Mr. JOHNson. It is essential to a proper administration, in my opinion, that the Cabinet should be united and should be har monious. But, sir, I probably should not have arisen at all if it were not for the fact that my colleague has thought proper, in the course of his speech, to read a letter, said to have been published in the newspapers, addressed to me. This letter is a private letter, which, by some means or other, i. been purloined from among my private papers. I. have never given any authority for its publication. I do not say that my colleague was aware of that fact, for had he been aware of it I Presume he never would have used the letter. Having been obtained under those circumstances, I acquit him as a matter of course of all impropriety in the use of the letter which has been published. But, sir, in relation to the letter itself, I have felt it due to the gentleman who addressed it to me to state this fact, that it was not published with my consent, but was purloined from my private papers by some person unknown to me. This letter contained a slip cut from a news paper published by an editor residing at White water, in the State of Wisconsin, who was the postmaster of that place; and it will be observed that all that is contained in the letter has reference to the course which was pursued by certain gentlemen residing in the State of Wisconsin, holding office under the Adminis tration, and who were open mouthed and most bitter in their denunciations personally against myself and against the President; and the writer of the letter suggests, how long shall this be endured, that the President and yourself are to be thus calumniated and maligned? I shall not go into any further discussion of this question at the Present time. My eol league, in the course of his remarks, seemed to concede that it was perfectly proper, in the changes of political parties, that when a party came into power it jnominate its friends to office. He claimed, however, that President Johnson has deserted the principles of the party which elected him to power, and has made removals because he intended to compel his friends who were associated with him to desert their principles also. Sir, into this question as to who has deserted the principles of the party which elected Mr. Lincoln and