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Cabinet Speculations

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
November
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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. .. [ui 5iiU5 i he Washington uorfospofident of the Cioci!u'i I a 1 er giicts tim curieni gpeculatioiis as to e:a;igea 11 llu1. Cabiuet. Ho says íbe new Cabinut questiou is becuming one of unuauul iniportaueo in the interior of politioal oircle bare. A significant faet is statud to-day. th;it is, ihnt Piesiiient Johnsou has reijaest.ed the nimudiate return, from Europe, nf Muj. Gen. UiMirgt) B MuOlellan. Thö t-ict stuted with niucii positivene.s, and upoo high authoritv. [t ia known that Mr. Johnson earnewtly destiles tliat his ati ministra tioo sball restoru absolute peaoe and unión to the whnle country. H, wants to be the President ol both Nm-th and Soutb, md of both parMes in eacb wec;tion. Ho is auxi iif lo cliuit the uoanitnous support of t,,o people. In this etíoit ho tinds ít leas difficiilt. to briog toiiether, in a unity, tho people of the North and íSduíI), tlüín to iodiioa the Demócrata und II - pnhlioant f thü Northetji' States to coalesce. Iu this ernergeucy, having liitherto left his Cubintit pecisey as he íoun 1 it, he, it is aid, propone tu mako a di reot. appoal ti the Northern Demooracy by felecting for the Secretary of Wur the man '.Tho was the Democratie candidate for Pre.siiJent in the liist eleclioi). - For this r: so", it is ruinoiid, ho re'.urn i'f McCiellan has heen lemiiided. Thomas B. Fliirencw, f{ Pennsvva na another Uni ;ti Dcnrii'crat, has alreaty buen prominent ly spokun of mh Secretary nf tlm Níivy, and Motitgotnery Blair, whd p -irticipn'ed a few rfuya 120 in the Ifew Yorlc Doiuocratio ratifíuatioa meetintr, is iiieiitioued as probably to lie inv'teti ti riiHome control of ttie Post-of tice Dnp-irt -nent There is more founda ion for these tumors than most people are willing to admit. Their menti"n wül iiivnke a storm of denuuciulion from the radical pre.8 and partisans, but all this will nntdoter Mr. Johnson frotn se leitfiifj as bis Oabiuet advisers, Union ÜoiaociMis, whom he kuows he can im pÜOttlv trust. It is h i.' 1 1 day thut 8tnton would iongag:) Iihv,. rctired from tho War De part. . ;nt except for considerations of per.-i i al safe.rv and accmintabiliy, from truien he ia sIih teretl m.ly by his panoply ( i'ffioi I ));W' r M;gor General Butler is also mentioneil as íhe raiiical candidate for the War Department as the suoeeasor of Stanton but the reasons assigned for the rec.ill of McClullíMi are more potent than nny -ssigue! iü favor of any other '.vhoso name has heen íissooia'ed with this uppointment. It has been snuííesleil that such appointmeul wnuid mt reoeive Senatorial oonfímntttQii, bu' Andy Johnson knows what hit is about, anfl has tort rnu!h firmness to be brow heaten cr diutatcl to by liny cphetneral bsüjofity in the Senute, whioh will be nielted away 'vitliiu a few . áioiiths.

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Old News
Michigan Argus