The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-05-14
What Will Become Of John.
sons Cabinet.

General Nettleton, Of the Sandus-
ky Register, writes to his paper from
Washington, as follows: y
There is no doubt whatever that
the removal ofJohnson will be instan.
tly followed by the resignation of all
his Cabinet Ministers, except Mr.
Stanton, who will also retire to pri-
vate life very soon after the new Adj
ministrationi is in running order. Mr..
Seward will leave aposition in which
he has rendered the nation much val
liable service, but in which he has also
buried the bright honors that once
clustered about his name, and proved
to his former worshippers at least,
that, during all the years in " hich he
has championed right principles and
battled for human freedom, the good
cause has always been second to self
So soon as the right ceased to be q
ladder on which William II, Seward
could climb to higher official stations,
it ceased to be of any use to him
Next week he will leave Washington
and public life, to spend a disappoint-
el and regretful old age among those
at Auburn who know, and loved, and
followed him in his better days.
Mr.. McCulloch willleave the Treas
ury and connect himself with a lead
ing New York banking house, to
which he will carry the presumed
prestige of his name in place of much
ready capital, as he is not rich. Mr..
McCulloch, duringhis administration
of our financial affairs, has made the
reputation of asolid, sensible business
man; but as a politician hehas wretch
edly failed. He is not known to pos
sess any political ideas of his own,
and he followed Johnson in his suici-
dal course in order to avoid removal
from his position. He will never be
heard of again after he leaves the
Cabinet. .5r9
Secretary Welles, the dear old in
nocent, would make friends with the
new Administration and ask to be re-
tanned at the helm of the Navy De-
partment, he thought the somer
sault would be successful, but, under
the circumstances, he will undoubt-
edly pack his valise and go ashore as
soon as Mr.. Wade takes command of
the old ship. No one can look upon
Gideon and ever after feel malice to-
ward him. There is not enough of
him to furnish . target for ill-feeling
of any kind. ag .fsv la 81
Stanbery, although not now . men,
Der of the Cabinet, is still regarded as
one of the Presidents family, since he
will certainly be reinstated in case Of
Johnson's acquittal. At the close Of
A. J.'s official life it is understood that
Mr.. Stanberry will open law Office
in Washington, and devote the rest
Of his life to the management of great
cases before tho Supreme Court-a
grave into which many Of our public
mon finally fall. Stanberry.l 4 theEw-
ings and the Blairs sleep in the same
bed and are afflicted with the same
distemper. To them a venerable
wrong is better than new born
right.
It is difficult to say what viii ever
become Of Postmaster General Ran
dali. Polite, dapper and well pre-
served, he ought to be q hotel land.
lord, but to this he is believed not to
aspire. He might employ his time
for year or two in writing a his
tory Of the Philadelphia Convention,
but as that would be writing his own
obituary, it is too much to ask. Iun.
derstand he will spend some years
abroad, and, on the whole, that is
probably best. Randall is an un-
doubted victim Of misplaced conf
dence. He readily believed, in 1866,
that a new party was about to spring
from the ashes Of Republicanism, and
hoping to be one of the leaders Of the
new movement, and not from any
dislike to the great party which had
| saved the Republic, be went off with
Johnson. He has since repented in
sack-cloth and ashes, and would now
gladly come back into the fold.
Mr.. Browning, Lincoln'sfriend, and
present Secretary of the Interior, will
next week step quietly out Of one OBJ
scurity into another. He has attract.
cd no attention in the Cabinet and
| win not in private Life. n