The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-02-15

Stanton Mr.. Hoar, then the Attorney
General of the United States, deliver
ed an oration in the Supreme Court,
which was not a eulogy upon Stanton
but a libel upon all with whom he
had been associated in the Cabinet of
James Buchanan. Mr.. Hoar, having
credulously received as facts all the
calumnles of q partisan newspaper
press during the war, and never hav-
ing troubled himself to look into the
truth or the falsity OF the malignant
rUmors which were so industriously
spread abroad, held that, Gin the
hour of our nations atgagony," Stan
ton, beingsa member ofsN1r. Buchan-
ans Cabinet, had saved the Union
single-handed, and in so doing had
passed through perils at the hands of
his disloyala sociates and theirzc chief.
The next morning Judge Black adj
dressed Mr.. Hoar a public lett er. tell
ing him that the story was false, and
desiring him to produce any paoofs he
might have in his possession. Mr..
Hoar searched diligently for such ev-
idence as would be worth laying be-
fore public, the but, being honest, was
compelled to abandon the subject.
Then Senator Wilson, who had
none of the scruples which restrained
Hoar from bearing false testimony,
undertook to infuse new life into the
worn out SANDER The result was his
first article in the Atlantic Monthly.
A reply from Judge Black was imper-
atively called for, and his answer show
ed how Wilson had blackened the
character of Stanton, while causing
the conduct of Mr.. Buchanan and his
Cabinet to shine brighter with every
word of discussion. This overwhelm-
ed Wilson with shame and covered
him with confusion. Smarting I'M
der 4 terrible castigation he borrowed
a lot of old letters, which Hoar had
the good sense to reject as useless, and
in his desperate attempt to revive the
same calumny called to his aid Sum
ner, Howard, Dawes and Il dozen or
so more. To use the language OF
The Paper in the previous article in
the Atlantic he had appeared alone,
like Stanton in Buchanan's Cabinet
a single, lorn loyalist; but here he
was again with eighteen or twenty
more, worse than himself. Without
this company, perhaps Wilson would
have been unworthy of further notice.
He stood before the world impuiing
thirty years of unparalleled treachery
to the man whom he professed to
honor, and ever naming the particu-
lar acts Of baseness which established
his character in~contestably as u false
friend, q double and treble renegade,
IA cOnspirator against the fame, yea,
the very lives of his fendest benetac
tors-a coursc vulgar rogue, Il spy,
t%attler, and Il rufiian. Unhappily fol
Wilson he easily proved that Stanton
was each and all of these, and thu:
destroyed the credibility of the only
witness by whom he could sustain thu
weak accusations he had fabricated
against the Buchanan administration.
This essay, formidable only in it:
frightful array of the proofs of Stan
toms guilty duplicity, brought out
from Judge Back, that paper o.
amazing grace and power, which we
lately laid before our readers, and
which makes it as. clear historically
as the treason of Julas or Arnold,
that Stanton was just what Wilson's
witnesses would make him-"the
most marvellous impostor that ever
lived or died
In all this controversy Judge Black
makes no attempt to defend himselI
from the absurd charge of disloyalty,
which was freely brought against him
as the head of Mr.. Buchanan's Cabi.
net. He lets the facts which he. pro
,dnces speak for themselves. Yet
abundant and i~ncontestable evidence
shows that he was an earnest devoted
friend to the Union from first to last.
The most convincing proof of this eX-
lists in the handwriting of Stanton
himself. Some important documents
which will e~ffectually still numerous
SANDERS, will shortly see the light in
Col. Ward H. Lannon's "Lite Of Lin
coln," a book which it is hopel will
not be long delayed.-Er.