THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER, PUI3LISHED EVERY WEDSFSDA.Y RT 11. 0. SMITH .11t CO A. J. STEINMAN i• G. SMITH, I—nAS—Two Dallas per annum payable In all eases In advance. TIM LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER Is published every evening, Sunday excepted, at $5 per 1111.11111 l In advance. OFFICE-SOUTHWEST CORNER Of CENTRE HOARE. Vottrv. A DREAM NV II ICII WAS ALL A DREAM I baste I ant not Jealous, It were Foolish to he so; Ilut I do sot like theme} . ln wlileti 1 hose girls ilo hang around Joe l❑ , laughs, anti chats, and dant ,, , With out• and all the girls, lint vans(, I think. kill Chat oat • , Tina wears tht• Jet-black ruris 1110 . 11,1 y 110 134,1 to 10V1.154.r; l'..rhapt: 111. 1001, her 3 , 1; I'm I-or , that silo 11111 y hose 111111 1 111 . 0111100 50011 torwq. BM I /MI v , ‘I t y r0t.11.11nt.5..., I know; \Vitt, I'm not Ito. le,st 1.1 .".tglotim 'l ,, bk. thinking thus of But hg!!!!/• brio, they've srhott isclu4l Hut! hls arm around her Ivals! 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I h. • 111 .04 1 11,11( and 1111..1,411 , 1 , m.] and vll,lll. "'rant g Ilt.• run r •,1 tin.nir.lnv 111.. sir twit A int :Intl dull irn t linoltvn ilrvon 111.• ritl lI taltih i+liscrlancous iii:111(011 Again tieuilsing I..•tter from Marl. II =2l=l Te, Ile,' I , Jtooretblr 11,1,71 Ira:, , .S'ert.t to rmot Met s.vr,rlf le xclI.1: i' , ,ntrttry to my tirst intplitil n. and llot rellictalleo, I lay aoilll. other ~r tile iireater 1111porta11 , 11 1011110 , I take IL 11111 , 1 rev 'llll 111 you rstipph.llll , otal eulogy on Stanton, The I,l•l•lirretus , Whiell 0,1140,1 Ihis elraligp ..1 mind might 1,01, 4 t•xpla natio., hilt Illey are too entirelo personal to ,•,•0•11py tiny spti.se ill the- , toilge•. Witll - itiore prefaee I o.iVe you thottght un your Itl,l Yon violent t.Y.r•Vit tiOlis to Illy loroler letter 10 , 111 g vittlitt . r. at I VI , :Lull ill-tem I,o , red. log 101:41 , 00 haw the aveottni•it,o,ol.4 het Weell 11 , oil the score , 01 ' 110 . 1 - 1 , 110111111 , 1 , Hod shell Ileterlllolll , I , r you 11;101, a 1 of.t no all V.,,t Wrote, or eat,. ell to he Writtell, 0.11•11,110•11 its a 111,0 , ...1.- Zilie lit large eiretilot 11111,1111 ;11;1 tele :II Whiell yon attaekell the reputation of certain per -011110 in It s 1) 4,, 0.0a101;l1,110 , 0 that Vitllpera hot' iv 111, nano , lor it. Withunt roservt• or Ilnulilir:LLi~m VIII) prolnolllloool 1.110111 guilty of till' known among 1111 , 11. The 51 , 0 , 1110 111•0 0 , of Whlell toll 11.0011 Se 1.111 , 111, Awl the oirpr,•111,1110 epolo•t, you applied to tvt.ro Its insultiti4 as put Inapt mat: 1, ;11011t. 4,1' the gelitlettlell Wero Ile ,I, 10111 that 1113 , 10 11 , 0 11011 ' 01 . - 010 , top,: yolir Vetaiia , Was ilot lit' tiny Ille 1 . 01 , 1111 , .. , ,, a friend, ur relati Vl,' The itttleci•ncy of this teas Ito, ; irraVated the tart that, yon put it its the form of n tuticral palit , gyric upon a Mail who... rotylit :Intl sudden death shots lil have solti•risl , Lour party rage and sole 11111- yoilr heart, or at 10.01 , 1 operated 118 a 1 , upon yollr ;11,petit1 , for Jerallialloll. \\ * hal Was I to 01 , 0 tilt .111111111 , 0 Liatt 1111 111;0110r What; I 41111 not 11111. y it. 'lilt 1 1 , 5 , 111111, , 1 that all the of a lair Vlndlolllllll 11102,11 t he tiNvi/111- ItliSlll , ,l hy.)ti sew pee I• , llltradietti , ll of your ~ 1 1111010,1 the plain 1,11,0011 S ‘OlllOll .5,1111,1 Sl lot,. ilif , lik to Ice unworthy c,f' belief. I dill this, am! I dill 111 , 01 a ,, I did it its lerllis so free Irl,lll 111111tss.ssary harslitioss thin I ant ;111110/.1 , ,1 this 11110111011 t lit Illy 11)111 011,1101 . 11lital. ItIII you thiclaru, u 1111111, illy denial ill lie all all ill" reckless alitlacqty ;'• ill tour eyes lily de- fenve is of I really cannot unilerstand this, unless y"tisuppost‘ that courpuliliral opponouts haVe 11, rights, eVell of rtputa tintn, whirll yOll me houndooo to respell., anti that slander, like other itijurics, is lallll,ll - X011011:1 Dello , Orat is the lllid, 1.. the .Wll'lllll of I:kty am, I glen it to the Pre.iitiont on till sulk 1.1 Thin! opinion twos c eli . N• S11111)10 its it stood i nn the reem•ci alel in my former letter I gave you the elementary principles I.y tho ino , t illustrathms, And brought the 11 holo snhjeet down to the level of line imve.l titelorsittielitut. N',ll hail tine aid :Wont a dozen Senators trod members el gt•tting up ~ , •ruie reply. ail 1.110 , e helps yon t•er tainly might lull*' apeeilinJ smilerror ill 111, npi 4111111, it' it But you emitelit ymit , elr with merely railing at it. I think I may ,ay, With more vonlidence thrill ever, that "you vannot he so ignorant the futolamental hull* as not to know that our exposition nt 'I 11., smuld and vorreet.- While you do not Jetty its truth, yam think you annihilate it by the assertion that it is iiNiellisiVely disipproved. Un vain really believe that am ntlicer, dealing . with questions of late, is hotiml to be popular rather than right ? IVill you never learn that. " statesmen " uml "patriots rutty school have amens about all the political virtu, which a summit nwrality holds in litter dete.tation7 natter the passions and c0nj , ,1.• the ninderstawlingot t h e people is not the higlies.nttiectolitiny honest mitit's ambitinti. .Nlr. Jefferson thought he .night. In " du them a. much wood u.v poSsiiiii, in spite teeth." !Silt on your theory, In 6a " ever strong upon 111.,tronger side," is ant only good forlitne, but high desert; while it is tuero imbecility to uttetut the powerful by letting . the ...mutenenee Ill' the hitiv the Weal: Sr the oppressed, came): r.wvard you with office lir num ey. 11 t stir thenlogieitl opinion 4 eonforut to your ideas a p o litical duty, you esteem the luck id * Sara' ibils is newe ineritiorinus hall tile li , lelitc "r.i.,hu in . the de\ Mimi la s all t h e Mary, No don it there was as there is n „ tt . . it 'WI nl " r,r.• h.) itirnriated against 1111' brransr I did Ilia the lea , advise Hsi vis lade thin l'mistitutinti, awl thus bring on an immediate ili.soliitimi ..t the Paine. itut you rain hardly VS pert ate to regret that / Anti Ilia esiiiiiie their were itten who had been taught that enmity to thin Constitutinn Was the sum 1111,11 e std virtue. 'there certainly is nut all uururruplr,l wnu in the iiiiiintry who will say tint , . I was to blame (or giving the law faith Cul N . and t rid c. declare that " contemporaneous history has already pronounced - against me, and Vol quote a li,v wimist)f twaddle, apparently 1 . 1,111 the writings of some One WllO,lO niume you are ashamed to mention. You rail this a judgment upon me which posterity is 1101 likely to reverse. Politi cal power dishonestly wielded always has hacks to defend its ..xcesses by maligning, its oponents. A dozen biiiibe of that char acter have been printed within the last sev en years. These productions come within the awkward description you have given ofiyour own they are "not history Of bi ography, our intended to b.;;" they are places of deposit for worn-out calumnies— (llol.o sewers into which the lath of the party is drained off. I hope lam tolerably secure from the praises of this venal tribe; and their abuse is pruner facie evidence of a charaeter at least negatively good. It is not worth while you or me to trouble ourselves about posterity, for posterity will probably not take much aeisaint of us. lodoulit Niyou did all in your power to subvert the free institutions of our rev olutionary halters, and to debauch the political morals of the country but the utmost exertion of your abil ities has not sufficed to raise You above the common life of partisans who have; engaged in the same evil work. Un the other hand, the cause of liberty reg ulated by late has had a crowd of advocates so infinitely superior to me that my feeble efforts cannot be expected to attract the notice of future generations. You make no attempt to justify your abuse of Mr. Bu chanan; you do Ilia repeat your charge against Mr. Toueey of scattering the ships of the navy to render that arm powerless; nor do you pretend to assert that Mr. Thompson was guilty of robbing the Indian trust funds. But you oiler no reparation nor even make an excuse for the wanton and unprovoked injury which you tried to commit upon the character of the living and the memory of the dead. YOH sullenly permit judgment to be rendered against you unit dicii. I mention this only to say, that it very seriously affects your credibili. tv upon the other points. Fatdimin Uno,,fal mus in omnibus. You pervert my words and my meaning when you say that I rep resented Mr. Thompson as being above the range of ordinary mortals. I mere ly declared that his mental ability, good sense, and common honesty places him very tar beyond you, who had as sailed him with a false charge of feloni ous robbery. You do not see the justice VOLUME 72 of this comparison, and you think that thing tharbe said in private conversation if I had not been a mere lawyer, having i had the effect of injuring the credit of the - little acquaintance or association with United States. What was it? It is well statesmen,"l might have entertained a dif- known that the prices of all secnritiers,pnblie ferent notion. Although I consider my and private, began to go down immediate calling to be as reputable as any that you iy u p on the Presidential election of Iznik), ever fullowed,either before or alter you took and nsintinuenl going down for years after up the trade of a politician, you may make wards. Is this attributable to the treason what deduction you please on that account able utterances of Thomas, and Dix, and from the value of my judgment; but you Char-0? But what is the use of pursuing must not interfere with my undoubted much a subject? Mr. Cobb was dead, and right to believe (its I do almost devoutly/ I you felt a sort of necessity for doing some that it would take a great many Wilsons to despite upon his grave. This feeble ab make ono Thompson. It was not to be ex- ourdity was all you could do. peeled that Governor Floyd would escape i.:DWIN M. sTANTON. your maledictions. No public marl ever I consider myself bound to defend Mr. provoked such a storm 01 popular wrath as Stanton against the praise which described he did. The President, who had trusted his character as infamous. Down to the I him, withdrew his coil tidence, d rove him 111110 of his :Testacy we were close and in from his counsels, and ordered him to be timate friends, and I thought I knew him indicted for malversation in office. His as well as unite man could be known to an- I colleagues yyleft him to his bite, and there ,,t,l I ur. I do not claim that he owed me any was nohonly in all this land to lake his I thing; for I made no saeritlces of myself part. Ile had Home qualities which lor ally Moly else to serve him. I advanced I commanded the respect of folks like you him in his profession and thereby itn las long, as he lived and moved among you. ',loved his fortune, but be got nothing in But absent, unfriended, defeneelooo, dead I that way f or „.I n i„1, l ie did not render —fallen in a loot cause and buried in an nib- equivalent services. I strove long, and at ;seers grave—he was the very man of all last successfully, to remove the prejudices others, it. nnr out of the world, whom your of Mr. Buchanan until other's against him ; magnanimity would prompt you to attack. becatioe I thought them unjust., and be ! Bet why did you not charge hint with Mis- cause it was inconvenient for ins that the conduct in the, tinarwhil management no . his President should not trust a man in whom ! department? 'Flea might have provoke.' l un.l un. l .;im I ; .tell vontidenee. I receorn- I a enenparioon between him and Cameron, mended hint pressingly for Punt-3.laster ninth to the disadvantage, n i l• flift latter, I I knneral, upon the death ill' Mr. Brown. whom you wished to murt, flatter awl solely fur the reason that the exigencies whitewash. Tlo,l,ll,l l oyollf , rert,ril: 4 l to take of the public sere ins, ill that department up the exploded ehargo ot needing guns required a man of his great ability and until munitions to the South for the noe of d n entistry. t (~,0, , ,1 ',hut , ' Inc appointed At tie, oeceosionists in the Will'. V4,tir first torner-r;elloral,l.N•all.e I knew, or thought paper had nothing in it nn this sa`t.nieet 11X- I knew, that he allil I were in perfect ac ns•pt the bald assertion, annl I was In'teltellt ~,,rd oil all yiestion,, whether or kw or with a naked denial. 11,111. in v , ,tir last you pollee, which he might have to deal with, glinie bark With a moreext(ll.l.l averment, I aim because 1 Wati sill, 11011. he would hall :11111 prodnice what yOll ,O l l lll to Slif,[o,o Will t il e 'la,. I,ot 0111 V with I'l , lollly but with 1,0 Laken as evinlinenne by at least some or 1 nnononiennate skill. lint though he was not I your readers. Let us look at it. inn me debt, the nnpnarnent warmth of his na ri.ovo our suns INFO ,1.1011. , 101 , . I tare impelled his to express his gratitude A c,ilitnillee was appeinted by the in mist exaggerated language. After he .f,,,,eary Ise', i took elllre under the Litti,lti administra te ascertain hew the public arms di,tribil- tarn our paths diverged se tvidely that 1 did Led it Ilralg the year 151;11 h.l heel. disposed I net elicit see him. When I did, he sorne el. Vleyd wits tali ftieselit at the ill- I Utiles oVn.r‘vliellneil are, as before, NVitli by eseiga:i"n:he 11.1 not a Iri,ll,l.,talle ~,[ll- perbolieal demenstrations of thankfulness ; Ns 11, "ergailfzed to conviet bite, and friendship. ll' his feelings ever it it ernild. If repelled the evidence, but ed, he "died and made no sign" that IVILS gave ii, judgment criniiiiiitilig' Lim with Visible to ale. Ilere let lire record lily the ,flence you aci•ilse (tin the I salvia!) declaration that I never SaW any eentr:u'}', the opinion (Vas expressed by thing dishonorable in his eollilliet while the elial ratan that the charges were ail- Svas associated With has. Ile never distil,- taillided ill " Manic, siteeillatitin, and pointed me while he was employed finder apprehension," But yell take up the er while we %Vero colleagues ill ported evidence and try to make rota ease ;Lail he never tailed lila ill anything Which which the coultnitbsr did net make out I had a right to expect at his hands. Ills earefully suppressing all the prin- enemies spoke evil et' him, but that is "the ripe] farts misstating the others. four rough hralt•e that virtue iuuslgr thrnitgli," charge arias rued 1 allowed no tale-hearer to shake my to the South cininet lie true of the faith. .Nlyown !fermata' knowledge flees not heavy cannon Mail° at Pittsburg for the enable an,t, L eense bin, o f any n,oan or di s _ forts in Louisiana and 'texas, heeause they ' graceful set. Iletv tar you have succeeded, were net sent at all. I'leyd gave an order or May hereafter be able to succeishin prow to ship them en the 2etil I hssenher Isne, ing him a treacherous ea is a fines but it was revoked by the 'President hetet, thin to be rnnsidere,l, But I ant not one of IL gun was start..l. It, is, coarse p0,,,i1/le your Witnesses; Illy testiuuai y, its fir as it that Floyd ill making the ocher acted in gees, is directly against you. I . nder these had faith; lad there is no iira,r,,c that. I n. I eireallistallees it We, impessible Mr the to the centrary, lay.isolier an lowest i he quite silent xvllen I yrnir pub as tvell as a sharp man, and a niest vigilant licafien in the .IH-erno, to eentine 011'1,., who knew all Lino tarts litlbr casr, wilts a incre nblicatien Ili the other par and understood I , leyd'es attitude Nt all re- ties ass:tithed. It was plain to we that you gard to secession and ttnioll as iVell as any- had "wholly tubettelcr.teed the character bnJc in 11,,, country, o,s:rattly set or Mr. Stanton and goo-sly injured Ilan by abnat the basilic,' of rarr_Ving .1t the or- I Lvhat yoll sapinise.l to be a panegyrie."— der, though it SN'inS nut ill Willing. :Uhl Its- ! Your description of Jinn, if accepted Ile true tilled that or had no sii.pieion of sty would compel the killer that his whole 1,0. proper oli ‘ ject or motive in it. 11l lact an , ' lineal life was one long Ililiaisture; that as in truth loyd was riot, in sentiment !,r in I a trusted member ot . the Ditch:man Atlinin itetion, a secessionist lilitil after lie sa‘s istration, he ;Letts.' alternately the in that the breach lietWi`"ll Ililliself aunt ilic isillipatililo parts of a spy and a bully; President, tvltich originated in other that while was tim chief law otii. Matters Seas irreparable, l'p to Ile , time !err of the giiVerilliclit, hr was engaged when he gut notice lout hu must resign, lie I in slit' foilleSt conspiracy that ever was wins steadily opposed the Southern Mori- liatcheti against tire lit r e, liberty, and honor merit, anti the bitterest enemies he had I of a colleaglic for Seim!. lie Was ill that eery were the lendilig men of that, section. a 'ill. Lillie pruluaiug 'unliiitiniled friendship; i‘laynadier says lieu sods regarded that he %vas the imubwriiiiii crony of Sinion throughout the country as a strong adVO- I l'aineroli, and appointed ..Secretary of War cute or the 1 . nimi and opponent of seees - to carry out his policy: that bring so ap sem ;" and lie adds as a conlirniation painted, 110 did loyally:1ml feloniously rim this, Mtn hail recently published over hezzho piddle motley to the altiolliii of IWO iris ewe signature in in Itieinimild paper a hundred mid fifty timmenni dollars at one letterou this subjeet Nvielt gained him high I rime. It is trim Iliac pill Were actuated by credit in the North Mr his boldness in re - Innmalicious ilitettl. Von to do hint luiliing the; pernicious vies, of many in honor. .‘etstriling to your moral apprelien hiS own SIAM," Alter he found the whole sinus, all the evil viii aseriheil to him was administration against him, he Was driven goof . \Viten you react. for him this dis. stress of necessity into the ranks of the gii.ting - wreath c,r ulcers gone to seed," party which he he had previously opposed. you thought con %eel, decorating his Collin The great and important fart to which the I tvith a chaplet of the elmiemit ilmVers. Yott resolution of the House directed tool rut- I painted a monster of depravity, and you lined ihe attention or the committee, and I eX peeled the .h Illerhmi people to worship it which is inielo perfistly clear by the evi- with all the fervor of SilVa'A . ., when they fall deuce, you do not refer to at all, lint keep ! down to adOrl. the inur a ai name hideous it careltilly oat of sight front 6eginniue denizen. NO doubt tau VOtiVt, oliering of to rod of your stalciiiniiit. The your alfcctic II look this :Mimi:dolls I'l'lll lillestion Was :Mil is, Whether the you lifilieVed that duplicity and Secretary or War under the Isar I crime eon played against Deillocrats seiiiild cliatlitil attniinistration did at airy 11 " , give him the highest elailli ate nsuilil silliscipiclit to the first or January, 'sett ! on the admiration of the .Iholiliollists, and treaclicriiiisly disposed 01' guns and mute , because it slid greatly increase Limo, for the purpose of g i v i ng iotheSmith t,teein and regard for holm. But my inter an advantage in the tutu w h ich the leaders ost in his reputation romired that he should in that section intended to make against be properly appreciated by that 11 ,, ne,t pon cho Federal I ;c:eminent. This was the , tint of the p e ople who still adhere to the - rumor, spevulation, and inisapprolien - moral (Teed of their lathers. Idu not itS sioin” In, Which the Chairman of the Cum-' sent that your last paper proves nothing.— mittee alluded; this is substantially syhal I will give :•ull the Mil benefit of livery the ',artisan new - simpers and stump orators fact that pill have, established. Sri Car as have asserted and reasserted over and over cut have sli ,ten :Sir. Stanton to lie guilty again, until thousands Of persons in every I or the letsene, you impute to hint, I still part of the eountry have been mule to le, make no contest about it. flirt I Will not Here it; this is Nvliat you meant by moult' I yield one to „i• y ou , first artielo, ;del what you persist ill amine; un,oppoeto,l Spill le,. t o affirm by Pifir last • Vow examine the I save out Of yinlr handsasnitich ellar facts. There was a 1111 v almost coeval \Gott I ante'. as you have not already destroyed by the government for thollktol,lltion of arms 1 1 credible evidence. Nly effort %rev to take among the dillerent, Statt, itecorilito4 ' hie] Mum] limn the pillory to Which you their representation ill I 'ongross ' for the ; had n a il e d him by th i . ear , fi xe d fi g _ use or their Militia. Under this lalv the I ure for scorn to hint its finger at." lon ordnantp Itureamwithout any special order ; have ,lute your Strongest to Oppose Ills' from the head of the department, gave ! and any partial success which to each State that applied for it her proper ',i n. ,. have rotearm.,l your struggle mio,t, be 111101 a of muskets and riles Or the best pat - ' a great comfort nil 511iiell I cannot justly do tern and make provided for the re4iilar ; privy you. \ Vt. will examine your evidence army. During the ygarthe number and see Upon schist points haeri taleor so distributed sees exiieidy mil your case, Mill wherein you have I , lllle 5,P23, or which the southern Status reeeiv- short of your aim. ed 2101, while the Northern States got. I. You asserted that :gr. SuulGm hall nearly three times that, number, to Wit : I been from his earliest that al, 11 1 1 0111,11 m ist 13,3:1'.2. Some long-range rifle; of the lusty' in his sei•ret heart ; to leading men of calibre were distributed. The aggregate that party he declared himself in entire number amounted to 1,72`.:, and they all I ,tureement with them, and hoped for tile went to Northern States except ;T,s, about time to come when he ...odd aid them. In half enough for one regiment, which wore other words, lie gave in his perfect ;elite divided between Virginia, I:unlucky, Ten- shin to them, cotieurred in their view, of Ilea See, North Carolina, Mississippi itiol public morality, and was willing to 1)1,- 1 laMiSillllll, the other State', of the south re- mote their dcsi4ny agaitod, the Federal and eeiving none. Why did you conceal those State governments, whenever he could facts? You knew them, and you could not make himself TIP 'tit 0111.•ie111 to that end. help b u t see their strict relevaney and great At the same title he 51.:10 111 the Democratic importance. Perhaps you did not know party by nun/ of his declared faith in eO - the Srippre,,,,l, i is Its had as the act IV tile opposite sentinients. To its he says/esti, fitly', and thought it fair to make I m O .l O hintseif appear a Democrat or the out a erifilinal charge against at dead rebel most ilitra class. I tin not s;l' that he was by keeping hack Its hutch of the troth as an (tense propagandist; but all Democrats did not not suit your purpc,e. The fact with whom lie spoke were impressed by that the Southern States neglected to th e s eeming str e ngth or his attachment to take their proper and just quotas, to those great Itrint•iples by the appli which they might have got for the asking, cation of which they hoped to save the satisfied the committee, and no doubt fully pi l i o n front dissolution, the country front isitivineed you, that there could have been ,•iyii tsar, ;111,1 the 111,orties or the people no fraudulent combination in Isrn between from the destruction with which your as them and the War Department to rah the eendancy threatened them. 'We took him government of its arm s for their 11/111/Cit. on his word, believed him thoroughly, and That .011(.111/led the whole ease, since it was I gaVe Mtn honor, office, and high trusts impossible fir the sane mat to believe that N o w a 110111 play he an holiest 1 101110crat, or such a plot mull lie formed:m.l acted upon 5n u ,•,.,•,..\ hoiiiio n ku, but h., c annot ',o at a previous nine and yet hail no existence ...Ily a .' 010,11111 i ill the year V 111'1,1 , 1 ing 111 V war. , Between those taco parties the hn>lilitiy Was NeVertheless, the committee Went latek,and d ea dly. E ac h ree ,,,,,,i ze d t h e o the r as a it Was proved that in before any War mor tal t 0... Th e y were a . ; c ar as u n d er a s I Was apprehended—before the electh.ti of j the l !hmos on every point 0f principle and LlllllOlll Was cirealat.tl or -before the policy. 'they diticred not merely about sion or the Democracy, which made his rules for the interpretation or the organic election possible with a Million Majority iatc , hi l t, o p ro ,., e d 101 l o th er o n th e b roa d against him—Floyd ordered as transfer of , toe „ti on wh e th er th a t l aw was entitl e d t o 115,000 muskets from Northern to:southern ' an y o bedi e u e e a t all. 1 inc of them respect arsenals. This you p ara d e with a ..d and reverenced the Constitution :is the great flourish its evidence of a ' hest government the world ever saw, while most wicked r° l -/berY• 11 " 1/01.0 thel the other denounced it as all agreement lull you again at tile disingenuous [ with death iind a ,•05,.11,1111 with hell , which business lis not that a soft phrase?) of keep- it, was meritorious 0 , e n for its sworn yin ' ing back at truth which would have spoiled eels to violate. If we loved any portion the force of your story. T/c..1.• aril, 11,PC of it more 1111111 another, it was that part oft worthb.l (toil had I Which gliartled the individual rights or the finance of them; they cillliberell the North- i habeas corpus, fury trial, 111111 ern arsenals, and could not be used; a law other great judi.•ial institutions, which our hail been passed to authorize the Sale of ancestors on both sides of the Atlantic had them ; they were offered for years at. 5 . 2 So I tint,' so much of their blood to establish ; apiece, about one-tenth the price of a good and it was precisely those provisions tchich gun, and they imild not be got off. Twice , had your bitterest enmity, and which you a considerable number were sold, bet the made the first use of . v.iiir power to abolish, purchasers upon further examination re- trample down, ;111 1 1 1111,11.11 y. r. Stanton fused to take them. /If these 501,00(1 non t . olllll not have been truly on more than one dented muskets, the Secretary of NVar, in s ide of such controversy; he could not 15.59, ordered 115,000 to be sent to the South, s erve h a l aunt mammon both; he could dou fi,r the mere convenience a star-' not be 6,r the Constitution and against it age. To " weapon the rebellion" with I tan; he could not al 1/111,1 believe and dis arms like these would have insured its I believe in the sanctity of an 0:1111 to support destruction the instant its forces caine it. Ile professed most fervently to be heart into the presence of troops having the 1 and soul with us. if Al` a.sn professed to lie improved modern gull in their hands. ' with you, he was a wretched hypocrite. If Floyd could not have done a greater he Inept up this fraudulent, deceit for thirty injury to the Southern cause than this years, and thereby got the highest places in would have been. Nor is it possible to bc- the gift of both parties, he was Hove that Southern leaders would have : - Tun Mos , mAnynt,r,rw., n eoN TEt ; conspired with him to purloin these use- that ever lived Or died. - NVilell your first less arms in ISro, and than, in lsdO, decline article appeared, I did not believe that you to take the share that legally belonged to had any ground for this shocking int puta them of the best muskets and rifles ever n on upon his character. I was compelled invented. All these facts appear in the ey- to disbelieve and contradict it, for reasons idence reported by the committee, front 1 which were then given and need not 11055- WhiCll you pretend to be making fair ;be repeated. But I said the testimony of and candid eitations, and you say not a 'the Chief Justice would silence my denial. word about them. I f you were" a mere law- The Chief ustiee 1111.9 spoken out and sus yer," or any lawyer at all, and would go tinned your assertion. You do prove by before a judicial tribunal mutilating the I him a declaration front the lips of 71r.Stan truth after this fashion, you would inane- ton, made nearly [flirt years ago , from diately be expelled from the profession, which the inference is a - fair one that he wa.s and no judge would ever permit you to in the Democratic party with intent "to be spoil your mouth in a court of justice again. I tray the Constitution and its friends into If you would appear as a witness, and iu the cruel clutches of their enemies" when that character testify to the contents of a ever he could hind an opportunity. But you written document in the way you have set are not satisfied with this. To make the out this report to your readers, it might be brand ineffaceable, you show that several followed by very disagreeable noose- , years after his declaration to Mr. Chase, he, finences, which , l will notshock your polite being an avowed advocate and champion oars by mentioning. of Democratic principles, was either ap- HOWELL, COllll. pointed by his political brethren, or Mr. Cobb, while Secretary of the Treasu- else volunteered, to answer an aboli ry, performed his duties with singular par- tion lecture delivered at Steubenville ity, uprightness, and ability. No enemy by a man named Weld. lie disappointed has ever ventured to point out a single public act done in that department by him IIIE parties, including the lecturer himself, by declining to come forward, though very of which the wisdom, the lawfulness, or pointedly called for. He made no excuse the honesty could even be doubted. The' at the time for deserting the cause lie had disjointed and loose accusation of your first undertaken, butt afterwards he slipped paper implied that by some official delin- round secretly and alone to the private quency he had purposely disorganized the room of the lecturer and gave himself in fiscal machinery of the government, or as a c onver t. "I meant," said he, "to otherwise perpetrated some malicious mis- fight you, but my guns are spiked, and I chief on the public credit. Now, however, came to say that t now see with you," &c., you are reduced to the bold or never•failing Sac. It never struck Mr, Weld that there resort of "treasonable utterances ;" enme- was anything sneaking or shabby about LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 1 1871 • this transaction. With the obliquity of vi i sion peculiar to his political sect, he saw I nothing but "hearty frankness, indepen dence, moral insight, abd keen mental force" in the conduct of a man who pri vately denounced the opinions and prinei i pies which he publicly supported; and twenty-live years afterwards Mr. Weld pi ously thanks God on paper for such an art ful dodger to serve as a leader of his party. • The next place you find him after theSteu benville affair is in the van of the Ohio De mocracy. They, too, believed in the 'hearty frankness and independence' of the declarations he made to them. They show ed their faith by their works; the legisla ture, by a strict party vote, elected him law reporter, an attire which he sought eagerly and received with many thanks. In all the conflicts of the Buchanan administra tion with the abolitionists end their allies he was an open-mouthed opponent of the latter. lie wa-s always sound on the Kan sas question, and faithful among the faith less of Lerompton Constitution. So far as see, his Democratic associates, werepermit ted to know him, no man detested more than he did the knavish trick of abolition ists ;in 'preventing a vote on slavery by which it ,would have been expelled from Kansas and the whole troubled settled in the way they pretended to wish. Ile was out and nut for Breckenridge in IsOe, arid regarded the salvation of the condi try as hanging cm the forlorn hope of his election. To :qr. Buchanan himself, and to the members of iris cabinet, lie paid the most assiduous court, was always ready ffiran occasion to serve them, and showed his devotion in ways which sometimes went rather too close t', the verge of obse quiousness. While looking at this side of his character, and supposing it hail no other, he was accordingly to your under standing of his history, In "entire agreement" with the deadly enemies of every principle we believed in. The mere fact that he paid visits to Dr. Bailey is 111/- thing. It is nothing that he there met abolition people. All that might happemand his fidelity to the Constitution would moult no feather. But you mention it 11.., a remark able, vireumstancer, and it is retnisrkable, because abolionists exclusively were in the habit of assembling there to talk over their plans, to concoct their slanders against the administration, and to lay their plots for the overthrow of the government and laws. ft was a place where men congregated for political, not merely for social purposes, and M r. Stanton knew he would be dc (cop unless he was °neat them. Ile accortling• ly made himself not only acceptable, but interesting, by telling them that lie was of Quaker blood. and got his abolitionism by inheritance: his grandfather liberated his slaves—he did—and purged the family of that sin ; and Beniamin Lundy took him on his knee when lie was a little boy and taught him the political doctrine, which he had never forgotten, but ho bad opposed by every open act of his life. lie was prob ably fresh from are of thesesymposia when he went into court in the Sickles ease, and loudly bragged that ho was the son of filaveholding parents; his father was a North Carolinian and his mother a Virgin ian. You may see thatpart of Iris speech on page 51 of the printed trial. It is hard to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, but Stanton seems to have master ed the difficulty. It r. Sumner's testimony to the early and thorough-going Abolition ism of Mr. Stanton is entitled to great weight., because it is coupled with an act which attests its entire sincerity. It is a part of his certificate that. when Mr. Stan ton's nomination as Secretary of War was sent to the Senate, he r Sumner) immediate ly rinse to urge the confirmation, stated his acquaintance with the nominee, and said emphatically. " Within my knowWdge, he is one ~t us." Mr. Sumner certain flt would not have made such a declaration alt such a time and for such a purpose unless he hail the clearest con v ictions, based ripen person ,' al knowledge, that Mr. Stanton NV lei an Ab olitionist of the most virulent type, pre ' pared to tread the Cor.stitutitm and the statute-book under his feet, and ready to go :ill lengths far the subver,ion of liberty and jostler.. There is another fact corrobo rating your view, which you have not men tioned, but of which you are fairly entitled 'pr the benefit. When hi r. Stanton went into the War Department, he immediately be gan to act with reckless disregard of his sworn duty. He surrounded himself with the most loathsome !nisei-ants, and 11,5,1 them for the foulest purposes. Law, „Ins ' lice, and humanity were utterly outraged. I Those who knew hill! as I did, and had heard him curse the perpetrato, ~f such crimes only a month er tw , , bffibre, exor cised the charity which believed) all thing, and rem:hided that he was !flayed by souls , headlfing impulse which had suddenly revolutionized all his thoughts, feelings ' and principles of action. But your proofs show that in the kindness of our construe , - teal ire did not give heed enough to the maxim, Neu, repidac turpl.bill(N. Snell a depth could not be reached by a I single plunge. The integrity !this moral nature !oust have previously undergone that gradual process nil decompositionwhich could result only from long sympathetic as- I sociation with the enemies of the Consti tion. Uzi the whole, it must be admitted that you have made out this part of your case. With Democrats he was a Democrat, . enjoying their eantidentie and taking their Havers, while he caused it to be well under- stood among "Inen of your school in nor its and polities" that his devotion to the Democracy WaS entirely situ ulated. It is only also clear beyond doubt, that to South ern men he avowed himself a full-blooded secessionist. 'rho testimony of cioVerllol. Brown to that effect is es good as any that , you have tasaluceil to prove him an aboli tionist, and you have made the Dart so pro liable in itself that very slight proof would . be sullivient to establish it. Is not Illy COO OILISiOII a fair one from the premises, that this is the most, "marvellous" imposture upon record' Does the history zit: the world held 1/11 all its pages of won ders 'another case in which a nuts has raised 11111e:01f In the highest public em ployments under two ffinerent parties of diametrically opposite and hostile pies, by making simultaneous professions of fidelity to both of them I' Do not meld- , don Sunderland, fur his hypocrisy gained • him nothing; nor Talleyrand, for he was merely a trimmer; nor Benedict Arnold, line he acted his double part only during a few months, 1111111•10Seli it with ignornini ous failure. To tied a parallel, you must g e to another Scene: of ruction, and a far low er line of life. Jonathan Wild for twenty I years imposed himself on the lA/11110e 1/0- Hee 11, an hones Mum and a most zealous ! I friend of ,justice, pretended to assist the officers in their business, and shared richly ' in their rewards; but during all that time he Was the ads iser, the "guide, philosopher ' and friend" athe principal thieves in the city, and to them he constantly betrayed the measures taken by the public authori ties for the pretiervation of order and law. I.—We are directly at issue upon the , question whether or not Mr. Stanton ad- vised President Buchanan, before his ap pointment as Attorney General, that war • might be legally made against the States . and the people thereof, in which ordinal,- 111_11: of secession had been passed, by we,'" Of coercing - them to remain In the Union. You say he scats Sent fur by the President, and gave him that advice, accompanied by 11.11 argument in writing, which was so convincing that it was inserted in the first draft nut the message, nt afterwards strick- I en out. No such paper being in existence, tutil Air. Buchanan as well as lie, Stan- ton being dead, your allegation is easily mode ; it it be true, it is hard to prove; I and though false, it is harder still to dis prove. The evidence you produce is Ii r. Shltelliellt that Mr. Stanton told hint SO. I Say nothing about the danger of relying en the acmraey of a converse- lion reproduced train mere recollection at ter so long a time; but I answer that it is I not true, for the following reasons : I. Mr. Buchanan made it a rule never to seek advice from outsiders on legal ques tions. When he was in doubt he took the opinions of those who were officially re sponsible for their correctness. lie had no kitchen cabinet. 2. If he hail made this an exceptional case, awl taken Mr. Stanton into his coun sels by the back stairs, and if Mr. Stanton had furnished hint with a paper which pro duced conviction on his mind that all his constitutional advisers were wrong, he would nest certainly hate shown it to them ur told them of it. 3. Mr. Stanton was a law y er or undoubt ed ability, and the absurd opinion which you attribute to him isiuld not have Uni nil a lodgment in his mind, even for one mo ment. 4. If he hail really entertained such a no tion, and desired in good faith to impress it upon the administration, be would not tI think lie could not) have concealed it from me. It would have been contrary to the whole tenor of his behavior iu those days, and what is more, very much against his own interests. 3. He did express views exactly the op posite of those which you say he urged upon the President. He indorsed the opinion which I gave on the 20th of No vember, 1000, in extravagant terms of ap probation, adhered steadily to the doctrines of the annual message, and when required officially to pronounce upon the special message of January, 1061, he gave his con currence heartily, strongly, and unequivo cally. In all the discussions upon the sub ject, he did not once intimate that there was or ever had been the slightest differ ence between him and the other members of the administration. Do you mean to say 'that this was mere sham? Was he so ut terly devoid of all sincerity, honor, and truth that he gave the whole weight of his influence and power to the support of a doc trine which he believed to be not only false but pernicious? If he was such a knave as that, then tell me what reliance can be placed on any statement he may have made to Mr. Dawes. 111.—Did he betray the Buchanan ad ministration while he was a member of it? Was he false to the principles that he pre tended to believe in? Was he treacherous ly engaged with yon in trying to defeatthe measures he was trusted to support? Dld he aid andj strengthen and assist you in your efforts to blacken the reputation of invoke the aid of loyal men beyond the his associates and friends? Before these lines of his party, and outside of the ad questions are answered, let us look for a I ministration of which he wes a mem her to moment at the situation we were in. serve his imperilled country, memo,' Mr. Buchanan WWI compassed round on with a foul and tricked revolt." Why. all sides with more difficulties and dangers this is precisely what the President and all than any other public man in this country ! the honest members or his Cabinet u ere ever encountered. The party which elected doing openly and above board. They haul him was utterly routed ; its force wasted no legal power which could avail to sert by division, its heart broken by defeat. the "imperilled country" Without the co- Every Northern State was iu the hands of • operation of Congress, which was wholly enemies, flushed will the insolence ofnew- ruled by the opposition. They it, vokusi ly-acquired power: and after his official "the aid of loyal men beyond the flees of Condemnation of se, esston the South fell I their own party and outside of the :elfin lt away from his side in a body. „With bitter, istration," because it was from thenceonly remorseless, unrelenting foes in front and that aid could come. But with you and flank and rear, he was literally unsupport- your associates the "claim; and id:mews ed by any political organization capable of I of partisanship" were so 11111011 higher that, making itself felt. But be was "shielded I considerations of public duty. that vou n o t and helmed and weaponed with the truth," lonly refused all aid to the country, bin poi and he went right onward in the path madeinsulted and abused and vilified the Presi sacred by the footsteps of his great pretty- I de4it and his friends fir asking it. W.,. cessors. He declared the secession ordi- I Stanton, like the other members of the :rd. fiances mere nullifies ; the Union was ministration, invoking aid for the imp-I'- 11ot for a day, hut for all time; a State I rifled county? Did he skulk shout iu sr could not interpose itself between the I eret to effect in that way What his brethren Federal government and individual citi- I were trying to accomplish by an open up %MIS who violated Federal laws; the , peal to the reason and conscience ,o their coercive poorer lid not apply to a State, political opponents? If so, how dial he and could not be used for purposes el' 'll/lleeell? Dill his secret, anonymous, and discriminate carriage in which the imeueent indirect communications ever product, the ' and the guilty would be mingled together; slightest symptom of patriotic emotion in but the laws must be executed, and the • the minds of those who received them? •just rights of the Federal government I What did yon, or Mr. Sumner, or Mr. maintained in every part of the country t Dawes, or Mr. Howard, or Mr. Seward do against all opposers. The whole theory of ,to avert the great calamity of civil ear? the Constitution, as expounded by the men , What measures lid any of you bring !Or : who made it, and all their successors down I ward to serve the country? fa th-it 'to Ilea time, justice, humanity, patriotism, of peril 1,11,11 1/I , llr 11/l1(.711/ yet, acted 111, a honor, and conscience, required Inin to an- man! Which of you " rose to the hctsht nounceand maintain these principles. They of that great argument," or showed him , were not only true, but wet e either e.xpress- ; self lit in mind or heart to meet the reap, .11 - ly or impliedly admitted to be true liv all, sibilities of the time? The Union 'tin in - except the open and avowed enemies of the deed " menaceul with a foul and w ickeui [mum The secessionists, of course, had ; volt," and all you did was to " t the , trained themselves to a different way of Union slide." The public danger exulted thinking, and they immediately assumed , no anxiety in your minds; public att.ors ; an attitude of pronounced hostility to the , received no attention at your hands; Int administration. The foremost of the Ale,- you were all the while mousing about .vier litioit orators and the leading newspaper , some personal calumny by which your organ at' the so-called Republican party , hoped to stir up the popular passions I ; took the high gis.outtl that the Southern against the true friends of the coon try; I States had a right to break up the Union, and Stanton, unless you slander him, • if they pleased, and could not justly be op- I made lore to the infamous business of I • posed. But, though they "drew much helping you. Yon have given us bid I people after thorn," and gave great eneour- small samplei of the " indirect and anon- j • agement to the Insurrectionary movement, I ymuus communications, which Stanton 111/ man who Sousa once honest. intelligent, made to you and your associates. The and true to the eu - nnitry, failed to see the bulk of thorn must be enormous. 11e ; wisdom of the President's views. The was engaged for two or three months fah , President-elect indorsed thorn fully on ' rioting at least one tide every day for Jar. , his way to the Capital, Ile he did al- Seward, and another consisting •• the terwartls by his official action. From I most startling facts" to suit the needs of ! all quarters addresses and petitions carne Mr. Howard, while you and Mr. Dawes , I up, which showed the popular appreciation were gnititied in a similar Wily at the same !or them. Even the Massachusetts Legisla- time. Are these " startling facts" held bark i tore, without one dissenting vista i„ i ts I for some other funeral occasion. Take no ' more numerous branch, and by an over- , taco yourself', and tell your friends, that , whelming majority in the other House, u while their stories are hid away faun th.• ' , passed asolenui resolution approving them light, the presumption that they are not I , in the strongest language and Offering to ; only false but known to be false is growing I ; aid in carrying them out. But everything j stronger and stronger every clay. You Icel depended on Congress, and what did Con- • better upon your budgets at once. There us gross do? Both houses were completely ' a point or two here on which I would like ; in the hands of shallow partisans, who ;to draw you out. Mr. Seward says that Ile were either too stupid to understand their u and Mr. Stanton discussed anal settled ous t• duty or too dishonest to perffirm it. The 'sures. 'The topic which absorbed the at , men of most ability and integrity whom tendon of all minds at that time was Fort Ilepublietin constituents had sent there— I Sumter. Compared to that, all others were I such men, for instance, as Charles Francis, insignificant; and of course the measures I Adams—were heard but not heeded. The relating to it were not overlooked. It is, President, thoroughly int - fumed on the ' known from the published statements uuf whole subject, eonununieated all the facts , Mr. Welles, Judge Campbell, and others, in a special message, told Congress that ; that Mr. Seward was deeply ,•ligaged in the powers confided to hint were wholly a plot to surrender that fort, Which phut Ile inadequate to the occasion, demonstrated - afterwards brought to a head, and by sun he absolute necessity of further legisla- • dry tricks very nearly made it successful. Lion, and implored them not to post- ; Stanton professeul to agree with le. th a t the pone it, for the danger, imminent then , fort ought to be kept; but you have shown was increasing with every moment of de- ' that his profession+ in the l'ablnet were net I lay. To all this they Were ins deaf Ile ad- very reliable, and tioveronv liruwii has hers. They could be reached by no appeal ; proved that leu could by a secessionist to their hearts or eUllSelellues, They neith- ; well ;to anything eke, if occasion refillirod er adopted the Executive recommendation I it. Now, what did they settle upon about nor gave a reason for refusing. If any Fort Sumter? They e - ereengaged in some- • measure haying the least tendency either , thing which both knew to be disreputable to restore peace or prepare fur war got so ilnoteriminal ; their secrecy, their employ far as to be proposed it Was re- Ment Of a merlinnt, their quick dodge when (erred to a committee, where it was sure tut they met on the street, the mortal terror uo' be quietly strangled. The issue, of lire detection which they Illelllfe,tod throng!, I death to tha audio,/ hue!, apya ties, actuoa, out, all show plainly enough that they haul oat/ MO)/ It-stad tel hit linger I- , It, 1111 honest rime t, *T e ll us if the, were No legislative body, sincei the beginning of, triving a plan to put the strongest military , the world ever behaved in a great crisis fortress of thu•44, - ,111111,10. With Snell scandalous disregard of its duty. its enemies. lint if there were no statesmen among the managers of that Congress there Were plenty I=ll if they were indifferent to the fate of the nation they were intensely alive to the inn ' tercets of their faction; if the regular elifil ntittees slept supinely on the gnat public Ineslinns submitted to them, the secret eommittee, spawned by a caneus, went , prowling about with activity as incessant as it It'll:: ctcnithv and malignant. You could not gainsay the views which the atifninis trails,. took of their own duty or yours, nor deny the wisdom of the recommendatin)ll4 they made; but you could, and did, answer them with a storm of personal detraction. I The air was filled with falsehood ; the at ' mosphere was saturated with simpler ; the . voice o f trut h was drowned inn "the loud roar of foaming 'Phil, crusade seat, conducted with siilllllell vigor and sue ! cesa that Sl/1110 members of 010 atilllilll,4l,- tion were pursued into private litd by the rage of the partisan molP, fuel thousands ot the worthiest men inn the land were actually imprisoned and persecuted alinost to death for nothing worse than expressing a friend ly opinion of them. messages Of the PreSilielll, will stand forever a monument to the wisdom, foresight, and honest pa triotism of the Executive administration, while history will proclaim through all time the dishonor of that Congress which could answer stack appeals with ;nothing but vituperation and insult. It was at such a juncture that Mr. Stanton was appointed tin take a high and most confidential place in the administration. His language glov.•- ed with gratitude, his words spoke all the fervor of personal devotion to his and his colleagues ; he gave his thorough approval to the measures which they thought necessary tin preserve the unity of Cho 11a6011 in the 11,11111.: of peace. Yet yen inform us that he did immediately put himself in communication with the oppo sition ; sought out you and others whom he had never known before, and sought you solely because you were enemies of the adniinistratiun; offered himself as yollr spy, and dill act for you in the capacity Lila false delator ; went skulking about at mid night tin aid you in defeating the measures which with us he pretended CO support ; Mr gathered with your secret vonimittee, and gave you assistance in earryingon your per sonal warfare against his benefactors; nay, WerSe than all that, he helped you to trump up a charge of treason against one of his colleagues—a charge which he knew tin be false—a charge for which, int had been true, that trusting friend might lawfully, and would deservedly, have been hanged by the neck until he was dead. llh ! it was too foul; it was the base beyond the lowest reach of comparison. If your story be un founded—if Stanton after all was a true and honorable man—how will you answer inn the judgment his fir this horrible out rage on his memory and on the feelings of his friends? If Nlan.h•r /um sn.l htrlur.. n•, pray n•rls: Ithsh.l.)ll all 1. ,0r.,-. I In horror's bend horror,. nrctintulatt.: 1, nothingrLlll.L thou h ,, lnhihst ;old Iss•her limn that. But let jestiee be done though the heavens should flab some at least of your state ments are true, unless Mr. Dawes, Mr. Howard, Mr. Seward, anti Mr. Sumner have volunteered to help you by sacrilieing the character of "the great Secretary." I will not waste time upon the dot ails which yet, witnesses have given of his treachery. It appears to have been a free-will offering of his ONVII, induced by no solicitation of yours, but tendered by himself ca• 100,0 1/1 , 10. The moment he was indill•ted into office he looked about to ascertain who were the bitterest and most malignant ene mies of the men to whom he owed all his publie importance and much of his private prosperity. Ile found them quickly, and though they were entire strange's to him, he pot hi mseltimmediately into secret com munication with them, took service under them as their regular spy, and t-xereised himself diligently in that base vocation, making reports to them daily, and some times twice as day, until the chrse of his of fiehil term, when his occupation necessarily ceased. This mean employment must have taken up most of the time which should kayo been devoted to the duties of an office on whichthe public business,al ways heavy,was then pressing with unusual weight. Ile did notcommunicate any kno sledge which was necessary to guide you in the discharge of your duties, for.every fact of that kind was ;is accessible to you as to him ; the admin istration kept nothing hack ; the President volunteered to give all he knew concerning the state of the Union; no department ova,' closed against your investigations; every call for information was promptly and fully answered. If that had not been enough, every member of the cabinet would have been perfectly free to speak with any member of Congress, or to go in person beforeany committee. Mr. Seward did confer with me fully at the State De partment in open daylight, without any dodging about it; and he WEIS always wel come, as he is now, to tell everything that passed, for he neither asked nor could have asked any question if the country had an interest in it, which I was not wising to answer. With all the channels of truthful information thus opened and unobstructed you preferred to get what you wanted from a spy. MI% Howard has tile cheek to pro, claim that during the "labors" of his committee, instead of acting upon honest and legitimate evidence, he sent inquiries to this secret informer, who answered by giving Information of ",great'simportance," but his communications "were always in direct and anonymous !" If there be one sentence in your whole article which is marked more than another with your characteristic hardihood of assertion, it is that in which you try to make a merit of STANTON'S TREACHERY It is curiously reckless, and for that rea• son worth giving in your very words. "These facts," say you, "were stated to il lustrate Mr. Stanton's exalted patriotism, which prompted him to rise above the claims and clamors of partisanship, and to The midnight meeting between Messrs. Stunner and Stanton is ill all its in , npucts the most astounding of historical revelations. If you recall Alr. Stunner to the stand, it is hoped that he will seethe necessity of being, much more explicit than he has vet been. Front what he /are said it appears that Stan ' ton "described to him the tletertillint!in on I of the Southern leaders, :Mil developed I 0:11.- 1 Lielliarly their plan to get pnssesciml ut the 11/air/nal Capital and time areill% vs. Se that they might substitute themselves • for the existing government." 'Yetis is so extremely interesting that it WI Mill be a sin ;tgaimit the public not to examine it fur ther. Early in the winter somebody snort ed the sensational rumor that on on - in -o 're ' the ;Rh of March a riot would be got nip in Washington, which might seriously en danger the peace of the city. It sea, ele/Sed talked about, nitinl blown upon in various ways, but no tangible evidence 1/1 its reality could ever Inn. round. 'Dm President referred to it in a message to congress, and said that he did not share in 'inch apprehensions; but he pledged him self inn any event to preserve the peaer.— When the midnight meeting onok place the rumor had lived its life mit—hall paid its breath LO Olaf/, and the mortal custom of such things at NVashington ; it was a dead canard which had rinsed to alarm even women or cliiinlren. This certainly Was not the subject nit' the communication !node that night at I o'clock. Stanton did not slur ' round himself with an tho ad . ionot, of se crecy, elarkllOSSl, and terror, to tell al! old stars which been in everybody's month before, of all impassible street rina by the populace of Washington. What he - parted was a secret not only new, but deep and dangerous, nit finr the °evasion. and , worthy L./ be whispered confidentially ;it midnight. 11n; disclosed a "plan of Hie Southern leaders to get tnocsession of the Capital and the archives, and to sub-aim te I themselves for the existing govern - ment." It tints a coup nl'n.ont of the first magnitude—a most stupendoli3 treason.— This plan fit r. Stanton "developed particu larly," that is to say, gave all the details it length. Mr. Sumner nianifestl3- believed I what Inc heard; he received the revelation • into his heart with perfect thith ; and lie did not underestimate the public danger; but. he did nothing to defeat the treason, or even tin expose it. Ile Was thoroughly and min utely informed ofa plan prepared by South ' ern leaders to revolutionize the govern meat, ' and he kept their onntinsel as faithfully as if I he had been one of themselves. Ile Leek , frightful coin:unification as quietly as he took the Prunsident's message. Nothing could stir his .sluggish loyalty to :toy act which might tend to save his '• 1111 I perilled country." Mr. Sumner hay,. that when Mr. Stanton made these statements to him lie was struck "by the knowledge lie showed of hostile movements." That is precisely what strikes mm aka'w ith wender and amazement. \Vlierein the world did he learn " the ileLerlaillatiell /if the South ern leaders"? Whore did he get an account lir the nr sin detailed that ne was able to develop it partiotilarly? inis • knowledge Invention, astounding when we , recollect that, sin tar as now appears, no , body else outside of the "S.nuthern lead ! ers " had the least inkling of it. It is I possible that his connection with the secessionists, and his professed devotion to their cause, went sin far that they took him into their conlidenee, and told him what , "hostile movement - they intended to make MI the government". I low nlint beget these ' secrets if not tram them? fir must we be driven at last to the conclusion that the wind,: thing was a mere invention, im posed on Mr. Sumner Le/1.411de ? tent Mr. Sumner owes it Le the truth on make a fuller statement. Let us have the particulars which Mr, St.:1110W developed LO him. We have a right to know not only Wile were tine Southern traitors engaged in this plan, but. who were confederated with them in Washington. 1 suppose :NI, Sum- , ner, as well as Mr. Stanton, had "instiuc tice insight into men and things" rnnngin to know that no government Was ever sub- stitutenl for ;mother by a sudden some co-operation or con nivance of officers; in possession. \VIIo among Stanton's colleagues did he say were engaged inn this affair? he charge the President with any concern in it? If he declared all or any of them to Inc in no- cent, does not Mr. Sumner see the injustice of keeping back the truth? Ind Stanton tell hint that he had conimunieated the j facts to the President and 'abinet? If did he givea reason for withholding. then.? And what was the reason? Was the guilty secret confined to his own breast, or dal any other member of the administration I share his knowledge of it? If yes, who ? ' Mr. Sumner has struck so rich a vein of historical fact nor lictionh that he is bound to give it some further explanation. The following passage in Mr, Suniner's letter to vou excites the liveliest desire for more information. After describing his visit to the A ttorney-n lenerat's office, and 'NH.. Stanton's reception of him, he goes on thus : "He began an earnest conversation, saying he must see me alone—that this was impossible at his office—that he was watch ed by the traitors of the South—that my' visit would be made known to them at once; and he concluded by proposing to call on me at my lodgings at I o'clock that night," Am., n.tri. Why Was Mr. Stanton afraid of the Southern traitors? Why did they set a special watch over him ? No other member of the administration was tormented with a 'fear like that. All of Mr. Stanton's colleagues felt at perfect lib erty to speak out their opposition to the hostile Inovements of the South, and they all did it without concealment or hesita tion. lint Stanton was put by the South ern traitors under a surveillance so strlcb that he could not speak with a Senator ex cept at midnight, by stealth and secrecy. At his own office. it was impossible to see such visitors; the Southern eye was al ways on him. How did those traitors of the South manage to control him as they controlled nobody else? 13y what means did they "cow his better part of man," and master all his movements? What did they do, or threaten to do, which made hint their slave to such a fearful extent? Ills relations with them/must have been very peculiar. The suspicion is not easily re sisted that he had his noctural meetings with Southern men also, and that he feared simply the discovery of his double dealing. This is what we most believe if we sup pose that he really was shaken by U..) unmanly terrors. nut I confess my their =3=EI=MO=IIIMM tie made a pretence of them only that he might fool Mr. :limning to the top of his brut. What does Mr. Sumner himself • think? Was ho or NV:IA 110 not the Viet i m of true) humbug? CONSPI IZ I" I tit kI:Y. l .Mr. Stanton conspire with the political enemies of the administration in arrest Mr. Toucey un a false charge of trea son l'hat such a conspiracy existed seems to be a fact estalitished. What you say about it shows that you knew and approved it. Mr, Dawes and Mr. Howard were in it and no doubt many others who have nut confessed it themselves, 4 , r bi'01111:1111011 by yea,. BM :%Ir. Stanton was not with you. The evidence of his complicity which you produce in altogether too indefinite, indi rect, and obscure to isinvict him of so damning a crime. The enormous atrocity of the offence makes it impossible to be lieve in his guilt without the clearest and most indulinahle proof. Stanton and Tott ery were at that time acting together in per feet harmony, closely united in support of the same general 11101,111 - 0 S a n d T , weey, at oil events. was sincere; and Stanton knew him u, he a just, upright, aro( honorable Wall, whose fidelity to the Union, the Constitil lion, and the laws was as firm at the foun datimin of the everlasting hills. To Toncey himself, and to his friends, he ties or - pressed any sentiment :nit esteem and re spect, and he declared Ilk smithies,' in hint even to Mr. Seward, into was his ene.. Illy, as you yourself have taken the pains Is prove. 1, - as the destruction a this man on, of the purposes fuur which the first law. Slicer of the government sneak,' :daa among your secret committees, nits the plotters in their midnight lurking-places, employed a godmetween M fetch and carry his clandestine messages,and, like a treach ermmus informer, wrote accusations which he trusted even to the hand.: nil his cumniumuler ates manly while they were read in the light of a street lamp? There were two distinct annul separate ways in which the conspir, tors conkd effect their designs upon the ni.lll whom they. had marked out Mr their vic tim. one was to take hint into ens tody tinder a legal warrant, regularly is sued by a competent judicial Hu t to get such it warrant it was alisol in tidy necessary that somebody should perjure hy swearing that 'rolicey had levied war against the United States. IVa..s Stanton to nial:e this thlse oath, in addition the other proofs which he gave of his loyalty? lie was it expected that Peter 11. Watson, who carried the charges, nit swear to thorn also? Its volt lilt' nut rt.ly nn Stanton or \Vatsumit, was it you, or Mr. Durres, sr >I r. I 10,"111.11—ivhirli ofysti —that nlenut to do the needful thing? m mu was it intended that till three or you should en twine your eoliseilttletts in LIM tOllllOl. 12111- bra, of a jOhlt :111111aVit /1' had you look ed slit foe some common "man of who was ready to be subooted for the 41, casino'? No, lie ; you may have been eager I to l'eed tat the ancient . grudge you bore I against Twi(Ty me tieing. a I neniscrat and it " Eniomsaver ;" but nsue of yon would have owsrn that he was guilty of any criminal sire',. Nor could Stanton or Watson hat, been persuaded to encounter such peril 4it rinul and body. Nmir could you if you had tried your hest have Impel m arty miler persons to make the acetisatlon m the form of a legal oath. The price or perjury noes not then high enough in the . Washington market to draw ruin their hiding-phwes that swarm slgummiless wretch es Who afterwards swore away. the lives of nien and WOIIIIJII with such fearful alacrity. .Erunii all this it is very clear that there sons tr, he uo swearing in the I,ISO, conserluently nu judicial Warrant and no lawful arrest. But Tonsev was to lie arrested. How? If ..0111,0 in Was 1,111),' other scan it could pus .illy he done. Th, cuuspi rots rs . 111U-I.loli to kidnap hint. >I r. Dawes says that frruni the h o ur When the paper directing his ar rest soils read under the street lamp, and "welt track to its himlingplace, - the Secre tary was watelled. The nemmlmers of the committee, or the hirelings they employed, ulumgge,L,shis footsteps, and were I,lllly 11l spring upon hint whenever they got the signal. They could rush out as he passed the 'smith of a kiark alley, knock him mitisvii with their bludgeummu, ;del drag him elf. I 11. the 1:1.,.10,4 .11111 " jl,llio fir" 1:111'2: might hurglariously freak sits his Isms, In the night time, and, inipnclicul, as you would say, by " high and holy molt \ idle 111111 by the throat and carry hilt a‘vay. After proceeding thins far, it would be necessary to dispose of hint in 01/11112 priVait• dungeon . tor you knew that the public prisons asst Immets cuoild not then be prostituted to such base 11,... , 1, where nn ffiellti 4,111.1 1 . 11111 and w lienro no complaint of his could reach the spelt air. Even inn that case, " with all appliances mint 1111,1 IS to boot,.' Lis speedy. liberation would be extremely probable, and the condign punishment I,l' the male tactile, al must curUtin, Unless they acted upon the prudent maxim that "(lead 111011 1.011 The combination of thumuth until otters to kidnap Mr. l,incoln was precisely like this in its original object; and it 55:w j 1111,111•11, step by step, un til it 1.11111 , 11 in a most hrintalmurder. P,1,11, 11 ,, 11.111.1 .11,1,11 \Vas this a beconning business for Senators annul im reset I tal VeS, Lu bll CllgAgeil ill In that "hour of national agony," when hideous destruction stared the country in the face ; when stout men held their breath in inns ious dread; when Merry for relief came up 1 to on the wings of OVOI.N. wind ; when the warning words of the President told yOll that the public safety required your in , taitt attention —WaS tlll l l.ll tint, tO to• spent in prosecuting, plots like this? 1 will not ask you to repent of the wicked • ness ; it is not wrong in your eyes; it comes up bi your hest ideas Of loyalty, patriotism, and high states manship. Your witnesses think of it as you du; they take pride and pleasure in their guilt, and wrap this garment of in ;luny about them with as much complacency as if it were a robe of imperial purple. But was Stanton in it ? WiLs the Attorney t lest-rat art 111111 part in a foul conspiracy to kidnap the S,,retary of the Navy,"his own familiar friend, his brother who trusted in him and with whom he ate bread?" If he had sent the paper which Was read under the street lamp, why do Vllll not produce it, or at least show by secondary evidence that it was in his 11111111-writing? If Mr, Watson was the medium through whom he communicated his verbal directions to the ennimittee or other persons confederated with him, why does not .Nlr. Watson appear and say so? To tasten this great guilt on Stanton will require evidence far better than :gr. How aril's small and silly talk about "a bird which flew directly from SOIIIII Mthinet minister, - and stronger than his belief founded en the far.; that Stantrn Wl,l a "suspicious eharacter, - especially as Mr. Toward admits his own pxrtieipatiuu in the, crime, and is therefore something more than "asuspirious eharacter" himself. But it is not merely the defects in the proof, it is the incredible nature I,lthe story which counts against you. Stanton knew, if viii; did not, that the contemplated crime Oonl , l not be perpetrated with impunity. Tourey breathed the deep breath and slept the sound sleep of a freeman under the guar dianship of a law which Stanton at that time did not dare to violate. A. Democratic administration still kept ward and watch over the liberty of the citizen. A vulgar tyranny which allowed abolitionists to 110 such things upon their political opponents was coining, but it had notcome ; the reign of the ruffian and the kidnapper was draw ing near, but it had notarrived ; the golden 4 1 ,, Of the spy and the false accuser wag 116- ginning to dawn, but it had, rio t yet risen, You may Mill, it some excuse fur this false charge against Mr. Stanton that it is not touch worse than others which vet !lane proved to be true. hit justice requires that even trail men shall stiller only for those misdeeds wldela they have actually done. tine of the greatestarnong American jurists held a slander to be aggravated Iry proof that the vietun's character was bad lieu ire; just as a corporal injury to a sick man or a cripple is a worse wrong than it would he Gr oneulsound limbs and vigorous health. V,—Mr. Stanton's personal behavior and bearing in the Cabinet have liven much misrepresented I,v others Is-silos you. I am told that Mr. Seward described the supposed "scene" in some speech, which I have never read. It was given at length, and very circumstantially, in a London paper over the signature or T. W. ; Mr. At torney-General l boar, in a solemn oration which he pronounced before the Supreme Court tact January, repeated it with SL/ll dry rhetorical embellishments ; nearly all the newspapers of your party have gar nished their pointless abuse of the Buch anan ',administration with allusions to it more or less extended ; and no doubt the book-makers in the service of the aboli tionists have put it into what you call "con temporaneous history." So far as I have seen theimall these accounts differ from one another, and none is exactly, or even very nearly like yours. But they agree in pre senting a general picture of Mr. Stanton as engaged in some violent conflict which his colleagues were too (lull, too unprincipled, or too timid to undertake, though seine of them afterward plucked up heart enough to follow his lead. They declare that Stan ton took the mostperilous responsibilities, boldly faced the most frightful dangers, and with heroic courage fought a desperate light against the most fearful odds ; that the other members of the Cabinet looked on at the awful combat as mere spectators of his terrific valor, while the President was so frightened by the "tierce and fiery" encounter that all he could do was to "trem ble and turn pale." All this is (to use Stanton's own language) a tissue of lies a mere cock-and-bull story ; a naked invention, purely fabulous ; a false hood as gross and groundless as any In the autobiography of Baron Mun NUMBER 5 chanson. Mr. Stanton was never ex- not know that Mr. Molt's testirnoi posed to any danger whatever while he was would be against you, when yi , a member of that Cabinet ; never had any took advantage of his sersples about gn occasion to exhibit his courage; never ing It? Did not Mrs. 1)1lWes rtienlinet liiti quarrelled with any of his colleagues; , than you have quoted? 1 may lan aria never denounced those he differed front, in this suspicion ; but a man who Malign and never led those with whom he agreed. a public record must not complain If th He expressed his dissent from the Southerii I good is doubted when he prosen tnembers on several questions, but now auprivate evidence. :NI r. Attorney-I:emir among us took better care than he dial to liOar, believing tin , 'tninini avoid giving cause of personal offence. lie tried in good faith to gct the evldeni acquired no ascendancy- at the combat which would Prose it. When lie found board, and claimed none; lie proposed no to be !also lie passed over Ira Viral liar lent, measure aids ow mainl when bespoke upon h •It ha' the i'oll,o Oink the treasures originated by Others, he pre- nail Von prints it (Nona. Tilt' lain yea. Seniedni) views that Were new Or at all start-, too honest to rear-eft. he iii ling. Ito and 1 never auce differed stn itlIV covered bra Ire atil minded; but tho polio question, great or small ; and this, though , elan had not magi. atimity enough to Fa of eourse accidental, was ' , till Sir tract it ; and therefore he let viii bur that 110 Said are war there Only t,i give lOC yOUr lilittrrs where hit cvnuld not lint I, taco ViiLeS iuxlead Or title. tie did out differ awn. Th, stairs all •I "Cabinet: Willi Mr. nett ran itt.y inipirtant qnt,tiiiii it iloatist irresponsible concerning the South ntore 1111111 mongers, seemed nein while like a fortnid that was when the compact. aillirWilnk VIM have ntndn it WWII called a truce, about Fort Pickens was contiiiiiiitibbi. made. Ifs must hart, agreed wish alit. li.illl . Mr. Catillir.lll . S President W11(.11110 agreind with Mr. Ilolt, tirellielit 1 . 1,111 the War Department an ft, the latter gentleman deolared m 0,4141- an his saaggest i„ phatically that the PreNitlent him a "firm :titd eelJert)ll4 Ile never Insulted the l're,shlent. r. linehaulm knew how to tnaintaill the dig- nity of his pin,' and enforce the respect fill(' to hintseir as e ell a. any inan tint eV, sat in that chair. It is most eortain tint r. Stanton always triiatiiil hint Irith iho• I f ho 1,1.1 rash enough to 1:1k° on in, air. of ,1 “r11:Iti °Vet' 11113110 the least appreticil t the rudene,i f,,r winch credit hint, he inc Would instalntlV link, in lost his enntininnissi.nil, owl you would have lost ' your spy. Among the versions %Odell have been gin en to this bile, your+ is thin most traii.paretit absurdity; bir you gin,: dates and circumstances si blinds make it ridicu lous. At a time when Floyd Is iii dis grace with the in hole administration--.tier all his brethren hail Molten With 111111, allil he hail Lech nn.titied .if the President's intention to remove him --sdien lie Was Virtliall out ut 0111ce and is./inpletinly strippeir of all ititluence--Major niter son reinoveil his cot:inland front Fort Moultrio to Fort Sumter. You assert that Floyd, hearing of this, forthwith ar raigned • the I'resident and Cabinet tbr the act of Major -Itiderson, declaring it to Ise a violation of l-httir pledges, though it was not done by them, and they had given no pledge on the subject. 'Unit he could or would make an arraignment for :my cause of the body hy svhieli lie had himself Just before been condemned is incredible; that Inc would arraign it on such a charge is beyond the belief of any sane being.- - But such, by your account, was the orru sion which Stanton took to display his su perhuman courage. It was then that hi: armed his red right hand to inXis•lite his patriotic s*.eingeitiiim on that fallen, power less, broken limn. Ito !mist also Ilan, let fall at least a part of his horrible ilispleits• ore fin the head of the President; else NVII (lid the President tremble and turn pith, I'' I said this narrative of yours svas mere drivelling, and I think I paid it a flattering ; compliment. Itut to explode the holly completely I referred you to the record, which I said would shots: that )lajor An Berson acted in strict inecordance with or ders sent him through the \Var Department of Floyd himself \vas the head ; and this you coittrailict. It is perfectly manifest that you examined then:cord, for you tran seri he from it and print two telegrams ex changed between Floyd and .knitersiiii atter the removal of the latter took place. Yon sate im that same rotund the order previous- Iv given -the order on which :Major An derson was bound to aid, and did act -and you have deliberately suppresseil it. Nay, you go still further, and with the iirilor before your eyes you substantially deny the existence of it. I copy for your special betiellt the :words svhich relate to this point. "'rine -iniallness of your force sin say the Mstructionsi will not permit you, perhaps, to inecnpy more than one of the three forts; Malin attack, oral attempt, tin take possession of eitherone of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you :nay then put your commend into initlitninint . shyer tvhirh yinil turn' ilisnlii Most proper to increase its power nit rt•sistalline. art• also authorized tin tune siiiiilar steps whenes - er you have tangible evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile :let. - 'lliere is the order in plain English words. To fintke out your assertion it Was neiv•ssary to cohost it, and you did con ceal it from your readers. But that is not all. You finil it telegram front Islajor An derson, dated on the morning, after the re moval, in which he , ity, simply that ho hail removed, lint says nothing of the grounds on svhich he acted. lel that same record, and right beside the telegram, you sass* a letter from Nlajor .\ nilerson to the \Var De partment, dated the same day, In which lie does refer to his Order+, and says: "Intiny IllingS einilVineed inf. that thin :mthorities gel tine State designed to proceed to a hostile act," and then adds "(linter this impri,- sion I could not hesitate that it was my ,111 WM/ dlity to limy(' my command front it fort which we'icould not probably have held longer than forty-eight or sixty hours to this one, where my polVinin of resistance is increased tin a very great degree, ,. - You tot:tilt: ignore this letter, in which Nlajor .\,tilierson justitieT: his removal in the very \vents nt the order, and pick 'nut a hasty telegram in which nothing is said of his orders for the purpose of prov ing that he acted without orders— an as sumption which thg record, It honestly Cited, would sininw to be utterly false. You will hardly venture to repeat your denial; for besides the original reeord there are tlwasatals of authentic enries seattsserect ov er the nation, awl anybody Con find it inn lax. 1./Oe., 11. 1t.., vnl. Nni., No. lii, p. le, I do not trust myself In make any general reniarkS on this glaring instil:ice of milt ila ted evillenee. You are a Senator, and I aeknowledge the Scriptural obligation of a private citizen not to "speak evil of digni ties ;" but a dignity like you it is some times so difficult to speak well of that my only refuge is singe,. You garble soy Words So as to slake them appear like a denial that At r. Stanton ever wrote :my letter at all WI the subject of the "Cab inet Scene" whereas I i iisserled that no letter written by him would issr roborato your version of it. After coolly striking out Irons the sentence quo ted the words which express my proposi tion, son proceed to contradict it by the statement of Mr. Ifolt, who says that a let ter Wa., written, but he declines to say what was in it. I knew that Mr. Schell had ad dressed Mr. Stanton with the object of get ting him to tell the truth and tear away the of lies" which su lastly bands had Netts en about this subject. If he answered at all, the presumption was that he would answer truly; and if he answered truly, instead of corrobora ting you, lie must have denountnal the whole story as a mere fabrication. Do you I think now that, in the absence of all evi -1 dens, showiesi or Lending to Shots the Mil -1 Lela, HA,. We ought ti assume that Stanton tilled it with bragging lies? I do not !min to let this stand as a inure luns lion .1 personal ventedy between you and sue, though I have the advantage, which you have, not, of knowing whereof I affirm. But my denial throws the burden of proof upon you with its lull weight. Reetillect, also, that the strength of your evidence must be proportioned to the original ins probability of the fact you seek to establish and that the rew.ons ie pri , ll, sir disbeliev ing this fact are overwhelmingly strong. All presumptions are against the idea that a man who dodged about among the abolitionists as their spy, and vowed him self to the secessionists as their silly, and all the tissue manifested a dastardly dread of being discovered, would openly insult the President or is, anything else that was bold and violent. But you have taken the task of proving it, and li o n mace yon done it:' I eertainlyneed not say,that hi r. Holt proves nothing by writing a letter in which he de clines to tell what he knows. II is expres sive silence, on the contrary, is very that lio!knew the truth to be against you. As little, nay, less, if less were pos sible, do you snake out of has speech at Charlestou. Ile deals there in glittering generalities, sonorous periods, mei obscure allusions to some transaction of which list gives no definite idea, except t h at Statime was not all actor in it, but a spectator; lor be mentions him only to say that. " he looked Slant that scene." What the, scene was Ito declared to bc . o secret, whiels history will perhaps never get a chaneetorecsird. whollyto get. any thing out of Mr. llult , you naturally enough resorted to Mr. Dawes; and Mr. Dawes, willing but unable to help you, call ed in the aid and comfort of his wife.— "She,' her husband says, "distinctly re members hearing Stanton tell at our house the story of that terrible conflict in the Cab inet." That is the length and breadth 01 : her testimony. She remembers that Mr. Stanton told the story, but not the story itself. It was about a terrible conflict; but we do not learn who were engaged in it, who fell, or who was victorious—how the fray began or how it ended—only it was terrible. WILY Mr. Stanton the hero of his own story, or was lie relating the adven tures of nomebpdy else to amuse or frighten the company? Mrs. Dawes is undoubtedly a lady of the very highest respectability; but with alt that, you will find it hard to convert the idle con versations at her house into history; and the difficulty is much increased by the fact that neither she nor anybody else is able to tell what they were. The declaration 01 Air. Holt that he would not reveal what lie knew on this subject, and Mr. Dawes' stetetnent that Mrs. Dawes told him that she heard Stanton tell something about it, which she does not repeat, is all the evi dence you offer on the point. Yet you af firm that this most improbable and slan derous story is uotonly true, but sustained by the "declarations of Mr. Stanton to cred ible witnesses, and the positive averments of Joseph ifolt." Can this be mere ignor ance? lam tempted to believe that you have gone about tlntn i business with a set purpose to make yourself ridiculous. I fear very much that on this question, aeon so many others, you have been guilty or a wilful suppressio rrri. Did you RATEEOF ADVRTIMING attBINIISEI ADVZieII,SEZZATS, $l2 a year squre ten Mies: Ittl per year [or each au [tonal square. REAL ESTATE ADVERTISING, la rents a line the first, nuts cents for each hu bus, heel Insertion. OINERAL ADVERTISINtI, 7 cents a line for t first, and 4 cents fur each subsequent 11.6 lion. SPECIAL NOTICES Inserted In Local Colnn IS cents per line. R.PEcrAr. Novicc-s preceding marriages c deaths., 10 cents iv. line for fired inserts and 5 cents for every subsequent Insert'''. LEGAL AND aril ER NOTICES-- Executors' notices Administrators' notice Assignees' notices Auditors notices Other Nolte.," ten lines, or less, three times ...—. I hi thoin.ltitled ht•vatiNe it hut tml 11,, lat•t truurrnl ittipclrt:tlict., but Iva, \I r. Shuts tt a character m it 011.1 1,11 thcvr ISio 1111 . 11 it till' nu it ',lac,. impiwd ~1111ille111.11 Iri..ndship. I :lily lor hi ~V 11, 1 •1111111111ts, lir 11.0 111, ro.pert vither fi, Iho h.lr.r Illr:114 t o- h. , “Ilipu,er arming nv 110 t•Mled ii tPI liv iWu.locessor, nail 11100. Sta.lll.oll WILA tile koillted 1101 10 1.•11r1 . 3 . 11111 11111 1 , 1 1101 1111 0.11 , L. , 1'.111110 , ,1'' ' , Miry 11 ith nil it , 11.111 n. 1 adln,t 11.1 'OllOO lan rcidon I'r I'lll but r : . 111 - 111-111,1 or 31 r. tillllll.lll'S 11111 , 11011 . 1 in ,till r metal's, it Iteemties pesstide hone,' he may have lesm insincere ahem this also. :still your ittleitipt 11111,11', 1111 1111 pit blie %Id, 110,0101111110. I 1 1 my Ills, k 111151'I edge 11111 , 111' nothing . tthotit Camel 1111'S 1111 pointment or re 'al; Litt 1 11111 give yon the main tarts 'trimly and without the :Lb.: L'ol,:slitt, as I halve !Jinni on UlidoUbled :til thority, and as I lirinlv belies e them. .1 bargain wits !nada at the l'hical.tr Conven tion of 18110, that in ease uf main nation and election Cameron .thould !o ctave It l'alanot appointment. )1 r. I,lnolllit wa.s no party to this vontract ; Litt alter unlmh persuasion and pressure he elinsentod In ratify it h „ , ,' trying Cameron as Semattary of \\ ' or. Before the end of ine months the experiment ended, its You know. inul . 1 ` everybody else knows, inn complete and total titiltlro. MT. Lincoln, seeing this, ill ttrittitteil to get rid el him, and eXpr,..ssed his resolution in a letter addressed to \ll l'ittnoron and carried by Mr. Chase, then Secretary la the Trkkury. Tint letter is 11 , 11 110 W ill 0.1,1i.11.111 . 1., 1 / 1 11 /1 1311100 111,101'11 , 0 , 1 it as curl - that 14 10 say, plain, short, 1111,1 31 r. Cameron understood and felt it as uu abrupt dlsmissul. Ile aftertviutis got it suppressed, and a corrtispoildellkc different in its ,vlmle tenor and 011(11 sub stituted in its place. Kver slim, then ill hits been trying to create the opinion thus 110 retired from a department full of 1 1011 . 101,1, 1101 only NVIIIII,III volliptlision, hilt ill spite 111:1 he !'resident's itliectionitte desh .• Hutt 1101,11011111 I'olllllin 111111 manage tlittlii:tt , Ile had done holm° ; and he InakeS it apart of till' story that he was permitted to d 1 ,114 note his 1.11101 . 1 , 4111'. till contrived 1. , pro. dune nwlin belief of this on the 11111111111 31 r. Cluvso; but i 1 31r. Chase had knotrn inure of Cameron's charaeter and previous his tory he might have 11001 leas credulous. 111 Lilo that Stanton Wasi appointed on Calneron's suggostilull WO 111th 1101 11 Spark 01 1111,111 evidence except Calla,- 011'S awn statement, and all the circuit, slants, make that. improlatitle. If till. President Made up his mind 1111/ I'U 1110 10011111111.111 110 1 . 111 . 131111 y Wlllll.l 11111 1111111 proceeded to eXeellto 1110 resole tine by writing hint a curt haler or dknlk ing settled 1111011 5011101 , 1111 . 1 10 SllOlll,ll 1111111 11/1' 11l SllOll n 111110 as 11011 1111 1,111111 1101 111031, 10 1031'01110 \\ ' l,r 110111111 - 1110111 11 11110 111. 11'1.11111 1111111 ing a head for It. hilt 1 . 1,111 . 1.11, 4 lint no 01111101 E was taken Mr the new °Meer before the renittval lit the old tole, 1:111 it be that ILu Presob•lit dm . ided 1111' 11 . 111110 11110,11011 ill favor a a Ina% never nientionk 1.0.01, MI the mere simgesticat 1.1101111i.a . r he was atel a itlimit seeking' advine from those mem bet s:olthe Cabinet who still retained his favor's' The :•11ppres.md letter is, therefore, not only :111 important ket in itself, but it has 1 1111 gravest. inlinetikt nn the ,•,.I.lhlllllly of airs Cameron's whole tale. mit.tions signitv hut little in nonipalison t, that. If the eorre , p,ll,l/1,.,, nerhards pll btklied 113 s not. that. Which actually to.l], 110 1111151 presillne overt; !hinll availist tar 11111"ly 1111' 1011/111, 111 at roll' se install , 111 , 1 NllllllllllOll was 1,111111111111. TllO Sll , 1111011, direct, rues 10:10, II 1111 11111 11 1 \I r. Lincoln opened the 11'0111,1 11111'1 0,1111/11111.11 every hung, It it had been permitted 1., see the light; :111.1 it 1 , 11111 not have Lora destroyed oxoept for the imrp..se of making a false impression. This compels 11111 111 1111011 that your immitiol ill the allltir has been such as admits ..t n , Justilieation except that burnout' loyalty:net intense patriotism which vonverts all vice into virtue. Alter your first artvele appeared, and 1•olorc illy 1111,11'1,10 it, a 1011.11111; 1111.1 1.1,ry distinguish ed member of the Republican party in thin State told you that you had misstated the facts 0011,01 1111114 \1 r. I'a:heron's retire. Illent, :11111 espkl i3.11 . , , * the important 111111 principal tact “Istin a open 1011 not" fr,,n; till , Pi•,,,i,ie;;t; and hu referred to the rhiel•lusti,e, 551111, upon being 'Merril gated, gave yon the allthentle intorination that such a Man had been Written, deliver ed, and suppressed. Thereupon you sot (minty prollllolsl that. if you ever had 111111 slim to retort.. the suldt•et again, you Wlollil 1011 1110 whole truth, Itesido4,Judgorlko, attnr Illy review a you, wroln Ins a MIA, trot: t..t,att,lnsky, t an", in which he said that he hero Monet, ill tillestiell, alltllllelltiellett that he hat' else Written It, yell. What. 110 tenth, you of course I du not know, but he i•ertainly did net Rive you one version and Inc another. You had, therefore-, the written statement of the Cloof .1 ustien, in ndditiun to his verbal 05511 ranee. With all these lights before you, and with all the obligations of rntnlnnti veracity, strengthened by an express promise to tell the truth, what do yne do ill your Second article? Why, you sitoplv stick to your first story. Nay, you take great trouble to smuggle the truth away, and bury it out of night; for, instead or prod toil mg .1 edge t'hese's letter to you nod 1, in wide') the filet, no doubt, Is fairly ittate.l you give 114 all extraet from another letter written by him to Cameron, from whirl, you are "permittol to plete"-1101.hille whatever on the sit Meet of that Important letter. I forbear to say much that ought to be said about this part of your behavior, because the distinguinhed gentleman be fore soken of Ilan taken you In hand, and will do p ulitlens jerk an acknowledgment or the facts out of you, in nplte of all your shuftl in g• VII.- -A word before we part about the two hundred Mel Ilfty thomeind dollars raised out of the 'rrea.nury for Guverniu Morton. 'raking your account of that busi- I liftSS as correct, I proved In My former let ter that it was in the highest cieg,ree crimi nal. You left tie escape from the conelti nion that the parties Were guilty of embez zlement tinder the act or 1816 Your narrative of the transaction impressed it with all the marks of what is vatted ill the flash laiiguage of \Vanhington "a big steal." You showed that the parties them selves sn understood it at the Lillie, for you put a conversation into their mouths by which they are made to admit their liability to prosecution and imprisonment. I Salt' plainly that this could not be true. Mr. Stnutn's worst enemies iii , ver charged him with that kind of dishonesty, and Governor Alorton had a reputation which placed him far above the suspicion of such baseness. Both of them may have had serious faults, but they would not rob the Treastiry initier any eir cillnistatiren, or (jri any purpose. I asked three im•tulwr, of the Indiana delegation whether there wall en N . inundation for peer assertion ; they idl answiired no, and gave me the explanation which I used In illy published letter. Veto replication to this point is one of the niost aneinishing parts of all your wonderful productions. I de , nied that Messrs. Stanton and Morton had committed a felony, and gave a version of the affair which ~hewed them both to be I)erfeelly inlittettitt. You gritty ill-temper ed and vituperatint upon this, arid charge the with "unconcealed, not, to say ON tent:amen, malignity." I confess thin in turning the tables upon me in 3 way I retiltl net have expected. 111 general, the man ignite is presumed against the party Wert illakel all injurious charge, not against him who repels it. There might have been 401110 hope for you yet if you and recanted your first itssertion, or admitted the errors of your statement, ar male sone. IttrOrt te explain away the ell'ect of it, by shewing that you (lid not mean what you said. But you hold ra...st to every word of ii; not a syllable de you retract. On the (contrary, you insist that it is effrontery in m 0 to affirm that a debt was due to the State, and that it was paid according to lav What you say in your last, in addition to your statement, makes the rase look wore° than it did before. But it in not true. The payment was not made un account of anus furnished to , heal citizens in rebellious Staten, nor was the money given to the Governor, to be disbursed by him on his own responsibility, as agent of the Presi dent. That. much I can say on the official authority of the present Secretary of War, who wrote me on the nth of last month that "the transaction appears to be based upon the claims of the State of Indiana for expense incurred In raising volunteers"' But Governor Morton is aboveground, and can take care of himself. If he made a raise out of the public treasury.with out authority of law, and In defiance of the penal statutes in such case made and pro vided, he owes It to you to confess hlsguilt fully and freely. If he Is innocent (as' be lieve him to be), it Is due to himself and the memory of Mr. Stanton that he deny yonr allegations, and exhibit the true state . Continued on fourth page.
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