Edwin Stanton

[maharba]

I'm still trying to sort out Edward Stanton. Didn't he continue to correspond back and forth with Lincoln's predecessor James Buchanan --and ridiculing Lincoln to him, almost somehow as if Stanton expected, what, Lincoln to be impeached or removed, and maybe Buchanan again take the presidency? The experts I see heap credit on Stanton for 'removing confederate sympathizers' from the War Dept, but it almost seems to me that the biggest of the lot were Stanton and President Buchanan. I think if I were Lincoln (the railsplitter, wrestler, etc), I would have confronted Ed Stanton and said "What's this you been saying about me: gorilla, ape, giraffe?" And then taken him by the ear and tossed him out into the street.