My letter in reply to Stanton, dated June 10, 1862, was published in the Cincinnati Commercial soon after its date.

To this Lieutenant-Governor Stanton replied, and I further rejoined in a letter dated July 12, 1862.

These letters are too personal to be revived.

By this time the good people of the North had begun to have their eyes opened, and to give us in the field more faith and support.

Stanton was never again elected to any public office, and was commonly spoken of as "the late Mr.
Stanton." He is now dead, and I doubt not in life he often regretted his mistake in attempting to gain popular fame by abusing the army-leaders, then as now an easy and favorite mode of gaining notoriety, if not popularity.