If the President of the United States has the right to Constitutional advisers who are personally agreeable to him and who share his personal confidence, then surely Mr.Johnson gave unanswerable proof that Mr.Stanton should not remain a member of his Cabinet.

But the Senate was not influenced either by the general considerations affecting the case or by the special reasons submitted by the President.

The question was not finally decided by the Senate until the 13th of January (1868), when by a party vote it was declared that "having considered the evidence and reasons given by the President in his report of December 12, 1867, for the suspension of Edwin M.Stanton from the office of Secretary of War, the Senate does not concur in such suspension." The Secretary of the Senate was instructed to send an official copy of the resolution to the President, to Mr.Stanton, and to General Grant.
Upon receipt of the resolution of the Senate, General Grant at once locked the door of the Secretary's office, handed the key to the Adjutant-General, left the War-Department building and resumed his post at Army Headquarters on the opposite side of the street.

Secretary Stanton soon after took possession of his old office, as quietly and unceremoniously as if he had left it but an hour before.

Perhaps with some desire to emphasize the change of situation, he dispatched a messenger to Headquarters to say in the phrase of the ranking position that "the Secretary desires to see General Grant." General Grant did not like the way in which Mr.Stanton had resumed control of the War Office.