The Miners' Express

The Republic—Change of Editors.
The Republic of this morning contains the
valedictory address of A. C. Bullitt and John O.
Sargent, late editors. They cannot, with their
present sentiments, sustain the Cabinet of President
Taylor. They, however, speak eloquently of Gen Taylor, in whom they have undiminished
confidence.
Messrs. B. & S. are succeeded, as editors, by
Allen A. Hall, late editor of the Nashville Republican,
and at present, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury.
Thus say the lightning wires, and they are generally
good Whig authority. A few weeks ago the Washington Union proclaimed that Taylor's
Cabinet was "doomed." Bullitt and Sargent, of the Republic, denied it stoutly, and so
did the orthodox journals, in the Whig interest,
throughout the country. What a commentary
upon their sincerity and consistency is this paragraph from Washington. They can't support
Taylor's Cabinet any longer. What has come
over the spirit of their dream? Or, what has
the Cabinet done so recently, that they can't go
in the harness any longer? Was it the payment
of unauthorized claims, to the great detriment of
the public interest? No; that could not be, for
the whole Whig press swallowed that bitter dose
without wincing. Was it—but why need we
ask—the Republic has changed hands, changed
opinions, and changed its policy; the cabinet has
been virtually repudiated; and if a new set of
ministers should not be appointed to direct the
national affairs, it will be because Gen. Taylor
is not strong enough to take the present Cabinet
by the shoulder, and put them out, just as
an interloper is shoved off from where he has
no legitimate business.
Weakness and imbecility have been the characteristic features of Gen. Taylor's Cabinet.—
These, with a sort of see-saw motion, have balanced each other thus long; but the very weakness of the Cabinet has become heavy—too heavy for the government organ to play for it any
longer,—and now despairing in their efforts to
rouse it to a sense of its duty, the performers.
Messrs. Bullitt and Sargent, leave their chairs
in tired disgust. Who shall now deny that the
"Cabinet Is Doomed?" Yea, the party who
raised it into power, is utterly crushed under the
weight of an indignant public opinion.