Edwin Stanton

[maharba]

If any man ceases to attack me I never remember the past against him." >

I'm not sure Ed Stanton ever did cease to attack Abraham Lincoln. He strikes me as a very dangerous lunatic. From digging up folks and keeping them for years in his parlor, to barricading himself in his office after Pres Johnson canned him, and there is so much we do not know of Stanton or Buchanans correspondence. Some scholars claim he had useful value because Stanton was a good hatchet man. I think he was using a twin-bladed hatchet though.