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ssfelt the pressure of the multiplied labor he
= aoondition that .some one should be appointed
not unfriendIy to his policy namely, the poll
himself opposed; that Cameron cid resign upon
these terms, and used the privilege conceded 70
body who knows Simon Cameron viii under
stand the object of dragging this thing by the
head and shoulders into your article. In fact
and in truth, there was no kind OF connection
between these two nien--no sympathy nor mu>
tual respect. Cameron did not resigni he was
REMOVED for good cause. he had no lot OF. part
in naming his successor The removal and the
appointment were both made before Mr.. Canl-
eron knew Of either, and they Were made be-
GAUGE the President saw the necessity of having
a man at the head of that department who was
competent anl incoTruptible. The correspond
ence afterwards published, under the names of
Mossrs. Lincoln and Cameron, was fictitious,
and was got up at the instance of the latter in
order TO give the affair false appearance. 1t
81 morally impossible that Stanton could have
given his approval to Cameron abortive report
On the negroes, for he was AT that time white
man, every inch of him, proud OF the great race
ne sprang from and full OF faith in It's capacity
TO fight its own battles and govern Itself. No
thing would have Inundated him more than to
zee the American people relinquish their right
ful place in the front rank OF the world, strren,
sneak back behind the African for protection in
war or in peace Long after he was Secretary
ne had not only refused to sanction the enlist
ment of a negro regiment but had punished an
that YOU have promised TO Contradict yourself
On this subject, and hope you VIII keep your
word.
in company with Governor Morgan, would look
very strange In panegy@Ec @ made @ ny ,aLyootdy
en-, but without the drapery by which you con-
ceal from yourself the view of them which must
the obligation of any law, human or Divine
In the winter of 1868, the Legislature of Indiana
was dissolved before the appropriation had
been made to carry on the State Government or
aid in putting troops in the field; Of course
ations for carrying on the State Government or
putting troops in the field which the State was
IN fla OF hc.N nruT, IlIIf
Governor determined to get what money he
wanted without authority of law, and he looked
coin declined to aid him, because no money
could be taken from the Treasury without ap-
the critical condition of the Governor, and,
without scruple, Joined him in the financial en-
terprfse. He drew warrant for a quarter of n
million of dollars and gave it TO the Governor
to spend as he pleased, not only without being
pose, but in defiiince of express law appropri-
ating the same money to another and entirely
different object. If this be true the guilt of the
parties can hardly be overcharged by any words
which the English language win supply, II was
Eetting money & olit Oh oe M nor only an
ny. 1t involved the making of a fraudulent
warrant, of which the moral turpitude was no
less than that committed by private individual
when he fabr'icates and utters a false paper. It
was gross and palpoble violation of the oaths
which the Governor and Secretary had both ia
ken. It was, by the statute of 1916, felonious
enbezzlement of the money thus obtained, pun
ishable by fine and ten years Imprisonment
in the pcnitentiary. The parties, according to
your version, were both conscious of the high
one say to the other, IF the cause fails you and
I win be covered with prosecutions and proba-
bly, imprisoned or driven from the country
You do not diminish or mitigate the offeuSe one
whit by saying that the money was afterward
accounted for.r n felony cannot be compound
ed or condOned by a simple restitution of the
spoils; and the law have cited was made X
pressy to prevent officers charged with the safe
keeping, transfer or disbursement of public
money FROM using 1t to aceomnodat tie te friends in
your trustworthiness as Il contributor to histo-
ry when the public comes TO learn that this
In the aggregate and in the detail-in the sum
total and in every item. The truth is this: In
1853 the Democratic majority of the Indiana Le-
piSlature were ready and willing to pass their
proper and usual appropriation bills but were
''bolted" and left the houses without a quorum
until the constitutional limit of their session
them and thus, by his own fault and that OF MS
friends, he was without the ways ana means TO
nav the current, expenses of the State he was
wrong, but his error was that of a violent par
tisan, not the crime of a corrupt magistrate
tion to relieve his necessities by pIundering the
Federal treasury He made no proposition eli
ther to Mr.: Lincoln or Mr.. Stanton that they, or
either of them, should become his accomplices
in any such crime His purpose was to demand
payment of a debt due. and acknowledged to be
DUE from the United States to the State of In
diana. The money had been appropriated by
Congress opay it; and it adS according TO ldtC!
I know not how Mr.. Morton may like to see
himself held up feIon confeSsing his guilt,
but can say, with some confidence, that il Mr..
What must aIHaze the readers of your article
more than anything else is the perfect sincerity
of the belief which you express, directly or in
directly, in every line of #, that the base mis-
nentIy pfaiseworthy. You seem to be wholly
unconscious of defaming the rnnn you meant to
honor and honesty of them will not be measured
by your standards. 1t may be true that public
the American people have not permanently
changed their code of morality. Good faith be-
fidelity, observance of oaths, and obedience to
the laws which hold society together, have here
they will be again. The government of God
has not been reconstructed. Fraud or force
mandments and the Golden Rule are beyond
your reach; some persons have faith enough to
believe that even 'the gates of hell shall-not
prevail against them" .e
The oClious character YOU have given Mr.. Stan
ton is not merely unjust in itself but, if ufcon-
tradicted, it must lead to other misconceptions
of him. Besides the offences against law, jus
tice, humanity and truth which you have emu
merated and assigned to him for his gloritica-
ton, he has been charged with others which, if
established, must expose him to universal exc
Grafton. For instance, it is asserted that in the
winter of 1851, when he was member of the
sippi, the most emphatic assurance of his con-
viction that secession was right, and urged him
to go on with it; that in 1852, while he was wri-
ting the most affectionate letters to General
Mcclellan, he not only maligned him at Wash
ington, but maliciously plotted his defeat and
the destruction of his army before Richmond !;
that he refused in 1864 to receive the Anderson
IL
som, exchange, or other equivalents though he
knew If left there they must perish miseTably
for want of the medicine and food which their
captors had not the means to give them. These
accusations, you are aware, have often been
made, with horrible aggravations which need
not repeat. His friends have denied and dis
credited them, mainly on the ground that his
character wholly above such inputation
But you have done your full best to make this
defense worthless If he wore the cloak of con-
stitutional Democracy with us, and put on the
livery of abolitionism with you, why should he
not assume the garb of a secessionist with the
men of the SouthI If he tried to get his friend
Toucey kidnapped, what moral principle could
hinder him from contriving the ruin of his
friend Mcclellan? If he craftily eNerted himself
at your end of the avenue to bring a bloody
civil war, which, according to his own declara-
tious at our end, unlawful and causeleSs,
what crime against human life was he not capa-
bic of committing? If he wilfully left our piis-
oners to certain starvation, and then managed
falsely to throw the odiaHr of their death upon
the political enemies of the party in power, and
thus contributed very largely to the enslaVe-
ment of the Southern States, not that an
act of ''intensc and abounding patriotism" as
well worthy of your praise some others for