The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-03-11

Justice Chase, and then by Senators and
other spectators present.
The Cabinet.
| We copy from the Chicago Post the
following appropriate remarks, upon the
newly appointed Cabinet of President
Grant: Hon. E. B. ashburne, of Hi
nois is so well known to all the readers of
the Post that we need not extol his vir-
tues, or reiterate the incidents of his pub
lie life. Should his health permit him to
remain in the Cabinet, the fact will great
ly simplify the Presidents duty in sign
ing bills for no man in the nation can
detect an occult legislative steal SO quickly
and unerringly as the new Secretary of
State.
Mr.. A. I. Stewart is also well known
to the general public. that scarcely any
prominent incident Of his life or trait of
his character has failed Of being often
chronicled. He is thoroughly educated
gentleman of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and
was bern in Lisburn, ireland, in 1904
From small beginning in New York city
over 40 years ago, without having ever
once failed III business, he has become the
king of merchants He brings to the
discharge of his duties, large knowledge
of finance, a worldwide reputation for
integrity, and princely individual for
tune which places him above temptation.
These circumstances justify the hope that
he viii greatly contribute to the full resto-
ration Of the public credit while Secreta-
ry Of the Treasury.
Mr.. Adolph f. Borie, the new Secreta-
ry of the Navy, has yet to make his pub
lie mark. But the people will receive his
appointment none the less cheerfully on
that account, because he is approved by
the candid Judgment Of Presiden Grant,
and in any event must be greatimprove-
ment upon the late Secretary Welles. He
is a resident Of Philadelphia, has been an
officer in the navy, and at the time of his
appointment was retired merchant
/ Ex-Governor j. D. Cox, of Ohio, who
received the portfolio of the Interior, was
born in Canada. Early in life, however,
he removed to Northern Ohio, where he
was not much known until he distinguish
ed himself in the Union army. In 1865
he was chosen Governor Of Ohio, his first
| civil Office. Gen. Grant knows him most
thoroughly, land we doubt not as Secretary
of the Interior his great faculty for mas
tering details without losing sight Of great
principles, will enable him to lift his De-
partmcnt from the disreputable slough
into which it has been plunged by incom-
potency and rascality
Probably no man could have been Sc
lected for Attorney General whose char
acter, both as regards legal ability and un-
blemished personal integrity, is above
that of Judge E. r. Ioar, of Massachu-
sets. He was an original Republican,
having written the first Republican plat
form of his State in 1855. He was also
a delegate to the first Republican Nation
al Convention. His appointment is un
questionably a good one.
That Randall has been supplanted in
the Post Office Department by so good
and true man as John A. J. Cresswell
OF Maryland, gives the country assurance
that Wells, Fargo & Co, have suffered
the loss ot a heavy partner, and that the
monstrous postal deficiencies which have
startled the people into an attitude of
painful inquiry as to whether there is ana
Department of the Government free from
speculation, are not to again occur. Mr..
Cress we'll is only 40 years of age, and
came into public life in 1861 ,as 4 member
of the Maryland Legislature. In 1868
he was elected to the lower House OF
Congress, and, upon the death of Senator
Hicks, in 1865, was chosen to fill his
place. He was delegate in the last Ma
tional Republican Convention of the
Republican party, and there presented as
the choice of his State for Vice President
1t is sufficient praise of him to say that
upon his shoulders fell the mantle of the
immortal Henry Winter Davis.