The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-19
perndiona Pron,ises.

The following statement is promulga-
ted from Washington as being "de-
rived from highly respectable Demo
craticl sources:"
1t is generally known here that some
of the members, If not all, of President
Johnson's cabinet, have signified their
willingness to retire from office, and
hence there is much speculation on
that subject. Prominent gentlemen of
both parties in conversation recently
have agreed in the sentiment that much
of the trouble between Congress and
the President springs from the defect
In the Executive administration under
our present form of government, and
that IL the ministry here, as In Eng
land, would retire and give place to
one in accordance to with the express
ed will of the people, we should have
had peace long ago. Reconstruction
under the Presidents plan having
been rejectedJ 1t is now thought
by Congressman of both parties
that that he will agree TO admit
way practicable in order that 1t may
have no effect on their judgment in
passing on the articles of impeach-
ment. 1t is said If impeachment had
not been pending there is little doubt
that new Cabinet would long since
have been designated, composed of the
most distinguished and eminent men
of the country. 1t should not, there
fore, create surprise If a thorough
change shall be made in the complec-
tion OF political affairs. If these con-
lectures should be realized 1t will re-
main for the Senate in view of the
remaining articles of impeachment on
the 26th Instant, to accept or reject
what, If offered and accepted in good
r. -. H.. ~
the Union and peace and prosperity to
the country.
The announcement this morning of
the names of the proposed new Cabinet
is part of the programme thus fore
Mr.. Henderson, OF Mis-
souri,, has stated in explicit terms that
the President promised him if he would
vote to acquit him he would appoint
new Cabinet. According to Mr.. Hem
derson that promise was the price with
which he was bought. Taking all the
together it is apparent
that johnson offers this as an olive
branch, in the hope of thus finally
killing off impeachment. he promises
10 make this change in his Cabinet after
he is acquitted on all the articles. We
fail to see what the change amounts to
il carried out. So far as concerns a
policy on the part OF the Executive
more in accordance with Congress, the
new Cabinet won't make particle of
difference. That depends on Johnson;
and if we understand single element
of human nature, we see no reason why
the triumph of an acquittal would lead
Mr.. Johnson to surrender or modify his
views heretofore so doggedly main
tanned. Mr.. johnson and his friends are
very foolish If they suppose anybody
is deceived by these professions ofgood
He has not followed
up his darling project of overriding the
authority of Congress in all matters
to the restoration of civil gov
rnment in the South, thus far and with
such persistency, to yield ii now when
he is on the very threshold of success.
Why should he !? All this talk about "a
modification of the Johnsonian pro-
gramme is but part of the system of
fraud, intrigue aud corruption, by
which the seven Judases were allured,
blandished and bribed into voting that
black is white, that their own previous
were false, that Congress
Is not Congress and they are not Sena-
tors.