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View Of The Presidsnt, By Russell

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Day
25
Month
October
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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J dn not nttach uiiy important vvhatever to rumora, but t is within rny own personal knowledge that Ml'ious ' sotial disükes exist betwten the mum l.ers of tlio Cabinot. The'President, in ' tlie main, cultivates tho ntimaey, and perhopw npprovea 'he eruineils 01 Mr. Seward, but he is exhib'ting h rilde , vigor ot his own - rude beoauao i i ditiplayed openly - which provea tliat he eun reduce his Cabinut to what it really is according to the American theory - a mere board of heads of de partments, who rnay bo asked their opinión.- of any matter as amici curia by the President, or who muy I e put on une i-ide if he please. Mr. Sewai d, wise in his generation, confines his attention to the onerous business of his ovvp department, but others of nis colleaíue8 tinglli.-ih themselves by an unluoky nssiduity in tonnenling tl.emselves with the sftiHW of depurtments which do not belong to theni, and " everything by turna and notlung long,'1 ure tl'e teredos of every plank in the ihip if State. Mr. Lincoln, who has a lighttn go everywhere, and do nnything he likes, apparcntly, evinces a .sulicitude natural enough in ' :iil that is gcing fin in the annv, the navy ind the other b'anches of tho public service, and liaa latterly tnrncd his attenlion to the subject of big guns and ordnance. It would Kiirnise an Englishman, vhopo notions of the fonetiona of a President, founded on the popular idea that they were those ol a milder port of chief magistracy than that which we have the huppiness to possess, probably restricted his powers to that of veto or approval by signatui e of acts of Parliament, and the sending of messagen, to be told thut Mr. Lincoln i? nut ouly heud of the army and navy, but that in such questions as the propriefy ol rclieving Fort Siimpter by a military and naval expedition, the Illinois lawyer studied boos, heard argumentó on both sidep, and h'nally determined on the coureo to be pursucd.

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Michigan Argus