Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-03-18
GRANTS CABINET.

President Grants Cabinet is now
complete and in vigorous operation.
We believe that the men he has call
ed around him for his constitutional
advisers will do their respective
work with efficiency, honesty, and
satisfaction to the country. They
are all men of scholarly attainments
and incorruptible integrity. The
nation may rejoice that we now have
patriotic hearts at the helm of State.
We have gathered the following in
teresting sketches of the various
members composing the Cabinet;
SECRETARY OF STATE.
Mr.. Hamilton Fish, the new
Secretary of State, is New Yorker,
sixty years of age. He is a grad
uate of Columbia College, and a
lawyer. He has served the public
as a member of the Legislature, and
as Governor of his State, and as a
Representative ia Congress and
from 1851 to 1857 he was Senator
of the United States. Recently he
has spent q good deal of time in
Europe, and it is to be presumed
has acquired knowledge of men
and affairs that may be of service to
him as Secretary Of State. He has
been known as one of General
Grants particular personal friends
in the city Of New York, and he is
another illustration of the attach
ment that Grant has for his friends.
The General was a guest of Mr..
Fish during his last visit to New
York.
Mr.. Fish is we'll known to the
country as one of our most solid
and safe men. He has no superior
in elevation of character, and his
counsel will always be wise. He
will bring to the management of the
questions centering in his depart
ment a well balanced Judgment,
firmness Of purpose and true dig
nifty Of manner.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
The Hon. George S. Boutwell, is
one of the many able, versatile and
honest men whom New England
has given to the nation. Entirely
'sself made" he has the breadth and
thoroughness of culture and
shrewd common sense not so fire.
quently found in combination as
would be desirable. He was born
in Brookline, Mass. January %,
1918, and worked on farm in his
boyhood. For twenty years after
ward he was engaged in mercantile
business, first as a clerk and later
as a principal. His ambition was
not satisfied, and at a comparatively
advanced age he studied law He
was Representative in the Massa-
chusetts Legislature for seven years,
between 1912 and 1850; Bank
Commissioner in 1849 and 1850,
and elected Governor by coalition
Of Democrats and Free Soilers in
1851 and 1852. When the Repub-
lican party came into being it found
him one of its most ardent cham
pions. In 1861, after holding va
rious minor State Offices besides
those enumerated above, be was
delegate to the Peace Commission
at Washington: In July, 1862, he
was appointed Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, being the first to
hold that Office. He retained the
position until March, 1863, resigning
it for the post of Congressman,
which he held during three terms in
the Thirty eight, Thirty ninth and
Fortieth Congresses. In 1868. he
was one of the managers of the i'm
parchment progress against Presi-
dent johnson. Mr.. BoutwelPs
varied experience in the different
branches of private, State and
national business, affords strong
hope that he will fulfill the duties of
his present responsible station with
signal success.
POSTMASTER GENERAL.
y Hon. John A. j. Creswell, is a
native Of Port Deposit, Cecil county,
Marylan where he was born in
November, 1928. At twenty he
graduated from Dickinson College,
and two years afterward was ad-
mitted to the bar of his native
State. He was a member of the
Maryland House of Delegates in