The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-07-19

express are concerned, might have come
from the pen of Thomas jefferson. Efforts
have sometimes been made to produce the
impression that they really did come from
the pen Of jeremiah s. Black. We have
good reason for believing this is not true.
But even if it were, it would detract little or
nothing from the merit Of Gen. Hancock,
for if the sentiments did not originate with .
him he is entitled to the credit Of having .
adopted them. We're not most of Washing |
toms state papers substantially composed /.
by Hamilton? And has that circumstance
dimmed in the least the lustre of Washing
wrote his own public communications, be-
cause we have seen private letters in his
own hand quite as strongly expressing the
same views. Gen. Hancock may, there
fore, be properly set down as a statesman of
the sound JelIesonian school. Asa soldier
and a citizen Gen. Hancock is without re-
proach. He Is said to be personally popular
with the many thousands who have served
under him. II is not unlikely that before
the nomination he will be a good deal more
talked about than he is at present
1t is now reported that Gen. Grant will
not return home till after the Republican
nomination for the Presidency. If Gen.
Grant would also decide that he would not
be a candidate under any consideration, he
would show himself to be a wise man.
"A member of the Pennsylvania Lcgisla-
ture who didn't get his copies ofthe Legisla-
tire Record as be expected, made an nvesti-
CATION, an found several thousand pounds
of chat exciting literature belonging to him
in Harrisburg junk shop. 1t had been
sent there by some thrifty employees around
/ the House whose duty it was TO mail the
| paper to the members, but who seemed to
/ know a more profitable way to dispose OF it.
/ Thousands of copies belonging to other
members were also found u this place, but
the other members hadn't missed them. Of
course if the Legislature should ever con-
! clude to interfere with the, publication OF
this remarkable paper, it would wind up the
business of the Harrisburg junk shops
Philadelphia Times.
General Buffers position out of office
and out of party, does not sweeten his dispo-
siton, as is shown by the following letter
which he wrote on the sixth of this month
to a lawyer in Cincinnati "You ask me IL
your note if know of position for a one,
legged soldier. answer do not. Nearly
two years ago asked a position of Presiden
Hayes for a crippled solderin my neighbor
hood, backed by all his neighbors Mr.
Hayes refused it, and gave the position to Q
man who stayed at home during the war, a
the request of Mr.. Hoar, Senator from ouI
state, who stayed at home, too. Since tina
time l have asked of Mr.. Hayes nothing
The law is imperative that he should prele
in all official appointments the manned vet
Grams of the war, but that law is not obeyed
| got an act through the House when | wa
in Congress making penalty of fine anc
Imprisonment for not obeying it, but it iaileC
in the Senate. The people of the Confeder
ate states do better. They give all thei
= prominent Offices to their crippled and othe
! Confederate soldiers. 1t seems to be tn
misfortune of your friend that he fought oil
the wrong side to get any recognition o
his services. l am grieved, therefore, tina
| am not able to do anything for him."
, Bishop Haven, in a talk with reporte
r Of the Boston Trarclcr last week about hi
{ recent observations in the South, said "
1 have no idea that the negro exodus is goin
to be universal. The negro population i
one that leaves It's homes unwllingly. n
doubt good many people will leave, an,
they will not go 10 Kansas exclusively.
5 had letter recently from a presiding elder
p in which he wants New Mexico to be appro
. priated to them. My advice to them is t
scatter through all the North from New Eng
I, land to the Pacific; to scatter among th
p people. have advised good many ofther
/ in this way privately, to go wherever the
5 could get labor. think the farms and plan
l. tations will gradually go to the colored me
= under the necessities of the bankruptcy an
poverty of their present holders. know {
four colored men-one in South Carolin,
= one in Texas, one in North Carolina, one j
= Georgia-that now own farms of from fou
s hundred to six hundred acres in eXten
These are examples of eases which are grow
= ing more frequent year by year. | thin
d the race is going to settle there finally"
? DR. Preetorius, of the st. Louis Hes
S liche Post, with which Secretary schurz va
formerly connected, iavors the nominatio
of Secretary Sherman for President an
= earnestly opposes the Grant movement