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[CIVIL WAR]. STANTON, Edwin M. Secretary of War in Lincoln cabinet (1814-1869). Letter signed ("Edwin M. Stanton"), as Attorney General in Buchanan's cabinet, and by three others, to W. D. Morgan, 16 July 1860. 1 page, 4to.
STANTON CELEBRATES A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY ON THE INDEPENDENT TREASURY BILL. Stanton and W. Cable, James Means, and Adam J. Leslie write to the editor of the Newark [Ohio] Advocate: "We send herewith a notice of the celebration of the passage of the Independent Treasury Bill to be held in this place on the 29th inst. Will you have the goodness to insert it in your paper to urge upon your fellow Democrats the propriety of a general attendance on that occassion." The Advocate was a consistent supporter of Democratic Party candidates. Stanton, a hard-money, anti-slavery Democrat, served as Buchanan's Attorney General in the closing weeks of the administration. Here he rejoices in the renewal of the anti-inflationary Independent Treasury system (a precursor of the Federal Reserve bank). However, his strong anti-slavery and pro-Union views pushed him further from the Democrats. Staying on in Washington after the Inauguration, Stanton served as legal advisor to the new Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, and when Lincoln fired Cameron in early 1862, Stanton assumed that post. When it came time to choose between Lincoln and McClellan in 1864, Stanton had no compunction in parting from his Democratic friends and rejecting the ineffective and insubordinate general in favor of the Repblican President.
STANTON CELEBRATES A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY ON THE INDEPENDENT TREASURY BILL. Stanton and W. Cable, James Means, and Adam J. Leslie write to the editor of the Newark [Ohio] Advocate: "We send herewith a notice of the celebration of the passage of the Independent Treasury Bill to be held in this place on the 29th inst. Will you have the goodness to insert it in your paper to urge upon your fellow Democrats the propriety of a general attendance on that occassion." The Advocate was a consistent supporter of Democratic Party candidates. Stanton, a hard-money, anti-slavery Democrat, served as Buchanan's Attorney General in the closing weeks of the administration. Here he rejoices in the renewal of the anti-inflationary Independent Treasury system (a precursor of the Federal Reserve bank). However, his strong anti-slavery and pro-Union views pushed him further from the Democrats. Staying on in Washington after the Inauguration, Stanton served as legal advisor to the new Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, and when Lincoln fired Cameron in early 1862, Stanton assumed that post. When it came time to choose between Lincoln and McClellan in 1864, Stanton had no compunction in parting from his Democratic friends and rejecting the ineffective and insubordinate general in favor of the Repblican President.