Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-08-15
UNIOs COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
Suspension of Secretary stanton.

Suspension of Secretary Stanton.
In view OF the recent difficulties be-
tween the Executive and the head of the
War Department, the country was In no
manner surprised on Monday night when
the telegraph wire flashed the news'across
the continent that MIR. Stanton had been
suspended by the President from the
exercise of his functions as Secretary of
War. 1t was not unexpected and there
fore not surprising unexpected, as
the people have lost all confidence in
johnson and know that no obstacle is
too great for him to surmount, that his
views upon the great questions which
are agitating the country may be con-
sidered as paramount to the sovereign
laws of the land, and accepted by the
people as such therefore, the intelli-
gence that Secretary Stanton had been
forced out of the Cabinet, was not sur
prising in view of the manly stand he
has ever taken regarding the enforce
ment of the laws of Congress respecting
the reconstruction and restoration Of the
lately rebellious States to the Union, in
opposition to the father of my policy
and the bread and butter members ofhis
Cabinet.
The order suspending Mr.. Stanton was
issued on Monday afternoon, coupled
with an order rendering the portfolio Of
the War Department to Gen. U. S. Grant,
who accepted the same temporarily, or
until such time as the President will
appoint a permanent successor to the
deposed Secretary, and not until such
acceptance did Mr.. Stanton surrender
his position, and then only under pro-
test, yielding to q superior power, be-
lieving, as does many of the most emf
nent lawyers in our land, that under the
provisions OF the tenure of Office law the
President has no right to suspend a
Federal officer without the advice and
consent of the Senate.
The President has removed Mr.. Stan
ton, not for any malfeasance in office or
inability to perform the duties pertain
ing thereto, but simply, as he says, that
his cabinet may be a unit upon national
affairs. And unit for what2 For the
purpose of resisting the execution of the
laws of Congress for opposing and
hindering reconstruction South and for
placing ex-rebels in office in the South
ern States, that they may construe the
laws of the nation to suit themselves
and their traitorous sentiments in short
that rebellion and treason against the
general government may be cherished
and nurtured, and to afford another OPP
portunity TO deluge the country with
blood, in support of "the lost cause. j."
Bat Mr.. Stanton's successor ad interim is
no disciple of Johnson's; nor does he
entertain any of the Great Director
views upon national questions; and
were it not for the base purposes which
prompted the removal of the Secretary OF
War, the people would undoubtedly feel
as secure as before, so long at least as
o6u6TdI uGduI huullulsLtEtu bu0 dU1ll :
of the War Department, as that gentle
man entertains the same views as did
the ex-Secretary, and will prove equally
rs great a thorn in the side of the ad.
ministration. But 1t is the purpose fol
which Mr.. Stanton was removed that in.
ceuses the people, as they consider it vir
tually an overthrow of their own senti
ments in the Cabinet. The late head o.
the War Department entertained pre-
cisely such sentiments upon nationa
questions as they do, and they will with
out doubt demand of their servants, thu
Congress of the United States, by increas
ed majorities at the ballot box in the fal
elections, that just rebuke be admins
tered to this trampler of their rights, a
the pext session of Congress, by rein
stating Secretary Stanton, or refusing t.
confirm any successor TO him that tn
President may appoint.
Gen. Rousseau was in conference will
the Russian commissioner at Washing
ton Mopdav with reference tn the trans