The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-10-19

From the New York Times.
The Secretary of War is no popularity
hunter and has an invincible repugnancd
to being lionized. He means that his visit
to New York shall be of the most quiel
character and all the world has learned
that what he means he executes. 1t is adj
solutely refreshing to see an American Of
his force and fame moving with so littld
note and show--content with the friendly
courtesies of private life. iaO a Il
Undoubtedly there is some natural laclI
in the Secretary of the elements which easil!
kindlc popular enthusiasm. His cast o.
character is too severe for that. He is toll
self contained, unbending unimpressiblel
Again, he has been, through the war. in tn
most inviGious of positions. He. has mol
only to take the brunt of the spite of th'I
designing thousands who were disappointed
in getting contracts from his Department.
or who were held to the strictest fulfilment
of them, but had to stand the rage of all
whose sedtion invoked the stroug arm of
the Government Probably no public III an
i'll this country was ever the object of such
Intensity of hate AS Secretary Stanton drew
upon himself from the copperheads OF the
rebellion for his holding their faction in
check by exemplary arrests in extreme ca
ses 1t mattered not that the representa-
tiyes of the people in Congress had marked
out this line OF action by the suspension OF
the writ of hGbeuS corpus. or that President
Lincoln declared i'll public letters and speech
es that he took all the responsibility Of Mr..
Stantou'S oticla! action, tho wrath was COD
centrated upon the Secretary. Every M
lignant passion Of the human soul contrib
ted to it, until it became an absolute br-
rent of venom. He was not moved. Thoigh
1t continued for months and years, he wa
vered not in the discharge of his full luty.
But this keeping Of the rebel sympatfzers
of the North within bounds was but in
cidental part of his work. The adminltra-
ton of the War Department, comprehening
all that related to the raising, equippingand
subsisting of the most colossal army of nod
ern times, oevolved upon him. Wit all
the aids that could be gained by sste-
matte subdivision of responsibility and lbor,
his own task was still Herculean. Tht he
accomplished it at all is surprising tht he
accomplished so we'll is marvellous. w be-
lieve that the records Of all modern Goern-
ments would be searched in vain for al in
stance of such vast and complex admins
trative duties discharged with greater eff
cheney or rectitude. 1t has cost an ability
and toll Of which the public has as ye but
a faint conception When the histor of
this war comes to be completely written,
then, aud not until then viii the servie of
the head of the War Department beade-
quatel y understood and appreciated. lH|
The vitupera;ion that has been pored
out against Secretary Stanton has hen
powerless against the unqualified trihtes
of admiration freely rendered by Abraham
Lincoln. Lieutenant General Scott, Lieuen-
ant General Grant, and other men most
cognizant OF his public service, and lest
qualified to judge it. All memory of mis-
abuse will soon pass away; and the very
nanes OF those who vented it will rot al |
perish Among the many towering repIa- |
lions made by the war, few if any, are cm-
posed of more enduring elements than he
reputation of Edwin M. Stanton The ipn
staunchness, the tireless industry, the Spr-
tan integrity, the gigantic grasp of tie
Secretary OF War in the time of the Great
Rebellion will be remembered to the hst
day Of the Republic. 70 .s