The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-07
Montgomery Blair in the Cabinet

| WASHINGTON, Oct 2S.-The great Loyal
League Club of Philadelphia recently cleo
ted the President and his Cabinet officers,
honorary members of their organization.
| in the general vote electing all-there are
| few reasons why he should ever be remem-
| bered-but when the Secretary of the Club,
Geo. H. Boxer, patriot as well as poet, came
| to forward the certificates of honorary mem
bership, he fatty refused to sign one for
Mr.. Montgomery Blair.
| A prominent Philadelphia Congressman,
| in a private Eote to the President on the
subject, said "Mr. Boxer refuses land the
League as one man back him in it, to allow
any considerations of courtesy to induce
| him to give passport to the Club House
ofloyal Philadelphians to the author Of the
| Rockville MD speech. He is no fit asso-
ciate for such loyal men as this great city
| produces
| The course of the Philadelphia League is
but an illustration of the universal feeling
among real friends of the Administration.
After the Pennsylvania election there was
a more striking illustration at the White
House itself. A leading politician of that
State-I know no reason why I should not
give his his name-it was Col. Forney-had
an interview with the President concern
ing the campaign just closed, at which Mr..
| Montgomery Blair was present. After
complaining of the miserable spectacle Of a
| member of the Administration making a
| carefully elaborated anti-Administration
speech on the eve of vitality important cleo
| tons in several States, he turned sharply
on Mr.. Blair and exclaimed: YES, sir, if
you had made that speech thirty days ear
| lier, yoM uould hare lost as the election an
| Pennsylvania "WeIl," interposed the
Cabinet officer, "they were my honest con-
victions, and l couldn't express anything
else 'What business have you remain
irrr in, hn Tahi nd loo iocr nc
down with the weight of your convictions
| against the policy of the Administration
YOU belong tO?' The President was 81
| lent-I wish could hopefully say an edifi-
ed-spectator of the singular scence.
1t need not be added that ninety-nine out
every hundred Administration men who
have watched Mr.. Blair's course heartily
indorse what Col. Forney said, and thank
him for saying it. Governor Curtin has
! publicly stated since the election, that Mr..
Blair's demonstration against the bulk of
| the Administration party, if only made a
few days earlier, would have cost him at
the very lowest figure twenty thousand
| votes; and that as it was it proved one Of
the most efficient causes in keeping the
Union majority so low. Judge Kelly is
more emphatic still in the expression of a
similar opinion.
But fireplace to get the heartiest appreci-
alton of MIR. Blair's strange course is Balt-
more. 1ueE KNOW tueFe GEat he mas zone
everything in his power to defeat Winter
Davis, and to procure the candidacy and
election of some milk and water gentleman
who think the Alpha. and Omega of patriot
ism consists in the abuse OF Abolitionists.
The other day Mr. Blair went over to Balti-
more; and the Unconditional Union men
assert that it was for no otherpurpose than,
at this late hour, to induce MI. Sawn, or, if
possible, some one less radical than he to
come out against Davis. An effort of this
sort from a member OF the Cabinet is sim
ply an attempt to stab the Administration
party OF Maryland in the house of its
friends, and by the hand of one who should
| be its warmest supporter.
And yet this man retains a seat in the
Cabinet of Mr.. Lincoln, and his brother,
acting throughout in unison with him is
made the pet candidate OF such papers as
the New York Herald, for the Speakership
of the next House-to be elected by a COM
bination Of all the Coppe-heads and al the
Border State men.
But it is not true that Mr.. Blair speaks
in any sense as the mouth piece OF the
President. I happen to know that Mr..
Lincoln not only had not read the Rock
vile speech, but really had no idea ofits
nature till weeks after its delivery, when
indignant friends forced it upon his atten-
tion.-Cor. Gin. Gazette.
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