The Republican journal., 1871-02-09
and fifty thousand dollars at one time. [
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let Of the choicest flowers. You painted monster
tt depraVitv, and YOU expected the American peo-
pie TO worship it with all the fervor OF sayages when
thcy fall down TO adore the image OF some hldeohs
demon. No doubt the votiye offering OF your atfec-
ION took this anomalous form because you believed
that dupcity and crime employed against Demo
,rnts would give him the highest claim he could
iHYe on the admiration of the Abollonlsts, ana pc
cause it did greatly increase your own esteem ana
regard for him. But my interest in his reputation
required that he should be properly appreciates by
that honest portion of the people who stl adhere
Ia the moral creed Of their fathers.
do not assert that your last paper proves notllhS
Will give YOU the full benefit OF every fact you have
established. 50 far you have shown MIR. stanton
10 He guilty of the baseness you impute to him,
will make no contest about it, But will not yield
one inch to any allegation Of yours unsupported by
,.yidence | will try to save out Of your hand as
much of his character As vou have not already de-
~toved by credible evidence. Ny effort was to take
h. i'm down from the pillory to which you had nailed
hia bv the "a fiXd figure for scorn to point
ls finger at. You have done your strongest to op-
o 3e my rescue othim, and any partial success which
NAV have rewarded Your struggle must be great
nmtort Of which cannot Justly deprive YOU. We
viii examine your evidence and upon what
I,oints YOU have made out Your ease, and wherein
,ou have come short OF yOur aim.
T. 1ou asserted that Mr.. Stanton had been from
hi earliest youth abolitionis in his secret heart
that leading men of that party he declared him
-.i1 in entire agreement with them, and hoped for
lhe time 10 come when he could aid them. In 9th
,r words. he gave in his perfect adhesion to them
,ncurred in their views of public morality, and
Va- willing to promote their designs against the
Federal and State governments whenever he could
make himself most efficient TO that end. AT the
anne time he was IN the Democratic party by vr-
tuc of his declared faith in exactly the opposite SEN
1 imrntS 70 us he made himself appear q Demo-
rat Of the most ultra class. do not say that he
" as an actiNelrOpagandist; but all Democrats with
(,hOm he spoke were impressed by the seeming
-Iength of his attachment to those great principles
atxr fIax- hc,,n. "A @I,o
MON from dissolution. the country from civil war
.l the liberties OF the people from the destruction
with which Your ascendency threatened them. We
look him on his word. believed him thoroughly, and
rtNe him honor, Office, and high trusts. Now
man may be IN honest Democrat sincere Abb
uluionist. but he cannot honestly and sincerely be
10th at the same time. Between these two parties
the hostility was deadly. Each recognized the 9TH
go aS Il mortal foe. They We're as far asunder as
the poles on every point of principle and policy
lhny differed not merely about rules for the inter-
retution othe organic law but opposed each other
thr broad question whether that law entitled to
amy obedience at all One of them respected and
r'verenced the Constitution as the best government
NE world ever saw, While the other denounced it
az an agreement with death and 4 covenant with
HE'LL, which it was meritorons even for its sworn
officers 10 violate. II we loved any portion OF it
more than another it was that part which guarded
lhc individual rights OF the people by habeas corpus
nry trial. and other great judicial institutions, which
ON ancestors on both sides OF the Atlantic had shed
cscy those provisions which had your bitterest en-
NIFTY, and which You made the first of your pow
to abolish, trample down, and destroy. Mr.. STAN
ION could not have been truly on more than one
,te Of such Il controversy; he could not serve God
hd Afammon both he could not he for the Constitu-
ian and against it too he could not at once believe
and dsbceye i'll the sanctity OF an oath TO support
1T. He protested most ieryenty TO be heart and
-oul with rs. IL he also professed TO be with you,
he was wretched hypocrite. If he kept up this
fraudulent deceit tor thirty years. and thereby got
he highest places in the gift of both parties, he was
the most marvellous lmpoSter that ever lived or
lied"
Whenyour first article appeared, did not believe
That YOU hal any ground for this shocking imputa-
lon upon his character. was compelled to disbe-
iese and contradict it. for reasons which were then
,ryen and need not now be repeated. But said
he testimony OF The Chief Justice would silence my
,enial. The Chef Justice has spoken out and sus-
tanned yoltr assertion. ou do prove by him dec
uHlon from the lips Of NJ. Stanton, made nearly
1hlty years ago, from which the inference is fair
one that he was in the democratic party with intent
1T" beray the Constitution and its friends into the
cruel clutches OF them enemies whenever he could
hnd an opportunity.
But YOU are not satisfied with this 10 make the
brand mciaceable, You show that several years af-
Ten his declaration to Mr.. Chase, he being an ayoW-
'rl advocate and Champion of Democratic princi-
pies was either pppointe, by his political brethren,
pr else yollntecred to answer an aboli, ion lecture
delivered at SteubenWlle by man named Weld.
tle disappointed all parties, including the lecturer
by declining TO come forward though very
polntedly called for lie made no excuse at the
llne for deserving the cause he had undertaken, but
he slipped round secretly and alone to
the private room of the lecturer and gave himself
in AZ 4 convert. II meant" said he, "to fight you
tht my guns are spiked, and came to say that |
how see with You" etc, etc. 1t never struck Mr..
Weld that there was anything sneakng or shabby
about this transaction. With the obliGnity of vis-
ion peculiar to his poca! sect. he saw nothing but
hearty lrankneSs, independence, moral insight, |
1nah fam tl... .l,f %
who privately denounced the opinions and prin-
'ipes which he publicly supported and twenty five
lear@ afterwards Mr.. Weld pously thanks God on
paper for such arttnl dodger to as leader
o his party.
fhc next place yon find him after the Steuben-
Vile affair il IN the van of the Ohio Democracy
they. too, believed in the ''hearty trankness and
ofthe declarations he made to them
1hry showed their faith by their works; the Legis
IatIre, Joy strict party vote, elected him Law Re-
pprjer IN Office which he sought eagerly and re-
vriYed with many thanks.
Ia all the conflicts ofthe Buchanan administration
With the abotionsts and their allies he was an
'ieil-mouthed opponent of the latter He was al
Ways sound on the Kansas question, and faithful
among the falthless OH the Lecompton Constitution
- ir ~ we, ms Democratic associates, were per-
united to know him, no man detested more than
lie did The khaNlsh trick OF the abolitOnists in pre-
venting Vote on slavery by which it would have
been expelled from Kansas and the whole trouble
ettled in The way they pretendedto wish. He was
'It and ont for Brecknridge in 1860, and regarded
Inc salvation Of the country as hanging on the for
loln hope of his election. To Mr.. Buchanan him
self, and TO the members of his Cabinet, he paid the
most asSltu0un court, was always ready for an occa-
sloh to serve them, and showed his devotion in
WAYS which sometimes went rather too close to oh
equiousneSS.
While we We're looking at lhi. side of his charac-
YER, and Supposing it had no other, he was, accord
h% to your understanding of his history in ''entire
aercement' with the deadly enemies OF every prin-
,pe We believed in.