THE McCARDLE CASE—GRANT'S CABINET—THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT
W. H. McCardle, of Mississippi, arrested by General Ord for seditious publications—Takes an appeal to the Supreme Court—General Grant, as Secretary of War ad interim, retains Trumbull to defend the military authorities—Congress passes a law to deprive the Supreme Court of jurisdiction—Trumbull votes for it—The Court rules that its jurisdiction has been withdrawn by Congress—Secretary Stanton fixes Trumbull's compensation for professional services at $10,000—Senator Chandler contends that the payment is contrary to law—Trumbull shows that both law and precedent are on his side—The facts in the case—President Grant's mishaps in choosing his Cabinet—Washburne for the State Department, Stewart for the Treasury, and Borie for the Navy—They are succeeded by Fish, Boutwell, and Robeson—General John A. Rawlins selected by himself for Secretary of War with Grant's approval—General Jacob Cox and Rockwood Hoar, two men of the highest type, appointed but soon resign—Adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution327
CAUSES OF DISCONTENT
Senator Grimes's estimate of the Republican party in 1870—President Grant's methods of carrying on the Government—His attempt to annex Santo Domingo—Senate rejects the treaty of annexation—The President comes in conflict with Charles Sumner, who is displaced as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations—Trumbull sustains Sumner—Motley, Minister to Great Britain, is removed from office and Trumbull is asked to take his place—He declines the offer—First movement for civil service reform—Trumbull makes a speech at Chicago advocating it—Secretary Cox and Attorney-General Hoar cease to be members of Grant's Cabinet341
THE LIBERAL REPUBLICANS
The Liberal Republican movement begins in Missouri—Its leaders—Enfranchisement of the ex-Confederates, civil service reform, and revenue reform, the issues—Meeting of revenue reformers at New York, November 22, 1871—James G. Blaine, Speaker of the House, offers them a majority of the Committee of Ways and Means—The Missouri movement alarms the Republican leaders—They pass the Ku-Klux Bill for the employment of military force in the South—Trumbull and Schurz oppose the Ku-Klux bill—Trumbull pronounces it an unconstitutional measure—Schurz advocates the removal of all political disabilities—Congress passes an act of universal amnesty after the meeting of the Liberal Republican Convention351