The New Hampshire Gazette

PORTS MOUTH:
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1844

Our preference for President
JOHN C. CALHOUN:
For Vice President
LEVI WOODBURY.

WHY ARE THE MEMBERS OF THE CABINET
NOT DENOUNCED BY THE GLOBE CLIQUE?

The N. H. Patriot in answer to a question of the Boston Post, why Messrs Wilkins, Calhoun and Mason have not been denounced for joining Mr. Tyler's cabinet, is reduced to the most miserable shifting policy. Messrs Calhoun and Mason it says: have not exposed themselves to denunciation. True, and the simple reason of this is that this petty thunder of denunciation has been silenced by public opinion. But it pretends to say that these gentlemen have taken office under circumstances widely different from those attending the Henshaw and Tyler junction. (why does it leave out Nelson?) But it does not show that difference. It tries to make a distinction without a difference, by pretending that the introduction of Mr. Henshaw was in the belief of some democrats "a part of a plan to build up a third party," and "to break down the democratic party." This is a flimsy pretence; not a shadow of evidence is produced to make it appear even plausible. The public were assured on as good authority as the Patriot can refer to for any of its assertions or surmises, that Mr. Henshaw went into the office unpledged, and without any compromises whatever. The Patriot says: "Had Henshaw taken office on his own responsibility, without himself and friends striving to force the democrats of New England as a party to become answerable for the measures and course of the administration, we should have been content to let him enjoy his place in peace."

We remember there was a spontaneous expression of approbation of Mr. Henshaw's appointment from as far as we now recollect, every democratic paper in Massachusetts with the exception of the Bay State Democrat, and a large portion of the democratic papers in other States, in and out of New England, and this expression came forth promptly from all quarters with the exception of a few, which were in pretty close league with the Globe, and had got their cue from it. It is idle to pretend that all this was the result of "force" exercised by Mr. Henshaw and his friends! "Tell that story among the marines, old sailors know better."

Besides it is giving Mr. Henshaw a much more extensive influence over the press than men of ordinary credulity will believe he possesses.

Of Messrs Calhoun, Mason and Wilkins, the Patriot says: "The position of political affairs is such that they cannot be suspected of a design hostile to the democrats in this step. They make no attempt to commit the party." And yet the same spontaneous expression of approbation bursts from the Democratic press, a little more general to be sure, because the Globe dares not now throw cold water upon it; but on the contrary contributes a sort of chilly assent to the general approval, which assent or negative approbation its satellites are constrained to follow. The truth of the matter is plain. There is no political capital to be made from pursuing their wonted course of denunciation: The recoil is greater than the impetus; the principle laid down, and the position of the Globe in the case of Henshaw and Nelson was not solely applicable to those individuals. It applies with the same force to the present appointments.

It was the general principle that no democrats could honorably take seats in Mr Tyler's cabinet,--that "they must become Tyler men as long as Mr Tyler sets up for anything"; & there has been no time, during his administration, in which he was more prominently "set up for anything" than at present.

The fact is, the Globe has been controlled in this matter, by the Democratic members of Congress, since the beginning of the present session. They evidently saw that its course for the last year had injured Mr Van Buren, and it was silenced and made to cease its predatory warfare, which tended to no good, but to distract and divide the Democratic party.

As we have intimated amid the general burst of approbation of the recent appointments to the Cabinet, particularly of Mr Calhoun, the Globe clique, yield but a cold and unwilling assent. The Patriot, which is chief spokesman for it in this quarter, says : "We would much prefer that Tyler should take his advisers from that party who elected him to office." This manifests a contemptible jealousy, lest Mr Tyler should acquire some small degree of popularity, or public approbation, that might by possibility be manufactured into political capital. For our part we have no jealousies on this score. Our candidate rests entirely on his own transcendent merits. There is no one that approaches so near him as to give us cause for jealousy.

But the Globe clique are unwilling, in fact, that a single thing should be done for public benefit under the present administration; they would rather the public interest would suffer :-room for fault finding is an aliment which they need: -they cannot in their narrow sphere exist without it. They want the annexation of Texas; and they would rejoice at the idea of it if Mr Van Buren were President: they want the occupation of the Oregon, but it won't do to settle either by negotiation. They would probably a majority of them like a reduction of the tariff; but Mr Benton says they can only now discuss it,—and he takes a sort of half way course calculated merely to put it to sleep until the line of succession shall be fixed for 1848, through Mr. Van Buren. It is manifest, therefore, that he has no desire to see it settled now, or to make an effort for it; and that neither he nor the Globe wishes for any settlement of the Oregon, or the Texas question by negotiation.

No. Mr Tyler for this, and possibly Mr Calhoun for the next term, might peradventure acquire thereby some celebrity; and rather than see this, the true interests of the country had better be postponed! Such is the prevailing spirit of this rule or ruin clique.

Once more we quote from the Patriot : after expressing its preference that Mr Tyler should take his advisers from that party which elected him, it adds: "We disclaim as we are authorized to do by the repeated expression of the democrats of New Hampshire, all responsibility for the measures and principles of Tyler's administration, whether it be composed of individuals from this or that party." Who in the name of Beelzebub, Messrs editors, ever asked you