Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-10-26
Stanton the Suicide.


Some months since we published a
very able and causlic roview, written
by Judge Black, of certain statements
made by Senator Wilson, Of Massachu-
setts, in an extravagant eulogy made
by the latter upon Stanton, the late
tenacious Secretary of War. To this
review, which excoriated the hide Of
the Massachusetts Senator to Il degree
that aroused the pity of all who can
not look with composure upon exces-
sive cruelty to animals-even Of the
vilcst order Of vermin and creeping
things-the eulogist of the defunct
"stickst," after licking his fagellated
hide for time in quiet, put in II re.
sponse, which appeared in the atlantic
MontRly of the current month. The
character and effect of the response
may be gathered from the subioined
notice of it, which we find in the New
York World of Thursday. If the
friends Of the "late lamented" two
faced secessio.loyalist keep up the
fight over bis remains-eilele morally
and physicilly-they will have him
appear so smirchcd and spotted that
no one will recognize his picture,
ercept tie few i0ho kHe,o him so inti-
mdteiy as 10 be able 10 conceive Of hoio
much baseaess and treachery he was
really capable;
THE STANTON CONTROVERSY.
The quarrel over Mr.. Stanton's
character, which his friends have
provoked, is n very pretty quarrel
as it stands. TO us, who, having our
own matured opinions about Mr..
Stanton's character, are profoundly
Indifferent on the subject, its simple
alternatives are equally satisfactory.
Either, pending the Buchanan admin
istralon, Mr. Stanton was meanly and
basely false TO his patron and his
trusting friends, or else he was tech.
nicaly "iisloyal," and actively en-.
gagged in cheating the Republicans.
lie may have been both, for Mr.. Sum-
ner tells us he had "an instructive in.
sight into men and things" Certain
it is that Mr.. Stanton's friends cannot
claim for him immunity because he is
dead. Had they chosen to pile up
positive pancgyric on his tomb until,
with the festive Mr.. Seward, they
made him "almost divine" no one
would have said a word. But this did
not suffice His ravenous shade had
to be propitated by richer sacrifices.
Take the case of Senator Wilson and
his man friday-lloar. The latter
for Stanton's sake made dissecting
room of the Supreme Court, and man.
gled n dead President in his honor, to
the disgust of all about him. But as
Iloar has had his reward, we say
naught more about him. Senator
Wilson steals away to Boston, and,
collecting all the crisp faggots OF his
periodical rhetoric, the very rubbish
OF the Atlantic, he rears huge pile,
like old Caxton's at Glenwithershins,
and sets il on fire. Great and ghastly
was the glare thereof He laid upon
il the dead Mr.. Buchanan, and the
dead Mr. Touccy, and the dead Mr.
Floyd, and the hideous smoke and
loalhy smell of this frightful increma-
ton dispersed itself throughout the
land. Then was it that Judge Black,
u friend of at least two of these NAL
treated dead, Indignantly came for
ward with his honest words Of vindi.
cation. He spoke strongly, us he felt
strongly. He knew that the accuse.
tions wcro untrue, and he was 10th to
believe (;hough by this time his loyal
faith must be little staggered) that
this pet Mr. Stanton (for il was Judge
Black who gave him his position)
could be so false. Judge Black was
earnest in tone, and as he is apt to
be, vigorous in phrase, and his resent.
iu defence of the dead carried dis
may into the nest of the slandercrs.
This was in June last,
1t now seems tfor this new Atlantic
article tells US SOY that the whole fra.
tcrnily was promptly called into
council. Seward, and Sumner, and
Hoar, aud Howard, and Holt, and
Dawes (and Mrs. Dawes,) dii mDOres
ef mihores of N massachusetts, and Michi.
gan, we're summoned to Wilson's res
cue, and all gave their testimony.
The October magazine serves up to
us tbs dish of which there were so
many cocks. Its article blazes away
at our poor Pennsylvania like the
gun charged with trumpery which
Major Gahagan fired at the elephant.
We have not had time to hear of its
effect IN York
With more than one popularity in
this manifesto the critical reader can.
not Gil to be struck. Though the
memories of Stanton, proving him to
have ,ecn an original acrid abolition
ist of the Lundy school, 90 back over
many years, no dates are given OF re-
cent occurrences, so that they can be
tested, and everything rests upon the
present hearsay. 1t is what Mr..
sumner, or Mr. Dawes, or Mr.. How
ard says Stanton told him, so that the
slightest flaw of truth in either link
separates and destroys the whole.
1Rke the great over.act of Stanton I
bOlying the Buchanan Cabinet, on a
cirlain occasion. The Bostones con
sprators seek TO prove it by telling
rs that Dawes told Wilson that Holt
told him all about it; and this round
about evidence is reinforced by an
assertion that Mrs Dawes ('sant and
marlyr'') "dislinctly remembers hear
"ing Stanton tell the story" Besides
which, Holt says that several years
"ago in the War Department"-that
is two years after lS61-Stanton read
him a letter, to Mr. Sohell, descriptive
OF the scene, which letter, however
he dared not send, thinking "such dis
"closures could not be justified unless
''mado with the consent of the partle:
'uo the Cabinet meeting" In Other
words, us il is not pretended such
consent WIS ever given, he went
about retailing the story privately tC
Mr.. Buchanan's bitter enemies, and