The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-06-15
CANTON, STARK COUNTY OHIO, JUNE IS, 1870.

him are curiars; for instance. the Simmer sto-,
Mhlch You tell wlth singular brevity and GOODNESS
Mr. Sumner called On him at his ofhee, for wha
purpose you do not disclose. Mr.. Stanton did no
receive hfsyisitor either with the polfteEesE of
gentleman or-the courtesy due to aSenator nucl
less with the cordially of a friend; but hustet
mn iI 1et OF uie nliidlng as II ashamed to be seel
with him in daylight. He told him expressly ina
| ne dld not dare to converse with him there, bu
/ WOULD see MN at one o'clock that night TIL,
| hour came, and then, when the city vass Wrappe,
| IN sleep, he skulAed away to the meeting place
Wlere under the cover of darkness he vIisner
ed the tales which he did not dare 10 utter i'm hi,
nearing Of the parties they were intended to ruin
and those parties were his frieds and cnefactorI
| Into what unfathomed gulfs of moral degrodatio,
must the man have fallen who could be fyuiltv n
/ TINS But remember, this Is another second hanc
L story anu you are not q competent witness Wf
VIII troubie You to call Mr.. Sumner if Won please
Let nm testify what treason Stanton disclosed
cret information against men.whOm he was 1f-oif
10 confront Is consistent with Mr.. Stanton's char
| man.
He said nothing whatever to us aboutth trea
@ a,'l winch ne saw IN every part of the govern
!iirnI. ne made no report of his discoveries tt
| the President. He maintained unhroken his fra
ternal relations with his colleagues. by your owr
even in his own Office lest It might reach the ear:
OF his associates in the administration AmOnf
the members of Congress whom YOU name AS tho
| recipients Of his secret communications not onf
man Of moderate views is included; much less did
/ he speak 10 any friend of the parties accused :
He cautiously selected their bitteresI enemies ana
poured his VENOM into hearts already fasterinq
with spite. The House raised a committee 80
investigate REASONABLE Vaccinations and conspir
acies," upon which there were members of bott
parties stanton did not go before it and tell his
story, nor did he mention the subject to COchrane
Reynolds or Brach; but he made an arrange
Inent by which Messrs- Howard and Dawes were
lnlornled OF whatever they wanted to know II
tul tiiit committee OF vigilance wasOr
g;inlzed by the more active Republican members
Of Congress; in other words, the extreme part
suns OF Dolh houses got up = secret body of their
own, not TO perform any legal duty pertaining r.
their Offices not to devise public measures for
iNtrtlng the rum which threatened the country,
but to Prowl about in the dark for something Ia
crafty personal malice make little capital for
their party. GOu were a member of that commit
tee as II was fit you should be- and Mr. Stlntdn
gave You warnings and suggestions" how 10 nro-
ceed. This is what you call Erising in thot crisi.
above the claims of partisanship." At night ne
assisted you to rake the sewers lin search of ma
terials to bespatter his colleagues and every NOR
nlnS he appeared before them to renew the as
surances Of his distinguished consideration II
was thus that, IN your estimation "he ronsacrot+i
ism" f'''' '''
What cargoes of defamatory ftlsehood he musst
nave consigned 10 your keeping! You do not
Dfe'k the loul bulk, hut you have given MS some
samples which deserve examination. He denoun-
Ged Mr. Touceyas false TO his country, inspired
Dawes resolution against him. and ex pressed the
belief that tie ought 10 be arrested Letus look m
this moment. "
To Mr.. Toucey's face Mr. stanton breatbad ~,
syllable OF censure upon his official conduct as
head OF the Navy Department. To the President
or cabinet he expressed no doubt of his wisdom
with a face Of smiling friendship. Toucev ceT.
talnly had not the remOtest idea that Stanton was
dei9nlng nm behind his back, or Inspiring with
abolitionists to destroy his reputation. He would
as soon have suspected him of an intent to poison
his food or stab him in his sleep. Can it be nos
resolution? "''
That resolution is found in the CONGRESSIONAL
GtOOe, Second Session, Ihirty-siXth Congress
ls6O-6l, part second, pp lf23-24. The prOceedinp
was begun, no Doubt in the hope of finding some
thing on which the charge could be founded of
scattering the navy to prevent it from being use6
against the South. But that failed miserabiy, and
the committee reported nothing worse than "a
grave error" of the Secretary in accepting without
delay or inquiry the resignation of certain navoi
officers Even this had no foundation in Law nr o.,
tact. Its truth denied. and the evidence call
ed for; none was produced. The right To eNDIain
and defend was demanded, but the gag of the
previous question was applied before word could
be said The accusers knew very well it wouIJ
not bear the slightest investigation Mr. Sickies
said truly (amid cries of "Order'D that sscensure
without evidence disgraces only those who pro-
nounce It" Mr.. 'TOucey's reputation was never
lhlurlously affected by It IN the estimation of any
Ialr-mlnded man But you fish it up from the OBJ
liyion TO which it has been consigned, and trv to
give 1t decency and dignity by saying that Stanton
inspired II. You do not appear to perceive The
hideous depth to which your assertion if trne
would drag him down. 1t is not true; the whole
business bears the impress of different mini
MIR. Stanton also suggested that his friend and
colleague Toucey ought Ia be arrested. This couId
not have been proposition to take him int ii
custody ON criminal charge regularly made
That would have been utterly impossible and oL
Surd: The Dawes committee itself could find
The suggestion must have been to kidnap him.
without an accusation or proof of probable cause
ana @ @eotisign MN 70 some dungeon without trial
nope OF reileI- But 10 contute your libel upon
Ioucey and Stanton both, it is only necessary 10
recollect the fact that kidnapping of American
;ltlzens was at that time wholly unknown and alb
solutely impossible. We were living under a dem
ocratic administration. Tyranny had not vet
sunk its bloody flngs into the TftaIs or the na
lonal liberty. The systematic perjury which af-
erward made the Constitution a dead letter was
lot then established as rule Of political morality
1eIr whole account of 80 1biugt s,,+,
flOyd, raging and stOrIning, arraigned the Pres
dent and Cabinet and the President trembled
or and his fellow cOnspirators with a storm of
ierce and fiery denunciation," is a pure and peT-
ectly baseless fabrication. II is absurd to boot
" haL was Fleyds arragnment of the President
md Cabinet fOr2 NOu say for VIOLATING thair
'leqges 70 thS secesslonlsts; and the charge
-galhst the President and Cabinet of violating
heir pledges was predicated solely on the fact thar
Colonel Anderson had removed from Fort Moni-
re TO Fort Sumter; and Floyd rdS disappointed IN
JOLonet Anderson, whom he chad expected ~ as a
southern man, to carry out his purposes in the
interest of treason" This is mere driveIIino at
,est, and is completely exploded by the record
which shows that Colonel Anderson's transfer OF /
ms force from Fort MOultrie to Fort Sumter was |
which Floyd himself had drawn mp, signed and /
Moreover, Floyd at that time was
lot IN a condition to arraign ANYBODY. He him
ell hitd just before that been rot only arragned |
Jut condemned, and the President had notified /
nm that he would be removed if he did not re- /
'lgn Was It this broken down and poYerless /
nan who made the President tremble and grow
'ale by complaining that subordinate had un- |
X pectedly Obeyed his own orders? You are not /
lily enough TO say so. Was it Stanton's '.storm |
II fierce and fiery denunciation Stanton was |
StOrHler in the presence of such men nc he tLen
iad 10 deal with, HIS language habitually /
his whole bearing Eecent and his he
iavior at the council board entirely free from
he insolence you impute to it. Your tales do not
lang together. No one can give credence TO vOur
eport Of bold and stormy denunciation by Stan |
on IN the presence Of his chief and his colleagues
nd at the same time believe what Won saw of him |
t another place, where yOu describe him nc a /
astard, sknlIing about in the dead of night to /
ma place OI cOncealment remote enough to /
make him safe, and cOnfessing that he did not |
are to breathe his accusation in the face of day
he craving SycOphant-the stealthy spy-who |
'Srgalned so carefully for darkness and secrecy |
'hen he made his reports, must have been wh0lly |
lntitted to play the part of Jupiter TOuans in q |
quare and open conflict Ii is not possibIa that
he fearless Stanton of your Cabinet scene couId
'e the same stanton who, at one o'clock in the |
light, was squat like toad at the ear of Sum
Ter,
E5SSsaying by his deyilisli arts to reaek
The organs Of his fancy.
] take it upon me to deny most emphatically |
nat hr stanton ever wrote fun and detailed |
ccount of that Cabinet scene" by which Won can /
rave the least hope Of being colroborated / can
ssertion is incredible. That lac should have |
OOly lndlted letter, even though lie never sent
: nIied with foolish brags Of his own prowess |
'hich halI dozen men then living could prove to
,e false, was not consistent either with his pru-
Ience, Yeracity or taste. Besides, he often spoke
win me about the events of that period, and nev-
T IN my hearing did he manifest the slightest
to misunderstood or InisrepTesent
mem. On the contrary, when statement rpsen1- I
'llng yours about the Cabinet scene was publish /
"a IN London paper, suggested that he ought 1
o contradict 1t; and he replied explaining how /
nd by whom 1t had been fabricated, hut said il |
vas not worth contradiction, for every man of /
common Intelligence would know it TO be "A mere
issue of lies. You cannot destroy SLanton's char
cter for sense and decency by citing his own au-
hority against himself. Nor can YOU find any
ther proof TO sustain the story. Ii is the weak /
invention Of some seurvy politician, who sought |
o win the patronage Of one administration by
another.
ome busy and insinuatng rogue,
Ome cOSging, cOzening slave, TO get some office |
iaIh devised this SANDER
Your history of his appointment to the War
department. is As erroneous that which Won
ave given of his conduct while Attorney General
.Ou say that he cordially indorsed Mr. Cameron's
to arm the negroes against the
lhite people OF the South; that Mr.. Lincoln dis
pproved this and required it 10 be suppressed;
nat aiterward, when Cameron felt the pressure |
+ the multiplied labor" he proposed to resign
mt coupled his offer with a condition that @sone
ne should be appointed not unfriendly 10 his |
Olicy,n namely, the policy of arming negroes to