The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-03-14
HE New Cabinee.

For Secretary Of State, VIM. VI. Evarts, of
New York.
For Secretary of the Treasury, John
Sherman, of Ohio.
For Secretary OF War George W. Me-
Crazy, of Iowa.
For Secretary of the Navy. Richard IL.
Thompson, Of Indiana.
For Secretary OF the Interior. Carl Schurz.
For Attorney General, Charles Devens, OF
Massachusetts,.
For Postmaster General, David NJ. Key.
of Tennessee.
We infer nothing from the foregoing
except motive of the President elect TO
strengthen the Republican party by Civ
ing every division, and the disafected
Democratic element, representation in his
Administration. w. NJ Evarts has been
classed as conservative Republican.
John Sherman is a Radical of the ex-
trene type. He has never let an oppor-
tunity pass for prosecuting and harassing
the South, and was the chief adviser of
the Louisiana returning board. G.. W.
McCrary was Republican Congressman.
His last vote was against the proviso
in the appropriation bill prohibiting the
employment of the army to sustain the
Packard Government. K. NJ. Thomp-
son is a fossil and a consistent Republican.
Carl Schurz-we all know what he is.
Charles Devens is said to belong to the
anti-Butler ring in Massachusetts,. His
reputation is local. ID. NJ. Key has
always been a Democrat. He was born
in Greene county, Tennessee, January
q. 1874 studied law, and was admitted
| to the bar, and entered into practice in
| Chattanooga in 1858 was a Presidential
elector on the Buchanan and Brecken-
ridge ticket in 1860 entered the Con
| federate army in 1861, and served
through the entire war as Lieutenant
Colonel of the Forty third Tennessee
Infantry; was a member of the Consti-
tutional Convention of Tennessee in
| 1870; was elected Chancellor of the
I bird Chancery District in 1870, and
held the position until appointed to the
| United States Senate in 1875 as a Dem
ocrat, to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of Andrew Johnson, Democrat
taking his seat December 6, 1875; in
the Senate he was the only Democrat
that voted for the Boutwell, Investigation
of the Mississippi election, but in doing
so, disclaimed belief Of the charges
which gave rise to it. He was candidate
for election before the Legislature, and was
beaten. Smarting under his defeat, he
wrote February 16th) the following let
ter to Gov. Hayes while the Counting
in" process was going on. Il can be
construed into nothing else but propo-
sition to sell out. The bargain was closed,
and he is Postmaster General:
II am ready to do all can to restore con-
| ffdence and good government to the people
ofthe South. This can only be done by a
hearty determination of the sections for
which had labored. II without
requiring of me the sacrifice of nv personal
or political independence you fEd ny name
can be used for the good Of the South, in your
| best judgment you are at liberty to use IL. Ii
| We're TO become member of an admins
| tration / should not feel myself at liberty 10
place myself IN opposition to its general policy,
but Sh0;.ld feel bound to bulld it ap and
strengthen ii in the hearts 0ftite people and il
| the time arrived when | could heartily CO.
operate with it, [ should resi- ign. As mat
tiers are in the South, | could be more useful
to our people by an independent position,
and if as | hope and believe, the Admins
| tratiOn will develop broad and liberal poll
| icy toward the people of the South, leouId
not hesitate 10 Incorporate my fortunes and self
| Nth IT,"