Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-06-25

s. One currency tor all, and equal and common
taxation upon all, must be affirmed as Democratic
principles opposition TO- privileged classes which
receive fayors and aids from the government moi
given to the masses follows logically, from the q.
doption of this principle.
4. The public debt is to be paid as soon as pos
sible, without too great an imitation of the currency
in order to- save an annual drain of $3.50, ,00O 600
year, now paid in the shape of interest upon thu
principal Of said debt. e.
5~A national debt is: national curse, and effort.
must be directed for its speedy liquidation" -.
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock.
THE connection of Gen. Hancock 8 name will
the Democratic nomination for the Presidency
and the liberal and statesmanlike manner which HI
has discharged the delicate and responsible dutie:
of Commander of the fourth Military District, ha!
brought him quite prominently before the South
ern people. In this connection, the following par
agraphs from an exchange, will be read with in
terest: ..''.'.'. - .--.
General Hancock was born in Montgomer,
County, Pennsylvania, February Oath, 1924. Ht
is, therefore, in his fortyfth year. and in the full
prime of his mental and physical powers -,
In this age of Democratic ideas it is usually re
garded of small consequence to trace the ancestry
of distinguished man. His own deeds and prin
ciples are his passports but it is very agreeable il
this instance to know that Gen. Hancock spring.
from most excellent Revolutionary blood, his, pa
ternal and maternal grandfathers both having beer
officers in the war for American Independence
and one of them having lain in an English prison
during great part of that protracted struggle.
Their descendant has amply shown that he inner
its the love OF liberty with which they were anima
ted. n,..g ...:....:.. d T. -.r..
We will briefly trace General Hancock 8, career
up to the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861
when he comes quickly to the front rank Of com
In 1910 he entered the Military Academy al
West Point and graduated in als44, being there
upon appointed Second Lieutenant in the 9Th
Infantry. He accompanied his regiment, few
years after, to Mexico, and at the battle Of Churu
busco was promoted to the rank Of First Eienten
ant for t'gafant and meritorious: conduct" He
served during the entire war, and was engaged IN
the battles Of Molinodel-R -Rey aud the City Of Mex
leo as the, ,Adjutant of his battalion. ali j., .y..
From the close Of the Mexican war until 1861,
he served, with various promotions, in the Quar-
termaster's Department, and the late civil wal
found him on duty in California. From there he
reported in August to the Quartermaster-Genera
to duty as Chief Quarternaster of the Army of Ken
lucky. On the 23d day of September, however
he was appointed q Bngadier- General of Volun'
teers, and assigned to the command of the first
brigade ofSmith's Division Of the Army Of the
Potomac, his brigade consisting Of the 5th Wis
consin, 9Th Maine, 49th Pennsylvania, and 43d
New York Volunteers, -
Here commenced that career which has made
the name of Winfield S. Hancock, imperishable in
American history. Whether commanding brig.
AIDES, divisions, corps, or an army, at times mum.
beripg from forty to sixty thousand men in battle
his ability was always consummate, and his per:
sonal bearing and intrepidity of that exalted and
chivalrous type which always led his men in the
time of danger, and made him their idol While
other officers were conspicuous in their success in
shedding the blood of their troops, General Han
cock mingled his own with that of his devoted fol
lowers. He commanded infront rather than in the
rear, and never ordered his men to encounter q
peril which he did not share.
General Hancock could easily have attained the
command ofthe Army of the Potomac at any time
after Mcclellan was removed, by pandering to, the
politics in Washington, which always hung like q
cloud over that long suffering army. He did moi
do 80, however, and he was not petted fayorite
of the authorities; and all he obtained in the way
of promotion and honors was won by the hardest
fighting and the most unremitted attention to his
duties. By this course, however, his name be.
came synonym throughout the country for al
that was brave and daring in action, and wise and
safe in council. Thus it was that the thanks oi
Congress, and finally, his present high position,
were conceded to him, and not from any Of the
arts of complying politician !" :, 81 -; -., ~