The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-13
1881.

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o one distillation only, and each bar
rel shall be stamped, and any barrel
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shall be condemned and DESTROYED
and the distiller fned $500, the pur-
/ chaser 10 suffer in the same penalties.
WASHINGTON, December 1.-THE
President sent to the Senate, to-day,
a message, giving his reasons for the
G@pension Of Hon. Edwin N Stan
tom as Secretary Of War. on the 18th
o1 august last
4 copy of the message cannot now
be nFe cured for publication, nor was
the aoeument read in open Senate,
hur following this, it is believed, are
tlc essential p0in;s OF the document
II 0iiI be recoliected that the Presi-
dent, for considerations OF high char
acter. requested Secretary Stanton to
resign his Office, and that Stanton. in
rep,y, quoting the phrase of the Presi-
deat, said, that considerations Of a
high character alone, induced him to
continue at the head OF the Depart
ment, and constrained him aot to re-
sign the Office Of Secretary OF War.
bef re the next meeting of Congress.
This, the President says. was not
merely a deelination of compliance
with the request for his resignation,
but was a defiance Whatever pro-
sion of his opinion to Others. one
thing was certain, it was ofticla mis-
conduct, to say the least of it, to
parade them before his superior Off
Ger, and showed a want of proper
hn
President. In addition to the
above recited grounds of the Secre-
tary why he did not resign, he denied
1ut the President says that under
refer TO the law creating the War De-
partment; for that confers on the
President the right to remove the
head of the Department. The only
other law under which Stanton could
plead an extenaation o. his con-
duct was that in relation to the
Tenure ofOfice Bill. Nothing in that
law compelled him to remain in office.
He was free at any e to resign 1t.
The Tenure of Office Bill did not pass
without notice. Every member of
the Cabinet was consulted on the sub
ject, and particularly the Attorney
General. and Mr.. Stanton, the lat
ter formerly having held the
office of Attorney General. Mr..
Stanton's condemnation of the law,
the President says, was most elabor-
ate and emphatic.
Some reference is made to the cir
cumstances under which the Presi-
dent retains his predecessor Cabi-
net, including Mr.. Stanton; and he
remarks, as to the proposed mode of
reconstructing the Southern States,
that all of its members were IN per-
feet accord with himself.
The President, after setting forth
at length his views of the case, as
signs a special ground for the suspen-
sion of Mr.. Stanton. It will be re-
collected that, during the summer of
1866, General Baird telegraphed from
New Orleans to the Secretary Of War
that a Convention was about to assem-
BILE, aud that the Governor and city
authorities thinking it was an un-
lawful assembly, would break it up.
The General asked the Secretary for
instructions, to be telegraphed him at
once. Stanton did not, however, give
General Baird the desired orders, nor
did he communicate the fact Of the
reception Of the dispatch to the Pres
ident, who knew nothing of its ex-
istence until ten days after it came
.into Mr. Stanton's hands, and not un-
til the riot had occurred. The Pres
ident, therefore, takes the ground
that Mr.. Stanton was responsible for
the delinquency, and if he (the Presi-
dent) had known that General Baird
had sought for advice, the riot
might have been prevented. The
President holds. so far as the public
interests are concerned, that there is
no cause to regret the removal Of Mr..
Stanton, for the present Secretary dd
intrens has, by his measures Of econ
omy, saved millions Of dollars to the
Government.