Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-01-04
RepII 70 V.

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stM harplng on my ds.ghter."
ME EDTroR;-In his intended defense
or EK-Secrstary Cox, V. does the Secre-
ury an u~nintentional wrong, and in his
last essay has given good occasion for
General Cox to pray 70 be saved from
such friends. Forif really be necessa-
" 10 use all Of Andy Johnson's old NAL
edictions, against the survivors OF the
distinguished leaders OF the Republican
party, whom history, and a nation saved,
viii delight to honor, in order to show
President Grant wrong and his Secretary
right, il were far better for General Cox
to foregO any attempted defense.
We all remember the maledictions Of
Pre=ident johnson against those able,
earnest and fearless defenders Of the
Union and universal Eberty, in the
days Of its extreme peril,-Sumner,
Wade, &c, in the Senate; Thadeus
Stevens, Butler, &c, in the House;
and Stanton and Grant each and
all were the subject Of President
Johnson's denUnciations. and the de-
nunciations Of the then seeessionists
South and their Northern allies. It
seems hat V. has not forgotten these
mEledicti0na, and thinks it practicable
to repeat them against the survivors,
Butler, and President Grant and General
Spinner; only in more covert terms. 50
as to give them an effect which President
johnson failed to do. For a malignant
prO-slayery seeessionist or one sympa-
tbizing like President johnson with
them, the contemptuous terms in which
V. speaks OF that champion Of freedom,
and opponent Of slavery General Butler,
would be very natural. He it was, then
q leader Of the Democracy in the New
England States, who, when the slave
holders resolved on the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF the Government, renowned at once
all party allegiance, advised the Cover
nor Of his State to promptly arm and
equip the soldiery Of that State, and vol
unteered himself to lead them to the de-
Tense Of the National Capitol and gave
all his great ability and influence TO sup
port President Lincoln, whose election
his party had opposed. The ability and
courage he displayed in getting and
holding command Of that p~ro-slavery
fortress Of the se~cessionists, the city OF
BsltiE=ore, and thus opening the gate for
Northern soldiery to go to the defense Of
the NatiOnsi Capitol, a. well as his faith
full and eminent services through the
wsr and in Congress are matters Of his
tory. They were not furnished BY Pres
ident Johnson's maledictions, added to
all the abuse leveled at him by the
malignant secesh journals, aided by GER
tain eowardly ones professedly Republi-
can, nor can v. in his attempted defense
blot out this enduring record. He may
possibly, in a future essay, succeed in
showing General Cox in his own choice
language, "as s well dressed, well man
nered gentleman to be, In the estima-
ton Of men OF his own views of man
hned, a rebuke, "Or an adventurer like
B. F. B." as he is pleased to style the
first "ddUeHturer'i 10 Baltimore, after
Union men had there been shot down in
the streets, in times that "tried mems
I souls more than their dreSS.''
In his next essay V. may show this "B.
F.B." to have beenan HGdgeHtger' in be-
ing the first General to refuse To- surrender
Slaves to their masters in the seeded states
during the war; tsrning them "contr0-
bands" while "weIl dressed, well man
nered gentlemen officers whose swords
were too seldom exposed to become
rusty" t0ere using their soldiers 10 re-
turn and protect the slaves Of the enemy,
and that this 'B. F. B." became an sad
r~cHturer'' al Orleans, to keep that rebel
city in better subsection and order daring
the war, than any "wen dressed officer
succeeded in doing under President
johnson after the war. All this I con-
I cede v. may easily show; but he can not
SH0W 70 airy o rrTy H-ts ruTcyHttyTeus dhc
4 letters upoa The subject, that General But
ler's letter is not a substantially true ex-
position OF the matter; especially while
by General Cox not denied. ".
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