Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-01-22
Appointments by the President,


By and aoiHt the ddcice and consent Of the Senate
John Appleton of Maine to be Assistant Secretary of
State of the United States
Richard Meade, off Virginia. be envoy extraordinary
and minister penpOtentiary of the United States TO Brazil
William B. Reed of Pennsylvania, to be envoy extraordi-
ny and minister plenpotentary of the United States 10
John Bgler of California to be extraordinary and
minister plenipOtentiary OF the republic OF Chill .
Henry C. Murphy of New York. to be minister resident
of the United States to the Netherlands
Benjamin Angel of New York, to be minister resident
Of the United States to Sweden.
James Williams of Tennessee, to be minister resident OF
the United States to ConstantinOple.
William r. Calhoun, of South Carolina, to be secretary OF
the legation of the United States at Paris
! We cut the above from the Washington Union, and
feel disposed to offer remarks i'll reference to the
subject suggested by it-that of appointments Not
that have any personal interest in that matter but
because certain considerations present themselves to our
minds, appealing to State pride or to our sense of
right in other respects. 8
1t is always easy to carp at Congressional delegations,
and to charge them with desire to control OF influence
executive appointments to suit themselves or to promote
their own ends. Even delegation, regret to
say has not apedepoachi although they have avoid
ed giving cause for it to extent which threatens to
lay them open to anmadycrson upon another score.
Apart from the interests feelings of the individual
Or individuals appointed to any high Office or Offices,
there is an implied compliment, evidence of consider
alton to the State from which thesclection is made and
the neglect to do SO to fair extent, is not without JUS
tce construed into tacit disregard of the claims and
rights of the State so neglected. The question will be
askcd-DocS the State so neglected. say North Carolina,
contain no fit to fill positions of honor i'll the
public service? Is she insignificant not to deserve
respectful notice Or consideration Are the citizens Of
other States worthy ofrecognition consideration?
Arc the recommendations made by other delegations
more earnestly pressed more respectfully regarded by
the Administration?
No doubt members OF Congress would gladly be re-
ieved from all responsibility account of appointments
from all demand for their Intervention in such matters
Generally speaking our North Carolina MEMBERS spite
Of any nsnuations that have been made against thcm
are too backward in this certainly so as compar
ed with their pushing neighbors and thus it begins
to happen that the results of decacy of feeling will be
set down the lack of earnestness of influence Thus
it happens that out of 9l missions and consuates filled
up to the 4th day Of November last North Carolina had
nonc From the same characteristic delicacy of feeling
pervadng the South it has also happened that out of
these 81 foreign appointments the North, from which
Mr.. buchanan received very limited support has 139
while the South which went for him in nearly ubroken
column has only 80 North Carolina has not now, and
never has had since the days of Washington, at
the head of a single bureau. At least, so we are in
formed.
Now these things amount to little in themselves. As
individuals we nothing for the-as citizens of the
State they appeal to us in different way. North
Carolina, as State-a Democratic State-deserves, at
least much consideration any Of her neighbors.-
Her delegation will be expected to urge her claims to
this consideration and to have these claims recognized
We neither know the name nor to know the name
of single individual presented for appointment to any
office outside of the State Our feeling is general-it
has respect to the reputation of the State which must
suffer by the exclusion of her citizens We think it
only be necessary for this matter to be brought fairly to
the attention of the Executive and instead of finding
fault with our Representatives for so doing would
gladly strengthen their hands were it in power to
do So
A New COLONIZATION SCHEME.-We see that Fran
els F. Blair r., abolition member of Congress from
Saint Louis and Eli Thayer another of the same kidney
from Massachusetts, have commenced agitating a new
colonization scheme
They propose that the United States shall acquire by
purchase or by other peaceful means, tract or
tracts Of land either in Central South America to be
coOnizcd by the free negroes of the United States
Thaycr proposes in this manner to forestaI Southern
action and render mpracticabe the erection of slave
holding States or communities to the Southwark
Thaycr is best known at the South in connection with
his attempt at free soil colonization in Virginia. He
made quite parade the matter, and got together
company. They got land somewhere in Western Vir-
ginia, and started village which they called Cerelo-
1t is now literally g deserted village. He was also
one OF the free soil managers under the Emgrant Aid
Society, for the aboitionng of Kansas, so that one
way the other, he has had h; share of experience
such it is The miserable population of the Mosqui-
to Coast composed as it mainly is, of Jamaica negroes
does not certainly, hold out any fatterng prospects or
inducements for further colonization of the same caarac-
ter The class of negroes the pests of the Pa
mama Transit Route i'll fact they already the curse
of every point on the Central American coast where
| they squat and steal.
gress from Tennessee, died in Texas recently.
We copy the above paragraph from one of our ex-
changes. We had before noticed it in the papers, but
from the fact that Mr. Ashes relatives here had heard