The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-01
having fallen in battle with the French before
Corunna, was buried by bis troops
"Darkly, at dead Of night,
The sod with our bayouets turning;

"Darkly, at dead of night,
The sod with our bayouets turniug
By the misty moon beamss struggling light,
And the lanterns dimly burning"
How much better is this sort of thing than
the 1ribune's hasty and heavy contributions
to popular misinformation 1t is just as likely,
in the first place, that the readers of the
Herald will believe its telegrams to have come
over the Atlantic at the rate OF i've dollars a
word, as that the Tribune'S readers will believe
in the wonderful words of W. H. Il. w. And
then the HerdldS kilograms, in the second
place, may, by the Divine grace, be made the
means of conveying some dim notion of geogra-
ply and history both to the Herald staff who
compile them and to the casual uufortuuates
who may peruse them. Whereas the Tribune'S
especial news from the South" is at once
revolving for its Incredible absurdity and sure
to poison any mans mind who reads it.
1t would be much wiser for the Tribune,
from now till the Pennsylvania election, to go
back to its own old files and reproduce the
Kansas bloody shirts OF 1856. These "gar-
made and better dipped than the shoddy
articles which thou at present wavest before
the rural and radical minds eye, Horatio
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StantOn's Speech and Its Omissions.
From The NJ Y. Herald.
When ex- Secretary of War Stanton addressed
his friends and fellow citizens of Ohio, near
Steubenville, the other day, in the centre of
the agricultural district which surrounds the
bridge uniting the Buckeye State with West
Virginia, he said good many excellent things;
hut he left good many other things unsaid,
which may be regarded as of some Importance
in the history of the war which he apparently
attempted to illustrate in his discourse. For
example, he did not say anything about the
outrages upon the rights and liberties of
citizens, directed by himself and carried out
under his instructions during his term of
Office. He was solemnly silent about the num-
bers Of American citizens locked up in Fort
ress Monroe, Fort Lafayette, and Fort
Warren, without warrant or without
any charge of crime being registered
against them. He had no explanation to
give about these matters, but skinned
them over as gracefully as swan goes over
the water. In the same way he skilfully
avoided telling by what lntrigues he procured
the Office of Secretary of War, or to what extent
he cheated and deceived everybody in order to
keep himself in that position SO long, despite
| the will of the Executive and the desire of the
| people. Now, all these little revelations would
have given considerable zest to Mr.. Stauton's
! speech, because the public would naturally
| like to hear by what means, and more especially
| for whst purpose, he kept the authority of the
Executive at bay, and only condescended to
acknowledge the existence of General Lorenzo
| Thomas, the Presidents appontee to the War
|
| while he kept the key of the War Department
archives in his pocket, and defied the authority
of the President. None of this, although
people would be delighted to hear the fairy
tale from the lips of its author.
Mr.. Stanton gives in this speech Homerc
picture of the services and valor of the generals
engaged in the war. He forgets that the public
were as watchful observers of their career as
Secretary Stanton, and know just how to allot
to each their full modicum of praise for ser
vices we'll rendered to the republic. What Mr..
Stanton omits to Explain in his speech is the
reason why so many private citizens were
| seized and ipcarcerated by his order while he
was Secretary of War, upon what charges
they were so incarcerated, and minute de-
scription of the pains, penalties, and indigni-
ties they were compelled to suffer at his dire,-
ton. This would have made the most inte-
resting speech of the campaign ii these points
were supplied, and there is no one so compe-
tent to deliver such discourse as ex Secretary
Stanton himself. The chief Jesuit among
political Jesuits, the feeble but mischievous
| imtator of Machiavel, aspiring to the rank
without possessing the qualities of the bold
bad Italian politician, Mr.. Stanton has at
tempted to follow the Machiavellian policy,
forgetting that the atmosphere was wholly un-
copgenial for the growth of such plant.
He undertook to grapple with the press, but
he took hold of the irresponsible subordinates
and dared not touch the principals. Reporters
| were the game he sought for the exercise of
his spite. The proprietors of leading journals
which did not sustain the weakness and cor
ruption of the War Department he may have
threatened, but did not attempt to punish.
Now, to have said so much in his late stump
speech about the war and the generals who
fought it out 30 gallantly, which everybody
knew before, and not to say word about all
these facts which we have indicated must be
regarded as grave sin of omission on the part
| of Mr.. Stanton.