Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-08-23
so THEY GO.

the inteth9encer of this morning, in an elao.
orate article filed with virulent abuse OF Sec.
Rotary Stanton, urges the removal of the Sec
Rotary OF state, whose offence. according to
that journal, has been persistent effsrts 70 in.
duce the President to turn q deaf ear to the
counsels OF those who advised Mr.. Stanton's
displacement The election of Secretaries
Seward and McCulloch aud Postmaster Gen.
eral Randall from the Cabinet, which Is now
being strenuously urged upon the President,
will be but fitting sequel OF his foolish act in
removing the Secretary of War. None were
more faithful to the Union cause throughout
the war Their war antecedents render them
disagreeable neighbors to those who have OF
late achieved the direction of the Presidents
action, who aim TO place his administration
wholly in the hands Of parties reliable to
carry out the views OF such statesmen a. Val.
landigham. Sharkey ana Jack Rogers. The
President is evidently nothing 10th to venture
the experiment Of the sweeping change which
the reactionists propose to him. We believe
that within week or two the efforts Of
the latter to compass their removal will
become SO offensive as to compel those
gentlemen to resign. The question is, will
they remain in the Cabinet with the President
wholly in the hands Of the leaders Of the rebel
lion from the South, and equally traitorous
Nobtuc1u meu-tuOSc VINO lett no stone I'M
turned TO make the rebellion q success. 1t is
fitting that they should wash their hands OF
further responsibility for the President, and Of
completely with his policy. What thanks they
get for their personal sacrifices in standing by
Mr.. johnson up to tins time, are apparent in
the determination OF his outside council TO eff
1ect their eJectment from the Cabinet Thew
are being forced to choose between aiding the
President in the work of res torIng the South
wholly TO the dominion of the rebel leaders
and rebel ideas on the one hand, and vindicat-
Ing the integrity OF their devotion to the Union
cause as manifested during the war. We can.
hot believe that they will long hesitate Its
certain that Congress will promptly interpose
efficient barriers to the success of the schemes
of those who now guide the President. 1t
Is question OF days merely ere that
be accomplished. In its Accomplishment.
If they remain in the Cabinet undl
thea, they will be forced into private
life without the vindication that will
be Incident to their voluntary retirement
Congress is absolute master OF the situation
and will SO continue for two years longer at
least. In that time they can and will crush
to powder the Presidents new advisers and
their schemes. Who and what the latter are is
aptiy illustrated by the career OF the Iateuigen-
Ger since 1861. All remember how intensely
traicrous that Journal was throughout the
war, and how yehemently it has stood by the
cause of the rebellion and the fortunes of the
rebellion's engineers since Lees surrender. It's
course and tone are but the daguerreotype OF
the minds and purposes OF those who have
succeeded in debating the Presidents policy
since the called session of Congress. That is :,
IN making that neither more nor less than the
policy demanded by the arrogant rebel leaders
10 compass their own restoration to power In
the National Government, as well as through
out the South. Thousands who stood by the
Union cause throu ghout the war, lot realizing
the necessity for the apparently extreme meas
ures OF Congress- have, up to this time. upheld
the hand of the President in the work OF de-
feating those measures. They must now see
that they can have but two alternative7
VIZ: either to support the policy Of placing
the National Government and the affairs
OF the South in the keeping Of those who
believe the rebellion to have been q patriotic
act-a positive virtue deserving all praise: or
to support the policy which proclaiming the
rebellion to have been q great crime, aims to
insure that the South shall come back into the
Union with the engineers OF that crime di vested
Of power in the government here. as we'll as
without the possibility of being again absolute
dictators throughout the rebellious States
Few VINO were honest supporters Of the Union
cause throughout the war will now fail to per
csive the wisdom and patriotism of the recon.
struction legislation of Congress, or will hest
tate longer TO supportit.