Mr.McCulloch was a devoted Whig, and was so loyal to the Union that during the war he could do nothing else than give his influence to the Republican party.

But he was hostile to the creed of the Abolitionist, was conservative in all his modes of thought, and wished the Union restored quite regardless of the fate of the negro.
He believed that unwise discussion of the slavery question had brought our troubles upon us, and that it would be inexcusable to continue an agitation which portended trouble in another form.

The policy which he desired to see adopted was that which should restore the Rebel States to their old relations with the Union upon the freest possible conditions and within the shortest possible time.
Mr.Stanton, though originally a pro-slavery Democrat, had by the progress of the war been converted to the creed of the most radical wing of the Republican party.

The aggressive movement, the denunciatory declarations made by Mr.Johnson against the "rebels" and "traitors" of the South, immediately after his accession to the Presidency, were heartily re-echoed by Mr.Stanton, who looked forward with entire satisfaction to the vigorous policy so vigorously proclaimed.

Mr.Stanton's tendency in this direction had been strengthened by the intolerance and hatred of his old Democratic friends,--of whom Judge Black was a type,--who lost no opportunity to denounce him as a renegade to his party, as one who had been induced by place to forswear his old creed of State rights.