The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-15
Violent Attack upon Stanton.

NACli. AtttIA l. III tl speech re-
Gently delivered at Rolla, Mo, makes
a violent attack upon Stanton and
Holt In drawing a parallel between
the conduct of these functionaries
and that of Stephens Immediately
preceding the war His remarks are
severe and bitter, but nevertheless
true.
Now, in the beginning, before the
war broke out, while orators like
Drake were exciting young men to
take up arms, and were firing the
Southern heart with anger against
the North and the Union, the Go
vernment of the United States, with
MIR. Buchanan at its head and Stanton
and Joe Holt in his Cabinet, allowed
the rebellion to go on and allowed
the forts to be captured. When
Stanton went into the Cabinet of
Buchanan, he declared he could9not
coerce the South. Gen. Cass, who
was previously a member of Bucha-
mans Cabinet, offered resolution
which, it was understood, and so
claimed by Mr.. Cass' friends at the
time, declared that it was the duty of
the Administration to maintain the
law and defend the public property
of Fort Sumter and other forts. Bu-
chanan declined to do it, and Cass
went out and Stanton went in. IA
voice-''That's true. u True as Holy
Writ. He went in to uphold and
maintain the policy of Mr. Buchanan
against the right of the General Go
vernment to coerce State, and defend
It's property and its citizens.
Well, now, my fellow citizens, when
MI. Stanton, who is ut present IL
member of this Administration, and a
radical--he is radical that would
delight even the heart of MI. Drake
Laughter when he was i'm this
Cabinet, he was content to maintain
Buchanan's policy. Alexander Ste
phens is IN awful, notorious rebel.
but he had not been quite convinced
then, and he stood up in his own
State OF Georgia, and III the convcn-
ton OF that State delivered speech
III favor Of the Union, such as has not
been delivered before or since the
war, for eloquence, point, and sound
and substantial argument. Bnt Stan
ton and Buchanan would not help
Stephens against these men down in
Georgia, who had been furnished with
arms out of the public arsenals bv
one of BucEanan's Cabinet to cocrce
them, and tie State went out of the
Union, and the Union men were left
to themselves. The United States
Government armed the rebels-be-
cause you know very well they had
at that time seized almost every one
of the arscnals in the Southern
States, and armed themselves with
guns that had been placed there, at
their disposal, by Floyd, of Mr.. Br-
chanan's Cabinet.
Now, just look at it, Our own Go
vernment arming rebels to put down
the Union men in the South, and the
Union men III the State Of Georgia,
LED by this feeble man Stephens
feeble physically-a mere skeleton, an
atonl-stood there narmcd defend
ing his Government, wheE his Go
vcrnmcnt had turned against him and
armed his enemies to put him down.
Shall we take his head off, on take
Stanton's? Which would be just re-
tribution before the throne Of high
Heaven? That Stanton should be
permitted ;he honor, or tLat Stephens
should be incarcerated in Fort War
rcn, and let Stanton turn the key on
him? Iou can make Stephens the
prisoner; you Can make Stanton the
jailor: but i'll the eye of II ,avcn, and
before this nation, the traitor was on
the outside of the door applause -
and the true man was in He did
what he could Still his Government
abandoned him; he did not abandon
ms Government Well, | should like
to sec any court in the world convict