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Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
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A Washington dispatch denies Seward's retirement rumor but admits Cabinet dissension over war policy. The Cincinnati Gazette reports the President and Cabinet rejected promoting Gen. Rousseau to Major-General because Seward, Blair, and Bates viewed him as too radical, while he takes command at Huntsville, Alabama.
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A special dispatch from Washington to the Cincinnati Gazette, dated July 25, while denying the statement of the New York Herald that Seward proposed to retire from the Cabinet on account of what the dispatch styles a vigorous war policy, admits that there "is some dissension in the Cabinet on this point." And the Gazette in its editorial column, in referring to Gen. Rousseau being now in command at Huntsville, Alabama, in place of Mitchell, says that it was proposed to make him a Major-General, and the proposition was considered by the President, discussed in the Cabinet and decided in the negative. The reason for the rejection of the proposition, was that Seward, Blair and Bates thought Rousseau too radical! The Gazette professes to speak by the book, and the way it takes occasion to pitch into the Cabinet is a caution. Indeed its style and manner are such that if used by an unfortunate Democratic editor, he would surely go to Fort Warren.
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Washington; Huntsville, Alabama
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July 25
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Dispatch denies Seward's retirement but admits Cabinet dissension on war policy; Gazette reports rejection of Rousseau's promotion to Major-General due to his radicalism, opposed by Seward, Blair, and Bates, as he assumes command at Huntsville replacing Mitchell.