...R. H. Woody 260 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Diary of a Public Man: An Intimate View of the National Ad­ ministration) December 28, i860, to March i$, 1861, and A Page of Political Correspondence, Stanton to Buchanan. Prefatory Notes by F. Lauriston Bullard. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Chicago...

...Susan Levine Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches . Edited by DuBois Ellen Carol . New York : Schocken Books , 1981 . Pp. xv , 272 . $6.95 (paper). 226 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Eugene Drozdowski Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War . By Pratt Fletcher . New York : W. W. Norton & Company , 1953 . Pp. xiii , 520 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 576 The South Atlantic Quarterly Since war is largely a record of blunders...

...William Stanton Anti-Slavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America . By Dumond Dwight Lowell . Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press , 1961 . Pp. X , 422 . $20.00 . A Bibliography of Antislavery in America . By Dumond Dwight Lowell . Ann Arbor : The University...

...Stanton A. Coblentz Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 CAN MANKIND SURVIVE? STANTON A. COBLENTZ SINCE THAT DAY in 1945 when the atomic bomb wrecked the city of Hiroshima, atomic fission has worked an explosive change in world opinion; even restrained and conservative thinkers have...

... President. The im­ pudence of Stanton, Secretary of War, formerly a Democrat, has long been known. The meddling of Seward, the ex-Whig and Secretary of State, in the early months of the administration has been exposed in the history of Mr. Rhodes; but the extent of his political manipulations...

... by appointing Chase to the Supreme Court bench a few months later. When he took the oath of office for the second time, Chase was the justice who administered the oath. But of all the strange characters that ever Lincoln met or tried to tame Edwin M. Stanton was the most unique. None hut a Lincoln ever would...

... the mobilization of the immense forces latent in a free and mechanically minded commonwealth, the provision of unlimited quantities of the very best materiel and the employment of this crushing force without stint or limit. Stanton is considered by Mr. Pratt to have been completely loyal to Lincoln. The two...

... or riddled with cliches than one might suspect from the title. A few photographs, poorly reproduced, suggest something of living conditions at Macedonia. EDMONDS, WASHINGTON CHARLES P. LE WARNE Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches. Edited by Ellen Carol DuBois. New...

..., much of the illustrative material is, and it is presented by one who is obviously familiar with the materials for Confederate history. The footnote citations (buried in the back of the book) are adequate, but a better index and a few maps would have been helpful. Robert h. woody Stanton, Lincoln s...

... in order, they believed, to guard Washington more effectively. Whether or not the charge was simon-pure, the theme of the bold military mind fettered by Lilliputian office-seekers lent itself com­ fortably for variation to newspapermen eager to make copy. A Chicago Times editorial, April 22, had at Stanton...

... reputedly introduced into Eng­ land, likewise omits them from his index; Professor Clark has one ref­ erence to coffee-houses and two to the coffee trade, but makes no mention of tea. W. T. Laprade. 480 The South Atlantic Quarterly EDWIN M. STANTON, ENIGMA Why Was Lincoln Murdered? By Otto Eisenschiml...

... Howard, Jr., formerly with the New York Times and at the time of the forgery city editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, attempted to depress the stock market by putting forth the proclamation calling for a levy of 400,000 men. Only two papers published the document, but when Secretary of War Stanton moved...

.... He paints some unlovely portraits of their leaders: Thad Stevens (even yet a hero in some quarters) was the perfect type of vindictive ugliness ; Stanton, Lincoln s Secretary of War and a Democrat turned Republican, was arrogant and intriguing ; and the two spear­ heads of the Radical movement, Ben...

... , 240 . $18.50 . Louisa May Alcott . Edited by Payne Alma J. . Pp. xix , 87 . $15.00 . Truman Capote: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography . Edited by Stanton Robert J. . Pp. xv , 287 . $19.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 494 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

... toward Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, Cameron, and Stanton resembles that of Adams as reflected in his known writings. Both were definitely on the side of Lincoln and Seward and against Sumner, to whom the preservation of the Union was secondary to the abolition of slavery. Both were fearful that Lincoln...

..., and the thought and grace of the Southland is in much of it. John Banister Tabb, George Herbert Sass, Robert Burns Wilson, Samuel Minturn Peck, William Ham­ ilton Hayne, Frank Stanton, Yates Snowden, Henry Jerome Stockard, Danske Dandridge, Will Hale, Don Marquis, Robert Loveman, Benjamin Sledd, Madison Cawein...

... friends, Willie Stark and Adam Stanton, will not accept nature, evil, and responsibility; they continue to pursue political power and scientific knowledge as the means of re­ covering the utopian state, the West, the lost innocence, the womb, until they are destroyed. The novel opens with an account...

... of the Navy Welles, Secretary of War Stanton, or perhaps General McClellan, he outlined for them in detail proper courses of action. But they would not accept wisdom from so ludi­ crous a prophet. Gurowski s antics reminded Senator Charles Sum­ ner of the whale in Barnum s museum, which angrily circled its...

... ship. I will fight as long as the enemy shows fight, but when he gives up and asks quarter I can go no further. Stanton was very bitter toward Sherman for these liberal terms and tried to discredit him in the popular estimation. Sherman wrote his wife: They (the politicians) are determined to drive...