The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-28
7. blair ON stanton .


Blair, in one of his scathing speeches
the other day, at Mattoon, Illinois
said: +
Iwould like to see EdwiR NJ. Stan
ton tried, and / would be willing to DC
, the prosecutor. ! will tell you what
could prove: could prove that Edwin
NJ. Stanton was the Attorney General
under Mr.. Buchanan, and that when
the two Senators, jeff. Davis and Al
bert Gallatin Brown, made their ad.
dresses to the Senate of the United
States taking their leave of the Senate
in obedience to the instructions OF tbeir
State, as Mr.. Brown came out of the
Senate door, Edwin NJ. Stanton, then
receiving q salary from the Governs
ment of the United States, having
sworn to protect and defend the Con-
stitution, holding on to that office, his
stomach filled with the bread that be
had eaten, and that came from the of
fee he filed, went up to Mr.. Brown, as
he came out of the Senate chamber, and
said "Sir, go home to your people and
maintain the position they have taken,
Unite together, stand shoulder to
shoulder, aad You will compel these
black abolitionists at the North to
yield all the demands that you can
make.p That was the language of a
man then in the employ of the Govern
ment; then receiving his salary from
the Government with the oath still up
on his lips TO maintain the Coustitu-
tion and TO support the Government of
the United States. He gives the advice
and encourages and gives aid and COM
fort to one who had declared his deter
mination to wage war upon the Govern
ment of the United States.
would prove further, on another
count in the indictment, that after the
war had been waged for several years
Stevens went with his State, took the
forlorn hope, yielded to the pressure,
and this man Stanton took another
Office in the government of the United
States, became Secretary of War, be-
coming the most vindictive prosecutor
of those whom he had urged to 60 into
the rebellion, and that when in the
changing fortunes of war, our men had
been made prisoners of the enemy, and
we had captured some of their men,
and that government, so called, at the
South came forward and offered an
exchange this man Stanton refused it
refused to succor the soldiers who had
been to the front and by the chances of
war had been made prisoners. He re-
fused it, although he knew they were
dying lingering deaths in the prisons at
AndetSonville and elsewhere. Not only
did he refuse the exchange, but when
the Confederate Government, so-called,
came forward and offered to surrender
our sick and wounded without an eX-
change, he refused to take those men,
but let them die in the Andersonville
prison. 1t could be proved, also, that
he refused even to send medicine and
food and surgeons to them to succOr
them from impending death, although
urged to do so by the so-called Confed-
crate authorities.
What, think you, would be the YER
dict of our returned soldiers if some of
them should sit on the juryG Cheers
and laughter. What, with such proof
and l believe such proof could be
brought-wOuld be the verdictf /
would not, if could, to-day, by legis-
lative enactment, reach this great felon
for | regard him as felon. | ould
not 90 III, ulIuOuSu CObSOi'O hihi w W
the greatest felOn in America, because l
would rot strike down that shield of
tho constitut ton, which covers all
the people in this country, even
to reach the worst man in
the country. But l would like to
see this evidence adduced, and l would
like to know what verdict and sentence
jury would pronounce upon him.
Ave, | have a curiosity to know. l
would like to see those two men tried,
because after the rebellion was closed,
this Mr.. Alex. Stephens was seized and
imprisoned by this man Stanton, and
put in Fort Warren, in Boston harbor.
And would like to have the verdict OF
a jury of my countrymen to see, when
Stanton turned the key on Stephens, on
which side of the door stood the traitor.
Laughter and cheers. A voice-"On
the outside"