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Lite BSeMffrtl smtk
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Jl DGK lII.KH'N LETTER TO ATTOR
NEY fiESERAL HOAR.
Mr. lloar'a Eulogy on Ikv Isite Secre
tary Stanton.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18,1870.
Hon. E. E. Hoar, Attorney General.
Snt I was not present in court yes
terday to hear your remarks on Mr.
Stanton, but to-day I was shown a
newspaper report of them, which I
presume to be perfectly accurate. The
following' paragraph has struck me
with surprise:
"But it is not of the lawyer, eminent
as he w as in the science and practice of
the law, that men chiefly think as they
remember him. His service to man
kind was on a liigner and wider field.
He was appointed Attorney General by
Mr. Buchanan on the 2u; h of December
lMili. in one ol the darkest hours of (he
country's history, when the Union
seemed crumbling to pieces, without
an arm raised for its support; when
without the public councils was doubt
ing, and within were fears; when fee
bleness and treachery were uniting to
yield whatever defiant rebellion might
demand and good men everywhere
were ready to despair of the republic.
For ten weeks of that w inter of na
tional agony and shame, with patriot
ism that never wavered and courage
that never quailed, this true American,
happily, no! alone, stood manfully at
his post, "between the living and the
dead," gave what nerve ho could to
timid and trembling imbecility and
met the secret plotters of their coun
try's ruin with an undaunted front un
til liefore t hat resolute presence the de
mons of ir-ason and civil discord ap
peared in their own shape, as at the
touch of Itliuriel's spear, and fled bai
fled and ho vlingaway."
This statement was carefully and de
liberately written down before you de
livered it. You spoke for the American
bar as itA organ and offic.al head, and
you addressed the highest tribunal in
the world, knowing that your words
were to go upon its records and there
remain forever. I take it for granted,
under these circumstances, that no
earthly temptation could make you de
flect a hair's breadth from the facts as
you understand and believe thein.—
The inevitable conclusion is that you
must have in your possession, or with
in your reach, some evidence which
convinces you that what you said is
the truth. lam sure you will excuse
me for a-kiug you to say what thai
evidence is. The paper I have trans- ;
cribed from your address sounds like I
the authorative summary of a liistori- i
i
an, as lie closes the most interesting ;
chapter of iiis book. You can liardiy j
consider tiie curiosity impertinent •
that prompts an American citizen to
inquire what your judgment is found
e l upon. Besides, I have some friends
wlmse reputation is deeply involved
in the affairs you pronounce upon with
so much confidence. Moreover, 1 have
a personal concern in your remarks, for
lam one of Mr. Stanton's colleagues
ana am as liable as any one of them to
be *aken on your statement for one of
the "secret plotters of their country's
ruin." Be pleased, there ore, tu give
me the in formation I seek.
Do you find on the records of your
i fiioe any thing u hicli shows that Mr.
Sianlon was in violent or dangerous
conflict with "demons of treason and
civil discord ?" or any other descrip
tion of demons?" Did Mr. Stanton
himself ever lay claim to the heroic
character you ascribe to bim or declare
that he had performed those prodigi
ous feats of courage while he was in
Mr. Buchanan's cabinet. Has any
other person who was in a condition to
know the facts ever given you that
version of them which you repeated to
the court? If yes, who are the wit
nessess? what particular danger was
he exposed to which tested his valor,
and made his "undaunted front" a
thing so wonderful in the description
of it? Whose "feebleness and treach
ery was it that united to yield whatev
er defiant rebellion might demand?"
and how did Mr. Stanton's courage dis
solve the combination or defeat its pur
p< isse ?
You say that for ten weeks "hestood
manfully at bis post, between the liv
ing and the d< ad " Now when the
first jaw officer of the United Siates ad
dressed the Supreme Court on u spe*
cial ntnnsion, and after elaborate pre
paration, he is presumed to mean
something hy what he says. How is
this to be understood ? You certainly
did not intend to assert merely that
he stuck to his commission as long as
he could, and gave it up only when he
could not help it. Standing manfully
at a post of any kind, and especially
when the stand is made "between the
living and the dead," has, doubtless, a
deep significance, if one could hut man
age to find out what it is. Who were
the dead and who were the living?
and how did it happen that Mr. Stan-'
to got between them? What business
had he between them, and why did he
stay there for ten weeks? These ques
tions you can easily answer, and the
answer is needed; for in the meantime,
conjectural interpretations are very va
rious and some of them injurious to
the dead and living aforesaid, as well
as to Mr. Stanton, who according to
your representation, stood between
them.
I can comprehend the well worn sim
ile of IthuriePs spear, but I do not
see what on earth was the use of it un-
I ss you thought it ornamental and orig
inal, for you make Mr. Stanton, by his
mere presence, and without a spear, do
what Ithuriel himself could not do
with the aid of that poweful instru
ment. The angel with the spear com
pelled a demon to lay aside his dis
guise, while a mortal ijfan dealt with
many demons, and not only made
them all appear in their proper shape,
but drove Lbem "baffled and howling
away" out of his "resolute presence."
I do not object to this btn-ause the fig
ures are mixed or because it is an ex
trvagant outrage on good taste. The
j custom of the times allow men who
make eulogies on their political
friends to tear their rhetoric into rags,
and if you like the tatters you are wel
come to flaunt them. But I call your
attention to it in the hope that you
will talk like a man of the world, and
give us in plain, or at least intelligible,
prose, a particular account of the very
important transactions to which you
refer, together with the attendant cir
cumstances. I suppose you have no
thought of being taken literally. Your
description of Mr. Stanton conjuring
demons is only a metaphorical way
yon have of saying that he frightened
certain bail man. I beg you to tell
mo who they were and how he scared
them.
1 repeat you are not charged, and
in my opinion could not he jus'ly
charged with the great sin of fabrica
ting statements like these. You have,
no doubt, seen or heard what you re
gard as sufficient proof of them. What
I fear is, that you have been misled by
the false accounts which partisan wri
ters have invented, not to honor Mr.
Stanton but to slander others.
If you had known the truth concern
ing his conduct while he was Attorney
General, and told it simply, you might
have done great honor to his memory.
He was at that time a regular built, old
fa hioned democratic union saver. He
believed in the Constitution as the fun
damental law of the land, as the bul
wark of the public liberty, and as the
only bond by which the States could
be rightfully held together. He regar
ded his official oath as a solemn cov
enant with G<>d and his country,
never to be violated under any circum
stances; and he had a right whole
some contempt for that corrupt code of
morality which teaches that oaths are
not binding upon the rulers of a free
country wnen they find it inconsistent
with their interests to keep them.—
He uniformly behaved with "modest
stillness and humility," except when
liis opinion was asked, and then he
spoke with becoming defer-nce to oth
ers. From that part of his life at least,
you might by telling it truly, have de
rived a "lofty lesson" indeed. But
this quiet, unpretending, high-princi
pled, democratic gentleman is con
verted by your maladroit oratory into
a Hectoring buiiy of the abolition
school, rampaging through the White
House and around the department,
trying to frighten people with big
looks,
I beseech you to re-examine your au
thorities. If you still think them suffi
cient to sustain you, 1 cannot doubt
your willingness to communicate them
for the scrutiny of others who are in
terested. If on the contrary, you shall
be satisfied that you have made a great
mistake, then justice to all parties, and
especially to the subje -t of your well
mi ant hut unfurl mime eulogy , requires
Some amends to be made. It will be
for you to say whether you will or not
a-k the Court for leave to withdraw i
that part of your speech from the rec- j
ord. J. s. BLACK.
411 AXIS 4l MAltltlA(>E.
lii olden times, says' a Frenchman,
who with llie usual assurance of his
countrymen, pretends to know some
thing about woman, female beauty
was so fascinating that it was a certain
means of securing a husband. Now
adays, he adds, men have reflected up
on the subject and it is seldom that a
girl is married for her personal attrac
tions, whatever they may be; so she
runs a risk of always keeping her hon
orbie title of maid, if her parents aie
not rich enough to pay a handsome sum
to some gallant or other to change it
into that of wife.
It is an accident, or in fact a sort of
prodigy when a man marries a woman
solely lor her beauty, a quality which
has singularly fallen in value in our
mercenary days. If it ever should
take a rise, it might be well to adopt
the Persian mode of reducing the num
ber of old maids, This consisted in sel
ling ihe beautiful girls to those who
were willing to buy them, and giving
the amount to the ugly; so that the
handsomest endowed the ugliest ; the
second in beauty, the second in ugli
ness. et cetera.
But this plan would be, we fear, In
applicable in our days; for there
would be but few bidders for the beau
tiful women, and the ugly, ifthenmn
ey was to go with them, would he the
only ones to find takers. Seriously,
continues the Frenchman who it must
be borne in mind, is speaking in France
and not in the United States, marriage
is tending to disappear frotn our social
habits. The number of old maids, es
pecially of the middle class, is increas
ing daily.
A laborer or mechanic has no diffi
culty in getting married, for his wife
takes her share of the work. In such
cases matrimony is a joint stock asso
ciation. The working man spends leas
wheu marled than single. His clot his
being made and kept in repair at home,
and the more wholesome and less ex
pensive nourishment more than com
pensates for any additional expense of
having another person to provide for.
This we need not say, alludes to
France, and may he more or less
true, as we hoje it Is In our own Coun
try.
Among the rich especially where
the women brings a handsome dowry,
marriage is also possible; but in the
middleciass, how can it he nowadays?
All the young girls were brought Up in
the same way. Each one is so exclu
sively adapted for the great prizes that
there are none suitable for the inferi
or ones. What are now culled the ne
cessaries are far more thau v. hat were
f irmerly considered Iheluxuriesoflife.
All kinds of equality have been tried
at various times, but oue only has
been retained, and that the most dan-
gorous and most fatal of all-—the equal
ity of expense.
Every girl is brought up with the idea
thatshe will draw in the lottery of mar
riage a first prize. It is imagined that
style and accomplishments will make
up for aw ant of fortune. It is a mis
take; they will only make it more ne
cessary ; in fact, absolutely indispeusi
ule.
Marriage is the greatest luxury a
man can indulge in. When we reflect
that all ihe women of the middle class
are nowadays brought up to shine in
society, that there ate no longer any
maiked distinctions as far as expense
is concerned, and that the standard of
necessary living is fixed according to
tliatot tho richest, a man must be in
deed greatly in love if he does not hes
itate before the "mountain of velvt ,
siJk, and jewelry tiiat he must consun e
all bis days in accomplishing, in ord< r
tint, his wife may be properly die-.
ed."
For men of this class, woman is not
a companion, to take a share in propor
tion to her strength of the common
cares and labors of l ife, but an idol that
he must pass his days in adorning ba
the admiration of others. A poor man
who marries such a woman without
dowry would be capable of buying a
a horse which had to be fed upon topa
zes and emeralds instead of oats. So it
is now rare to find a husband of the
kind, and soon it will be impossible.
This is what they are coming to in
France, according to a very good au
thority.
Let our countrywomen take this
warning fresh from Paris, togethi r
with th' other fashions they are so
fond of getting fiom the same quarter,
and thus using the one as an antidote
to the excess of ttie other, avoid throw
ing away the chances of marriage.
THE I.EST USE OF THE BIBLE.—"My
mother {rave me a Bible for my giit
last Christmas," said a little girl, com
placent, "and Louise gave Cousin Har
ry one, at the same time. Now just
look a! them, and see the ditfeence!"
Harry's was a little worn. Its git
edges were tarnished, and the newness
was gone from the cover, but it look
ed as if it had been read very often.
Here and there I saw pencil marks
near favorite verses, and in one or
two places it seemed as if tears might
have fallen. Little Harry Gordon had
become a christian, lately, and his Bi
ble had evideutly been very precious
to him.
Minnie said triumphantly, after I
had finished my look at Harry's, "Now
see mine!" She unfolded the tissue p
persfroinit.and there it was just as fresh
and fair and uninjured as when it came
out of the shop.
"I've never had it out of the drawer
but once," said Miss Minnie, "and
that was to show to somebody."
"Minnie," said I, "if your father
was away from home, and should send
you a letter, telling you just what h<
wa.-.ted you to do and be, would it he
good treatment never to break tie
>< at, and my it away in the drawer
unread? Would it not rather be bes
ter to take it out every day and read
ii over and over, trying all the mere
each time to obey its injunctions?"
"Yes!" said Minnie, blushing ar.d
hanging In-r nead, as she began to ste
my meaning.
"This is God's letter to you, mj
love! Litte the man who folded awa\
his talent in a napkin, you have folo
ed up your precious Bible. Hereafter,
my child,use it as God wants you to.
'Search the Scriptuies, for in them ye
think ye have eternal life, and they
are they which testify of nie.' "
That was a profound philosopher
who compared advertising to a grow
ing crop. He said: "The farmer
plants his seed, and while he is sleep
ing the corn is growing. So with
advertising; white you are sleeping or
eating, your advertisement is being
read by thousands of persons who
never saw you or heard of your busi
ness. nor never would had it not been
for your advertising."
An editor out West became a cap
tain, and on parade, instead of saying
"Two paces in front—advance," he un
consciously exclaimed : "Cash down,
two dollars a year in advance." He
was court-martialed and sentenced to
read tiis own newspapers for three
months.
A new style of bonnet is announ
ced for the spring. When viewed
through a microscope it is said to be
exquisitively lovely. It is, of course,
high in price, the diminution in the
size of the article having greatly enhan
ced its value.
An old fellow being visited by his
pastor, he asssured him he could not
be a good christian unless he took i p
his daily cross. Whereupon he caught
up his wife and began lugging her e
bout the room
A hog was killed in Springfield, Il
linois, the other day, and in its stom
ach was found thirty nails, half a saw,
one file and a suspender buckle. It is
surmised that at some period the ani
mal swallowed a carpenter.
A body of infantry arrived at Knox
vilie, Tennessee, the other day, from
Virginia, on a train. The ears con
taiued forty-seven babies.
The man who is so fond of his de: r
little wife as to caliber a bird, must
not he disappointed if she asks him to
buy her feathers.
Wonder if the "pillars" of liberty
are stuffed with the feathers of the A
merican eagle?
llow may a man be known from a
fatigued dog? Cue wears'a shirt, the
other pants.
It is the tone to wear only ore
glove.
VOL. 65.—WHOLE No. 3,355.
FAK.UKKH COLUMN.
j There is something in a kind of
J bree<l, but not so much as we imagine
| —not so much as in good treatment in
! dependent of the breed. The two to
gether do well. Bo does good farming,
good anything.
The Western Stock Journal says the
very best food for milch cows is wheat
bran. Nothing has so great a tenden
cy to increase the flow of inilk, and as
it abounds in phosphate-, it is highly
nutritious and healthful diet. Give
! tuecows ail they will eat of it, and if
convenient, mix a little corn-meal
with it. Don't over-feed, but give
just what they will lick up witn a rel
ish, and you will be rewarded with an
abundant supply of milk, ai.d your
cows wili keep in good condition.
Hone Gears. There is a great deal
in gearing a horse or mule so as to ena
ble toe animal to work easy, and use a
certain amount of power with compar
atively small animal lorce. Much de
pends on long or short leverage. The
draft may be too high or too low; —the
one will draw too heavy on the top of
the neck, the other will choke the ani
mal. The collar may be ton large or
too small—either of which will cause
sore shoulders. A tender-mouthed
horse should have a large, smooth bit,
and not to be reined up too tight, or
tne mouth will become so sore as to
lose its sensitiveness to a gentle draw
either ins. Every part ol'the harness
sliould be as complete a tit as auaudy's
coat; touching everything and pmeh
iug nowhere. The harness should he
kepi suit aiid clean.
The iiorse is like its driver, and the
dog like his master. A nervous, tim
orous man is utmost sure to have a
skittish horse, shying at everything un
ceady, and a runaway if uegets a
cnance. Many a cow is sponed by
iack of patience and quietness in tne
maker, and the amount 01 uaik de
pends more upon tne milker tnau the
pasturage, it a man is airaid of a
nurse, tne animal knows it beiore he
goes into tne staole. We have seen
tne most iuotieusive cow in the herd
so wrought upuu by the nervououess of
a greeu-horii sou of Erin, as to dex
terously plant her foot iu his breust
and send lam rolling heels-over-ht.au'.
A noisy boisterous tellow about lalteu
ing siaoies win cause a serious I .ess in
gaiu ol flesh to tile auiuia s. Bo im
portant is quiet to lueoi wneu they are
uigesliug tneir lood.
Looking for a Place.— Persons look
ing lor a laiiu ought to have a dis
tiucl aua clear idea ot What they want,
a sol iof a scute ot points, which w lil
„reatiy aid them in the seiectiou. No
place may fully satisfy the require
ments ol such a schedule, but u will
be luund useful nevertheless, to fix iu
t.ie mind w hui is wanted, and approach
n us nearly as possible.
We suggest the following points to
oe lookeu to, lor a residence in the
country :
Faciu.y of access.
Water and its character.
Eocatiou as to health, Ac.
Educational and religious facilities.
Beauty of prospect, exposuieas to
winds, character of the land itself.
Prospective value of the property.
Eacnnies tor purchasing tamiiy sup
plies.
There are otuer points, and we only
present these as among the more im
portant.— Ploughman.
A Fact in Regard to Horses' Feet.—
There is perhaps no more marked ex
mbuion of nature's law of adaptation
of means to ends, or of supply to
Waste, lhau is shown in the arrange
ment ot a horse's lout. There teinii
nale the various ducts of communica
tion and supply, reudering it a poiut
of amiuial ecouomy of no little impor
tance. The extremity of the limb be
ing of such a vital,character, anu com
ing iu contact with the ground, ueeds
protection; accordingly the hoot is
constructed, especially, it appeurs, to
prevent injuring the inner pan ot the
foot in coming against the ground, and
not With regard to injury Hum above
or on the oiues of the loot. A consist
ent tact, since, in a state ol nature,
iiiese portions ut tlie loot are not sub
ject to injury any rnoie than is the
.est ol tile animal. Thedirectiousaud
arruiigeiueut of the iiores of the hoof
proves this point as lo practical tests,
also. A nail driven into the wail ot
the hoof from below, on account of
ihis arraugemeut of the libre, occa
sions no pain, and in some instances
where horses have become lame Irom
no apparent cause, it lius beeu simply
the result ot an inner irritation, caused
oy pouudtug the boot. Ibis is an im
portant point, and Should not be over
looked oy horsemen. An arrange
ment by which the nails on a horse's
hoot could be clinched without u.->itig
a hammer wouni evidently be an ad
vantage.—Atw Lngiattd Homestead*
Preserving Grape'Cuttings.—Grape
cuttings made in cold weather, w hen
it is 1101 practicable to bury iheiu in.
the ground, may be kept in a cellar by
simply tying iu bundles and theu
placing compactly together. With an
occasional sprinkling, they may be
kept for a mouth or two without re
ceiving the slightest injury. Ui cour&e
it wouid be a much beuerplau 10 pack
iu damp moss, earth, sawdust, or some
similar material, but neither of these
is usually attainable at this season of
the year, and yet a delay in making
the cuttings would not be advisable.
Cheap (Xtkt. —Two eggs, one-half
cup butter, one cup sugar, oue-haif
cup sweet milk, oue-lialf tcaspounlul
cream tartar, one-quarter ouuee of soda
and flour to make as stiff as cup cake.
Cheap Ojokies. —One cup good sour
cream, oue cup sugar, one half-half te.-
spoonlul saleratus, nutmeg. Do not
knead very stiff. Hull middling
thick.