The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-10

| such eminent success as merchant, to restore
the government to solvency and financial pros
perity He is not politician, and he will
| manage the Treasury purely as a business con-
Germ, with intent to raise the largest possible
revenue at the smallest cost: whether to the
| people or the government. He cannot fail.
The Hon. E. B. Washburne has fought so
| vigorously and successfully in Congress against
corruption s1d pfodigahty that he could not
be spared from reforming Cabinet. His
health is very poor. and he is most reluctant
| to take any appointment that keeps him in
| Washington. On these grounds he at first re-
solved not to accept, but it is hoped that his
| repuRnance will be overcome, even though he
should not be able to serve through General
Grants term.
Probably single member Of the Cabinet
had any reason to suppose his name on the
| slate till it went into the Senate to-day.
[From the New York worldL
Nobody will doubt that General Grants
Whimsical pretence OF composing his Cabinet
without anybody's advice was quite sincere.
path, but deviated into absolute oddity; having
made such Cabinet politician would
have advised, such Cabinet as no newspaper
could have oonjectured, q Cabinet which fills
NtIcal friends with suppressed dismay. There
has never before been q Cabinet formed at the
beginning OF an administration, which did not
contain at least one Or two mon of first-rate
| standing and recognized eminence in the
politics OF the country. Take it all in all, the
new, Cabinet is .fearfuly and wonderfully
mduo. LILO Only uypOGn06lS Dy W0lCl we can
explain it's formation is, that General Grant
means to be the candidate Of the Republican
party for second term, and will tolerate in
HIS Cabinet no statesman from whom he
would have anything to fear as rival.
From the New York Times.]
The Cabinet as whole will not commend
itself to the favor Of politicians, because it has
not been taken from their ranks; nor are the
men who compose it sufficiently we'll known to
the public at large to command in advance the
cOnfid0nOa n Ia Rut in,
very freshness Of it's character, in the fact that
it's members are business men rather than pol
iticians, and are likely to make the practical in
terests OF the country Their first care, we see
ground for bel ewing that the Cabinet will. by
it's practical working, vindicate the wisdom Of
it's selection.
from the New York Herald.]
The Cabinet of President Grant, though
With I'LL their guesses and coniectures, cover
ing what was supposed to be the whole field
OF probabilities, not one Of them, nor all o.
them together, hit the mark beyond one or two
members. They we're all on the wrong tack
in assuming that, after the established prac-
tlce, the Cabinet would be chosen from the most
conspicuous iik hts and managers OF the dom-
and did Ben % Wade. This rule Of Selecting fr from
the head politicians of the party was more
strikingly illustrated In the original Cabinet Of
Abraham Lincoln than in any other, though
the folly Of such selections was sufficiently
proved by poor Pierce and Buchanan. The
harmonlzing of the different psrsonal cliques
OF the party has been the governing idea OF
this practice, and it was under this delusiOn
that Lincoln committed his greatest mistake
He thought that by gathering his rivals in the
Chicago Convention about him ne would
reconcile them to the situation and with each
other; but from the beginning to the end,
with their selfish intrlgues against each other
and against him, they were a constant source
OF trouble to their chief. Indeed, had not
Lincoln been marvel of amiablity. patience
and r0SIpnatIOn h6 COul0 nOt haVa en1ura1
such annOyances tor one summer.
President Grant has not followed this foolish
and mischievOus practice. He has not chosen
to have set Of politicians around him. who
might assume tho right to chalk ont his policy
as in tho case Of Pierce; or set Themselves hp
as his masters. as in the case Of Buchanan; or
who would be likely to raise hornets nest
about his ears in their plots and counterplots
for the succession, as in the case or Lincoln.
On the contrary, we see in this new Cabinet
that Grant has given the managing Republican
politicians wide berth; that he has chosen
his men for business and as his subordinates,
and with not the remotest idea thattthey are
to be his MI tiers or his coequals in the admin
istration. He has utterly ignored the Cabinet
theory OF Mcclure, and has selected his
men as his fr ends, his assistants and his Sec
retar1es, and each mainly in reference to the
special duties OF his department: But the
moral Of this Cabinet is that it is President
Grants Cabinet, and that he intends to be the
master OF his administration.
Trom the Baltimore Gazette
The names will be received by the country
with profound astonishment, and, If we MIS-
take not. with mingled feelings of bitter disap-
pointment and deeper Indignation. Ali who
trusted in General Grant, and very many of
those who mistrusted him, had hoped that he
would realize the critical condition in whi oh
the country now stands, and that he would
summon around him men of recognized ability
aud patriotism. He has thought proper, how
ever, to name for his Cabinet officers indiyldu-
ais who are only known to the public as profess
sional patriots and shifty politicians. There is
not one among them who bears an established
character for dlsinterestedness. or who is enti-
tied to be classed among statesmen.