Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-02-13

the probahllitle, ol it, repetition would
have been So great, | know that with ,
lew "a an early termination of Stat o. AZ.
fam :, 80 dylrimtuhlta the public h,,cr.
ests, y,'u voluntarily offered, hot sp N,n.
dav the 18th inst, and On the .u...s....li,,..
Sunday, 20 5IllWPon Mr. 81 .pt,n and urg,
upon linn that the good Of the service re,
quired his Resignation I confess that
>em,ldored tnr Wuposals as sort Of
r,pamtian or tho failure on Your part To
act IN aeoodor co with uu understanding
more Than ou"eropcated, which | thought
h1d receive i Your full assent, and under
which yrU5JUtt have returned IN me the
office which hal confdcl upon You,
thu saving yourself from embarrassment
. and lc1yilg the responsibility where it
properly belonged, with the President,
who /, accountable for the faithful rNcous
/ tion If the law. llVr not Vet been in,
! formed by you whether, ay twice rropo. ed
/ byNom-clt, You had called upon Mr. STAN
ton, and m1ur an effort - induce him vol
UNFAIRLY tu resign from the War Depart
meut. luu Cuarlude yuur eummmuuira-
tlop with reference 90 cur conversation
1t the meeting of the Cabinet, held ON
/ Tuesday, the lith inst In your .accopat
Of what then occurred you say that on
The lth, nlt.r tAa-l PRESIDENT i--yyt given
his version of our previous conversations,
You yclpiul them substantially as pure in
your l,'ttr, and that y-u in no wise adj
mit the CORE tucss of his statement Of
rkem, though 10 soften the evident cau-
/ trndirtion my statement gave, | sad al
udmg a. our first communication on the
subject the President might have under
stood in the way ur said, viz; that | had
promised "a resign il did !ot resist the
reinstatement made by such promise NJ
: TCC6l10Ction OF what then triuspirpd is
Numerically the reverse Of Your mar. .
item in thu presence of tho Cabinet. |
asked \ "a first it, IL a conversation which
took place after your appointment as Sec
Rotary of War nj interim, YOU did not
aglrc either 20 remain az the head Of tie
! War Department, aud abide by my Judi
cial proceedings that might follow the nom
concurrence by the Senate in Mr. Stan.
tons suspension, or.shsull YOU wish not
70 become involved in sucl controversy
to put me- in tho same position with ~
spcct TO the otiic, as | occupied previous
to Your appointment, by returning it to
me IN time - anticipate sUcl actitl by
I ttlli+ Sv-ft-t tffTfS vUU TtWItt4f I then
asked you ii, at the conference of the PIE
ccdiug saturday. had not, 10 avoid mis-
UNDERSTANDING requested YOU Ia state
what YOU intended to do; Eud further, il.
in reply to that inquiry, You had not re-
f,arp.l -
that fl IN them | understood vuur posi-
ton, and that your action would be con-
sistont with the understanding which had
j been reached. To these questions YOU
also replied in the affirmative THAI
next asked If, al the conclusion Of our
interview on Saturday, il was not under
stood that we were 80 have another confer
cnce on Monday, before the final action
by the Senate ON the case Of Ir. Stanton
You replied that such was the under
standing, but that YOU did not suppose
the Senate would act so soon. That on
:. Monday You had been engaged in confer
oncc with General sherman, and were
occupied with msny little matters. and
asked if General sherman had not called
on that day. What relevancy General
Shermau's visit to me on Monday bad
with the purpose for which you were 10
have called, am at a less to perceive. as h.
certainly did not inform me whether You
had determined 10 retain possession OF the
Office, or to afford me an opportunity to
appoint a successor in advance of ana,
attempted reinstatement of Mr. Stanton.
This account of what happened between
of .fRp =. lfnat IA
inst, widely differs from that contained
I in your communication, for it shows that
+ instead OF b9ying stated in conversation.
as given IN Tho letter which has made this
reply necessary, You admitted that my
recital of them was entirely inaccurate
Sincere and anxious. however, to b. cor
rect in my statement, ! have to-day read
this narration of what occurred on the
l4th inst. to the Members of the Cabinet
who were then present, and they with
out exception, agree il its accuracy.
1t is only necessary to add that on
Wednesday morning, the 10Th. YOU
called on me in company with Lieutcn-
aAt-General Sherman. After some prelim-
mary conversation. You remarked that
an article in the National Intelligcnccr OF
that date did You much injustice. | re-
piled that had not read the Intclligeucer
of that morning You first told me THAI
il was youl intention to urge Mr. Stanton
to reign III. Office. After you had with
drawn | carefully read the article OF
which you had spoken, and found that its
statement of the conversation between us
was substantially correct. On the Eth |
mud ,.,.,,l %. g..
caused II 90 DC Ieau 10 l"ur OF inc iNt
members VINO WGrs present at our confer
'ilee Oh ''il' lam ana ti''N '2hearfed IN
'he general accuracy o. us statements re-
Slee'''lS our CONVEX '''ioh upon l.at oo't,
,iol' ~ tepiS 70 your COMMUNICATION
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very ie>i"etluily }"tt',