The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-10

CABINET TMBER.-The able Boston correspond
ent of the Chicago Times discusses the cabinet
question as follows:
We are troubled in Massachusetts, as no other
State In the Union probably is at this time. The
trouble is agricultural, and we are becoming over
stocked with climber" II there was q liberal
supply Of ii other where's, and there was no need
of using il with such economy, 'twould matter but
little But the case happens TO be far otherwise !;
or, as the very dialectical lawyer observed to a
jury, con, the contrary, quite the reverse" Gen.
Grant Is evidently at bis wits ends TO get his sup
ply Of timber for his cabinet. In the first place,
who is to be his secretary of state, or premier,
some OF the progressives are accustomed to say :
Mr.. Seward is talked of, and there is good deal
of plausibiity, In what is said for him; but after
dismissinR his claims, who have we of that party
for that office-yes, whom but Mr.. Sumner or Mr..
Motley Possibly Charles Francis Adams, who Is
better qualified for the place than both the others
named. But Grant would soon have hornets about
his ears IL he were to venture on an experiment
like that 9f appointing Mr. Adams. Still, it all
helps TO prove my assertion that the excess Of
heavy timber lies this way and here. Why this ia
so, nobody pretends to say, If any one indeed
knowa but the fact is as generally admitted as
the followers and ffers Of the party care to have
it proclaimed. So that small supplies to choose
from may greatly simplify the new presidents
situation, and necessity may reduce his dilemma to
not much more than an alternative. But unless
Mr.. Seward should be selected. 1t Is commonly
put down for fact that the premier will come
No man could be filter and better qualified for
the position than Mr.. Adams. who Is no partisan,
and whose political instincts and training would
certsdnfy hold him back from the ultra, destruc.
tive wing OF the party who refuse him their con-
fdeIce, and almost their respect Mr.. Sumner
would never forgive the selection Of Mr.. Adams,
for he Is of jealous cast of mind, and has an
immense body of vanity to keep him in a good
is NOT likely to offer the portfolio to Sumner in any
event; be has not SO soon forgotten Summers al
legation in the Senate that his (Grants) report on
the condition of the South, six months after the
war closed, was withdrawing affair."" Then,
still sgein, the senator feels positive on the sub.
ject OF his election and is said to much prefer
where he lis, especially with the tenure-ofoffiee
law unrepealed, to any place that he might be
speech, too, during the campaign, and, In the
whole course Of that, he had not q word to saw
good or bad, for Grant or against him. Such
specimen Of whitewashing as that, even the
next president Is likely to take fancy TO. As for
Mr.. Notify, his merits rest almost wholly on his
historical reputation, and bis more recent famili-
arity wi foreign courts, that Of Vienna in partcu-
lar. From perusal Of his speech in this city.
Just on tie eve of election, am perfectly satisfied
that be never entertained proper conception of
the chasacter and Constitution of our federal
government He believes 1t ia a consolidated,
nationalt centralized piece Of work, with all the
power proceeding from the center instead of be-
ing that iouble creation, eccentric, yet coequal-
the smaller originating the larger only that the
larger might preserve the smaller in its turn and
the heart beating strong and healthy only as the
limbs are vigorous and possessed OF an active and
uninterrupted circulation. Mr.. Motley, in his
elaborate lecture, which 1t was, Of course, the
fashion all about here to puff I'D ndusedn, insisted
openly on the doctrine Of Capitalization as the
only true one for the perpetuity OF the govern
ment, which ia equivalent to saying that, in order
TO save thing, we must first destroy il. He
would make it something very different, that he
might conserve the new creation of his hands,
while SUI calling 1t the old one. Mr. Motley can
know little Of the heavy duties of secretary of
state and is no such candidate for the office as
ought 10 be intrusted with its responsibilities OF
fine literary culture, faithful In his chosen studies
q graphic narrator, and @ picturesque describer,
given 10 pen-portrature much before that pro.
founder philosophy In politics which distinguished
such men as Marcy and Webster, he nevertheless
has little that the Office demands and great part
of his actual qualifications the sproutngs and
ofshoets Of his personal ambition. Then he
claims 10 have been meanly treated by Seward
while Il Vienna, and that Is reason enough with
SumnSt and others for seeking to put him, of all
other r1en, into Stewards vacated place. OF such
unworthy motives are the most important human |
actions often made up. To sum the statements |
all up Il amounts to this Gen. Grant will have to
make q secretary of state from one of the four
men SHOVE named, unless he should presume to
ask Nj. Fessenden to his council board. in which
case MI, Summers back would be up in jiffg.