Mr. Stephens, of Georgia.
The report that Mr. Lincoln intended to call Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, to his Cabinet, is promptly and emphatically contradicted by the New York Tribune. That journal says: ‘The statement is doubtless made on mere rumor. Without professing to have any special information on the subject, it seems to us altogether improbable. Mr. Stephens is a conditional secessionist, and from what we know of Mr.Lincoln's opinions of the right and propriety of any State setting the laws of the Federal Government at defiance, it seems altogether unlikely that he would call one to his Council who holds to views even bordering upon the extreme upon that subject.’It was scarcely necessary to deny a rumor which assigned a conservative statesman like A. H. Stephens to a seat in Lincoln's Cabinet. One of the first of our public men in sagacity, farsightedness and comprehensiveness of intellectual grasp, and as pure and patriotic as he is wise and intelligent, Mr. Stephens will never be called to his counsels by such a man as Lincoln. "Birds of a feather flock together," and eagles, like the Georgia statesman, do not sit in the same squadron with vultures and mousing owls.
