Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1860-12-13
The Cabinet-Gen. Cameron.

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The Cabinet Cameron.
Pennsylvania deserves place in the Cab
met of PRESIDENT LINCOLN! Who denies
this? No one. Her delegation at Chicago,
were in favor of making Gen, SIMON GAMER
ON the Standard bearer of the hosts of free-
dom in the late can vass, and when it became
apr aren't that he would not be nominated,
the Pennsylvania delegates. recorded their
votes in favor of Mr.. Lincoln, and this course
OF our members of that Convention, made
that gentleman the candidate, and conse-
quently the President. Gen. Cameron i'm
mediately acquiesced, and in the Unicn did
more for Mr.. LiEcoln's success, and the sucs
cess of our glorious cause. His labors in be-
half of Governor Curtin, were arduous, and
our success. principally through Gen. Cam
eron's efforts at the first election, made the
! election OF Mr.. Lincoln forgone conclusion
Nor did he stop here. His exertions were
continued for Mr.. Lincoln, and he had the
proud satisfaction OF knowing that his State
gave the largest plurality, and the largest
majority, of any State in the UriCn. We do
not know the views cf Gen. Cameron on this
matter but if he would accept place in MIR.
Lincoln's Cabinet. be ought to have it. IT
would satisfy the people of our State. and
add credit to the Administration of Presi-
dent Lincoln. No man is better qualified,
than Gen. Cameron, for the Interior, Treasu.
ry, or Post Office Department. He would
equally adorn either station, and reflect hon
or on the State of Pennsylvania.
! We clip the above from the Bedford Laqui-
rer and " have no hesitation in saying that
it speaks our sentiments. We are not person
ally acquainted with Mr.. Over, the Editor OF
the Inquirer, but, judging from his paper,
we are forced to the conclusion that he is a
true man and sound politician. We hope
to make his acquain tence soon.
| We take it fer granted that Gen. Cameron
will be Secretary of the Treasury. Pennsyl
yania should have Cabinet officer, and Gen.
| Cameron is just the man. and the Treasury
department is just the place for which he is
acited both by education and practice. Gen.
Cameron's success in life proves that he is
not only one of the best fnanciers in the
whole Union, but one of the finest statesmen.
We hope Gen. Cameron will be selected to
fill the post Of Secretary of the Treasury.
The Presidents Message.
We haye just discharged the melancholy
duty Of reading the Annual Message of His
Excellency, James Buchanan, President of
thirty-two loyal States, and one rebellious
| kingdom in process of incubation on the
northern bank Of tie Savannah river. We
ara compelled to say of this document, as a
poet of the eighteenth century said Of a
friend who wrote long epitaphs:
Friend, for your epitaphs Pm grieyed
Where still 80 much is said,
Ope-half will never he believed-
The other meyer read.
the long disputed power of man to use lan~
much from Mr.. Buchanan, but he has sur
passed our most sanguine expectations. His
message is document, verbally considered,
! of decided ability; there are passages in it
abounding IN the flowers of genuine rhetoric;
there is splendid logic, without synthetic
| mysticism; there are axioms clear as the
first proposition of Euclid everything, how
! ever, which is valuable in the paper before
US, the world knew before; everything that
was desirable, enveloped in a fog more dense
than that of the Crimea, during the late war,
when a Russian column, forty thousand
strong. advanced. unobserved, to a position
only sixty yards distant from the sentinels
| WI tDc Dfhisu ltuos dS LII. OUuhSJu chtl Vi
Pope's Essay on Man." it is "a coneate-
nation Of indssoluble fatliiy." The presi-
dent states his ground with mathematical
perspecuity, but, like weak man. which, of
course, he is, by nature and by grace, he
concludes every great subject which he
treats by bringing the ruductio ad absurduns
argument to bear against himself; his edi-
fee appears to be fortified by the most obvi-
Gus principles of geometry but the author
does not fail to show us that it can easily be
demolished by the batteries of the integral
calculus. :.
M. Buchanan's message is not one of
those documents destined to be filed in tine
inches Of Immortality. IL will, temporarily.
star.le the world by the audscity of some of
its propositions in defence of despotism it
will long excite the ingenuity o. the curious
by some of its apologies for acknowledged
errors but it will mold and rust in very
desuetude. and cease to be interesting even
to political antiquarians, long before the dry
est pandec;s and rescripts of heather Empe-
rors will have been consigned to the bats and
owls that haunt the academies of historical
reading Cincinnati Times.