Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-28
Times Change and Men Change
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with Them
The Abolition orators and, presses are
outraged because President JOHNSON re-
moved STANTON from the Cabinet. Sena-
tor SHERMAN, of Ohio, in a debate on the
"Tenure of Office Bill" said no man fit to
fill Cabinet Office, would, in consequence
of the peculiar relations existing between
him and the President, hold on to it
against the Presidents will, yet Senator
SHERMAN abuses the President for kicking
STANTON out of his Cabinet.
The Radical Senators committed them
selves years ago on the subject of remov-
ing the officers forming the Cabinet. They
wished Mr.. LINCOLN to remove MoNTGoM-
ERY BLAIR, then Postmaster General, and
at caucus in 1864, OF the Abolition Sem
ators, the following resolutions were pass
| ed and signed by those composing the
caucus, and then sent to Mr.. LINCOLN:
RESOLUTIONS OF THE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS
l. OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
"First-T'he only course of sustaining this
Government and removing and preserving the
national existence, and perpetuating the nation
al integrity is by q vigorous and successful
prosecution of the tcdr-the same being a
patriotic and just war on the part of this
nation, produced by, and considered nee
essary to suppress causeless and afro
cious rebellion.
| ''Second-The theory of our Government
and the early and uniform practical construc-
tton thereof is that the President should be
| aided by Cabinet Council agreeing soith him
IN political principle and general policy and
| that all important measures and appoint
ments should be the result of their COM
| bined wisdom and deliberation. This most
obvious and necessary condition of things,
without which no administration can sue
csed, we and the public believe does not
now exist; and, therefore, such selections
and changes IN its members should be made as
totH secure TO the country unity of purpose and
action in all material and essential respects
more especially in the present crisis OF
| public affairs. ~ :.
'.1hird-The Cabinet should be erczusiuel,
| composed OF statesmen eohO are the cordial,
Tesotute, uRacGuertng supporters of the princi-
pies and purposes above stated.
'Fourth-lt is unwise and unsafe to COM
init the direction, conduct or execution OF
any important military operation or sepa-
rate general command OF enterprise in this
war to any one who is not cordial be-
lever and supporter of the same PRINCIPLES
and purposes first above stated.'
james Dixon, Conn; L. S. Foster, Conn:
W AA' Whli1ks 1Il., 11l uldu
HI; James Harlan, Iowa; j. w. Grimes,
Iowa; s. G. Pomeroy, KAN; Lot NJ. Morrill,,
Me-; VIM. P. Fessenden, Me-; Samuel G..
Arnold, r. l.; ii. B. Anthony, r. l.; Solo
mon Foot Vt; Jacob Collamer, Vt;
Charles Sumner, Mass; Henry Wilson,
Mass; Zachariah Chandler, Mich; Daniel
r. Clark. N. H; John P. Hale, N. H.;
Preston King, N. Y; Ira Harris, N. Y; B.
f. Wade, Ohio; John Sherman, Ohio; Da-
vid Wilmot. Pa; Edgar Cowan, Pa; j. R.
Doolittle, Wis; T. o. Howe, Wis.
The effect of this action on the part of
the Radical Senators was the resignation
of Mr.. BLAIR.
The Philadelphia Age, in reproducing the
above, asks:
IF the doctrine laid down by the repre-
sentative men of the Radical party in 1864
was true then, why is it not SO now? Then
the party in power declared that the the
ory of the government, and the early and
uniform practical construction thereof, is
that the President should be aided by a
Cabinet Councilagreeing with him in prin-
ciple and general policy This was and is
sound doctrine. But the Radical party are
only willing to have it applied when they
can profit by such an application. When
Abraham Lincoln was plotting and labor
ing to change the war from a contest to re-
store the just supremacy of the Federal
Government within the several States, to a
crusade upon all the rights of the States,
then it was important that all his Cabinent
Council should agree with him Tin princi-
pie and general policy" There could be
no difference of opinion allowed. If Mr..
Blair had other views of the purposes of
the war, he must leave the Cabinet, He
was dangerous man to visit the White
House. His presence and counsel would
poison the .loyal" atmosphere by which
the head of the nation was supposed to be
surrounded. And he did leave the Cabinet
owing to the action of certain members of
the Senate. -, --.---. -e
But now mark the difference when Mr..
johnson wishes to make his Cabinet Coun-
Gil unit sin principle and general poll
cy," to remove from among his constitu-
tlonal advisers one who was opposing all
efforts to carry out the views and opinions
of the Executive in relation to the con-
struction and enforcement of the laws
When Mr.. Lincoln was acting upon a
Theory of the Government" which was
intended to change all its constitutional
and republican features, and burn it into a
centralized military despotism, then the
Radicals insisted that he should "be
aided by Cabinet Council agreeing
with him in principle and general policy"
and Mr.. Blair was removed. When Mr..
johnson is laboring to preserve the liber-
their just, constitutional relations with the
general Government, then it is not essen
tial that his Cabinet should be a unit, but
the very men who demanded the removal
of Mr.. Blair because he did not agree with
MIR. Lincoln, insist upon Stanton remain
ing in the Cabinet, even against the open
ly y-declared wish of the President. Why
this change of front on the part of the
Radical party? Why has not Mr.
Johnson right to make such selections
and changes in the members of his Cabinet
''as will secure to the country unity of
purpose and action in all material and es-
sential respects, more especially in the
present crisis of affairs 90 Why not d?
Because in the case of Mr.. Lincoln the
change was made in favor of the Radical
party and its political programme, while
the removal of Stanton is one step in the
line of a policy which looks to an early
Union of the States under the Constitution,
and the enfranchisement of White men,
North and South. Will white men note this
record of the Radical party