The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-24
GEN. W. s. HANCOCK.

We ind the following in the last issue Of
the New Orleans Picayune, appended to o
discussion Of the characters and political
prospects of the various leaders mentioned
for the democratic candidacy for the presi-
Dental chair:
Tits said that the nomination of man
"having a good war record" would 20 well
| at the east, and everywhere gain votes from
those who recoil from radicalism, but are,
nevertheless, of the triumphant Union par
ty of the war but this is answered by do
claring that such man, if his adhesion to
the war policy was sufficiently open, public
and well defined as to leave no cavl. would
lose as many more of the peace democrats,
and be not at all satisfactory to the south.
We would suggest to these peace demo
Gratis that man who could be satisfactory
to the south ought not to be baked at By
them. IF man can be found who was I'M
questionably part and parcel of the war on
the federal side, who was in it and of il to
the last, who gathered its brightest and most
uufading laurels, and stood at the close of it
In the front rank of its military leaders, and
yet has so much the respect and confidence
of the southern people that they believe he
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ting, just, generous, law-abiding and consti-
ion-respecting civil ruler, that he has the
intellectual capacity and clear appreciation
of the duties and principles of craftsmanship
which qnaiify him for the presidency, would
it not be presumptuous for the peace demo-
Gratis Of the north to refuse to accept him
The south has found such man in Gen.
Winfield s. Hancock, and we of Louisiana
20 ofh I
unreserVedly now that be has been removed
from command over us, than if, being yet
here, it might be thought that we were irving
to obtain his favor, or thus sought to depre-
cate his displeasure. He has now no power
to interfere in any manner with our affairs,
nor Is he likely ever again to be placed over
US unless by an election to the presidency :.
and we can speak of him without the least
suspicion of our having aught at heart ex-i
cept the general good.
As q general thing it is not wen to remove
man from the army into the presloen.s
lint this il hecanse his habits and the teno-
ancv ~ his mind would lead him to govern
rn;l;tar;fv and despoticaily, and to oisregaro
tbo ,,r;nc;r,les of constitutional law ana the
~ I;,,,s Of civil government. zen. Han
nnaL has shown, with precision of Ian
s.,aoe and a clearness of utterance which
few civilians have rivaled, that this would
not be the case were he chosen. And we
here give our northern friends the assurance
that no counsellor or amanuensis furnished
him either with ideas or style for those
matchless orders of his which averred that
we had not yet lost our heritage Of a civil
government.
In such q man as this the south can and
does place its confidence even the more than
if he had not fought bravely and with distin.
guished skill against it in the late civil war
He was a soldier BY profession, and q ma
tive of the section on whose side he fought
He has shown equal civil with his greet mil
itary capacity, and the south has had an op-
portunity to try him.
If our northern friends End it difficult =to
choose candidate in whom both the war
and the peace democrats might have conf
dence, let them choose the man who has
proved to be the best friend the south has
had since the war ended, and whose brilliant
career as soldier should gain for him every
northern vote which is not sworn away 70
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