Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-01-18
The Dow nfall of Camel on.

Simon Cameron has been nominated to
the Senate by the President as Minister
to st. Petersburg, and Edwin NJ. Stanton
to succeed him as Secretary of War;
Such was the information conveyed by
the telegraph to all parts Of the country, n
few days since, and subsequent accounts
have confirmed it. The administration Of
the War Department passes into the hands
of Democrat (who was member of Mr.,
Buchanan's Cabinet, and Cameron retires
to contemplation npon the vanity of hu-
man affairs, amid the SHOWS of northern
Russia
Corruption and ineffcienoy in the man
agcment of war affairs had become too
great to be longer borne, and the investi-
cations of Committees of Congress were
gradually throwing the facts before the
country. Under these circumstances it
was not possible for the President to re
tain the former cashier of the Middletown
Bank in power, without incurring an in
convenient amount Of odium and injury,
and he has therefore bowed out the Secre-
tary from his Cabinet and called an honest
and able man to supply his place.
Besides, the abandonment of conserva
tive ground by Cameron in his recent
proposition to arm the slaves, rendered his
further connection with the administration
highly inexpodient and improper. No
more inhuman and diabolical proposition
of warfare than that, has been heard OF
since Great Britain employed tho toma-
hawk and scalpiug knife of the Indian
savage against us in the Revolution
Cameron doubtless thought to ingratiato
himself with the radical Abolitionists by
this brutal and savage proposition, and
eventually attain the Pr esidency by theil
aid He played bold hand but has lost
and all honest men and patriots may re.
ljoice at his discomft
1t increases the significance of this event
that it took place without consultation with
Cameron, and without his prior knowledge;
his first information being that he was to
leave, that his election was already dc.
I lermined. How much the humiliation OF
his fall is increased by the manner in
which it takes place The Secretary who
within few months was issuing his tele-
grams for the arrest & Imprisonment OF
citizens Of the United States without hear
ing or trial, is now by u just re;ribuion
hurled from power without premoni:ion or
notice, and ordered into virtual exile
With characteristic cunning the retired
Secretary, or his particular friends, are
representing that he is not disinclncd to a
sojourn in Russia, and that the new Secrc.
tary is his particu ar friend &c. The art
and bollowness of these pretences are SC
evident that no one will be deceived
Consider, how strong and ardent must be
his friendship for his successor, who sup,
plants him without his consent How ar.
dent his desires for Russian residence wher
he goes upon compulsionl
When good men 90 down in the muta-
lions of politics, the country has cause fo
regret, but when the Camerons go dowi
tears arc untmcly and regrets impossible
The only mourners on the present occasion
will be army contractors AMI jobbcrs ant
their allies, incl uding the red mouthed Alb
olitionists whose cry is for barbaric war
, for rapne, plunder and blood