Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-21
GARNET CHANGES.

We have received authentic and reliable
information, from private source, that
there will be an entire change in the Cab
met within the next thirty days. Messrs.
Browning. Wells and Stanherry will be re-
tanned; the others will have an opportu-
nifty of retiring to private life and joining
Stanton in the martyr business. Mr..
johnson has, at last, come to the conclusion
that he will show the people who is Presi-
dent ofthe United States. Taken in con-
nection with the changes in the District
Commanders of the South, which will,
probably, be followed by others, it looks
as though the President was going to make
one last effort to prevent the country from
passing under negro domination.
We believe that the people viii sustain
him in this, and we trust that the pressure
from them will be sufficiently great in
Congress at its ensuing session, that all
disabilities viii be removed from the white
men of the country, which is the only
measure that can save the contry from the
evils of negro domination.-Cb Chattanooga
Union, 20th
In so far as expressions of popular APP
proval may accompany rumors of changes
in the Cabinet and Of the commanders of
the Southern monarchies, such publica-
tions as the above may be excusable-
otherwise they can serve no other pur-
pose than to furnish momentary sensa-
ton or a bit of morning gossip
So far as the displacement of military
commanders in the Southern States Is
concerned, there can be no doubt as to
the course of the President He is
pledged to see the several reconstruction
acts of Congress executed. 1t is las pur-
pose to see them fairly and impartially
executed. Beyond this he will not deem
it necessary to 60 The administration
of the 9Th district by Gen. Sheridan was
so manifestly unfair and partial-his exc
cntion of the law was so arbitrary, and
his object so plain to reconstruct his
district in the interest of party and at
the expense Of public liberty, that the
President was impelled to check
his course. Sheridan's subsequent
insulting letter to the President
through General Grant, rendered
it necessary for the President, in
yindication Of his own self-respeet and
the dignity Of his official station, to trans
fer the insubordinate satrap to some other
field. Ii is unfortunate that this has not
been done at an earlier day. In respect
to the others, Pope and Sickles have in
vited. by their silly usurpations of au-
thority not given by law, their removal
But it may be difficult for the President
to find persons of the rank the law re-
ouires to fll their places. He would not
hesitate to do so if he had the means at
command If he fails to do so, it affords
no grounds to assume that the President
has no disposition to exercise the few
powers left to him, in behalf Of the con-
stitution and popular righta
In respect to a reorganization OF the
Cabinet, the President has already gotten
rid of his old man Of the sea, and wall
hereafter doubtless, consult the harmony
of his council; and whatever viii secure
this he win do, if il should even require
Jahe suspension or expulsion of every one
of the present members. This We have