Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-23
From the Baltimore Gazette,I

From the Baltimore Gazeite.3
THE FARCE OF RADICAL HONESTY.
It is to be feared thst all the tWsddle
about prospective " honesty" in the col
lection OF the revenue, like that Of
economy " in its expenditure viii end
in smoke. Signs are abundant enough,
and of daily exhibition, showing that
the great struggle among all the cliques
of the dominant party is fer the Treasury
Department and its important append
age, the InternsI Revenue Bureau. Al
though our foreign relations are by no
means in q safe position, there is little or
no controversy here as to who shall fill
the State Department. In the face OF
q serious and imminent misunderstand-
ing with Great Britain, leading Radicals
appear to De utterly indifferent whether
our Foreign Secretary shall be Sumner
or Geo. Francis Train, or whether the
new Euvoy to that Government be Mr..
Motley or Mr. Cornell Jswett. With re-
gard TO s manager OF cur finances, how
ever, the magnets are still fighting with
a will. And wherefore III the " rings"
are sill to be GemOlishsd-M the cOllee-
tors, assessors, and supervisors are all to
be honest msD), this extraordinary sen
s~itivensss On the part o; wiEe-pulleTs
POSSESSING, or at lesst protesting TO pes
sess, the ear OF the new President? The
marines may swallow the stGf IN vogue
about honesty, but thu sailors viii lot.
The Tenure-oi- Office Act is yet unre-
pealed, AID will not De touched until the
coming man " ha5 entered into bond
with approved security upon these VIZ
tally important polats.
CABINET RUMOBs AND THE RETIRING
PRE-lDENE
In this connection I mRy say that pub
lie rumors are rapidly assuming sn su.
thentic shape in reference to the more
important Cabinet positions. Undoubt-
edly leading Radicals have become de-
cidsdly more cheerful within a day OF
two past. 1 stated the other day that
the "slkte F" had been divUIged TO some
OF them. IL is now confidently stated
that the makeup receives the spproba-
ton OF Euch differently classified men as
Sumner and Stanton, on the one hand,
and Bingham and TrambuIl, on the
other. Indeed, is is predicted, with
more than usual sudacity, that ct least
two ef these WORTHLESS viii themselves
occupy conspicuous positions, although
heretofore regarded IS Gn.ip0des TO each
other il the classification Of " wings"
speaking CT tie names "freely
bruited about by Radical paEtisRns Of
parsons who sTs to compose the Cabi-
net" the LateHjgeHcer says " Taereare
blood stains Of cruelty upoa the skirts of
- named for a most exalted place, and
OF another little can be said other thar
that he is nothing outside Of a narroO
and malignant PTOseriptiUeness."
It is understood tha: President john
sOa viii take no psrt in the ceremonies
OF the Inauguration, and will yacate the
White Houss at once, ard leave town IS
soon as possible for his hons ia Tennes-
see. He wiz doubtless be the Coussrya-
tive candidate for Governor OF thstS s. ste.
In the meantime he viii probably visit
Elrope.
Let Others bail the rising Sun"
The other leg OF the couplet is not ap-
plicable for Mr.. Johnson will yet give
his present tOrmentors trouble enough
Take il all in ali, the retiring President
has, in his high ~ofice," done .'as well
as coUl1 be expected" With the com.
sellors who surrounded and deceived
him, he did wonders; and viii vet do
more! Seward lied to him to the last.
1t will seem scarcely credible to some,
but is nevertheless . fact, thatnct a week
before the latter went over, body sud
soul, to tha Radical candidate, III. John
son assured the writer CT this, That not a
member Of his Csbinet, to his knowIedge.
entertained the remotest idea of sun-
porting Gen. Grants ~pretensIons.
THE CONGRESSIONAL GLORE
1t IS evidently the fixed determinations
Of the dominant party in Congress to
"wipe CUT the Congressional Ro6e. aBd
to turn over to the spublie printer the
publication Of the daily proeea5,.cs az
our great National S~Gnhedrin. Ts hss
been shown by figures land it Is said that
figures won't iie) that the Government
will ssvs by this Grange ia the mode Of
printing Congressional proceedings st
least a hundred and fifty thousand dol.
the first year. This may be true Of
the first year., during which the army Of
may be organizing for their as
sault on this brareh of the public ser
vice; but, after the first year, what q
held OF plunder will be offered in the