The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-14
President johnson in tho Frcsent Crisio,

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A golden opportunity isrow before Presidep
johnson to make himself the undisputed maste
OF the political situation, and his administration
positive power IN the land. IT he has any plucl
any s~agacity, any clearness Of vision in perceiyin
the advantages Of his present position, he wi
readily understand what is required Of him t
account. The great Central States, through tn
voioes Of PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio, have spoken Of
ShlSTadlcai nHlmatum Of UNIVERSAL negro suffrag
and negro supremacy, and it has thus beccm
manifest to all eyes that we gre on the verge OF on
OF the greatest of revolutions in the annals Of on
political parties. Mr.. Johnson may now do mucl
or public opinion, and a complete reconstructed
OF his Cabinet is the first essential y -~--' r
msadfn eag 81 a new administration with an ole
cabinet, Mr.. johnson undertook a very difficult
task; but in attempting from time to time to adapt
this old cabinet to a new order Of things, by patch
ing. q patch here and a patch theye, it was Gloves
but so fruitful OF disasters that he may be thank
full it has not cost him his official head. But If,
in an official sense, he has escaped the last mis-
fortune Of Charles the First or Louis the Six
teenth, it is because his mistakes have served the
purposes OF his advers aries, and they have profit
ed by them. Now, with their own heavy budget
Of blunders, condemned by the popular voice OF
the Northern States as far as they have expressed
themselvessM Mr.. johnson may turn the tables upon
the baf1ed and astonished Radicals, and identify
his name. his policy and his administration with
the great majority OF the loyal masses Of the
To this end he needs a new Cabinet, beginning
with the State Department. Retirement would not
now be an act Of cruelty to Mr.. Seward, but an act
Of Kindness. He has outlived his day of useful
GRAFTON, to a political system Of dogmas and ideas,
that have passed away. Tho best thath his faithful,
good man Friday can now do for him is to glorify
and scandalous tattle about her little bills as lady
Of the White House. To get rid. therefore, of the
master, in order to be relieved of his man, would
dent but much higher and larger confederation
call inperiously for a new Secretary OF State.
The same broad and geieralreasons, to 9 greater
existing Cabinet, including old MIR. Weles and his
ring of spoilsmen under the care Of Mr.. Fox. We
understand that Mr.. johnson has been meditsting
for some time past upon such u stroke Of policy
and it has been ntlmated to us from we'll informed
sources at Washington that he will, in all proba-
bihty, under the Encouragement OF these, late
elections, proceed without further delay to active
measures. Let him do 80; but let him, in the re-
construction OF his Cabinet against the implacable
Radicals, be careful to avoid the other extreme Of
incurable Copperheads. He wants no such official
advisers about HIM as either OF the two Seymours,
or the two Woods, or Mayor Hoffman, Voorhees, OF
valanaigham. Such dead weights would soon
sink Mr.: Johnson beyond the reach Of o resdrrec-
ton. He wants men thoroughly identified with
the Union cause in the war-men OF whom the
loyal masses OF the North are Justly proud, and
ar schemes of Radical fanaticisn-not visionary,
but clear-headed men-such men, if you please,
as Grant, Thomas, Sheridan, Hancock, Farragut
and Porter.
In the intermediate course thus suggested Mr..
johnson may now do q great work in fusing the
conservative Union mon OF both parties into the
victorious party OF 1868, leaving Northern radicals,
fanatics and copperheads and all the disturbing
factions Of the day, North and South, high and
dry, like the drift-wood left on both sides of a great
river from a heavy food. We may say, too, that il
the revolutionary programme of the last two SEES,
sions of Congress stands condemned by the .peo,
pie, the constitutional amendment upon which the
elections of last year were contested stands en-
piiauioaiy ondofsed. "A Cabinet, therefore, and d
message to Congress, framed upon this issue, and
especially upon the suffrage settlement embraced
in said amendment, would make at once a diversion
in both houses Of Congress- as fatal to the radical.
as it would be advantageous to tHhe administrator
in securing the legislative balance OF power. Mr..
johnson will do we'll to understand that the people
have not been following him or fighting his battles
in these late elections, but that they have been
pronouncine Judgment against the vicious negro
a year ago in favor Of the fair and acceptable
scheme Of Congress which the radical leaders in
their inflated folly and self-conceit abandoned.