The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-03-14
CHANGE IN THE GARNET

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Tho rumor of change in the Cabinet hal
been generally circulated, and very recently
it has been asserted that not onlyai Mr.
STANTON leave the Department of War, bu
that his successor has actually beeA deter
mined on. There is, in reference 10 this
whole matter, however, mystery, which the
most astuts have not yet been able shlly to
penetrate. There is reason to believe that
Mr.. STATION, Mr.. HARLAN, and Mr.. speed
are opposed to the policy Of the Pr{adent
and, to some extent, have been aotivah + ooun.
teracting it; and why they are not permitted
to resign, or why not removed, is a question
which no one as yet has been able satisfac.
torily to answer. The most probabldsuppo.
sition is that the Radical party desite them
to continue, and that the President hasreason
to apprehend, from the present tempet of the
Senate, that, removed, those appointed to
succeed them would not be confirmed This
policy of refusing to confirm appointments by
the President, pending the present ccdtrover-
sy, though not yet acted on, 80 far as Eve are
advised, is clearly indicated; and .as ap-
pointees cannot enter on their Offices, 70 long
as the Senate is in session, without cohfrma-
ton, it is even supposed that, to continue the
rigor of this discipline upon the President,
the Senate will net adjourn, and; Tall not
allow to the Government the services 8f any
officer who may not be agreeable to tbam.
This policy will be especially efficient with
respect to the Cabinet. 1t is understood that
these officers hold on until their successors
are confirmed, and, by refusing to- confirm
successors, therefore, the Senate can:retain,
as members of the Cabinet, men who may be
personally and politically offensive to the
Executive; and, for the reason that they are
SO offensive, it is probable, in the present
state Of feeling, the Senate will 1ce only the
more especially inclined to exercise that
power.
It is becoming obvious, from our expert
snce. that there is o necessity for a'less arti6-
cial government. There must, OF necessity
be the flexibility to conform to changing cir
cumstances. The Government must be able,
when exigenoies arise, to go before the peo-
c1a. L. 4......u. ana,- -perpetua11y, it will not,
suffer itself to be overruled and defeated by q
Congress that does not represent the public
sentiment of the country The Executive
cannot continually act with advisers who do
not concur in its policy As the Confederacy
becomes Republic, and centralization be-
comes perfect, the Government must be ad
mitted to the conditions by which this power
is to be exercised In one form or other,
that central directory, be it the President, or
be it Congress, must be individual and su-
preme; and it is not possible that artificial
forms, by which coordinate branches of the
Government may veto and neutralize the ac
tions of each other, can be permitted Ito con-
tinue.
1t is possible that that imperial authority
may yet result to Congress; that if we ever
pass the present crisis in our fortunes without
q despotism, the Parliament may come to be
here as it is in England, tho paramount au-
shortly, apd that even the Government must
fall before q majority of that body. But be-
fore that Congress can attain to such position
Of majesty and power, it must be effected by
some condition which will render it more cer-
tainly the exponent of public sentiment TO
the Judgment of Congress called directly
from the people to the arbitramspt of great
questions, the President might properly bow
But before he can be called upon to bow to
Congress, he must be able to regard it as the
embodiment Of the public win; he must be
able to call from the people the special rep
resentatives Of their opinion; and, by some
process, this Aexibility to public sentiment
must be acquired, or the Government, through
some one of its Departments, must break the
forms around it, and grasp the sceptre OF i'm
psrial power.
RENTS.
There is. perhaps, no subject of more gen.