The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-28

WOfkt DuJ WnateNef MS COnVlCtlOnS IN THIS
matter, we repeat the warning to keep clear
of workingmen's political organizations.
The Cabinet ResignatiOns.
From The ". y. Herald
We have long pictured naught but clashing
elements in the Presidents Cabinet. It's con
dition is clearly set forth in the correspondence
which was published on Monday, relative to
the removal of Sheridan. If it be true that
the Cabinet have signifed to the President
their willingness to resign their designations
should at once be accepted. If Mr.. Johnson
hesitates he is lost. Now is his moment, when
fortune, at the food-tide awaits his grasp.
The great mass of the Northern people are
waiting anxiously to hear that the President
has risen to the height of the occasion, and
shown himself fit to handle the executive
power Halfway work at this moment will
be political suicide for him. An acceptance
of the resignation of every member of his
Cabinet, and its complete reconstruction, will
be applauded by the North as the first step
towards the reconstruction of the South and
the harmonizing of our political elements.
Mr.. McCulloch must not be retained. Upon
the finances of the country hangs the nations
greatness or its bankruptcy, with all the
attendant ruin. The national debt of three
thousand millions, with the corruption that
hangs to its management, demands the abest
financial brain in the country to set it into
such trained channels that the nation will be
willing to shape her destiny upon its wise
administration. The present incumbent of
the Treasury Department is not the man to
battle with the problem. Adler hands and
clearer brains must now be entrusted with the
position which has become the most important
in the Cabinet. The President fails in his
duty if he retains Mr.. McCulloch. Let him
clear the wreck and repair our ship of state
for new and more prosperous voyage.
The Secretary ad interim of the War Depart
ment must turn over his portfolio to civil
hands. His ideas are too much enshrouded
in military uniform to suit the position. He
has been completely unhorsed in his tilt with
the President Like true soldier, he obeyed
orders in assuming his present duties. Let
him as quickly as possible give place to other
and ADLER brains, retaining solely the general
ship OF our armies.
As for Mr.. Seward, there is no doubt but
the country has suffered sufficiently under his
maladministration its foreign affairs. He has
done more to iDjure republican institutions on
this continent than can be repaired in any
reasonable time. The President cannot refuse
his resignation.
The navy, too, wants an infusion of new
energy. We die on the ocean, and our
wrecked commercial hopes come home to us to
contribute to the national mourning for lost
greatness. Change! Give it to us. We must
have it.
The President and Congress are all Repub-
licans together. Heretofore they have,
through the Cabinet, been divided on personal
issues. The country has, in the meantime,
looked on aghast at the real issue presented,
and seen, in the exclusion of the white man
from the ballot and the forcing of the negro
into power, the restoration of political chaos.
We have seen, under plea of reconstruction,
the shadows of the old Roman proconsulships
hanging over us. We have tasted sufficiently
the pleasures of military rule. District COM
manders have pressed military despotsm to
our lips until the dose has caused a reaction.
They apparently have no just conception of
the law of Congress, which made them sim
pie police force, to be called upon when civil
power failed in action.
Military government Negro supremacy
These are the ruling ideas that flash across the
Atlantic and ring the death-knell of the re-
public upon monarchical ears. Will the loyal
States, east and west, consent to the over
throw of our institutions in this way The
President must topple over these barriers
which retard our march. He must resuscitate
the great principles of government which lie
beneath them. He must lift these up into the
new light that reaction is pouring upon the
sitution. The first necessity is a new Cabinet
The country cries to him to clear the wreck.