The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-02-11
STANTON AGAIN.
JUDGE BE'AC'z to sENAToR WILSON
C0NCLUsION.1

! u. V0I
/ statements are true, unless Mr.. Dawes Mr.
! Howard, MIR. Seward and Mr.. Sumner baya
| volunteered to help you by sacrificing the
! character OF 1.-THE great secretary"
l VIII not waste time UPON the details
which your witnesses have given Of his
tTeachery. 1t appears to have been free
! VIII CtIerlng OF his own. induced by no So
ilcitatIon OF yours, but rendered bv himself
&c nero n9otU. The moment lie was inducted
into oihce he locked about TO ascertain who
were the bltteTest and most malignant enc
mics OF the men to whom he owed all his
pHtnc importance and much Of his private
prosperity. lie found them quickly, aad
though they we're entire strangers to him.
he put himself immediately into secret com
muulcatIou with them, took service under
them as their regular spy, and exercised HIM
sell diligently III that base vocation, making
reports to them daily, ard sometimes twice
day, until the close OF his Cficial terLl
when his occupation necessarily ceased
Ills mean employ meut, must have taken up
most OF the time which should have been
devoted to the duties Of aD Cifice Oh which
the pubic business, always heavy, was then
pressing with UNUSUAL weight.
lie dlh not cUmEIUnicate any knowledge
which Has necessary to guide yOu in the as
charge OF your Guties, for every fact Of that
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administrator kept nothing back The Pres
ldent volunteered to give all he knew con-
Corning the state Of the Union /; no depart
meut was closed against your Investigations
every call tor Information was promptly and
fully answered. Ii that had not been
enough, every member III the cabinet would
have been perfectly free TO speak with any
member Of Congress, or to 90 IL person be-
fore any committee. Mr.. Seward did cUufer
with me, fully at the state department, in
open daylight, without any DIGGING about
II and Ae was always welcome, as he Is
now, to tell everything that passed, ior be
neither asked nor could have asked any
| question, If the country had an interest in
! 1t. which l was not willing to answer. With
| all the chaqnels Of truthful Information thus
| open and unUbstructed, you preferred TO get
! what you wanted from spy. Mr.. Howard
! has the cheek to proclaim that during the
! tutors" Of his committee, Instead of acting
! upon honest and legitimate evidence, he sent
! Inquiries to this secret iuformer, who an-
swered 10y giving information Of great inl-
! p0ItaHcs." but his communications ''wero
Arrays indirect and anonymous !"
| Ii there Is one sentence in your whole ar
| ticie which Is marked moro than another
with your characteristic AardIhUyd Of aseer-
tiou, 1t s that in which You try to make a
merit Of Stanton's treachery. !. is Curiously
| reckless, and for that reason worth giving
IN your very words. These facts" say
! you, were stated TO Illustrate Dir. SLauton's
| exalted patriotism, which prompted him 10
raise G6OCe the claims and ClamUrs Of parti-
sanship, and to invoke the aid Of loyal men
! beyond the lines Of his own party, aud out
| site of the administration Of which he was
a member to SeTCe his impeTiHed country,
meuaced with foul and wicked revUit."
| Why, this is precisely what the President
and al! the honest men of his cabinet were
! doing openly and above bJaId. They had
no legal power which could avail to serve the
''imperi,led country" without tie CO opera
| ton Of Congress, which was wholly ruled by
! the opposition. They invoked ''the aid Of
| loyal men beyond the lines OF their own party
! and outside Of the administration" >" because
| it was from thence only that aid could come.
! But with you and your associates the
| claims and ciamOrs OF partisauship" were
so much higher than considerations Of public
| duty, that you not only refused all aid to
| the country, but you insu!ted. and abused,
| and villitled the President and his frieGds
! for asking it. Was Stanton, like other
members Of the administration, invoking
| aid for the imperi.ed country Did he
| skulk about in secret to effect in tina. way
what his brethren were trying to accomplish
| by an open appeal to the reason and cons
| science Of their opponents? Ii so, how did
| he succeed a.? Did his secret, anonymous,
and indirect communications ever produce
the slightest symptoms Of patriotic emotion
! in the minds Of those who received them2-
| What did you, or Mr. Sumner, or Mr. Dawes,
or Mr.. Howard, or Mr.. Seward, do to avert
the great calamity Of the civil war What
| measures did any Of you bring forward to
serve the country2 Ia that hour Of peril
| what man among you acted ike a man
| Which Of you rose to the height of that
] great argument" or showed himself I'll in
| mind or heart to meet the responsibilities OF
the time2 The Union was indeed ''meua-
ced with foul and wicked Teyolt.' and all
you did was TO 'let the Union slide" The
public danger excited no anxiety in your
minds; public affairs received no attention
at your hands but you were all the while
mousing about alter some personal calumny
by which you hoped to stir up the popular
passions against the true friends of the coun-
try; and Stanton, unless you slander him
made love to the infamous business of help
ing you.
You have given US but small samples OF
the indirect and anonymous comm unica-
tions" which Stanton made to you and your
associates. The bulk of them must have
been enormous. He was engaged for two
or three months fabricatng at least one tale
every day for Mr.. Seward, and another con-
sisting of "the most startling facts" to suit
the needs of Mr.. Howard, while you and Mr..
Dawes were gratified in a similar way at
the same time. Are these startling facts''
held back for some other funeral occasion
Take notice yourself, and tell your friends
that while their stories are hid away from
the light, the presumption that they are not
only false but known to be false is growing
stronger and stronger every day. You had
better open your budgets at once.
There is a point or two here on which I
would like to draw you out. Mr. Seward
says he and Mr. Stanton discussed and set
tied aneasnres The topic which absorbed