The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-07-28
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which President Johnson is incumber.
ed are great enough, as it Is, to appal
the heart of the stoutest man, but with
out the support ofthe eminent and con
s~ervative statesmen. ] have mention
ed, they would be utterly eyerwhelm--
ing. These men have somewhat stay
ed the tide of Radical persecution, by
which it has been sought to bear down
every great eXertion Of the President
made in behalf of the bleeding country.
And the Northern Democracy, l am
proud to know, fully appreciate the la
bors of Seward, Cowan, Doolittie, Nor
ton, and Randall, and are ready to be-
stow the hcartiest confidence upon them
BY their manly and PATRIOTS e%xertions,
the efforts of the Radical leaders to
keep the Republican organization in
tact and under their control have been
roiled to so great an extent as to in
SIRE already a Conservative triumph
next fall in the States of Pennsylvania,
and Ohio, without which the future OF
the country will be dark and perllous
beyond description.
1t cannot be definitely asserted what
purpose the Radicals expect to con-
summate here by p%rolonging the pres
ent session Of Congress, but the coun-
try need not be startled at any acts OF
revolutionary daring on their part.
It is put beyond doubt that every
Radical in the Cabinet will resign his
seat at an early date. Notone of them
lis fit for the office they hold.
Mr., Speed, of your State, is univer-
sally regarded here as an exceedingly
p'uny specimen Of Il Kentuckian. l
predict that he will soon be in your
midst-to stay, and that, too, in unen-
viable obscurity. President johnson
is unalterably determined to have the
united support of his constitutional adj
visers. Governor Randall, hitherto
the Assistant Postmaster General, has
been selected as the successor OF Den
nison as Postmaster General, and this
selection is in every respect an admira-
bic nj Browning, Of Illinois, will in
all probability succeed Harlan in the
Interior Department the learned Judge
Stanberry will take the place of Speed,
and it is currently reported that Gen.
Steedman will be called to the office OF
Secretary Of War. With these substi-
tutions in President Johnson's Cabi-
net, the Chief Magistrate will have
around him as able a body of constitu-
tional advisers as has marked any 9th
er previous Administration of the Gov
ernnent. And these changes in the
Cabinet, which should have occurred
long since, will greatly strengthen the
popularity Of Andrew johnson through
out the Northern States, facilitating the
di~sintegration Of the so-callcd "Union"
party, and increasing the confidence of
the Democracy in the future conduct
of the President.
The friends and o~riginators of the
approaching National Convention at
Philadelphia are the most earnest men
| ever saw, and they have already such
information from every State of the
Union as to warrant me in saying that
that body will constitute one of the
most enlightened and remarkable as
semblages known in our history since
the Convention which framed the Con
stitution itself. The Radicals here dali
ly evince their alarm at the prospect.
| predict that the Convention will be
distinguished by the most patriotic de-
liberations, resulting in vast good to
the common country.
The Congress, l think, will adjourn
about the 1st Of August, when the ma
ton will breathe more freely than it has
for seven months past. The adjourn
ment of Congress will be followed, |
venture to say, by the rapid decapita-
ton of many an anxious postmaster,
assessor and collector of internal rev.
nue.. OCCASIONAL.