The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-02-26
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Correspondents Fremont JOurnal.l
WAsHIro-or, D. O, Feb. 20, Is6g.

II - Qui6A3 OOutcuOouJ
day reader to understand on what an uncom-
Portable anxious seat the unusual perfect
and persistent reticence of the President elect
10 reference to his Cabinet selections, has
placed, and kept for several weeks, several
hundred gentlemen of various parts of the
country. Perhaps, good reader, you do not
at once see how several hundred gentlemen
can feel such intimate concern about seven
places, all told. Listen. al will tale un-
fold" DC. Those several hundred anxious
seated gentleman are not all aspirants for the
seven Cabinet positions. They are not all
seated upon the same row of forms; but on
several successive. The first row only is
filed with the exPectants of the Cabinet
places, the next being hangers on to their
skirts. The first row contains only about 20
times the number of gentlemen that there is
of Cabinet places. They had all very reason
able expectations of being called, before
Grants incommunicableness became known.
They are most deserving. Some have dis
tinguished themselves by patriotieally serv-
ing their country, in the fattest Offices they
could get for the greatest portion Of their
adult lives, and have grown wealthy ont Of
them, though dull, honest people cannot to
this day see how. Others sre not SO distin.
guished, but have patriotic desire to waste
ne more time out of the service Of their cOun-
Try. They are rich, but made their money
outside; aad now if they may only add the
honors of high public office 10 their financial
success, they would feel that the highest
achievements of humanity were theirs, and
that the measure Of their disinterested ambi-
ton and happiness was full. Others are
speculative gentlemen, who have long gam
bled in politice-On the capital Of others,
generally, their own being rather small
always going in for big stakes, but rarely
winning. They arc especially eligible for
Cabinet positions, having numerous appoint
ments under their control and certain laws to
administer, for their ability to turn them all
to their own personal account. But all in
the first row are alike in one particular:
They fuiill one of Jackson's cardinal require
misunderstood 10 be no less Grants
they are eqpable-Of enjoying public places.
They feel (like their religion prOtotypes) it
is good to be there
The next row of anxious seats in the rear,
and several next, are filed with twenty times
as many gentlemen as the twenty-times
seven chiefs Of the anxious. These gentle
men are the self-aPpOinted right-band men
of the occupants Of the first row. When the
latter shall get into President Grants Cabi-
net, they will kindly take the Assistant
Secretaryships and COmmissionerships.
They number only few hundreds to every
place of their grade to be filed, in case their
respective chiefs are selected. And behind
these are the numerous rows of forms, crowd
ed with nondescriPt variety of persons,
uniform in one exalted virtue, however,
namely, constant devotion to their friends
in prosperity, actual or hoPed-for. These
gentlemen are depending upon the interme-
diate formsmen for places running from
Chief Clerkships down to the self-forgetful-
ness of President JacksOu's applicant, who,
after being told that the Foreign Ministries,
Cabinet places, AuditOrships, &C., for which
ne successfully applied, were all filled, con-
cluded with asking the Presidentifhe hadn't
any old clothes he could give him.
Think of all these patriotic gentlemen
waiting weeks on their hard benches for
Grant to make the sign of his pleasure; and
he won't do it. The refinement of the cruelty
of Gen. Grants conduct toward them lies in
the independence his silence portends. They
are very powerful at patience and loDg-suf-
fering if they can only hope to make it pay
enough in the end. But Grants indepen-
denOe forbids the hope. They are terribly
afraid that as he has not sought the benefit
of the advice of soul on the first row, he
may not have looked upon their qualifcs-
tiOns, deserts, DC, in the right light and
that when his choice comes TO be made
known, it will plainly evidence their absence
from his councils, in a strange, wsyward Sc
lection Of gentlemen who have done some.
thing at some time in their lives, or who give
proof of ability and disposition to do some
thing, with the opportunity, In earnest sim
gleness of purpose for their country.
GEN. GRANTS SUCCESSOR.
1t seems that Lieut.. Gen. Sherman will
succeed to Gen. Grants domicile, no less than
to his Office, the committee of gentlemen sp-
pointed to procure for and psesent to the
Lieut.. General a residence for him in this
city, having purchased Gen. Grants resi-
dence, furniture and all, on l street, in the
Douglass Row." nearly due north from the
Capitol This block of dwellings was built
by the then Senators Douglas, Breckenridge
and third party whose name do not now
recall, for their own residences. But how
was this purpose realizedH
For his Office Gen. Sherman will occupy,
for the present, the same room with Gen.
Grant at army head-quarters where desk
has been prepared for him, that he may &C.
quaint himself with the routine of business
before Gen. Grant resigns. For this purpose
he will be here fortnight, or so, before the
resignation take place.
PREPARING To LEAVE.
A new trunk standing in front of trunk
makers establishment in this city, day or
two since, marked on the end " A johnson,
Tennessee, attracted the attention of pas
sers-by. 1t was taken for granted to be one
of the preparations for leaving the White
House by the present occupant. Did ever
man leave that house with so few persons
wishing him to remain2 Yet see even he
has some friends. He has been unanimously
invited by both branches of the City 0oun-
ellis of Baltimore, to visit that city, and gen.
tlemen have been appointed to tender him
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