Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-06-12
STANTON vs.. SUMNER.


Senator Sumner might have been excus-
ed for his attack OH President Grant, ma
lignant and slanderous as ii was. But for
his invasion of the sanctity of the grave,
and his effort to make a dead man testify
to facts which he desired to prove true, is
inexcusable, not to say indecent 1t Is no
wonder that the friends of the deceased
Secretary are incensed ut this effort to
place him in false colors before the coun-
try. His attempt to force Mr.. Stanton to
testify in his behalf has failed, and thou
sand letters from Horace White, would not
sustain his position.
Mr.. Stanton made speech Mt Steuben-
vile, Ohio, during the last Presidential
campaign, from which we make the fol-
lowing extracts:
Grant stands this day before us the foremost
military commander in the world. with peace
for his watchword LApplause.l Why should
he not be elected What reason has any lover
of country for not voting for him a.? BY his side
stands Schuyler Collar, who, by his own energy,
good character and industry, advanced from the
printing-ofiic to the Speakers chair, and for
three successive terms has filed that high office
with honor and distinction. Honest and up
right men have been nominated for your Repre-
seutatives in Congress, pledged to stand by
Grant and the country. Why then, again ask,
should he and they not receive your support
The history of Grant Is known to you and to the
whole world, Educated at West Point, he serv
ed with distinction through the Mexican war,
and when it was ended unwillingto be dronc,
resigned his commission, and engaged in the
pursuit of civil life Leaving his peaceful pur-
suits at the commencement of the rebellion, he
Joined the army, and soon advanced to the rank
CT Major-General commanding an army
s g
Ind aor ash, chat reason has any man
to Cote against Gen. Grant HIS capacity and
integrity for crU administration 1rere equally
manifest IN the rast territories IN ,yhtch Hc
operdtd., lfany man among you would chide
from the boy the musSct and knapsack that his
father carried at Donelson at Nicksburg upon
Lookout Mountain, throughout the Wilderness,
before Richmond, at Five Forks, ut Appomat-
toX Courthouse and shouldering proudly,
marched with two hundred thousand Of his
fellow-soldiers through the streets of Washing
ton and around the Capitol and Executive Man
sion that he defended with his life for years, in
the long march, the wcarisome siege and the
storm of battle-let such man vote against
Gen. Grant. [Appause. lfthcre is any man
among you that would blot from the page of our
history the story of these great achievements,
let him draw black line around them, and writes
across their face: II have no share in these
great deeds, for voted against Grant" APP
plause.l Is there any man among you who
would compel the armies Of the Potomac, of
the banks Of the Ohio, of the Cumberland, of
the Tennessee, and ofthe Gulf, to be again gath
cred at the tap of the drum and surrendered ms
prisoners of war to Lee and johnson, Beaurc-
gard and Forrest, and Johnston? Let him vote
against Gen. Grant.
This is the language of one whom Sena-
tor Sumner would introduce to prove that
President Grant was not General and
that he is not capable of ruling this coun-
try. Senator Carpenter was right when
he said that either Sumner had misrepre-
sented MIR. Stanton, or else Mr.. Stanton
was the most two-faced man Oh earth. His
published speeches, which We're listened
to by thousands fpersons yet living, were
just to the contrary of the position in
which Mr.. Sumner would place him, and
renreSented.