Litchfield enquirer., 1869-12-30

sirous of increasing our list of regular cor
 respondents.l To each of these. or to such person as he or she may designate, we vii
 send copy of our paper regularly in ad
 dition to the extra copies mentioned above
 Edwin M. Stanton.s!A 4 h.ad9
 Very muddle.headed rebel sympathizers like Wilkes Booth and Brick Pomeroy, hat. ed.Abraham Lincoln i; butintelHgent cop
 perheads have always reserved the greater part of tbeir malice for Edwin N. Stanton, AsbaAe qnsnpuncementt ofA his elevation to4hs suprems bench of the United States fred,the Democratic heart and renewed edlyt ytthEe the bitternesSof war times,9 we trust that with his death. the indecent abuse of d partisan
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 Itis onEhis pure and energetic iadminis- trstioh of the all important War Depart msat from, January 1862 till the final sur
 render in 1865, that the fame of MT. Stan, ton nwilr finally rest. It is not too much to say, that just such an administration of that Department was necessary to the J,l sal [ vatiout tof the country. With the easy good nature of Lincoln and the polite caution
 of Seward there needed to be joined a
 thunderbot like Stanton, or much of the magnificent energy of the country would
 have been, wasted. His work was civil not military. isIt was his business ofur-
 nish the men, munitions, and supplies with which generals were to win victories s' + His task may have been easier than theirs, but how much more completely he aocotn- plished it than they accomplished theirs, is evident on every page of the history hii of the war. He was at first much accused of meddling with military plans. He cer- taiply had little patnpce with the dilatory genius of Mcclellan. and may have inter ferred unwisely with that amiable gentle mans slow moving operations. That the Administration did not at once remove the generaisinstead of grumbling at his plans was not the, fault of Mir. Stanton. After the arrival of HatleckT at Washington, and theosaisnaissal of Mcclellan, we. hear oi nd mors discord between Commanders in
 Chief and the Department The. needs oi Halleck's policy of diffusion of force. and ~sAa---ssS-t,oiioyo ~s or cUaveaCEaGIOn or force were supplied with equal punctdality. 'oi E. E.
 MT. stsntop g chief object while in office was not that usual aim of the politician to'make personal friends or propitiate per. sonal enemies--bnt' to put down the rebell
 ion.D Hence his purity, his patriotism ani his energy, made him more enemies than friends With the scoundfels who cheated the seldier in, his food and clothing. and ths government in the bills, he ywaged a merciless warfare. T He dwas alike the ter TOT of scopperheads. of shirking army off
 cess,and of ;corrupt civil officials. bAn such heiacouft martiaileds 6astilled, and nal
 treated to the full extent of, if not beyond, Unconstitutional powers. Occasionally au honest citizen iwas shut up s by mistake with the, queer mixture of rebel Spies, northern traitors. and rascally republicans that filled the. Old Capitol and other gov ernment, Urisohs.7 Every graduate from those celebrated retreats came out bittsre, than ever sagainstl the Union, and a, per. sonSrenemy efSscretary Stanton. Itwas style of administration the nation might submit to while bitsl very existence was ,at stake, but st suchsa time only. bItwas as ths fmpsfsonatioh of irresistible national force, that Southern and Northern traitors hated Mrso Stanton-a force that the free citizen always hates when used against hihsslf, ,no matter how great the necessity.
 Mebhaye barely space to refer to Mr.
 Stahtens eficia career subsequent to the war, Not only was he faithful to his re- cordabnt he had the courage to endure in silence the :tanuts of I;enemies and the sus. picion Of ffiehds. for thepublic good. How heyAnally showed his sccolorss. and how the greatiImpeaehneptstrial grewaout of the aisclusdfe. forms an iimportant chapter of our National history The recognition of Mru 6tantou,s services at the hands, of 2 Rspablieana administration seemed lone delayed, but it came at last ; and in the quick continuation. of the Senate he migh1 haNsifesognized the approval aofl all loyal people. .mia eyasi o@ id3oo sds I.sesd5d
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 tsWpr RANaHs' THEoIooy. -4New Yorl reporters arc . hard race to, beat but ths thing does occasionally happen. While Father fIyacinthe was here he met Bishop Coxe. On ona a New York and New Haven train
 ThaiFather understands no English. ane the Bishop no French, So at it they went in Latin. For once the s:interviewing, evesdrppping fellows who dosged the steps of shs great preacher all the time he wal in America, were completely befog ged they could only say that, li"t tht copfereHos took wide theological and ec clesiastical ransss When we consider Che ssifasss of the dead old language, and the1difsrences of pronpnclation. we are not surprised at the $ wide range y but
 at any rate. that interview escsped report,