Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-27
me 0mctsI ExecutIoner.

JOHN +. HURLBUT,
Dsts5 Cleveland, April 81, go. U. s. Assessor
n OmcfaI ExecutIoner
President johnson has already begun
TO carry out his long threatened purpose
of removing from Office all Union men
who remain true to the principles Of the
Union party, and of filing their places
with the swarm of political rensgades
who have been base enough to be bribed
into initiating his t~reaehery. We have
from time to time chronicled the removal
from Office Of various appointees of Mr..
Lincoln, whom Mr.. Lineoln's Vice Presi-
dent Is thus arrogsntiy beheading because
they are faithful to the principles Of the
prrty. We have now a new budget Of
removals and appointments, which indi-
cate that the Presidential guillotine is in
excellant running order.
The first on the list is the appointment
of General Sam. Gary, of Cincinnati, to
the CoIlector-ship of the Second Ohio Dis
triet, in place of R. NJ W. Taylor, Esq
removed. General Gary is al old tenn
perancs orator and n ofics-seeker oflong
standing. It is understood that since the
prospect Of a Collector-ship opened before
him he has suddenly become fully con-
WINGED of the complete and perfect wis
dom of amy policy" Nh. Taylor, who
has been removed TO make room for this
militia General (Mr. Cary, We believe,
s.F.vsr set a squadron In the field,
Nor the division ofa battle knows
Morn than g splnstsr."1
is an excellent business maH, and thsre is
no possible reason for his removal except
his sympathy with the Union party. Both
the Commercial and GGsstte condemn hit
removal. 1t Is understood that the ap-
pointnsnt Of General Cary is the price
paid for Hon. T. E. Stilwell, member of
Congress from Indiana, who is a brother
in-law of Gary, and who has recently been
converted to the johnson party.
Colsnel Grose, another militia officer,
has been appointed Collector Of Internal
Revenue in the Fifth Indiana District,
vioe the present incumbent, removed for
radicalism. 1t is understood that this
appointment also was suggested by Mr..
Stilwsl.
Beside these Western changes, I'VE
have a new batch Of removals in Penn
s~ylvania, where Senator Oowan, who has
been twice requested to resign by the
Urionists of PennsylvaniA still rules the
roost, and is ~revenging himself on his
party by removing its members from
Offices. The postmaster Of Pittsburgh,
Mr.. Won Bonnhurst, a strong Union man,
has had his head taken of "smick, smack,
smooth" and & gentleman bearing the
shiTAlric name of Wade Hampton-a dis
tant relative of the South Carolina
traitor-steps into his shoes. j. P.
Hilrich, another creature of Mr.. Cowan's
is the new Collector of Internal Revenue
in the 18th Pennsylvania district. His
appointment was urged by William b.
Hutler, editor of the vilest Cop
perhead journal In Pennsylvania,
and Hilrich himself is a editor
and is using his influence to build
up athird party in Pennsylvania, for the
purpose Of defeating General Geary, and
throwing the election into the hands ofthe
Copperhead nominee, Hester Clymer.
Another new ofice-bolder in Pennsyl-
ysnia-a District Assessor = voted for
Mcclellan and Psndleton in 1854. An
other new appointee to a clerk-ship in the
Treasury Department at Washington,
named hammond, swOre in 1851 that
he would wade in blood before he would
zee Abraham Lincoln in~augursted, and
was subsequently dismissed from the
Interior department on the ground of dis
loyalty.
The facts to which We have briefly
adverted are samples Of the Presidents
skin Is an eK~ecutioner. We have plenty
Of evidence that he means to keep his axe
busy. and that the heads Of radical
ofboe holders will hsncaforth drop
as thickly as leaves in V~allombrosa. A
Washington dispatch to the Cincinnati
Commercial says that on Tuesday the
President informed a prominent Pennsyl-
vAnia Congressman, who had called upon
him to protest against the recent and pro-
posed dscapitation Of. o~fice-holders in
that state, that he intended to remove
every Federal o~fhce-holder who did not
support his policy. We fancy, therefore,
that the guillotine may soon be looked for
in Cleveland The postmaster-editor of
the Herald may perhaps congratulate
that he is safe, but the heads Of
District Attorney, Assessor, Collector, and
the rest viii, we fear, soon be lying in the
together. We rejoice, however,
10 believe that there are men among the
Federal ofRce-holders of this city who
would rather abandon their offices at once
than bow 10 Executive usurpation, or bate
one lot Of their devotion to Union and
Liberty.