The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

CABINET LITERATURE. A society has recently been established in New York to aid and support the President in his attempt to remove the Indians beyond the Mississippi. This has given rise to a correspondence between the officers of the society and the Secretary of War. The following extracts from Secretary Eaton's letter, are rare specimens of cabinet literature, logic, and morality.

"If the doctrine everywhere contained be true, that a State is sovereign, so far as by the constitution adopted it has not been parted with to the general government, then must follow as matter of certainty, that within the limits of a State there can be none other, than her own sovereign power, that can claim to exercise the functions of government."

Again—"Georgia, by her acknowledged confederative authority, may legally and rightfully govern and control throughout her own limits, or else our knowledge of the science and principle of government, as they relate to our own forms, are wrong, and have been wholly misunderstood."

Another Sample. In answer to a congratulatory letter from some gentlemen in New Jersey, the President of the United States has written a letter, from which the following clear, explicit, sensible, grammatical, and fine sentence is extracted:-

"The confidence you express in the principles which shall control my administration, I must repose upon my ardent and honest endeavors to foster and promote, by all my official acts, the general interests of the country."