St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-19
THE STANTON DEBATE
Continued HI the HOuse--AnOthel
Interesting letter.

Continued lin the HOuse--AnOther
Interesting letter.
WASHINGTON. June IS. - The house
went into committee of the whole on the
naval appropriation bill.
The Stanton debate was continued by Mr.
Hepburn, who severely criticized MIR. Wheel
er's speech on the late secretary of war, and
declared that he could not tamely submit to
have the men who were embaimed in the
hearts of thelra countrymen, and whose
memory was revered, denounced by such as
the gentleman from Alabama He then
yielded to Mir. Kelley, OF Pennsylvania, who
read the following letter written by Mr..
Stanton to Rev. Fl. Dyer, under date of
November Is, 1862:
Your note Of the 18th inst. has remained
unanswered because of the pressure Of bust
ness, which left me neither time nor strength
to respond. When Gen. Mcclellan failed to
obey this order of the president to move
against the enemy on Oct. l l thought he
ought to be removed upon the spot. Nearly
n month, to me enough to have had victo-
r1ouS campaign, was lost by his diSobedience
of orders When his creatures and those
who are enemies of the country undertook to
apologize for his delay by the false pretense
that he needed supplies that were held from
him by the war department, my duty to the
country required
THE EXPOSURE OF THE FALSEHooD,
and demanded report on the subject from
the general in chief. 1t was not my fault
that he was not removed before the New
York election, after his disobedieuce of Or
ders. In respect to any combination by Mr..
Seward and myself against Mcclellan, it is
utterly false. For reasons not necessary
to mention, fire and water would as soon COM
bine. Each does his duty as he deems right.
In respect to the imputation of selfShness or
ambitious motives, denial is needless. Those
bn &lfi
my principles of action, or with prejudiced
feelings, and, like all other public men, must
expect and patiently bear misconStruction
and false report In the present condition Of
affairs, all can say is that the whole power
Of the government is being put forth with
more vigor, and l know more earnestness, on
the part of the military commanders than at
any former period. Treason is encouraged
in the Northern states by the just discomfort
of the people, but believing our national des
tiny is as immediatelyi in the hands of the Most
High as ever were the children of Israel,
lam NOT DISMAYED,
but full of hope. For myself, turning neither
to the right haad nor to the left, serving no
man and at enmity with none, shall strive
to perform my whole duty in the great work
before us. Mistakes and faults I may no
doubt commit, but the purpose of my action
shall be single to the public good"
Mr.. Wise (Va.) regretted that the gentle
man from Alabama (Alr. Wheeler) had fur
nished the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Hep
burn) with the opportunity to fight over again
the issues of 1851 He only wished to remark
to the gentleman from Iowa, who had sought
many occasions to make filings at the South,
that brave men and honorable men never
struck a PROSTATE foe. He did not know
what part the gentleman took IN the Union
army except as he found it in the Congress
sional Directory, but one thing was certain,
that the gentleman bore on his body no proofs
that he had ever led a desperate charge, and
he did not think from the gentleman's con-
duct here that it is likely he ever would.
Mr.. Henderson Qa.)-My colleague may
bear no scars, but no soldier who went from
Iowa was more at the front than he.
Mr.. Wise-His history was written by him
self, and certainly his biographer was partial.
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