed OF repre-
sentative cabinet and now, since the appointments
have been announced we are not AFRAID 10 say we
consider it very unrepresenatye cabinet. we look
in vain for the true representatives OF southern sen
timent and Southern policy in the cabinet but IN
their places we find, principally, those who de-
nounced the genuine Democracy of the South as
traitors and disunionists.
We cannot blame the Free Trader for the pungency
of its language. But for the Southern Rights De
mocracy Mr.. Buchanan would not now be President
of the United States and yet with this great fact
staring him in the face Mr. Buchanan has practically
ignored the Southern Rights Democracy! Not one
of its great leaders have been called upon to accept
solitary prominent position. The gallant and glor
GUS old warrior-statesman of Mssissippi-Gen Quit
man-was overlooked to make room for Jacob Ihomp-
son, housing politician of the smallest sort. The
Stat, Rights men of Georgia were oversaughed by
the appointment of Howell Cobb Union subms-
sonist of the muddiest water and modest texture
John 3. Floyd Of Virginia, whom nobody ever heard
of outside the Old Dominion was made Secretary
of War, with the practical duties of which office he
is as well acquainted Barrataria tadpole Is with
the workings of the planetary system Isaac Toucey,
of Connecticut, that glorious commemorative
nowned throughout the earth for the invention and
49, e ~. ..aa, 4,, ,,5 hes
manufacture Oh hoth-llihts' "ooaeli az" Da'
woodlands small lawyer and small yet cunning
noIitician was made Secretary of the Navy; and so
On u;th tho remandar
VII WV, 'i'1 A.. ,;-,.,,. e +,o co,+ho,r
we 90 not wohueI a' INC uisS"'' vi sno 9''a0' Il
RIGHTS Democracy, neither do wonder at the
apathv with which the country received the intel-
oence Of these appointments II Mr.. Buchanan
thinks he can reconcile the two almost entirely alien
ofed sections of the Union by making fourth fifth
and Nth rate men his constitutional advisers we ap
nrehend he will find himself wofully mistaken. The
t;nes reoure the services of the best men of the
,otiormen Of nerve-meu of jntellect-men of I'm
c,,o;,;rg and pnfnchinp determination. There is {
,,,a,,,ob1a lac,, If sucb material in the presen
| C,binot
| In conclusion tbe Free Trader saws:
| Tho mere fact that Howell Cobb was selected owe
another Southern of sounder principles and bet
ter antecedents amounts 10 noClls. bu' is m
s s .e Whntever Of damage NAV be done to tn
marty of the South by these appointments can b.
Justly attributed to the Southern Democratic press
They muzzled themselves before me puond vas
po ot I tho wishes nr demands of the Sonth
seems they waited only to praise indiscriminately
| WhOmsOeYer might be appointed. we speak PLAINLY
o 10 i M;sscsinni there ia Init one marty desery
| Ing the name. The Democracy is triumphant an(
will rule the day, and we must talk among ouiselve
as 10 tne pess C4hrse W oa to Mr. Rnrhanans ad
ppiistro t;on with os much hone as we could to an