Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-04-23
CORRESPONDENT

IHE BLACK AND WALKER DIFFICULTY
nave rot troubled the Stars readers with the I'm
mored details of the difficulty between exSecre-
tary X j. Walker and Attorney General BLACK
because believing the public to be- AS we certainly,
are, literally wearied out and disguised nj uouxc
I'm with such Observation-Disclosures between nuhltc
men. Ii grew out If the testimony of ne,son
named Scnaebel, before the 'ssmellinp commit
tee" OF the House, wherein that individual said
that when lie described the Presidents letter tn
MI. walker to Judge Black, and asserted that
the latter had such letter from the President in
his possession, Black replied that Walker lied If no
Chained 10 nave such Presidential letter Now
we do not know what may be the relationship n,
animation between Walker and Scnaebel, that
the former should have conftded to him a me-
else knowledge Of the contents of that ,yo,d.,f,,
ePistle, over the possession Of which NJ, W.ILo,
has cut so many antics for some three wears MT
unit that portion of the world that 9 f,,oo,,.,
t1at many years ago he was in public lif. has
COME 10 know him only as the man who has got
a letter from Buc hanan. The association and CON
ndence between Scnaebel and Walker boweve,
must naturally be Intimate, Ia Ike or w wonId
ndroIy make 5 version of ordinary Casual
conversation with Judge Black the ground Of ga
PefeHptory Challenge" IL is, nevertheless with
tue pubic question of some interest-Wbo is
Mr.. Scnaebel! is he person of such antece.
dents rs that his statements of private conye,.,
lions concerning public affairs NAV l.pitimatel,;
become the ground for sending that Pickwickian
thlhs-the ''peremptory challenge" What are
MI Scnaebel's associations! what his Formulation,
are questions that the public will naturally ask
IN determining the exact weight to which his
ouei producing (almost) account of Judge Blacks
conversation is entitled
On the whole we shall mt 10 .,,-..-.
testimony in question turns out 10 be in p,etty
A1ePinS With the character of the labors Of ,ba
slheihng committee; and we fancy that the nub.
lie will commend Attorrev Gs,a,,, d.
e"nnS the rumored sEperemnto,v ch,Il,, :,
with the profound contempt with which ba :.
'nu III the newspapers to have received its
o''hs ou' part of an deliberately prearrsnoed
game, foreshadowed in the use of Mr. Scn,shaI
ds "l'ntsS, and In the elaborate sensation s,.ct
uehVeted by Mr. w alker ere producing the magic
ieoer DeIore The connittee-w hich we tale -
proven 10 oe anything conceivable but such a LET.
Ter as was described 10 Judge Black wb.p in ,ba
CONSTRUCTION once; as il is, certainly as unlike the
letter lndustriously described by the Walte, "a
The Douglasite press for years past as liqbtisrn-
Ike darkness. Such a letter as has been th,s 4.
scrlbed, The President, clearly enough. never did
write TO Walker; the Proof Of which fact lies !,
tue letter which he did write to Wake, The
P'biiShed descriptions of the letter in advance of
It's production were a part Of the Douglas Pres;-
uehHal game. All the capital for the Douglas
y" SCI aboIitionism that could be made out of
sweeping misrepresentation of its contents Were
h' l., Tor years. The time had come when that
wonderful letter could do further pro- rouyls.
outy only In one way-that is, by II, production
' 'he eve o. the action Of the Charleston Conven-