Wake County NcArchives News.....Badger Appointed To Cabinet Position March 4, 1841
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March 4, 1841  Charlotte Journal March 4, 1841
   SECRETARY OF THE NAVY -- HON. GEORGE E. BADGER leave this City [Raleigh] 
today, for the purpose of entering upon the duties of the Cabinet appointment, 
recently tendered him by PRESIDENT HARRISON. We confess we are agreeable 
disappointed at his acceptance of this post, knowing as we do, how totally 
indifferent his is to distinction of any kind -- an indifference which would 
rather lead him to shun, rather than Court notice --convinced that, in a 
pecuniary point of view, he could not, with his lucrative practice at home, be 
the gainer . We naturally supposed he would decline the honor. And we are 
confident now, that in yielding his assent, he has been influence more by a 
solemn sense of duty, than by any views of personal aggrandizement.
   So long as the Officers of the Country are selected from men of this 
disinterested cast, there is no danger of their prostituting their trusts to 
corrupt purposes.
   MR. BADGER needs no eulogy at our hands, for wherever known he is properly 
appreciated. We must say, however, that as distinguished as are his fellow-
members of the Cabinet for talent and virtue, there is not one of them his 
superior; and this will be the deliberate judgment of this whole country in 
less than 12 months. -- Ral. Register

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