The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-05-26
The President and Congress.

The following is the substance of Geographic
dispatch from Washington dated the 18th inst:
sit is stated that Cabinet changes are pending !;
and it is asserted that they will tend to harmonic
Congress and the President, and that the President
Will cease obstructlng reconstruction on the Con-
gressional plan-the progress of events having rem
dered his own impossible and the material interests
Of the South requiring immediate representation Of
kind. This statement is made on high Repub-
hcan authority
This is important announcement and we hope
some plan be agreed upon whereby the conflict
between Congress and the President may be termi-
mated, and the questions which have long disrac
ted the country settled with due regard to the rights
of the Southern States and all other sections of the
country.
A special correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch
writes from Washington as follows:
1.-The rumors of changes in the Cabinet sent hence
by telegraph within the past twentyfour hours are
based suggestions from leading conservative Re-
publicans and friends of Mr. johnson, but not
founded any authoritative statement of the Exec
utve. There doubt, however, that an entire or
nearly complete organization of the Cabinet will take
place within short time after the termination of the
impeachment trial, should MIR Johnson be acquitted
The President has not positively decided upon the
names that would be sent to the Senate, but 1t IS
known that Mr. Johnson would prefer to have Gen.
Schofeld confirmed for Secretary of War, to which
he has already been nominated.
The President has indicated his preference for Mr.
Groesbeck for Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr.
Evarts fer the State Department; and his friends
approve these, and suggest Reverdy Johnson for At
torney General Judge Catron of illinois, for the
Interior Departments ex-senator Foster, of Connec
ticut, for the Post Office Department, and Admiral
Porter for the Navy Department.
These names not insisted upon, however, but
suggested as types of the class of men for new
ganizaton of the Cabinet.
The statement that the President has made any
promises the conservative Senators voting for his
acquttal to support uphold them by the power of
his administration, is untrue Those republicans
voting against impeachment claim to be decidedly
opposed to the Presidents political the
most earnest radicals. They regard impeachment as
judicial and not political proceeding It'll known
congressional policy as their radical col
leagues, but they do not think that the President
either will attempt further distractions. They
hope and believe that he will change his Cabinet to
great extent at least, and by more liberal policy
better accord with Congress- but whatever he
may do or do in this behalf has had and can have
effect their judgment in passing on the articles
of impeachment. If, it is said, the impeachment had
not been pending, there is little doubt new Cabinet
would long since have been designated, composed of
the most distinguished and eminent in the
country.
1t should not, therefore, create surprise if a
thorough change shall be made in the complexion of
political affairs If these COM lectures should be real
lied, it will remain for the Senate, in view of the
probable defeat of the remaining articles OF impeach
ment the 18th instant to accept reject what, if
offered and accepted in good faith must soon lead to
the restoration of the Union and the peace and pros
| perity of the country