The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1868-01-31

'ttFPu'U " war.
Mr.. CHALFANT. Mr. Speaker, do
not rise to debate this question. Enough
has been said already, inasmuch as it is
a matter that does not affect the mptcri-
al interests of the citizens of this Com
monwcalth. But | desire to allUlc to
some remarks made by our opponents
on the other side Mossrs. Herr and
ReinOehl, rejecting severely on the
member from iayettc, bccausc of the
remark made by him Of General Grant
| having conquered the gallant Lee. These
gentlemen appear exercised about it, in
the face of the fact that John w. Forncy
| in hi, Press for weeks past has been
lauding LOngstreet, JEFF. Thompson,
and other Southern rebel generals as
| gallant gentlemen, and | doubt not but
| my friend from Faycttc fell into the
u~c Of this expression by reading the
Press.
! Mr.. Speaker, many anathCmaS have
| been hurled at the head of Edwin NJ.
Stanton during this debate, but all cln-
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every fair minded, every justice loving
man, than his own base and tyrannical
acts. They have passed into history,as
! the gentleman from Chester Mr. lick
man has truly said, and by, them he
Will be judged; and all the tlattcring re-
solutions offered here, and all the full
some rhetoric INDUCED in by members
ON this floor in luudation of him will
not add feathers weight with pOsteri-
ty in altering the verdict as TO the char
acter OF the man. lie will stand along
side Of Sgjanus, the minister of TiberiuS,
as man who made friends only to de-
slroy them, and who used the powers
Of the state to oppress the weak and
persecutc the innocent. Fawning,
cringing, designing, cruel, treachcrous,
ambitious, he is the very counterpart OF
that bascst of the Romans. AS has
been well said here, he urged others to
embrace secession, and then deserted
them when they committed the
overt act. lie fawnCd on General
Mcclellan, until, through the influence
of that great and generous soldier, ht
wa, installed in the War Office, then
migrate like, joined the radical cOnspir
atora to degrade his bcnefnctor and stril
him Of his command Of the army. lie
was at first ObscquiouS and delcrcntia
10 Lincoln hut he soon measured thi
capacity of that weak Executive, anC
allowed him to retail his coarse jokes Il
the white House, whilo he played tn,
dictator, as War Minister. No ''au
tocrat OF all the Ru~sia,' over p!ayc'
ID the drspot 10 greater degree, Publ
opinion would not allow Stanton, nj
though he WAS backed by the army, t
use the knout or erect guillOtinc, bu
he used the bastilc chains and the dun
gCOn to crush his victims. The gentle
man from Chester and others say W
dislike stanton only because he incal
ceratcd some Of our Democratic friends
as though Democrats had no rights h
was bound to respect, And why did h
inCarccratc them " Because he hates III
Democratic party with all an UpoState'
iltlfi lN nttH ulNNNN ntlt lllbN' VII
nave lifted them from Obscurity int
place ana power, only 10 bctray them
from the first, who for his treachcryan
iugrutitudc, was hurled over the butl
H. mcuts Of heaven into his secthing htl
,, down to the miserable rcncgadcS WI
u; have icft the Democracy within tholu
n decade of years. Bu, there are othe
beside members of the Democratic pa
y. ty, men who had no afliliation with
upon whom he wrcnkcd out his cru
revenge. | might number them |
myriads. ] will cite e.caac that oug
., to damn Edwin NJ stanton with {
posterity, and that is his treatment
General Charles p. Stone, rs gallant
sOlddieras ever bore blade upon /
thigh. This officer was arrested whi
in the service of his country by the {
der Of this despot, stanton, and thru
into dungeon in Boston harbor, sh
out from all intercourse with irienC
denied correspondence with his amil
kept immured nine months, appeal
to the American Government to knt
-, what crime he had committed, but 4
- pcaling in vain. No answer came, The
u he lay like victim of the bastlle unC
T. .h' Louis XIV, like "theman with THEN