The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-07-20
TIE SINS OF EDWIN M. STANTON,

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the estimation of several classes of people he
fully answers to the theological description of
man in his fallen estate. He is morally lep-
rous; covered with wounds and bruises and
purifying sores, and has no health in him.
hHe is eartless, inhuman, lespotic, ambitious,
and never so satisfactorily employed as when
subyerting the liberties of the people and plot
ting the eternal ruin Of the republic. Total
de2ravity does not express, adequately, his de-
ficiencies, and the lowest and hottest he'll
would be a paradise compared with his de-
serts. A few of his specific sins may be appro-
priataly referred to- .,.r.. .-
1. In the closing months of the administers
ton Of that pure patriot and high-toned states
man, James buchanan, Mr.. Stanton was call
Ell into the cabinet, and by his obstinacy, self
will and espotim he became one Of the chief
inst4umentsin oh ,tructing the course and spoil
Ing the pans and blocking the game Of those
wise, SPACIOUS and philosophical statesmen,
Howell COBB, Jacob Thompson, John B.
Floyd g Co, who were arranging to throw
overheard the old, outgrown constitutional
chart by which the Ship of State had been
navigated fer generations, to ignore the moss
grown ideas of democracy, to taboo the doc
trine Of the right of the majority to rule, to
its just powers from the consent of the govern
Ell, and substitute in lieu. of the errors of the
Fathers about quality, fraternity and sinalien-
able rights" the sublime political ethics of the
plantation, the music Of the whip, the clank Of
the bondman's Chain, and negro slavery as the
cornerstone of all republican edifciesl For
this sin. for spelling such game for obstruct-
ing the free course of ucfla scheme; Mr. Stan
ton incurred the everlasting displeasure and
eternal hate, not only of Messrs. Cobb G. Co.,
but of all that select class at the North who
hoped, through the success. of the scheme
which he aided IN obstructing, to see Abraham
Lincoln driven from the national capital, JEFF
fsraon Davis comfortably established in the
White House, and themselves rioting in Off
cial pap in the Custom Houses, Postofices and
other lucrative positions in the free States.
2. In 1891 one Geo. 3. NrC., alias @Lit-
tie Mac was the coming man with the some
what inconyruousp party Of the North known
a. Democratic. he was the Hman on horse
back" who was to restore the control of the
Government TO the hands of that class of
sinyle-hearted, pure-minded patriots who pre-
cpitated upon Us all our troubles, and to re-
in5tate on their decaying pedestals all the
wooden gods which had been carved from rot
tea timber by idol-makcrs of the Democratic
party for the last score of years. Now it hap
pened that Mr.. Stanton's position as head of
the War Department, made him a lion in the
way of this solitary horseman, and his mode
OF shaking his name, showing his teeth and ut
tering his growls, so frightened the steed of the
"Little" rider that he was thrown and never
again succeeded in regaining his feet With
him fell his friends, and for the agency of Mr.
Stanton in producing this result, he won the
everlasting dislike of the men who had hoped
through "Littie Macs" leadership, to be eleyat-
ed to seats Of honor and thrones Of power, and
to possess a land flowing with molten gold and
R. G. whiskey. suts
8. The divinest object of copperhead VEN
GRAFTON is negro in chains. Goods image In
ebony has no divine lmeaments about it un-
lsss manacled, and sweating under the LASH
Now Mr.. Stanton is an irreverent man. He
revealed a willingness to strike off the sacred
chains, to melt the canonized letters, and would
acknowledged divinity only in the elevation of
the humanity in the negro. In other words,
he profanely laid his sacreligious hands upon
an institution sanctiied by the prayers of pro-
slavery diyine5, and baptized in the name of the
unholy trinity of Mammon, Lust and Ambi-
tioa. For this sin he fndsno forgivness in the
eyes or hearts of those whose god he has so
aarantly profaned. i, y '5 Y. - @
A. Mr.. Stanton is .confessedly plain, blunt,
square-eiyed, sharp-conered man, who has
no patience with shams. As the head Of the
War Department he has come in contact with
agreat many shams in shoulder straps and in
citizens dress. He has shownno respect for
such things. The glittering General whose
greatest Achievements have been seen on dress,
parade, waose greatest victories have been
won In the drawing or bah room, and whose
trophies have been the hearts of weak women,
has not been appreciated by the prosaic Secre-
tary, while such men as have encountered the
battie-zrnoke and shown little regard for
tin el and display, have received from him the
most cordial greetings. For such sin Mr..
Stanton has become infamous in the eyes Of
the whole army of ballroom warriors and tap
room heroes, and against his head their fulmi-
mating powder has been exploded with per-
feet looseness. haaiaai ss s.n astA Il
b. The country is full of patriots who have
pssn striving for three years to get both
han1', up to thsir elbows, into the Government
stron5 -oo1, through such means as army con-
tract. Al: Stanton has often been ungener-
Gus enough to interfere with their patriotic
eh0rts In this direction, and to bring them to
grief when they thought they ware IN tl,e tom
M o5t wave OF success. Who Gun forgive man
for spiking such gun; for blocking sucb
game; Cor heading Of an attempt to fileb a for
tune out from Uncle SAINTS capacious pocket
8. Mr.. Stanton has been prompt IN briag.
ing quasi rebels up with round turn. MANY
aNorthesn traitor has fonnd himself brought
up to the ring-bolt, and his powers for mis-
CHEZ suddenly narrowed down. In a word.
Mr.. Stanton has, more than almost any other
man, acted upon rule often approved by
Democrats in Old Hickory; that is, if he
found q traitor who deserved imprisonment,
he would arrest him and procure the warrant
or look up the precedents afterwards. In do
ms Ini', ne may sometimes have gone beyond
the demand Of necessity, but it as believed very.
lew nave been brought upby his order who
ola not richly deserve all that they received, If
n9s more than they were made to suffer
"nere one person in the North has suffered