Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-19
4 RIAsr AGAINST ,recrTroCH.

4 BLAsr AGAINST MeoULL0CH.
The lYaa6Dal KafeRigsnes5 paper
that has sustained the President through
thick and thin, as sethe Others have also,
begins to tire Of his policy Of keeping in
high ofieial positions men whose course
is inimieal TO the public interests In
the issue Of the 18th, that journal de-
lnands the removal OF tbs Secretary OF
tue Treasury We have long been satis-
fed that lac was incompetent or corrupt,
or both, and endorse l.ilIy the dslla nd Of
the Tatsiiigsace1. Tbas paper says
Bot II there was any one tiing which
more than another people expected a. a
consequence Of the President scquittal.
4 vas ihst be would at-leBee proceed 10
change his Cabinet
This sentiment, We arc bound 10 sag,
Would have been satisfied in a large degree
by one OF two prominent changes. There
il no denying the fact that Mr.. McCuiloch
the Secretary OF the Treasury, is more OBJ
noxi0ns than al the other members 81 the
Cabinet put together, aud for this reason
his departure was thought to be certain.
! Whether il would be reached by his re
signation o. removal from office men diff
fered sbout, hut ali rejoiced 10 the idea
that somehow on other he would soou cease
10 be Secretary Of the Treasury.
This feeling 10 by no means a new one.
We do not propose to review At present
Mr.. McCulloch's official career Il il fair
/ A. -~-oa1a - .l.h1..-l 4
been in any position which gave warrant
10 expect large administrative ability for
the discharge Of duties. 10 meet which the
genius Of a Hsmilton Neckar, or q Peel
would hardly have been adequate, be eu.
eountered a very kind and cordial recsp.
tien Whether by this or that artiui
agency, or By the natural disposition d
: everybody TO welcome . rev anu untrisi
broom, certain it is that Mr McCulloch
got on pretty we'll with the public for th5
} first few months Of his career. He had
been very largely adverfised froln the
crowded aud enthusiastic hive Of Wall
street TO those remote sylvan reilelt from
, whence h. came. For d wear on moe The
excitement OF great strife eugrossed tAe
thoughts Of men, and stood in Tie NAV 81
any calm or rational examination of The
financial situation. And thus, for a Wills
all went IN sWimminlsiy with Mr. NJ
5 | Culloch
By and By came painful ruid0Iz thai thy
/ | department was honey combed with car
ruption-not the old officials and "stanc
bys," who had been thrust into back seats
but by the nsw swarm that claims wert
! | allowed to a favored few who Lad Tia,
1 tta~aaF, to. rg4rrA he
. wanted that honest claimants stood n,
chance unless hey bled freely 10 the ring
j Be this true or false, intelligent men be
: lieyed it, and believe il TO this day
I Taking the fact alone, .hat such was tn
popular estimation of the department,
case was made out when al honorable ant
sensitive Secretary would cot have stage
one hour in Office
| We have so far omitted all reference 70
financial policy so utterly at war with tln
great interests Of the people, and sn favor
able TO special classes thai il a impossible,
70 reconcile IL with any other theory than
| that Of 4 priv De interest on the crosses
stupidity. This scheme we see repudiatel
in part even by such body az the presen
) | Radical Congress, and reluctantly surren
{ dered in part by Mr.. McCulloch We Sc,
, lha revenue plundered ofone hundred ans
6ity millions per annum, at The very lowest
snd Of this one-half goes, not to tighten tat
burdensof interchangeable, bnrtosR5ell th'
J profits Of rings and iobbiea, and to MAKE
/ corruption 20 general and widespread tina
reform will ere long become literally im
/ possible As fit consequence end part o
!. all this Encouragement. we see Mr. MC
) Culloch taking counsel all the while o
! | Radical Congreszman5 h0bn0bbing viii
them, aiding them in every imagiuablr
way, keeping their pets and laFoutes Il
Office, who are thus pluudering tha revsnua
aud Gaping the climax Of official iEhda!
ity BY "hammering down gold in New
York he day after impeachment begun, &
as to make 4 dppstr thai Radical e1F,ii
sion OF the President fsom bis office va
3 heaithfuf movement of political forces
ia no wise Injurious 10 the public CTedi
OF dlsgnieting 10 business msn
The retention Of such an Official, ans llI
Pet,at as rgeilby the record az by his owl
Confessions, with such career as We hav
thus limited at rather than detailed. can
not be justified or defended b. any one
The President owes It 10 the country to
remove him forthwith, ii he will not, resign
To delay action is 10 defy the public iudG
ment