The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-29

OF his ambition was full that the cir
Gle of official positions--from alder
man of his native village to Presi
dent-had fully satiated his desir
for political honor and prefermeut
The country has had narrow es
cape from a worse affiiction thar
Egyption lice by his defeat, by thu
meager margin of four votes. 1t il
not to be hoped that this defeat viii
abste his thirst for place, nor lesser
his assumption of popularity. We
are simply spared his infection 81
this time. johnson himself still re
mains. Meantime Congress should
ct once, on re-assemblirg, pass s
vote of thanks to the Legislature oi
Tennessee for this, that they have
refused to send this political Esau
and eyesore into our national coun-
ellis.
Hon HENRY CooPER, Senator elect
from Tennessee, was born near
Columbla. in Msury county, Tenn.
is about 45 years of age, and is one
of large number of brothers, sons
of q successful merchant at that
place. He was educated at jackson
College, in Columbia, studied Law
there, and, upon obtaining his
license, practiced his profession sue
cessfully at Shelbyville, in Bedford
county. In politics he was always
an Old Line Wing, and upon the
breaking out Of the Rebellion, both
he and his brother, Edmund Cooper,
took sides for the Union. An elder
brother, William T. Cooper, was
chosen Supreme Judge in what
was known as the Rebel Supreme
Court, but upon the capture of Nash
vile by Gen. Buell., he left for Eu-
rope, where he remained during the
Rebellion. Gov. Brownlow appoint
ed Henry Cooper one of the Circuit
Judges Of the State. which position
he filled with credit until 1867, when
he resigned and accepted the chair
of Law Professor in the Lebanon
Law School. Subsequently remov-
ing to Nashville, he was elected Sen.
ator to represent that District in the
Legislature over W. L. Stone, the
Stokes nominee, and then beat An
drew johnson for the United States
Senate. Judge Cooper was violent
opponent of the restrictive franchise
measures passed by the Legislatures
of 1865, 1866, and 1867, and, in com
mon with his brother, Edmund
Cooper, was known as a Conservative
Unionist. Duncan Cooper, one of
the Cooper brothers, was q noted
partisan leader of the Rebellion, and
enjoyed almost as much notoriety in
Tennessee as Mosby did in Virginia.
Judge Cooper is considered an able
lawyer, is a gentleman of high
culture, and possess eminent social
qualities. Il
GEN. FRANK SIGEL worthily heads
the Republican ticket of New York
ia the election 10 be held the ID of Z
next month. Those acquainted with
our country's history for the past
.Igh years need 30 introduction to
Z, ~aA Slgel Hetaiks with the same G
ivsce aud energy that he fought, and t
iu Tie sd De cause.-The political rights
o. All mankind. In a speech at Al
Il y, " lays since, he said: {
" ueu you find mau-no matter
VIA, lace he sprang from, or what
iant gave him birtn-who says he
wlii never iOrsake tie old flag, and q
The Institutions OF the land OF the
iIee, INA, man is your friend, and a v
true American, whether he comes Fl
from Europe, or was born on this
cuutinent. This is the true Demo I
CT Ia,ic idea by which the Govern
ment will in future be ruled. The c
true American citizen will not bear ;p
the character of a Yankee, or al
Frenchman, or an Irishman, or q Ii
German; but will unite the power of,
the American, the energy of the c
French, the activity of the Celt, and,
the steadiness of the Teuton. The Ii
party that adopts these ideas, whether
or Democratic, was his
party. Another vital principle was q
personifed by the party of progress
in the Freedmen's Bureau. There e
was a great prejudice against the q
negro. He was p or and friendiess.
the States nor the people S
would help him. The Government
came to the aid of the down -trodden S
race, and created the Freedman's
Bureau. What is more necessary to
q degraded race than schools and
education--the greatest blessings OF :
q free country. The Government d
supplied these to the ignorant blacks.
How docs it happen that Democrats 3
turn against this institution 2 Read
the reports 5000 schools, 10000 z
SOC, 900 scholars. 1t does
not cost the Government $3.50, 900, c
while the negro pays back in increas-
ed intelligence, and enlarged modes n
of industry, and additional resources,
$3.50 600, 900. 1 would ask the To- E
boring man if he can disappreve
such a measure, and ii he does, how a
can he ask the Government to helpl
,im obtain his own rights9 s