Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-25
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n,.AiNE's INACCURACIES.
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Records
Lieutenant Governor Chauuoey T.
Black, who is about 10 publish Two vol
umes .utitlsd the ESSAYS and Speeches
Of jeremiah =. Black" in au interview
with the Harrisburg Patriot sets iolth
some of tho inaccuracies in the recently
published chapter from Blainc's lOtthHnm-
ing book. lie says:
"Judge Black was Democrat. MT
Blaine is u federalist, and II ho had been
wholly and perfectly fair in dealing with
the records Of Democratic Statesman, ho
would have been the first fcdctalist writer
from John Marshal down, who ever accom-
plished such u feat ot honor and decency.
AS 1t is, he has come very near 10 II, ana
1t is q pity he did not entirely succeed.
With his portrayal Of Judge Blacks moral
aud intellectual character, aud his ascrip-
tion to him of signal and patriotic services
az the most critical period III the country +
history, every one interested IN tho
memory of Judge Black must be greatly
gratiiied-aud | would not, II | could,
suppress au acknowledgment OF the m
tense pleasure which It has given me. lie
means, doubt not, to do him political as
we'll as personal justice. But II would
"
partisan leadcr-suddeuly turned nlstor-
iau--had failed to color his narrative Of
those important facts with some of the
errors his party has habitually propagatcd
and the prejudiccs with which 1t has beeu
saturated for a quarter of u century. When
he Processes to state historical facts, aud
Judge Blacks relation 10 thcm, he does 50
with reasonable accuracy when he draws
infcreucCs no draws them after his own
kiuk. And in one of these gratuitous
iufereuces, derived from no premise, eS-
cept that Judge Black had always been an
bOnest Democrat he does him grievous
injustice, unintentioually, OF course. " bile
he coucedes that after the removal OF
Anderson from Moultrie to Sumter, Judge
Blacks influence was powerfully eXerted
for the most vigorous measures against
the secession movement, he makes the
| impression that at an earlier period his
| attitude, like that OF many others, III both
parties, was different. And this is mis-
take which Mr.. Blaine had no right t.
make in work supposed to have been
written with the deliberatiOn of history,
when the evidences OF the truth were ST
abundant and so accessible.
Judge Black and buchanan.
THE differences between Judge Black
and the presiden: which came to head
when the answer to the South CaIOlinG
commissioners was under consideration,
had existed oil along, in one degree q
another, and though they were difference,
not about ends but methods, they appear
To have been chronic. Judge Black wa
constantly urging the reinforcement OI
Anderson he procured the order which
| enabled Anderson to move, while Mr.. Bu
| chanan did not even remember its terms
| and his first promptings were to com
| mand him to return" They were not IL
harmony on the message of December
General Cass was much moro nearly II
accord with the president than was Judg
Black, and no sooner had he offered hi
resignation than he tried to recall it. Mr.
jefferson Davis, you may have observed
has not shared Mr. Blaine's error on thi
subject. lie knew better aud only las
year emptied all the walls of his wratl
upon Judge Blacks head for his 'belliger
ent attitude toward the secessionists.
MIR Blaine alludes vaguely TO th
attorney generals opinion Of NOyembe
Goth, and intimates that it pTopounde
heresies which crept into the president
message of December 81. THIS is au
other mistake. That opinion is, in q legt
sense, above his criticism. No lawyer i
either party has ever yentured in tina
direction. It's perfect soundness, sal
Judge Black in one OF his letters to th
late Henry Wilson, has never been ques
| toned by any man with sense enough I
know his right hand from his left MI
| Blaine has that much sense-he has bee
| credited with mOTe-aud, 1t is for tina
reason, he prudently Omits To state hi
objections to the document, aud prediC
that the omission will never be supplied
| refer you to the admirable analysis an
conclusive viudicatiOu of the paper, be
ginning at page 32j, Of Mr.. Curtis life O
James Buchanan 1t is a pity, however
that the plans OF both Mr.. Curtis an
Mr., Blaine's books pTecluded the publ
cation of Judge Blacks Memorandum
for the President, touching the answer I
the South Carolina commission, whic
shows the practical position Of Messrs
Black, Stanton aud Holt, and leaves n
reason for dispute concerning their view
of the powers and duties of the govern
meut ut the time"
As to the recent publication by Nj
Buchanan's private secretary, J. Buchana
Henry, To the effect that there was nc
the least disagreement between tho presi
dent and Judge Black, and Judge Blac
never told the president that he woul,
resign" Lit. Gov. Black says Mr.. Henr!
calmly ignores facts perfectly we
known and of which ho can hardly b
supposed to be ignorant" Mr.. Curtis, him
self, the biographer of Mr., Buchanan
nafrates circumstantially the disagree
ment' between the president on the on
side, and Secretary Black, Secretary Hol
and Attorney General Stanton on til
other inclsding tie announcement to tn
president of Seoretary's Blacks resolutio
to resign, aud the concession which tn
; president thereupon made to prevent tina
step being taken, The narrative extend
from page 37S, vol. ii. to page 39l, of Cul
It's biography"
STEALING A JUDGES wATOh.
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