The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-16
Cabinet Changes.

Cabinet Changes,
From Ge Tribune.
The call by the Randall boilers of convention
TO reorganize amp nationaze the Union party
has already achieved a success only paralleled
by the colored gentleman's experience in coon
hunting. 81 chased the coon up a tree" he
narrated to sympathizing friend, land fol.
lowed him away out on a limb, and shook, and
shook, until by-and-by heard something drop
and what do you think was, Sambo? ?" why,
the coon, of course /" mo, it want the coon
it was this-nigger." so the call of johnson
Convention has served the Johnson party.
How men of fprofessed Republican convictions
could remain in Mr.. Johnson's Cabinet after
hearing or reading his 22d of February speech
we have not been able TO comprehend; and the
mystery still remains unsolved. Most certainly,
the author OF hat speech can never have ex-
pected or purposed to act thereafter with the
great body OF those whose votes made him Vice
President. John Tyler never assalled the Wings
80 unspar1ngly, so truculently, as that speech
assailed the Republicans.
Stl, "while there is life, there's hopes" and
we can realize that Cabinet Minister may have
clung to the least glimmering of possibility that
his chief did not really mean, after all to desert
and Gf possble) destroy the party which elected
him. But the Randall bolt admits OF but one
explanation. Had its projectors been deceived
had they even hoped TO carry with them the
mass of the Union party-they would have
called Convention OF that party, and trusted
to official patronage and manipulation for its
control They so shaped their call as to let in
the supporters of Mcclellan and Davis, and
keep out nearly all who voted for Lincoln and
johnson, because they kneU that TO let in the
latter would insure their own extinction.
sanguine men; but whatever their hopes
may be- they do not expect to realize
them through the power of the Union party of
1864. They made a square issue bet their
hni anIr r1tip tknr
called Convention, whence al who mean to
act bencelorth with the Lincoln Unionists are
pointedly excluded. Hence the Cabinet dsso-
luton, precluding other disruptions.
As to Mr. Harlan, we believe his seat has been
al Mr.. Johnson's disposal for months. No one
expected him to hold it long; and it would have
seemed ungracIous, If not positively discour-
teous, had he insisted on retiring at once though
the President had not yet selected his successor.
No one in or out OF the Government was left in
doubt as to his thorough, active sympathy with
the champions OF impartial freedom, by whom
he was recently reelected a Senator of the
United States Tor six years from the 4th OF
March next.
Messrs. DenisoR and Speed have been more
reticent; but their abiding sympathies with the
Union party have been concealed from none
who intelligently sought to know the truth.
expecting in due time TO go out they might
have still longer awaited the Presidents conye.
nience as to the time of their retirement, but
tor the Randall bolt. call to define posi-.
tions sometimes affords opportunity for improv-
ing them.
Mr.. Stanton was formerly considered the
radical par excellence OF the Cabinet. OF late he
Is understood to have been brought to realize
that great practical difficulties beset their way
to all rights Tor alas il such difficulties did
not confront every attempt to right great
public wrong. We do not as yet know whether
MIR. Stanton will go; yet there is Just one place
wherein he cannot stay il he would, and that is
the Cabinet, after the sham Democracy chall
have openly resumed the reins of power. That
party is prepared to do and forbear much in its
eager quest of office and its incidents: but we
Judge the acceptance of Mr.. Stanton as one of
its chiefs would overtaX even it's appetite for
''sPoils." Mr.. Stanton may be willing to remain;
but II the sham Democracy is TO be fully recon.
Ciled to the support of Mr.. Johnson's Admins
tration, he will have to 90.
Whatever may be still contingent, it is no
longer doubtful that he who adheres to the Ran
dall-Niblack movement terminates thereby his
connection, If connection he ever had, with the
Linooln-Union party. The ideas and aims of
the two are so widely diverse that it were mad
ness to seek their reconciliation. The Conven.
tion that meets in Philadelphia under the Ran
dali call will be essentially Copperhead Con-
Ventlon; its chief end will be the reestablish-
ment of the shaken power of caste and negro
hate throughout our country. He who goes
into itmust not plead, if driven or kicked out
that he did not fairly comprehend it..