The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-03-27
Grants Cabinet


tant post of Secretary of the Treasury at
tracts great attention in business circles.
He is perhaps, the first merchant of the
country in wealth and in success. In this
market he imports dry goods to the value of
S25, 600, 900 year, and is the largest buyer
of gold in the market to pay duties on i'm
ports. No doubt he believes in a contrac-
ton of the currency and with these views,
and the place he holds, no man can have
so much power over the currency as him
self. His wealth is reported at not less
than $25,OO0.OOO. Though warm suppor-
ter of Gen. Grant and the war, Mr.. Stewart
has not been looked upon as party man.
He wrote during the war, '.All that L
have of position and wealth owe to the free
institution of the United States, under
which, in common with all others North and
South, protection to life, liberty and pro-
ner.r Un the occanun; or I 1frusrdaieut dent vunn-
sons visit to New York en- route to the tomb
of Douglas, Mr.. Stewart headed the COM
mittee Of citizens which received him, and
was prominent among the guests at the
banquet at Delmonico's where the Presi-
dent made his famous speech. At the time
Of the Philadelphia Convention he was
counted as one of the favorers of the third
party which that assemblage was intended
to inaugurate.
Mr.. A. T. Stewart was born at or near
Belfast about 65 years ago, of a family de-
scended from one of the Scottish colonies,
established in the north of Ireland. He was
left an orphan in his 9Th year, and from
that time until his 18th was under the care
of his maternal grandfather, who intended
him for clergyman. With this view he
was sent to Trinity College, Dublin, where
he is reported to have taken creditable
stand in his classes. In 1896, he came to
New York, and for some time supported
himself by teaching. A few months after
that he took to trade, had small shop op-
posite City Hall Park, where he dealt
chiefly in laces, gloves, and other like tri-
fles of haberdashery. and here commenced
his great good fortune.
The names Of the new Cabinet naturally
suggested good many incidents in their
history. We give one elsewhere in the ad-
vancement of Grant. from a plain, retired
captain, acting as clerk. to the Presidency.
Cox and Dennison secured the defeat of
Robert c. Schenck and the first election of
John Sherman to the U. S. Senate, because
Schenck, a Corwin Wing, refused to sup
port Fremont on account of personal diff
calties between his brother, Com. Schenck.
| and Fremont in California. At the out
break of the war, Cox was in the last months
of his term as Senator. Gov. Dennison ap-
pointed him Brigadier- General of Ohio Vol
unteers about the same time that he made
Geo. B. Mcclellan Major General, and un-
der ,McClellan's orders he inspected the
State Arsenal, receiving the gathering vol
unteers at Port jackson. After the re-en-
| listment Of his three months for three years,
he was ordered to West Virginia, to make
the advance up the Kanawha Valley, which
McClellan then designed to be the leading
movement of that first successful campaign
of the war.
Gen. Cox's career as Governor was une-
ventful. He was not fully in sympathy
with his party. After johnson had vetoed
the Civil Rights bill, the Freedmen's Bureau
bill, and sundry subsequent ones, he visited
Washington, called meeting of Ohio Con.
gressmen and read to them long and very
earnest letter, in which he strove to con.
vince them of the honesty and purity ol
Johnson's purposes, and besought them te
forego their opposition and yield somewha,
to Johnson's prejudices on Civil Rights and
o her disputed questions. The Congress
men refused to be governed by his advice
Gov. Cox announced his intention not to bt
a second time candidate. He was poor
not worth $1,000, was approaching middl,
age, and felt the necessity Of making money
He accordingly removed to Cincinnati, en-
tered upon the practice of law, and wa
soon in tho enjoyment of large and grow
! ing business. Thus he declined the Com
missionership of Internal Revenue when ten
dered him by Mr.. johnson; and whel
Grant urged johnson to get over the Stan
ton difficulty by appointing Cox Secretar,
of war, there was reason to believe that b,
would decline that.
i OF Adolph Borie, all that is known of hin
is. that he is an honest, liberal man, Vice
President of the Philadelphia Union League
He was introduced to Grant by Gen. Meade
and acquaintance soon ripened in friend
, ship, which, has ended in a Cabinet appoint
ment.
Mr.. Creswell is new man in Marylan
| politics. He was born in Cecil Co., Nd, i
!, 1928; graduated at Dickinson College. Pa
l in 1913; admitted to the bar of Mary
l,od i'm JSS0 Tn 1861 o ho wae N voo,,nho