North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-07-26
President yohnson.s Inherited Cabinet.

President Johnson's Inherited Cabinet.
The following from the N. Y. World, SO
fully expresses our views, upon the reIative
position of the President and the Democratic
party. we are induced to copy it entire. We
ask for it a careful perusal:
| The country has practiced toward Mr..
johnson a more generous forbearance than
has been accorded to any other President
since WASHINGTON. This is less q tribute tc
the man, than patriotic impulse set in ac-
ton by the appalling circumstances of his
accession. Under that sudden shock the
country, for the first time, was alarmed for
the existence Of the government. The in
slant unanimity with which all parties stood
by the new President was protest against
assassination. against anarchy, against at
iempts to change the personnel Of the gov
ernment or tho politics of the country ex
cept by the republican methods of free dis
cussIon and regular elections. Nothing
more creditable has ever occurred in our his
DRY. But the danger which struck us all
with sudden dlsmay is past and hencelor-
ward President johnson, like every ruler of
q free people, must encounter the criticism
by which responsibility is enforced upon
public oflicer',
There has been, thus far, a disposition to
discriminate between President johnson and
his official advisers. These advisers we're
not Of his appointment, and it was presumed
that their stay in the c2bine: was a Temporal
ry, convenience. If he had intended to keep
them, it was assumed he would control
them and it was !mpossl Bile to believe that
the outrageous acts Of Secretary Stanton
were approved by any honest statesman
sworn to defend the Constitution. 1t was
easy to see how, in closing great war and
settling an enorm mass Of unfinished
business, the services of an officer familiar
with its details might be valuable, especially
rs the President had had no personal connec-
ton with the administration of the war;
ging, he could not afford to master the un-
wisely derails Of system that had served its
day and was falling into disuse. Shockingly
as Stanton had violated the Constitution. it
was not difficult to discover plausible easons
for his temporary retent tion, but Mr.. John
son is in his fourth month; and, or ought
that appears, the cabinet is as firmly Gated
under him as under his predecessor that ap
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much longer consent to distinguish between
the acts of the administration and the acts
of its responsible chief If the most conspc-
uous and offensive heads of departments are
to 90 with Mr.. johnson through his term, or
through any large and considerable part Of
it the country is justified in concluding that
he keeps them because he approves of their
conduct that their acts are his acts; and
that he ought to DO held responsible for their
usurpations.
The country will come reluctantly to this
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shaken, it will, for long while, hope against
hope. But certain it is, that this people,
Graded in liberty, will stand by no man who
.bandons the principles Of the Constitution
The subord.Bation of the military to the civ
il power, government by law instead OF gov
ernment by arbitrary will, the hd6eas corpus
trial by jury, free speech, free press and
free elections, will be resolutely claimed -
and no man or party can stand who are faith
less to these guarantees. Great allowance
WINS made, during the war, for the Difficult
ties OF the situation but the plea of an over
ruling public necessity will no longer avail.
The people now demand that officers sworn
to support the Constitution shall keep their
oaths. They will give Their confidence to no
public officer who is deliberately recreant TO
republican principles OF government
One one great subject President johnson
satisfies the just expectations of the country .
If he stands by his recognition eff state rights
in the reul eanizatiou Of the state govern
mcnts, the people will support HIM till thrt
battle is won, But the other great question
Of the supremacy of the law is too urgent TO
be much longer adjourned and, considering
how the law has been trampled under foot
detied, and spit upon, even since Mr.. john
some accession, we can see no other suitable
atonement than a removal of the offending
members Of the cabinet, and Hing their
places with honest, law-ahiding citizens.
GS The following is one of the resolu
tions of the platform adopted by the Conven