Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-26
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the prince Of romanceFs. All improbable,
and extravagant stories have been
referred to him, just as 10, Miller has been
made responsible for all the jokes and wit
good, bad, and Indifferent, of the
present century. But the distinguished
Baron has western and model rivals, before
whom he must 'pale his intellectual fires"
His occupation is gone. Those Dromios
of the daily Democratic press, the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer and the Cincinnati En-
qairer have assumed it, and their recent
efforts as far excel Munchausen as Mum
chausen surpasses all common liars.
The latest illustration of the powers of
these papers is afforded by a story which
appeared in the Enquirer of Monday
morning, and the Plain Dealer of Monday
afternoon. Both these papers, with sin
gular and significant unanimity,
that the Cabinet of President johnson
will soon be radically reconstructed. OF
course it is by no means. remarkable that
papers so enthusiastic in the support of
the President, and SO intimately in his
confidence, should receive exclusive infor-
nation of this fact, or that they alone
should be Informed as to the names of the
new Secretaries. Their efore we are not at
all surprised to find the whole Presiden-
tial programme accommodatingly laid
before us by the genial scribes of the En-
qpirer and Plain Dealer. According to
the former sheet-we quote first from it
as least startliRg-the gentleman selected
for the position of Secretary of War, is
no less a person than the Democratic nom
inee for President in 1864, and the man
who subsequently predicted the annihila-
ton of Sherman in his march through
Georgia. A splendid successor, he, to
Edwin NJ. Stanton ! Tom. Florence, of
Philadelphia, a copperhead of the most
malignant type, is the favored man who
will relieve Mr.. Welles of the navy port
folio while Montgomery Blair, according
to our veracious authority, will resume
control Of the postal department.
This is well enough for a beginning, but
the northern rival of the Enquirer, the
Plain Dealer, so far outstrips it that we
forget the first roorback in wandering
over the magnificent proportions of the
second. The Plain Dealer corroborates
the story as far as it relates to Mcclellan
and Florence, but assigns Blair to the In
terror Department, and promotes Charlie;
Reemelin, the most virulent Copperhead
after Vallandigham, in Ohio, to the Post
Master General ship. Horatio Seymour
EG) and Charles OConor On are suggested
for Secretary of State and Attorney Gen.
eral, while it is uncertain whether Robert
J. Walker or James Guthrie shall oust
McCulloch from the Treasury building.
We have but one objection to this Dem.
%ocratic programme. 1t is sectional, Will,
that great partyof the past and the future
and all lenses but the present, is eminently
national. Worseth than this, it is Northern
while under the "Union as it was" thu
latest offices, and the richest stealing
were at the disposal of the South. How
easily all this might have been mended
How easily, for example, nigh
Jefferson Davis have been assigned
to the Secretary-ship of State Wade
Hampton or Lee would do excellenr
welln for Secretary of War, and wouldn't
Admiral Raphael Semmes, or that gallant
relic of rebellion who sails the Shenan.
doah, make an indispensable Secretary o.
the Navy? Judah P. Benja4i4ih-ree4db,
the ideal Attorney General in the eyes of {
Northern Copperhead. This arrange
ment, with Captain Wirz in some snug
sinecure, and Breckenridge or BeauregarG
in Grants shoes, would perhaps satisfy
sour Southern brethren and Seymour
0Conor, Vallandigham, & Co., might fl
the background of this cabinet picture
This arrangement of the slate would BE-
Just about as probable and practicable a
the other, and we wonder that our ambi.
tious cotemporaries did not make it.