Richmond Enquirer

THE CABINET—WHIG RIDD LERS—MR. CALHOUN—JUDGE UPSHUR. LEGARE

The Whig writers in the Courier may spare themselves the trouble of conjecturing as to Mr. Calhoun's position towards Mr. Tyler, or the causes of it. They need not attribute to Mr. Calhoun or his friends any disappointment. The disappointment of the Extra Session belongs altogether to the Whigs. Mr. Calhoun never offered his "high" to Mr. Tyler, nor aspired like Mr. Clay to be dictator over him. When Mr. Rives insidiously asked of Mr. Calhoun in the Senate if he had made any advances or proposed any conditions to the President in private, Mr. Calhoun promptly answered that he differed in taste with the Virginia Senator, choosing to act upon the President and let his position be known, not privately, but by his public declaration; That he had had no personal intercourse with Mr. Tyler for months, and would say before the Senate all he had to say to him, viz: that if, besides the Bank, Mr. Tyler would veto the Land bill, and thus show himself a thorough convert to the constitutional party, he would support his administration as one of his party— but not otherwise. It was not expected by any one after that declaration, and Tyler's signing the Land Bill, that he would have called any of "Mr. Calhoun's Democratic friends to his Cabinet. Indeed, none of them would have accepted a place in it, so far from any disappointment being possible!

The appointment of Judge Upshur, a warm admirer of Mr. Calhoun, would certainly be more than sufficient to neutralize any feeling of displeasure, had any been likely to arise From the appointment of Mr. Legare, which a writer in the Courier suggests must be satisfactory to us, as exhibiting "Mr. Tyler's profound respect to Mr. Calhoun and his organ."

Now, Judge Upshur is a politician of eminence, and if we desired it, we could much more safely infer that his appointment proceeded from respect to Mr. Calhoun, or from a desire to conciliate him, than that there was any intended disrespect in the appointment of Mr. Legare, whom we differ with our correspondent of Thursday in supposing that Mr. Tyler thought of at all in reference to Mr. Calhoun, when he offered him office. What our correspondent says of Mr. Tyler's objecting to "two suns in the firmament of the South," is misunderstood by the Courier it seems.— The allusion was to Calhoun and Tyler, not to Cal. houn and Legare! As to Mr. Legare's appointment we are sure that he feels kindly towards Mr. Legare as a gentleman and scholar, and as a Carolinian takes pride in his ornamental qualities, and wishes him well, and though he is not the man he would select for any important political trust, he is glad to see him placed in an honorable position, where he will be useful, and which is better suited to him than the arena of politics. If Mr. Legare does entertain openly any preposterous jealousy or envy of Mr. Calhoun, we are very sure that it matters very little to Mr. Calhoun, and that he has never felt any harmless enmity from that quarter sufficient to resent it or to guard against it. He may have been amused at the curiosity of such antipathy—but he has never recognized Mr. Legare as a political enemy.

For ourselves, we are sure that we express with our own, the sentiments of our political friends generally, when we say that we are gratified with Mr. Legare's appointment, believing that he will well fill his office, and be an ornament to it. We are accustomed not to regard Mr. Legare as a politician—politics being out of his line—not his element. We readily overlook any political errors in such a man in our desire that he should be cherished for the characteristics for which he really is valuable, and for which our State may well take pride in him, his erudition and forensic eloquence. We are gratified at his advancement and wish him well.—Charleston Mercury