The Portland daily press., 1867-12-11
DAILY PRESS.
AND.
Wednesday Morning, December II, 1857.

PORTLAND.

hAamCOCk 1t new Oflc0ma.
Military governors in Louisiana have near
ly all attracted to themselves large share of
public attention, from the time when Ben
jamin the First stamped out the secession
dame, checked the morbid salivary flow of
hlgh-born danes and hung the man that tore
down the flag, till Philip, ycleped "of Orle-
ans" came to clear the Union track of obsta-
cles and reconstruct the STATE. Butler.
Shepley, Banks, Sheridan, Griffin and Now
er all did good service, and enforced the laws
as they understood them; all We're measure
bly, popular with the loyal men OF Louisi-
ana, and correspondingly unpopular with the
Rebels. Like the governors that Buchanan
used to send to Kansas, they ultimately found
themselves led to cooperate with the friends
OF freedom and justice, and to turn their
backs upon the old slave oligarchy, whatever
may have been their sentiments at the be-
ginning of their respective administrations
II Gen. Hancock had not had some per-
sonal end in view, Or if he had even DELAYED
his reactionary measures until he had become
more thoroughly conversant with the true
spirit that still animates the Louisiana Con-
sefvatiyes, we believe he would have walked
in the ways of his predecessors, aud allied
himself with Union men. But going to his
government, az 1t is said he did, fresh from
consultation with designing politicians, who
have "put him in training for the Presi-
dency," and making it his first aim to con-
ciliate the Democracy OF the North, it is not
surprising that we find his first administra-
tive acts nicely calculated to conciliate their
allies at the South. So we find him undoing
all that Mower had done--reinstating Rebel
officers, throwing open the door OF the
jury-room to Rebel citizens and sending
Gen. Mower peremptorily about his business.
The result is instantaneous; whether these
acts shall be found to be what they seem or
not, the disloyal press at once begins, to be-
stow upon him adulation to which his prede-
cessors were all unused the Democratic poll
ticians take note at once that there is now a
man at New Orleans who has strong Rebel
endorsement; this is something which by its
novelty proves imm, nsey attractive, and by
common consent they agree that Eve must
have him up for President directly" To the
Haskins aud Hickmans and Blairs put in
nomination the man who charged so well at
Spcttsylyania and at Gettysburg, not because
he did cha ge well ON those fields, but be-
cause they think him false to the principles
which in those years be so admirably entorc-
ed. We are not yet fully convinced that
Hancock will tarnish his fame by sacr .ficins
principle for SO poor prize as nomination
for the Presidency; and if he should persist
in doing 80, the same great chiefunder whose
direction some ofhis most brilliant exploits
were performed, will as surely conquer in the
battle Tor the White House as in the contest
for the possession of Petersburg, There is
only one thing in Hancock's proceedings thus
far thatmay not be satisfactorily explained
1t may prove that Mowers removals and ap-
pointments were injudicious, and that the
practical operation of his jury order was un-
favorable to the administration of justice
But the really serious matter in the new Gov
ernors case is the manner In which he en-
phasizes the claims of the civil government of
Louisiana in the order issued upon assuming
command. That government has been de-
clared Illegal by the national legislature, and
by declaring, in effect. that its authority is
paramount Gen Hancock seems to mark out
for himself general line of conduct that
will be likely to recommend him to but
small portion of his countrymen.