Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-18
Changes and DIssensiOns In the
Cabinet.

Changes and DIssensiOns In the
Cabinet.
The Journal of this city has correspondent
at Washington, who writes letters TO II over
the signature Of " Norman" The Journal
should keep him better posted than he appears
TO be, or he will show that he lie as Ignorant as
the contrabands who, he says, are still docking
into the Federal Capital, He accuses Demo
Gratis of originating and circulating reports
about changes and dissensions in the Cabinet
Now all such rumors that we have seen or no.
,iced, were originated by such Abolition Wash
| ineton special correspondents as this "Norman,'
and published in such Abolition sheets as the
State Journal The Cincinnati Gazette and
Commercial have for weeks past been publish
ing almos. daily special dispatches from
Washington, stating that such and such changes
were likely to be made in the Cabinet, and say
ing how its members probably stood in regard
to certain important questions. All the in-
formation the public have on such topics mas
been almost wholly derived from Abolition
sources-principally from the leading daily pa
pers of that stripe in Cincinnati and New
York.
"Norman" charges the Democratic papers
which, in his Abolition Disunion frenzy ne
STYLES "the secession reasonable press OF the
North" having "copperhead Instincts" with
os.entatiously announcing that CALEb b SMITH
Secretary of the Interior, had concluded 10 &C
cept Judgeship, and vacate his present posi-
tion, and even canvassing "the merits OF the
men who are named ss his successor" There
have been various contradictiDg rumors circu-
Iatng through the papers as to Secretary Smiths
retirement from the Cabinet and acceptance OF
a u. s. Judgeship, and also speculations as to
who would be his successor in the Cabinet; but
nearly all such rumors and speculations have
come to US and the public through the specials
and letter writers of the Abolition press. In
the Cincinnati papers, the Gazette and CONNER
eial, particular prominence has been given to
this case Of Secretary SMITH. Besides, the
same papers have named other Cabinet officers
who might probably soon retire, and have stated
the names Of their probable successors.
The same Abolition organs have originated
and put in circulation the reports about dis
sensions In the Cabinet, indicating how the
President and his advisers were divided on GER
tain questions, as for instance on the Issuing
of the Emancipation Proclamation, when II was
said the Cabinet exclusive Of the President
was equally divided--tbree being for and three
against it--the President deciding flally In its
favor. This is specimen of what Abolition
special reporters and editors have been in the
habit of daily promulgatiDg about dissensions
in the Cabinet, and IL these reports are lies,
then these reporters and editors are the fathers
of them.
The Journals sapient correspondent charges
the Democratic press with attacking individual
members of the Cabinet. II Democratic papers
desired to depreciste any one man in the Cabi-
net, they need only look to Abolition sheets.
like the Journal Of this city, and its Cincin
natl coadjutors, 10 fnd plenty Of MATERIAL
The Abolitonists suffer no member Of the Ad-
ministration to escape their fangs, not even the
President himself. They abused him before
he issued his Abolition Proclamation because
he had not issued IL, and since its issue, they
have abused him because he did not at once
and Internationally declare all negroes forever
free.
We have in the same number of the Journal
in which the Washington letter adverted to ap-
pears, without editorial comments, an article
from HENRY WARD BEKoHER's Independent, con-
tanning O severe attack on Secretary SEwARD,
which, had it appeared in Democratic paper,
would have been denounced malignant and
reasonable
BEEcHKR describes SEwARD as an "optimist.
not without sagacity in merely Intellectual
problems, but foolish in affairs;" as "wise In
idNas and foolish in ihings," and as "at once
the zsalos and eo,oard Of the Administration"
These are but samples of the Trades that the
Abolition press is daily giving birth TO and
putting In circulation on Secretary SEwADRD
and other members Of the Cabinet, not sparing
even "Fsther Abraham" himself. They first
make and publish these attacks, and then charge
Democrats with originating and circulating
them, and call them secessionists and traitors
for doing 90. If attacks on the Administration
Of the most virulent character, often made un-
der the hypocriiical disguise Of a pretended
frisndship, make their authors and promulga
tors secessionisss and traitors, then are the
Abollionists secessicuiats and traitors Of the
darkest shade.