The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-10

such eminent success as a merchant to restore
the government to solvency and financial pros
perity. He ia not politician, and he will
manage the Treasury purely as business con-
Germ, with intent to raise the largest possible
revenue at the smallest cost, whether to the
people or the government. he cannot fail:
The Hon. E. B. Washburne has fought so
vigorously and successfully in Congress against
corruption and prodigality that ne could no not
be spared from reforming Oapne.. hs
health is very poor. and he is most reluctant
to take any appointment that keeps him in
Washington. On these grounds he at first re-
solved not to accept, but 1t is hoped that DIS
repugna ice will be overcome, even though ne
should not be able to serve through General
Grants term.
Probably no single member Of the Cabinet
had any reason. to suppose his name on the
slate till it went into the Senate to-day.
From the New York World.l
Nobody will doubt that General Grants
whimsical pretence OF composing his Cabinet
without apybody's advice was quite sincere.
He has not only devIated from the beaten
path, but deviated into absolute oddity; having
made such Cabinet as no politician would
have advised, such Cabinet as no newspaper
could have copjectured, o Cabinet which fills
his political opponents with wonder, and ms po-
litIcal friends with suppressed dlsmay. There
beginning Of an administration, which did not
contain at least one or two men OF first-rate
standing and recognized eminence 10 the
politics of. the country. Take it all in all, the
new Cabinet is "fearfully and wonderfully
made" The only hypothesis by which we can
explain its formation is, that General Grant
means to be the candidate Of the Republican
party for second term, and will tolerate IN
his Cabinet no statesman from whom he
would have anything to fear as rival.
From the New York Tmes.l
The Cabinet as whole will not commend
itself to the favor Of politicians because it has
not been taken from their ranks; nor are the
men who compose it sufficiently we'll known to
the public at large to command in advance the
full confidence OF tho community. But I'D the
very freshness of its character, in the fact that
it's members are business men rather than pol
itcians, and are likely to make the practical In
terests Of the,country their first care, we see
ground for bel ewing that the Cabinet will, BY
it's selection.
from the New York Hcra!d.
The Cabinet of President Grnut, though
promptly confirmed, will puzzle the politicians.
With nll their guesses and coniectures, cover
ing what was supposed to be the whole field
OF probabilities, not one OF them, nor all o.
them together, hit the mark beyond one or two
members. They were all on the wrong. tack
in assuming that. after the established prac.
tlce, the Cabinet would be chosen from the most
conspicuous lights and managers OF the doml-
naut party, such as Wilson, Stanton, Curtin
and Old Ben Wade. This rule Of selecting from
the head politicians OF the party was more
strlkngly illustrated in the original Cabinet OF
Abraham Lincoln than in any other, though
the folly OF such selections was sufficiently
proved by poor Pierce and Buchanan. The
harmonlzing OF the different personal clques
Of the party has been the governing idea OF
this practice, and it was under this delusion
that Lincoln committed his greatest mistake.
He thought that by gathering his rivals in the
Chicago Convention about him he would
reconcile them to the situation and With each
other; but from the beginning to the end,
with their selfish intrlgues against each other
and against him, they were constant source
OF trouble to their chief. Indeed, had not
Lincoln been marvel OF amlabiity, patience
aud resignation he could not have endured
such annoyances for one summer.
President Grant has not followed this foolish
and mischievous practice. He has not chosen
to have set Of politicians around him, who
N; ;ght assume the right to chalk out his policy,
as in the case Of Pierce; or set themselves up
as his masters, as In the case of Buchanan; or
who would be likely to raise q hornets nest
about bis ears in their plots and counterplots
for the succession, as in the case OF Lincoln.
On the contrary. we see in this new Cabinet
that Grant has given the managing Republican
politicians q wide erth; that be- has chosen
his men for business and as his subordinates,
and with not the remotest idea that they are
to be his m / ,eis or his coequals in tho admin
istratiou. H.. has utterly IGNORED the Cabinet
theory OF Mcclure, and has selected his
men as his lends, his assistants and his sec
retar1es, and each mainly in reference to the
special duties OF his department. But the
moral OF this Cabinet is that it is President
Grants Cabinet, and that he intends to be the
master Of his administration.
from the Baltimore Gazette
The names will be received by the country
with profound astonishment. and, If we mis-
take not, with mingled feelings Of bitter disap-
polutment and deeper Indignation. All who
trusted in General Grant, and very many OF
those who mistrusted him, had hoped that he
would realiz, the critical condition in whi ch
the country now stands. and that he would
summon around him men Of recognized ability
a.d patriotism. he has thought proper, how
ever, TO name for his Cabinet officers individu-
als who are only known to the public as profes-
sional patriots and shifty politicians. There is
not one among them who bears an established
character for dlsinterestelness. or who is entl-
tied 10 be classed among statesmen.