The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-08-28
Gen. s1rant-par Mobile Fratrum, Stanton

BUTLER
The enaeitE with which Radical officials hold on to
Office is remarkably illustrated in the of the late
Secretary of War; Mr. Stanton
The Secretary had long been known to the country
thorn in the side of the President, and was very
strongly and Justly suspected of being Radical spy
over the secrets of the Cabinet. That he should con-
sent to remain under these circumstances, was not
more surprising than that the President should allow
him to do So Loyalty to the chief under whom he
acted, and his sefrespect, required of Mr.. Stan
ton that he should have rendered his esignaton
whenever there vital disagreement between them
upon any important measures of the administration
But the honorable Secretary's love of Office or of
power else his stronger loyalty to his party seemed
to blind him to such obvious considerations and he
continued in place until notified, in SO many words,
that his resignation would be accepted.
Upon this hint to any other than Stanton, but
one course was left and that the immediate tender of
his seat. But the Secretary died hard, and in
view OF the mufarous chances for the next Presi-
dency preferred to consider himself martyr, in the
forlorn hope that his party might make him Of its
saints Acting upon this suggestion of his crafty
nature, be had the impertnence actually to decline
sending in his resignation, and, to heap Ossa upon
Peon, this impertinent Tton coolly assigned a
for not resgnng, the very given by his
chief why his resignation was necessary.
The President was for once, strange to say, pre-
pared for the issues which he has the honesty and the
courage to make but never the will to execute before
He had already procured the of General Grant
to accept, pro tea, the charge Of the War Depart
ment. Tie bold and contumacious Secretary, after
fouting in the face of the President his impertincnt
refusal to resign, soon notified by General Grant
of his (Grants) acceptance, with tragic dignity yielded
his post-and to what he pleased to call, superior
force 1t was like giving up his life. This sudden
dismissal from Office innocent persons might suppose
would carry Mr. Stanton with all his blushing hon
ors the secret shades Of quiet retreat where
with the increasing ills Of old age he would be con-
stantly mourning the ngratltude Of Republics, the
reachery of parties, and the miserable uncertainty of
Presidential f;avors.
But such persons would show themselves very inno-
cent indeed, of any knowledge of the character
of Edwin Stanton. The fact is he has invited he has
coured, he has intrigued for the distinction of being
dismissed He has returned-not like his old friend,
the Public FuEctionary, to another Wheatland, to
sing in sene phrases his virtues and the venality
of the age-but, like the dog to his vomit, to engage
in further plots, to his countless intrgues and
to prepare the way for Edwin Stanton to power and
the Presidency. Though false to every party and to
every political faith, he has been and he never
will be- false to himself with pelf and power ever as
the sole objects and aims Of his crafty life
Let General Grant look to it, for he will find the
late Secretary abroad in the land with appliances at
work that honest soldier would scorn to USE to
supplant him for the succession of Mr.. johnson. Be
fore this we have doubt he has appealed to the
base passions and secured the effective alliance of
B. +. Butler.
"Abashed for once, Thersites held his peace,
Nor asked those arms upon assembled Greece
Which, at the peril of a soldiers fame,
The brave Ulysses scarcely dared to claim
The Therstes of the late war and of the Fortieth
Congress has, doubtessly, responded to this appeal
For, unlike his Grecan prototype, he never has been
abaed by the presence the superior claims of any
man; though, like the Greek, he has often taken the
blow and then the kick of better men, and then led
away to hiss and poison their characters. Let Grant
watch this worthy pair.