Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-08-08
Cabinet Officers Troubles.

Cabinet Officers Troubles.
Secretary Alger is far from being the
first Cabinet ofIleer who has found his
position embarrassing Jefferson, in
his diary. referring to the controver-
sizes between himself, as Secretary of
State in he Cabinet Of Washington, and
Alexander Hamilton, as Secretary Of
Tue Treasury, remarked that 1--WE were
pitted against each other likt two
hghing cocks" This condition soon
constrained Jefferson to resign, and
Hamilton did not remain long after
him. Some of the scenes between the
first President Adams on the one side
and Timothy Pickering, Secretary of
State; Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the
Treasury. James McIIenry, secre-
tary OF War. on the other.one of which
is,given to the world in letter by Nc
Henry were picturesque in their tenn
lpestnousness and led to the retirement
of all three ofsthem,
Everybody remembers the story of
how jackson, in 1892, said he would
hang Calhoun, then Vice President,
higher than Haman II Suth Carolina's
nullification in that year carried her
into rebellion. There were several
men in Jackson's Cabinet around ,Ae
same time for whom Jackson, for a
much smaller offense than Calhoun's,
had about the same sort OF feeling.
One Of these was William ]. Duane,
Secretary Of the Treasury, who refused
to obey Jackson's request to remove
the Government deposits out Of the
United States Bank, which Jackson
( was fighing at.that time, and who was
himself removed by Jackson in conse-
quence. Others were Samuel j. Ing
ham, an earlier Secretary of the Treas
ury than Duane; John Branch, Secre-
tary OF the Navy, and John McP. Ber-
rien, Attorney General. The wives Of
these three, like Calhoun's wife, refus-
ed to recognize" Mrs. Eaton, the wife
of the Secretary of War, who was, a
particularly close friend Of Jacksonis.
Martin Van Buren, the Secretary Of
State, had no wife-he was widower
and consequently was free to extend
social attenions to Mrs. Eaton, which
he did with his accustomed grace and
delicacy, and thus won the everlasting
friendship OF jackson. He was sub
stituted for Calhoun as Jackson's poll
tical heir, and went to the Presidency
on Jackson's retirement. Ingham,
Branch and Berrien were sent out OF
the Cabinet and went over to the
Wings. The affair got into politics
for the tine, and the Democratic party
was shaken to its center, tbs cpl
sode, which was one OF the most alb
surd incidents" in American politics,
was called by the wags Of the day the
Peggy oNeil War; o'Neill having
Oeen Mrs. Eaton maiden name.
All of President -yler's Cabinet ex-
cepting the Secretary of State, Daniel
Webser, resigned in 1S41 because Ty-
Ter ,as they said, betrayed his party"
by his refusal to sign the bill to re-
store the United States Bank. which
Jackson had killed. The accusation
was absurd, OF course, because the
Wings, who elected Harrison and Ty-
Ter, had made no declaration on the
bank question in the campaign OF
1910, or ON any other issue. The quar-
rel between President and Cabinet put
the country against their party in the
congressional elections of 1912 and
helped to defeat them in he Presiden-
tial election of 1874.
Stick" was the laconic message of
Charles Sumner to Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War, during the contest
between Stanton and President John
son. Stanton "stuek," and the wran-
gle between them was one OF the
causes OF the Impeachment proceed
ings against Johnson. The Blaine
Conkling feud, when Blaine in 1881
was Secretary of State in he Cabinet of
President Garfield split the Republican
party in the State of New York, weak
ened it in every state, and was the
cause of its defeat in the congressional
election of 1882 and the Presidential
election of 1S84.-Leshe's Weekly.
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