Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-13
The Johnson Stanton ImbrOgIiO-New
Complications in the Cabinet.

New YORK, August 1.-THE Herald's
Washington special says: am informed
tonight that one cause of the delay on the
part of the President in removing Mr..
Stanton, is a disagreement among his
Cabinet members as to the propriety of the
step. You will remember / telegraphed
last week that Messrs. Seward and Weed
were opposed to the removal of Mr.. Stan
ton, and l have reason to believe the
statement was correct. 1t is said Mr..
Seward has taken SO decided a stand in the
matter as to have occasioned bad feeling
in the Presidents breast. Mr. Seward all
along has been the adviser of the Cabinet :;
he has enjoyed the confidence of his
master, and has had nearly everything his
own way in the matter of appointments.
The delays and cancellations that have so
often disguised the friends of the President
are supposed to have been the result of Mr..
Stewards unwise counsels. Mr.. johnson
now perhaps sees his mistakes and is
anxious, even at the eleventh hour. TO
remedy them by something like
decision of character and prompt-
ness of action. 1t is said he has re-
solved to request Mr.. Seward to re-
sign, in a note of somewhat equal politeness
and brevity TO that delivered to Mr..
Stanton. Should this be true, and do not
| pretend it is, for / cannot make the state
ment on authority, it is believed that Mr..
Adams will be called from England and
offered the port folio of Secretary of State
| 1t is stated moreover, that Mr.. Randall and
Mr.. McCulloch are not to be depended up
on in their fidelity to Mr.. Johnson's policy.
| The people say the former contemplates re-
signing at an early day, and that he de-
sires to do something that will enable him
to regain the confidence of his party. AS
to Mr.. MeCulloch there are many rumors,
one being that the President believes that
| his Secretary of the Treasury has brought
| discredit on the Administration by appoint.
| ing improper men to office, and that his
management of the national fund has not
been all that was expected of him. The
! rumor as to the difficulty between the
President and Mr.. McCulloch places mat
| tiers at such an extreme point as TO name
| as a probable successor the person OF
! Moses Taylor of New York 1t has been
stated here on very good authority that
| one of the reasons which aetuated Mr.
Stanton when he refused to resign at the
| Presidents request is that he has received
information of scheme which it is said is
on foot for arming military organizations
in the late insurrectionary States, whose
ultimate object is another assault upon the
| government, and he has determined to re-
main at his post to thwart their designs
1t is further said that one of the causes oil
the late rupture between the President and
Secretary of War was the refusal of Score.
tary Stanton to assign to militia company
of Maryland, composed nearly of Rebel
officers and soldiers, battery of light guns
for which they had applied. The President
is said to have directed him to furnish the
battery, but Mr.. Stanton declined and still
refuses to do so.
The Tribune's New Orleans special says
| President johnson has rendered TO General
Steedman the position of Secretary of War
General Steedman left Saturday night fol
Washington.
1t is said Postmaster Randall is anxious
to leave the Cabinet and that he will soon
/ tender is resignation.