Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-12-24

man AnU sumner, tSc.s S~Cs
WASHINGTON, CITY, D. c., Dec. Is, 1869.
Dear JouanaL Among the nominations
sent to the Senate yesterday by the Pre-.
sident, was that of S. L. Whitney, of Mi
chigan, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the sixth judicial circuit, in place Of
George Fl. Yeamin, withdrawn. This is
not the only name that will be withdrawn
or else rejected, as the Senate is quite
wroth over some of the judicial nomina
lions, and asked the President why he
made certain appointments of Judges
which question the President resented al
impairment, and refused to be catechised
Does the President forget that the Senate
is his master, and that he wears it's collar
though it be a gifded one The collar
was forged for Andrew Johnson, and wal
voluntarily accepted by the present wear
or, who finds that it chafes, and it viii
chafe deal worse before he gets rid o.
it. It is said that the Southern member
of the Senate insist on a Southern man be
ing appointed to the Supreme Court, anG
that a formidable opposition exists agains
the confirmation of Judge Hoar to that pc
sition. This will be another cross for the
President, as he has set his heart upon
Hoar's going on the Supreme bench. BY
promising the South the succession tc
Judge Grier, of Pennsylvania, who yester.
day resigned his place on the Supreme
bench, the President can, no doubt, have
his friend Hoar confirmed and as the
price of the Senate's compliance with his
wish, he will appoint some g carpet-bag
GER" or worse, scalawag" from the
South to position that will not elevate
the man, but will tend to degrade and de.
stroy the influence and heretofore unim.
peachable integrity of the highest and most
sacred tribunal in the land, to the level OF
the spot house, politicians that dominate
in Congress-
Impeacher Ashley has fallen, struck in
the house of his friend. Ulysses has said
''be no longer officer of mine" May he
and Ashley is great, and both martyrs,
s.Et tn Brute 2" Another has been APP
pointed in his place. The assistant woman
hanger and impeachment proposer is po-
litically as we'll as morally damned, and
another will rule as Governor of Montana.
The services of Ashley in assisting Stanton
and Holt to hang Mrs. Surratt by subor-
ming witnesses. who were afterwards con-
victed of perjury, and his untiring efforts
to impeach Mr.. johnson had endeared him
to the Radical party, but he has fallen
from grace in his endeavor to promote his
own interests by ourrying favor with the
Democratic majority of Montana. He
event back" on the negro, hence his fall.
In this connection the Radical papers
say that General Grant is resolved to carry
out what he said in his inaugural, "that
when he found he had made bad APP
pointment he would correct it at the first
opportunity" Exactly, when he appoint
ed Ashley he knew all about him and his
removal is only because he backSiided on
one of the Radical commandments "Love
the negro better than yourself, If the
President intends to carry out the above
idea, how about Sickles? But he has not
found out that Sickles is q bad man, he
knew it when he appointed him, so tn lat
he does not come under that head Gen
eral Grant reads the New York World, so
he says, and that paper has reiterated, what
all the world knows, that Sickles has been
guilty of nearly every crime in the deca-
logue which have been fully set forth in
that paper, and are quito familiar to those
who know our present Minister to Spain
or his history. Let Grants friends drop
the virtuous dodge, it won't work. The
removal of bad appointees will only
take place when there is a doubt of their
adhesion to the doctrine of negro supe-
riority 1t used to be that the negro was
mentally and physically the equal of the
Caucasian. Now, according to the latest
theory, he is the superior. According to
the report of Surgeon General Barnes an
array OF figures and arguments arepsraded
to demonstrate the superiority, in every
respect, of the negro soldier over the white
soldier. We are progressing.
The New York politicians QoiD have
agreed to cultivate the Germans in that
State, and determined to give them share
OF the Administration pap. The President
and Secretary Boutwell, were enter
viewed" and endorsed the plan as one
likely to regain that State into the Radical
fold. The President, in the height of his
enthusiasm at the prospect, promised that
Gen. Siegel should be appointed Marshal
of the Southern District of New York.
Upon second, sober thought, or upon con-
sultation with his ''opinion clerk, he halte,
or it is thought he has ''gone back Oh
Siegel and the Germans, hence the trouble
among the Siegel men. So far as an opinion
on any question of the day, except "horse"
is concerned, General Grant is like a chip
on the ocean, blown thither and hither by
every change of wind.
The debate on the Georgia bill in the
Senate yesterday was merely repetition
of scenes enacted here before-the sheer
ing insolence of might crushing honest
manly right and truth. The arguments,
if such they may be called, INDUCED in by
the Radicals, Conkling, Morton, Sherman,
Williams, and the funny man of the SEN
ate. Nye, were based entirely upon the
effect the legislation would have upon their
party's prospects. never for a moment
questioning their power under the Con-
stitution, the right, or justice of what
they were doing The minority, power
less as they are, did not let the opportuni-
ty pass without entering their earnest pro-
tests against such infamous legislation
Senators Salisbury, Norton, Stockton. Cas-
serley and Thurman presented able and
arguments founded on consti-
tutional law, justice, right and honor, but
they might as we'll have talked to band
of savages on the war path. Of course the
bill passed the Senate.
During the debate on the landing of
the French cable in this country, Senator
Thurman expressed doubt as to the