The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-06-23
Reconstructing the Cabinet.

The Washington correspondent OF the New
York World writes as follows to that paper, up
on the resignation of Attorncy-General HoAR
and the subsequent nomination of AMOS I.
AKERslAN, Esq, to fill that distinguished po-
sition. Mr.. AKERMAN resides at Elbcrton
Ga, and is well known to many of our readers:
The rumors which have become chronic du-
ring the past two months regarding the status
of Attorney General Hoar in the Cabinet were
to-day set at rest by the acceptance by the
President of Mr.. Hoar's resignation, and the
nomination of Amos r. Akerman, of Georgia,
to the Senate, as his successor. As it has been
for s,mc time the wcll-known and settled pur-
nose of the President to relieve his Cabinet Of
Mr. Uoar, and as the latter has as well express
cd his intention of leaving, his resignation has
not created a tenth part of the surprise thatthc
nomination of his hitherto unknown successor
las elected. Had it not been for the presence
OF Il few Gcorgians in the city, whom the Presi-
dent consulted on Tuesday regarding the char
;,;.tef and capacity Of Mr.. Alderman. it would
be Il difficult matter to tell who he is (; and this
becomes amusing from the fact that the Eadi-
Gals rive it out that the President is about COM
mcn:ing q general reorganization Of his Cabi-
net with men Of more prominence in the Re
publican party and men more acceptable to
Congress The new Acknowledgement is de-
scribcd rs gentleman OF the old school. tall
and spare, and about fifty years of age. lie is
native of New Hampshire, but has resided in
Georgia for thirty years, and WAS loyal to this
government throughout the war. He was
among the first in Georgia to indorSc the mill
tarv policy of reconstruction, and has been
firm supporter of the Bullock administration
which was the first fruits Of that policy. Ele
was at the head of tic Grant electoral ticket in
Georgia. and was rewarded by being appointed
United States Distrct-Attorncy for that dis
trict. This past winter he was candidate for
United States district judge, but failed to re-
cciyc the appointment. In fact his biography
could all be written on the back of his new
commission. 1t is briefcr and of less impor-
tance even than those of Belknap and Robson,
who were lifted from similar obscurity into
their present official stations. 1t is learned,
however, that the President, in selecting Mr..
Akcrman, desired to conccdc something to &C.
ographical position, and therefore determined
to put representative in the Cabinet from the
cotton States.
The Washington Star of last Saturday makes
the annexed comments in regard to the appoint
ment
1t seems pretty certain that the more radical
Republicans will make an earnest effort to pro-
cure the withdrawal of Ackcrmans nomina-
ton to the Attorney -Gcneralship, or failing in
that, to prevent his confirmation by the Senate.
This action grows out of the part borne by, MIR.
Ackerman during the late rebellion, in which
it is alleged he voluntarily took an active part
for about eighteen months. 1t appears that the
legal and political disabilities imposed upon
Mr.. Ackcrman by the fourteenth amendment
were removed by the Act approved on the 18th
December last, in which his name appears with
about 800 others. The opposition to him
would seem, therefore, not to be based upon
strictly legal objections, but rather upon the
questions of propricty in the President choos-
ing constitutional adviser from that class,
while plenty of men at least equal in ability
and reputation to Mr. Alderman, and without
any faint upon their patriotism, could be had
for the place"
The New York Tribune, in view of AKER-
MANS nomination as Attorney General, says;
ave recognize in the new appointment
cheering sign that the administration is deter
mined to break down the idea that men who
were carried into the rebellion, but have since
frankly and honorably accepted the result, must
be forever excluded from public trust"