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EdwinMStanton 10168593
EdwinMStanton 10168593
S TA N T O N
TANTO N The ,
Pa tri o t , ' en yon s most illus’
a book -
s t ore so tha t ac c ess to books was assured :
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Stanton is ,
so far as I know the youngest li ,
bra r y -
founder known to history . His schoolfellow ,
bugl e c all .
a lucrative practi c e .
. He removed to Pittsburg i n
847 and it was there in his early prim e that I as
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eVer s .
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and all the world for all time thereafter that the
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Union must and shall be preserved .
to Stanton s views ’
. I t will be remembered that
as attorney general Nov -
, . 2 0 th , 1 8 60 ,
he g a v e the
President his opinion that he could not c o ns ti tu
General Cass ,
Secretary of State loyal to the ,
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The depart in pea c e polic y had man y s ympa
theti c adherents amon g such men .
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Maj or A nderson s remo val from Fort Moultrie to
Fort Sumter created a c ontest which ra g ed for three
da ys in the Cabinet . Was the demand o f South
Carolina that he be ordered back to M oultrie to be
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which Anderson s movement certainly did . He
prepared a letter to which Black Stanton and Holt , ,
tha t .
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Judg e Holt s tribute to Sta nton reveals what th e
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Stanto n .
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is the co u ntry s onl y c han c e of salv ation .
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1 2 STANTON T H E PATRIOT ,
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citizen was ,
i n fi exibl y opposed to the evacuation of
Sumter . His letters at this time express grave
doubts of the capacity of the President and his
Cabinet to preserve the Union but still he b elieved ,
Didn t I tell
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fla g
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fired on our . I n less than a week I saw m y
friend one morning drillin g to be read y as captain
of a company to revenge that unpardonable crime .
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Seventy -
five thousand volunteers were imme
d i a tel y called for by the President to fight for the
Union . After the repulse at Bull Run a great army ,
1 6 STANTON THE P ATRIOT ,
unable to walk ,
wa s thrown the task of organizing
and directing the Army . The heads of other
departments under him were mostly superannuated .
O n the 1 3 th of January ,
1 862 , without consulta
tion with Mr Stanton Lincoln nominated him as
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STANTO N ,
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ATRI OT 7
incensed people ,
had to take ac tion to prevent
disaster . Earnestly searchin g for the bes t man to
m eet the emerg enc y and to brin g order out of chaos ,
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Much was said o f Stanton s ru de treatment o f
those having business with him , bu t ,
to j u dg e
whether his impetu osity wa s ex cusabl e one has t o ,
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the devil .
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Move it did but not for some time
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Here was an auger that c ould bore , which Lin
had determined to fi nd .
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m a ug a ,
imperilling Chattanooga ,
the key to th e
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who was sleeping at the Soldiers Home . Startled
by the summons the President mounted his horse
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STANTO N , TH E P ATRI OT 25
conspirators list ’
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opens as
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The military appropriations by the last Con
gress amounted to the sum of
The military estimates for the next fiscal year ,
says Dana ,
that this unprecedente d tr a n s fo r
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Stanton s connection with the subj ect began be
fore Lincoln s death ’
. April 1 4 th , at a Cabinet
meeting he submitted at Mr Lincoln s request a , .
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April 1 1 th ,
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ec t of attack by the President and those o f the
Cabinet who sided with him .
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To protect him from
dismissal Congress passed the Tenure of O ffice bill
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these words
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I n conclusion ,
allow me to say as a friend desir
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meeting of Congress .
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Grant to remain and dispute the Senate s action .
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poor .
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of the man s seemingly superhuman power of
fusing into a whole people the vibrations of hi s own
impassioned soul ,
as is supplied b y an edito rial
written by one by no means pr edisp osed in his favor ,
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Thus passed away ' enyon s most illustrious
alumnus but in the higher sense h e is still with us
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popularity ,
fame or wealth ,
cannot be o v eres ti
mated .