The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-27
FIRST EDITION
STANTON.

"Undaunted by peril, unshaken by adversely,
never quailing, nor waverlng, nor doubtlng,
hardly general in the field or another states
man in the Cabinet or in Congress did so much
as he to secure the triumph of the nation, and
none worked more incessantly or less grudg-
ingly. Disbursing hundreds OF millions per
annum, no one ever suspected him oil seeking
gain for himself or friends. Arresting many on
suspicion (sometimes mistaken) of reasonable
practices, none ever accused him OF being
actuated by private malice Welding almost
dictatorial power, he used 1t only for the coun-
try's salvation, and welcomed the hour when he
could resign it without shrinking from the dis
charge of an imperative duty"
In the course of long and appreciative arti-
Gle, the Herald SAYS
Like the sound of the fall of a mighty pine in
the stiffness of the woods" as an Indian orator
once said of chief of his tribe, comes to us
from Washington the news of the death of this
heroic and conspicuous patriot.
Measured by the hatred of the implacable adj
herents of the Rebellion, in his services to the
Union he stands first in the list OF the great
champions of the cause. Eminently distinguished
in the character of Carnot, he has left the addi-
tional fame of q lawyer fully qualified for the
high position to which he was but the other day
appointed and confirmed, as Judge of the Su-
preme Court. His name will live and his me-
mory will be revered while the enduring princi-
pies of Union, liberty, equal rights and law
survive in the minds OF men,: His friends, In
view of his services as public man, are mil
lions in number, while the enemies he leaves
behind him, with few exceptions, are the un-
happy mourners over the lost cause"
The Times says of Mr.. Stanton:-
'His occa. ional mistakes, his constant and
superabundant merits, are alike the common
talk of the nation. 1t will be with kindly and
grateful and respectful emotion that his career
as q whole will now be reviewed, even among
some of those whom in life he opposed. 1t will
be said of him that he was the most illus
trious of our War Secretaries, Knox, Dear
born, Eustis Calhoun Poinsett Marcy Conrad,
and the other early names conspicuous in
the records of the War Department pale, as
do the later, before Stanton's. His was an
opportunity that they did not have, and it was
an opportunity thoroughly used. The heartiest
panegyrics ever pronounced upon him have been
those of his own associates in office, and espe-
cially in the Cabinet who saw his work from
day to day. Able men have succeeded him in
the duties of the War Ofice-Grant, Schofeld,
Sherman, Rawlins, Belknap; but the War Secre-
tary of history will be Edwin M. Stanton"
The Sun has the following:-
MrStanton was an affectonate man; his feel
ings towards his friends were warm; his hostility
towards those whom he regarded as the enemies
of his country was warm also. One day during
1868 or 1864 correspondent of the World ap-
piled at the War Department for a pass to the
Army of the Potomac The question was taken
to Mr.. Stanton-at that time he allowed no one
else to give such passes-and his answer was:-
Refuse it, and say to the correspondent that
no favor can be given here to treasonable
newspaper No doubt this reply was faithfully
reported at the World office, and that journal
has ever since pursued Mr.. Stanton with rancor
it has never exhibited towards Jefferson Davis.
Only Saturday morning, when the great patriot
and War Minister was not yet cold upon his
death-bed, the World published q column of
yituperation, detraction, and abuse of his char
acter and person never surpassed in the records
of such literature.
''It is not too much to say that Mr.. Stanton was
great man. He was great in the qualities of
his mind and the composition of his nature. He
lived in great epoch, was placed in the front
rank among men, performed with success the
greatest duties, welded an immense power with
perfect disinterestedness and spotless honesty;
and in time when the pursuit of gain and the
worship of wealth inspire men with kind of
frenzy, he lived nobly and died poor. He was
happy in the opportunities OF his career, and
happy in the manner of his end. The highest
honor which the nation has to give had Just been
conferred upon him, and with this testimony OF
our affection he has gone from among us for
ever"
From the World we present two extracts. On
Friday the following appeared in that paper:-
''This bloated blackguard, this brutal minister
and recreant lawyer, whose only eminence has
been won by overriding the laws of the land,
and making his own headlong will stand for
reason, is now set to administer those laws upon
the bench which has been the pride of the
American bar. In all its annals it has never
been polluted before by the membership of a
bully, liar a slanderer, or a shedder of inno-
cent blood That President Grant should confer
this distinction upon it by the appointment of u
Stanton is not astonishing; but that the Senate
should conspire for its degradation and his ele-
walton by confirming such an appointment, is a
shocking and a lamentable thing. 1t is only ac-
countable on the supposition that, not daring To
outrage the public opinion by passing the bill
which has been submitted to them to shear the
Supreme Court of its strength, they have at
tempted to attain the same result by the indirect
means of filling its bench with judges whose hu.
initiation no man could regret"
Almost as soon as the paper containing this
monstrous attack was on the street. the news
was received that Mr. Stanton was cold in death
1t may be supposed there was some little con,
triton felt in the World office. This, from
Saturdays paper, shows how hard a task 1t was
to back out of the former positon--
''Mr. Stanton's death makes him neither better
Snor worse Except with very shallow or very
sentimental people, 1t will weigh nothing in any
estimate of his character. All men die; and II
death condoned crimes and transformed faults
into virtues, all characters would be levelled
and all moral distinctions confounded. But be-
side an unclosed grave sentiment of humanity
and a sense of our common frailty incline men
to be indulgent to the errors of the departed,
and to allow something more than their reason.
able weight to circumstances of extenuation.
when Mr.. StantOns character is viewed in itE
true light he will be regarded as the most faith.
full personal embodiment of the passionate and
vindictive spirit of the period in which he acted
President Lincoln was impelled forward by the
gale against his own tagging inclinations; bu
Mr.. stanton was made up of the same elements
as the tempest on which he rode. There is
historical fairness in dividing censure betweeI
the individual and the age by which he wa
formed; and until the passions of the late wa
have subsided, multitudes will continue to re
gard the character of Mr.. Stanton with sympa
fhatip annrOVal