Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-03-24

The President and the SEM te.
The protneted and earnest debate in the SEN
ate on the bin % repeal the tenure Of Office act,
which was carried in the House with extnordina-
ry unaumity, and is now pressed upon the Sen
ate vs. q crowd vt ofcc-scckcr--the conflicting
rmors. on the one hand that 4" the President
wishes TO know Dis friends and Is angry with
the Somtc, and on the other that he is, by the
advice of the Attorney General, calmly waiting
for the decision of the question By Congress that
he may guide himself by it-and the facts that
our own representative in the House was one oil
the small minority against repeal while Senator
| Edmuuds ably leads the opposition in the Senat,
and is seconded, ably also by the new Senator
! Carpenter who was raised in our county-thes,
Circumstances serve to create considerable interos
in the question among the people of this region
and therefore we think it fit time to make few
suggestions, particularly as to the rumors Of dis
| President aud thc Senate. We do not believe ,
particle ia them. Aside from the fact that tn,
! enemies Ut blth the President and Senate are in
terested in getting them into quarrel and stir
ring up jealousies and divisions in the Republican
party in the country, we know too well the yauit,
of Washington gossip to allow it to disturb on
confidence in the good sense Of the President III
cannot bc Ignorant Of the reasons for the tenure
Of Office act OF the possible gravity Of the ques
tons Involved in The iutureas in the ease Of John
son, nor Of his own and the Scnate's grave respon
sibility in che matter Of appointments. lndeo,
we suppose he himself approved the act when i
was passed aud however determined and desr
Gus he may BE 60 use the power of removal wise
! ~ il Congress shall rescud the restrictions i'm
posed upon linn BIS that act, we believe he woul,
regid refusal % repeal not a. an evidence o
want of confidence in him, but rather ASA pruden
preaution against such terrible future - Acct
donts as the late President Certainly now, if cy
en- the President and both Houses Of Congress mus
have healthy horror Of quarrels among them
selves, and long, quite as much as does the coun
try, for a, leas, four years of peace. We hclicu
therefore Gat the President aud the Senate meal
to keep peace quite as much as does the lIous
which was so swift to testify its confidence in tn
President
Grant, ike Washington, has not only come +
the head Of civil u.airs without previous tmininl
and experience bat he has come with very near
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the people for eminent military services, emitting
them to be named as sayiours Of their countr
from, eminent ncr;l- and liz, lV,sI.i,,,,,,, a.,
fully believe that Grant I'M. accented tho olBc
wiu, the single desire and pnrpo.e Of repderin
honest and faithful service. We believe he Wi
use all his powers for that purpose but we he
ieyo ais, that he Will be as scrapulous in ob.ory
ing the rights and powers of the other bmnche
/ Of the government as he will be in EXERCISING hi
own
As we have been taking this view of the mat
ter, we have recalled the example of Wasbinpto
] on this very solject--ou the occasion of the drs
= rejection by tle Senate Of a nomination made b