Opinion Of The Secretary Of State

The nomination of xMr. Calboun,for the first station in the Cabinet,appears to have given universal satisfaction to Tylerites, Whigs, and Democrats. The following extract from a speech of his in the Senate, Jan. 10, 1840, may serve as an index lo his official course - "the basis" on which our national affairs raay be administered: 'WjS REGARD SLAVERY AS THE MOST SAFE AND STABLE I5ASIS KOR PREE IXSTITUTIONS IN THE WORLD. It S Ítn)OSSÍblO with us, that the conflict can talie plnce between labor and capital, which mak'es it so diíRcitlt establish and maintafn free institutions in all wealthy and highly civilized nations w-here such institutions do not exist. Every plantation is a ]ttle community with the masteratitshead, who concentrates in himself the united interests ofcapitaï and labor of 'which h& is tte common represent 'atice." TIip ccilored man Jones, wlio asserted that he was free, mxl in whose beliolf Mr. Giddings reen:ed a memorial to Congress, wo u:ulersfai)d lis? been cluimed by his inastcr íVom Virginio, and yesterday retunird horns wil h hini. Jones at h'rst professed to be entirely unacquainted with his nmster, bnt upon the latttír sending home for persons and paper to prove his identity, he ackriowledgwl to the keeper of the prison that he was his mnster, ind he was restored to hiin forthwitlj.- .