Litchfield enquirer., 1864-08-18
Secretary Stanton and "The COur. .l' t,' . ant.''

$*f We do not understand the Couranss habit 1al carping at Secretary STANTON. The fol- lowing extraordinary paragraph appeared in its issue of 1Thursday last, one of series of late, which we have regretted to see: Yesterday it was reported that Secretary Seward, Blair and Welles had resigned; also that Stanton had resigned. There is no truth m either of the stories. The country general yis satisfied with the three members named aarst. Stanton is waiting to be kicked out. He IS extremely odious to the people, who would nail his dismissal as the harbinger of better ! uays. NO one expects him to resign, unless
 4s' the country generally satisfied with the three members named first? Didn't the 9th res olution of the Baltimore Convention point tole. raely explicitly toward at least one of those named. and demand general revision of the Cabinet; and was this revision understood to include Secretary Stautoni Zs the country al together pleased with Stewards diplomacy, or Blairs hetoric. lat Rockville, for instauce,) or Welles' seamanship? r. ..
 Upon the other hand, is Secretary STANTON 50 extremely odious to the people" that they would hail his dismissal as the hamburger of better dsysf" We imagine not. It is the opinion of those best acquainted with affairs in Washington that Secretary Stanton is the very head and front of the Administrations that Secretary Chase has resigned. The New York Times. supposed to be in the highest confidence of the Executive, speaks of him on Thursday last in terms of warmest oulogy. We know of certain Union men, who have been disappointed in their ability to manipulate him with regard to certain appointments to office within his department, who do not like him i; we believe that the admirers of the Little Ma po'eon do not altogether love him we know Chat copperhead partizaus and papers teem with abuse of him; but we presume that ute people" who have been able to form just es- tlnate of what Secretary Stanton has done and whst he is doing for the organization and re- efuseing of the national armies who have wit. nesssd his marvellous success in bringing order out of confusion and ipurity out of corruption, and success ont of disaster; who have known ef his untiring energy and his unfailing and selfsacsi6cing devotion to his duty-tAe people are not disappointed in him, and would re- eeive his resignation or removal from the Cabinet, at this time, with feelings of the most profound regret, and would regard it as pub. No calamity. >.
 :, Fhe Courans and we are equally streu- [ aous that the present Administration should De retained in power until the war is closed up and the rebellion wiped out from the face of the country but can we go to the peo. pie wish the name of ABRAHAM LINCOLN at our masthead and in tho very same breath demand that ons of his cabinet ministers, ,-that one, too, whom, it is to be presumed. the President most sigually looks to and trusts to aid him in the suppression of the rebellion-.-the minister at the head of the war department shall be 'gnominiously kicked out? We believe the profession of faith in the Administration to be incompatible with suck frequent slurs and sur Y sneers and growls. We submit that such expressions of ill-feeling and ill.wAl are in bad taste to say the least, and we regret their inex. plicabfs appearance in a journal in whose ut ssrances we hase generally SO much respect and confidence.