Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-03-17
HISTORY
TooMBs AND STEPHENS, THE WING LEAD
ERs TWENTY flvH YEARS AGO.

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Vice President and ioolishly elected.
Robert Toombs and Alexander II.
Stephens, both of Georgia, were the
leaders of the then ruling party. The
agitation of the Slavery question and
the Know Nothing crusade drove both
these leaders into the Democratic
party in 1865, and resulted in wiping
out the Whigparty as a political organ
ization, and the formation Of the Re
publican party, by a combination of
the Abolitionists and the Free Soil
Democrats, which combination soon
after deluged our country an civil
war. What the result was, we all
know
The talented editor of the New York
Sun, Charles A. Dana, went to school
to Toombs and Stephens, and what he
says about his old teachers can be re-
lied on. The editor in question, in his
issue of February 23d, thus alludes to
the period of President Taylor's death.
What Mr., Dana relates is information
obtained inside of the circle which
swayed the union in 1Sis-50. lie re-
marks as follows
1.-TWO Incidents have recently brought
the names Of these persons again TO
the public mind. The first is teio de
sc in the State of Georgia, with be-
quest of duclling pistol by the suicide
to his late friend Mr.. 1oombs, that he
might use it on his own person. This
reminds us of the days when, trench
ant and quarrelsome, he always pru-
IDENTIFY halted before reaching the ten
PAGES and the hair trigger,
The next is the report of cores
pondcnt of the Springfield Republican,
that In the fcsta interregnum Of Con
gress, Mr.. Stephens paid his dcvoirs to
the White House, was met ON the
ground floor by the incumbent, and in
the interchange OF courteous compli-
ments, approved Of the whole course
of the Presidents policy toward Lousi-
ana No one who has studied his
character and observed his progress
will be surprised at this. His whole
mental organization Is q compound OF
contradictions, and only those who
have watched his idiosyncrasies, read
his essays, and listen to his long mem
ologues can measure and appreciate his
fidelity to his party, or his weight as
mimic statesman.
The names of these two men are as
conjunctivc and inseparable as Saul
and Jonathan IN sacred writ, or Orestes
and Pylades Of classic annals. Filling
small space in the chronicles Of the
ne9elii1',, 9'.i Us compared WIN o,her hoseu
,,u,';uu"ls, 1 'nvS werV .nc '''hi''sPIins
anu impuise ol lhe outpreaE: !, Is
a sru, oi' ,ia' 'ho con,es, pc.wce'i rlceuoni
;.'t,t a.u 5'avely was ioreorual'ieu anu me
s..ae,9 ;, s pus tneli onehcc was .ll''' 'ney
p,evaa,1a ra,;ad aaS :, upon .no preSvn' geno
a.'or n pi a,d nn.'e'paecu nl' ,i olu'ha.'ono, =,
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"yl M ,se,;u se;,;,, ~, .;s aec''dJs ',,,
IN ,ho ,yos,o os and I'm TooJshad Ied eS,sou 90
was t;rst JeveIoncJ [ - nnder :, ,bn @ hr;ae @
prcsidencv Of Gcp TowIor pro,;oe;oi @ &
in ;nanonce and ro,,,st;n,, na,;l ,han
with his election Taomhs and stenbens
stonncd ~ tbe 6,on, .ad ho.an,o
nai;anaI ,o,var n, ~ so,on,;a,' ae
h;N 1917 Caa;.p, pOu ~ ~ 'ne se'e0''o', "
Tso,o 's ~aoos ,nos .ne' nau s"PrGlne S; e9nsrp, %
d,d ~ No, "sa 'aa;' n4. ,ha, n,n - ,,a'eased WIZ
IL u.I III ~. 's0V,se ns, NY, aPp,o'" @ anu
gress n new denartment was created
and nm additional counsellor NODDED
their messmate and nersonal riend
Judgo Collamer of Vermont ~ tho
astonisbment Of evcrvbodv and M loss
Of himself was annoin,cd IN Il solely
by their influence ''l ri ~
Until the manufactures of Cabinets
was modernized "a nerfec,;on bv our
present illustrious ruler tbcrc ,vns
nevc, n more Heterogeneous ;nconcru.
uy assembled around tho lone council
table of The Executive Chamber Than
this Cabinet Of Cen Tavlor Tbey
were ali able men in their wov They
wore Of seven. .cubit s,o,nrc ~ comno,.cd
with the dwo,tisb crowtb of tbc rei,,n
of Grant They were bioh in nosition
nj bar and in for,m I6ffv IN nyj,,otc
moriL but not one of them nossessed
the gii, of administration or the fact
Of government We will no, detail
what we know of the interior follv Of
counsel and the stumbling of the Hind
LEADING tbe blind AZ tbe Dnlc of
Wejl;ng,on sa;d ,rhon ,.,,od 90 ,r,.;,c
the secret history ofthe Peninsula war.
"lf | should tell the truth. they would
tear me in pieces"
There was one appointmcnt pre.em.
inently their own Tho Socretarv of
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