Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-26


Many Of Hancock q, ffiends claim for
him two hundred and eighty votes on the
third ballot. The kindest feeling pre-
walls between him and Pendleton, and
the latter has high admiration Of Gen.
Hancock. as o statesmen. Indeed the
record made In Louisiana has been writ
ten in such golden letters that no one can
mistake the intellectual superiority Of
Hancock. Theletter TO Governor Pease
was written without n suggeaiioa from
any living soul. The manly sentiments
therein expressed have found q respon-
siye echo IL the heart Of every American
who believes in the supremacy Of the
civil over military law. There Is a pecu.
liarity of Gen. Hancock, which gains him
the reputation of being the only lawyer
soldier Of the army. His reasonings are
as cogent rs those Of n practitioner, His
solid mind, backed by o heart full Of
kindness and sym patty for our oppressed
Southern friends, will inaugurate an era
of good feeling. should the Democrats
make him President; and we should have
no autocrat like Grant to subordinate
everything to military law or to the die
tates Of his Radical associates None Of
the inhuman ysndalisms Of the war can
be laid At Hancock's door. Kind and
considerate, his duties were performed
ia what he conceived to be the proper
spirit, preservation of his Government
in the strictly legitimate manner, with
all possible amo!iora.:on OF the horrors
of war. Unquestionably Gen. Hancock
is the most available and least obnoxious
candidate who has been presented.
Always popular with the army, he can
carry off more soldiers votes from Grant
than anybody Always voting the Dem
ocratic ticket, he is unobjectionsbIe to
the masses. Whilst Grant can be sue
cessfully attacked for his want Of states
manship, the unnecessary slaughter of
his men, his total incompetency to COM
prehend civil affairs, and his duplicity
and treachery toward the President;
there is not solitary point which can be
made against Hancock. The real battle--
ground is to be Pennsylvania, With
Hancock ii is. not an extravagant as
sertion to say that the Democratic, mar
iority will roll up TO thirty thousand 1t
Is wiser to underrate ones own strength
than that of his adversary. Though
hoping other results, il is better to claim
aud to 6ght for such States as will sum
up majority Of votes, expending our
force only. on those where reasonable
hopes exist. Now. in locking over the
field, one suggestion presents itself,
which will give use for reflection and
action. If we run electoral tickets in
the Southern States and the negroes beat
us, are we not precluded in law and
honesty from contesting the right oflhe
Radicals to count those States as legiti-
mate? = Upon the other hand, if we
make no tickets therein, every electoral
vote will be cast against us and will be
received by Congress. We, of course,
claim that each State oughtto vote under
its old Consultation. Underline Radical
programme all the Southern States will
participate except Texas. Virginia also
viii be denied vote, if her people vote
down the black constitutions Leaving
out Virginia aud Texas, the electoral
college will sum up 300 votes, requiring
Isl to elect OF these we have as sure
with Hancock: FIX,