Mr. Stanton holds the position unwillingly.

There was an interval of a week between that date and the order of suspension, during which two Cabinet meetings were held.

This language is very significant.

You are hereby suspended from office as Secretary of War, and will cease to exercise any and all functions pertaining to the same.

Under a sense of public duty I am compelled to deny your right under the Constitution and laws of the United States.

The suspension has not been revoked, and the business of the War Department is conducted by the Secretary ad interim.

Mr. Stanton does not content himself with assuming that public considerations bearing upon his continuance in office form as fully a rule of action for himself as for the President.

But he goes further, and plainly intimates what he means by 'public considerations of a high character,' and this is nothing else than his loss of confidence in his superior.

Public considerations of a high character constrain me to say that your resignation as Secretary of War will be accepted.

It was approved, and at the earliest moment practicable was applied in the form of a proclamation to the State of North Carolina.

I make great allowance for a change of opinion, but such a change as this hardly falls within the limits of greatest indulgence.

Thus far and upon this vital policy there was perfect accord between the Cabinet and myself.

It can not be legally accepted by the executive government without the advice and consent of the Senate.

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 25th ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers.

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the papers accompanying it.

I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 26th ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers.

A trust artificially created, not for its own sake, but solely as a means of promoting the general welfare, its influence for good must necessarily depend upon the elevated character and true allegiance of the elector.

The Union and the Constitution are inseparable.