Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-07-31

existed for revelations of so serious
character. We therefore took the liberty
of seeking the truth where we were sure
of finding it--und to our inquiries re-
speeding the alledged discords and posi-
BILE rupture of the Cabinet We were frank
ly answered, so far as the Sec'y Of State
is concerned, as follows - .
The honorable Secretary freely admit
ted that he felt perhaps more sensibly
than others the Importance of avoiding
misapprehensions in public affairs, be-
cause it devolved upon him to counterfeit
daily the effect abroad of publications
which often are not more inconsiderately
made than they are speedily corrected at
home.
The armies of the Government, which
are strong as they are brave, need rein
forcements, and the world needs TO know
that they are promptly coming in re-
Spouse to the call of the Government =
Every rumor of division of counsels and
Of conflict among, or about Generals, ev-
cry private jealousy, and even the utter
ance of every private grief, tends to de-
feat these important objects.
The Secretary, therefore, felt fully au-
thorized and at liberty to say that he new
er exercised nor assumed power or a
duty in the progress of this war with
which he was not specially charged by
the President, and in the performance of
which he was not always in free commu-
nicaton with him. That neither to the
President nor to any other person has4he
ever expressed distrust of the President
or of any of his associates in the Govern
ment but, on the contrary, has uniformly
supported and defended them all. That
he has not been quick or willing to enter
tain complaints against any General,
whether Scott or Mcdowell, Fremont or
Mcclellan, or Halleck, or Grant, or Dix,
or Buell., or Sigel, or Shields, or Banks,
or Blenker, but has exerted his best en-
deavors to sustain them all, more when
! they encountered defeats than when they
achieved victories. That he has neither
introduced nor encouraged any test ques-
ton in the Cabinet concerning men or
measures-or even said, or thought of in
sisting on the appointment or approval or
rejection of any man, or the adoption or
rejection of any measure, as a condition
of adherence to the Administration, to the
war or to the cause of the country. He
has never seen any intemperance in de-
bate in the Cabinet, and has discouraged
it in public bodies and journals, equally,
whether it appeared in favor of his own
views or against them. That he never
proposed, or even thought of requiring
the removal or the overruling of the pro-
positions of any member of the Cabinet,
nor has he proposed or thought of resign
ing his own place in it--nor has ever one
word of unkindness or distrust passed be-
tween the President or any of his official
advisers and himself He is content, as
he hitherto has been, to remain where he
is, so long as this causeless and iniquitous
war continues, and so long as the chosen
Chief Magistrate of the country requires
it, even though his advice should be over
ruled, which happens very rarely, and
then in cases which his own judgment,
better informed, sometimes approves. At
| the same time, he would not, if he could,
for any reason prolong his stay in the
place he now holds one hour beyond the
time when the President should think it
wise to relieve him. And when he shall
retire from il, it will be with the deter
mination he has more than once hereto
fore expressed, under no circumstances
whatever, to be place-holder in the SER
vice of his country, even although, as he
most confidently expects, it shall emerge
Ioin its full strength and greatness from its
present troubles. He hopes no one of his
fellow-citizens thinks SO unkindly Of him
as to suppose that he would be content to
exercise power in a fraction Of it, If it
should consent to be divided" sas .sfec5