Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-05-01
Secretary Stanton.

There is no one member OF the Cabinet about
whom public opinion has been so surely,
Secretary of War. The faults which appeared
in the beginning Of his administration-his i'm
pulsiveness in public action, and his some
times harsh treatment of ofindividuals-are being
forgotten in the spIendor Of his successes and
the integrity of his administration.
II Mr.. Stanton is lmpulsive now 1t Is always
is against some gigantic crime, or in his eager
ness to throw his own tremendous force of
character and mind into military movements
which seem to him sluggish or hesitating. His
acts OF revolutionary energy and arbitrary
power are not confined to Furnishing petty trail
tors. but to the arrest and punishment of more
conspicuous criminals in peculiar crisis Of af-
fairs. His prompt removal OF General Butler
and his immediate renewal OF the attack on
Wilmington were grand and successful in.
stances OF his Revolutionary energy"
The recent prompt, but most trenchant state
ment OF the grounds OF disapproval OF General
Sherman's negotiations, show Mr.. Stanton's
intellectual force and his deep earnestness in
the national cause in the best light We be-
heve the whole country felt q certain sense of
relief and security, when that manifesto ap-
peared, at the thought of two such vigorous
bands at the helm as MIR. Stantons and Mr..
Jonnsons.
But the highest glory Of the Secretary of War,
on the page Of history, will be his remarkable
powers OF organization and the entire integrity
of his administration.
When we call to mind what, for instance, the
organization of the English campaign in the
miles from a water base, and the problem was
for the greatest naval power in the world TO
feed and clothe and medically care for $4,000
men; the inextricable confusion, the want Of
rations, Of stores, clothes and medicine, the
sufferings of those brave men from this most
stupid want Of business capacity in the OH.
cials, until the Crimean campaign became q
spectacle to the world for Its misery and stu
pidity, and then reflect that for four years
Mr.. Stanton and his officials have been feeding,
clothing. arming and taking medical care OF
some 100000 men each year, transporting them
with great rapidity thousands of miles on the
sea and by land, and that no instance has oc.
CURED Of short supplies or irregular transport
tation, or deficient clothing or arming, or ION
any large scale) a want Of medical supplies,
everything seeming to be just where 1t was
needed, we must admit that somewhere in our
military service there has been agreat organic
ing brain.
More than this; never, we believe, were such
vast sums of money spent SO honestly and
economically, SO far as the department could
control the expenditure. Contractors who
have dealt with the Secretary and his immedi-
ate subordinates will confess that very little
has been made out of the Government either
honestly or otherwise, in this war. And not
the bitterest enemy of Mr.. Stanton can ever
charge him with the slightest taint OF corrup.
tion or venality in his high Office Handling
hundreds of millions every year, he has never
incurred even the suspicion of appropriatlRg
dollar to himself.-New York Times.