Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-07-26

the CLOSEST friends Of his
earlier life end most devoted admirers,
they have entirely suppressed or ludi-
crously travestied many Of the most
striking passages In his lifes history.
In the more recent chapters Of their
serial they have shown their partisan
and personal ranccr all too plainly and
their treatment Of such civil and mill
'tary patriots as the high-minded and
pure-hearted Seymour and Mcclellan
has exposed them to well merited re-
proach; and painfully revealed the
shortcomings Of their self-styled " his
tory" Nor has their treatment Of the
subject been at all well-rounded and COM
plete far more light for instance has
been thrown upon the Greeley Chase
Davis opposition to Lincoln's renomina-
tion In 1854 by the publication Of the
John A. Stevens letters In recent issue
Of the New York .Sun than in the Ella
borate chapters Of the Joint biography,
treating the Same theme, in the July
Century.
In this same number IL conspicuous
illustration Of the faults that have been
referred to. The reply Of Mr.. Lincoln
TO Gen. Carl Schurz's offer TO go home
from the army and make campaign
speeches for the presidents reelection,
is seized upon To point unerringly the
moral that Mr.. Lincoln disdained to
employ the resources at his command In
behalf of his own success. Pointed efforts
are made to dlscredit Gen. Logan's
statement that when he left the army
to make speeches in Illinois he did no at
Mr.. Lincoln's request. Because "no
communication in this sense" was found
among Lincoln's papers by Messrs Hay
and Nicolay, and because Logan's faIi-
lily have not answered their inquiry for
the evidence on which The assertion was
founded, thev conclude and would have
their yeaders he convinced that Logan
was1nisinformed this view Of Mr.. Lin
coh's wishes Is declared to he opposed
tS his faction In other cases. Now we
Are quite well assured that IL Mr.. Hay
or Mr.. Nicolay will call upon Col. A. X.
Mcclure, of the Philadelphia Times,
for his testimony, he can furnish them
with strong corroborRtion Of Logan's
statement and with some remarkable
proof Of Lincoln's willingness 70 aid his
reelection by resort TO rather desperate
and unusual means. He will tell them
that in 1854, after Pennsylvania was
carried at the October elections by
the Democrats on the home vote
and when the significance of this result
was plainly recognized not only by the
Democratic national committee but by
the Republican administration, when
Simon Cameron, distrusted by Lincoln
though he had been chiefly instru-
mental In efiecting his denomination
was chairman Of the Republican state
committee, Mr.. Lincoln, greatly per-
turbed over the fear Of losing Pennsyl.
| vania on the home vote, at the Novem-
Der elections, deliberately entered into
scheme to furlough 10000 Republican
| soldiers to go home To vote that he
feared 20 trust Grant with a knowledge
Of his plans and purposes and carried
them out with Sherdan's aid and II
was these 10000 voters alone who ena-
bled Lincoln to carry Pennsylvania
without them he would have lost the
state on the home vote. If Messrs. Hay
and Nicoley know enough TO write the
life of Lincoln, they ought TO have tried
to do II If they don't they ought not TO
have undertaken the job. 1t Is clearly
too big for them.