Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-28
[From the New Orleans Times.I
Stanton

/ StaMIOus
A bold, bad man is he who has SO long
reigned, with the will and power of des-
pot, over the War Department. Shrewd
and crafty in. all the wiles of the politi-
clans art, possessed of great talents, legal
learning and administrative ability, he is
wholly INSCRIPTIONS as to the means he
employs to achieve any desired object, and
while it is notorious among those who
have known him long and well that he is
totally lacking in physical, he is credited
with the moral courage to calmly brave
the Indignation and denunciationi of an
/ outraged nation. lnIperious and tyranni-
cal to his subordinates and all others whose
aid he can dispense with, he will at the
same time exhibit most winning courtesy
toward those whom he considers powerful
| and whose good will he may at some tu-
ture time require in the prosecution of his
ambitious plans. -t
1 We say ambitious plans, for Stanton is a
man of by no means lowly aspirations. He
| is determined, if human ingenuity and
persistency can compass it, to seat himself
/ in the Presidential chair. For this has he
truckled to the Radicals and proven the
traitor to Andrew johnson; for itis well
known that while aiding7to concoct plots
hat would bring discrediHdpon, and excites
prejudice against, his superior, he made
such warm professions of friendship to
the President, that despite the statement
| L.
the Secretary of War to be one of his
firmest supporters. So open, frank and
| unsuspecting is the nature of the Presi-
| dent, that the whole country knew of
Stanton's double dealings before he, the
one most deeply concerned, had learned
and believed it. q" -Heie 81
| As an evidence of his ssmartnessn as a
| politician, we will narrate an actual occur
renee. Gen. Grant, although General in
/ Chief of the Armies, was compelled to
forward every order he issued, no difference
how trivial matter of routine business it
might relate to, for approval by the Secre-
tary of War. This caused delay and an
noyance, the responsibility for all which,
as Mr.. Stanton intended should be the
case, was charged upon the President. 1t
was the intention, by means of such trifies,
to ALLEVIATE Gen. Grant and Mr.. johnson.
One day the blunt soldier could put up
with the annoyance no longer, and request
ed prominent gentleman to speak with
the President and have it stopped. The
latter acceded to the request most willing
| ly; said he knew nothing of the matter
BEFORE and promptly issued the requisite
| instructions to the Secretary. Mr.. Stan
ton Immediately saw the General, coolly
| informed that officer he knew the practice
had been fruitful of trouble, but that he
| had been directed to enforce it. 1t gave
him great pleasure, he continued, to an
nounce that he had been able to effect
change. and that the orders need not,
| thereafter, be sent to him. Grant was duly
appreciative and to this day considers that
Stanton acted very friendly on the, occa-
sion, the gentleman whom he requested to
see Mr.. johnson never having had an op-
portunity to explain the matter. If Mr..
Stanton does not arouse greater or less pre-
iudice against Gen. Grant, (and every
other man who may be put forward as
candidate for the Presidency it will be
because his deyilish craft fails him for once.
But there is at least one man in the
country whom Mr.. Stanton cannot deceive,
and whose support he will never gain, and
that is Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, of the
Ne,o York Herald. Shortly, after Mr..
johnson assumed the Presidential tunc-
tions, an Influential politician waited upon
Mr.. Bennett and asked if the Herald would
sustain the policy of the Administration.
| The reply was that such support would be
warmly given on one condition, viz: that
Secretary Stanton should be removed, Mr..
B. feeling assured that Mr.. johnson could
not succeed with such treacherous and
crafty enemy in his camp. 81 know
Stanton to be a bod mon," he said, in his
broad Scotch dialect; ''gude enough for
getting up a rebellion, and guide enough,
perhaps, for putting down rebellion but
a bod mon for a responsible place i'll peace
times. know all about him, and he must
go out. Stanton has always been bad
even when boy. I'm told that at school,
he kicked all the little boys, and kissed the
feet OF all the big boys, and he keeps well
up to his early character"
What course President johnson will de-
eide upon finallyg in regard to the now
open and defiant opposition of Secretary
Stanton. we shall not attempt to foretell !;
but the judgment of the entire American
people upon his refusal to leave the Cab
inet--when partisan passion shall have
cooled-is already pronounced The words
of Senator Sherman, spoken in debate on
the tenure on Office bill, will eventually be
indorsed from one end of the country to
the other. Said he: II think that no gen.
tleman-no man of any sense of honor, will
hold his position as Cabinet officer after
his chief desires his removal" Let us
hope that it will not be by any sad eXper-
ienee that the North becomes convinced
4 that this at present much lauded man is de-
void of a. II ''sense of honor"