The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-07-22

In January, 1868, General Garfield
made speech in Congress on General
Hancock's course as the military COM
mander of the District Of Louisiana
and Texas. He said:
which he (President Johnson has thrown IN tne way
by Of me power W @ VIII on aude to to one
ample where he has found II Mn6F Geaefa Of he
to obstruct the work of reconstrncton This case is
aeef a e mho ear earned in battle for
the Union lon m has on 5een mgde e party 10 Of m re
dent. This General sent into the district Of Lou
s eomman Tif hm S
sha m
forming his duty and yet we find that officer giving
what ought be the relations the civil and
ff9 9
s heef cE him aega earn a m waE nohng in
Of and Texas to ms H t or On
f9 R@ 's TO say %he6 shond be HIST
taTyh II fhfs daGnsf
which he was sent there to execute 1t is for him
pa IN to be the
@ shng e hm 81 e ne
Hancock, it will be remembered,
found state of peace and loveliness IN
his military district that was sublime
and so perfect that, in the language OF
the Confederate orators, he bowed his
knightly crest before the civil law.
General Reynolds says that during
this time in Texas
'The epulap east of Trinity River is almost S dcGd M
r tts In some o q fe@ e ebeTs @ Of Tie Kfan
Theth KIans) attend in large bodies the political
In S several cdnnties men have been indicated
guPdaP ny from srof
as o render pee s6eee sae
undeTsood have Sb4s Gegsr seaes esi aad
qEie IN Texas win require that troops be stationed at
many county seats"
So. practically the civil law before
which the knightly. crest was meekly
bowed was the law of unrestralned
murder. General George FL. Thomas
at this time found his district-ken-
lucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi i'm a condition SINH
lar to that described by General Rey-
nolds in Texas. Writing September
80 1857, General Thomas says:
@ Of the Respe fo6pg % in e
e that m tae an
anything represeniIng loyalty the Union and s this
5 sB Is wfses ts gtnRs o a2s Eeg
GERS of intelligence and accomplis%hments. % un n
tReir farms soldiers and government
nerformnee r of heT dntes When application
the So & c @ 9G g he Goy
er1menf 40 aetios HF ss would be taFen
At Rome, Ga, General Thomas
says, crowd
made public demonstrations of their patriotism by
Pad by the Of locality
States flag since the cessation Of active de
votion ordered their arrest "a and Ode de
try districts in Tennessee, the condition of affairs
Srb gn ean aRd o n
part Of s & to arrest ae e an
Of disorder and sc@nred oana p the
marSing Their Wet and dealing murders and Tob
berries with profusfon unparaHeted an G4y eaeta1zs
Ga''fS paints to the state authdTitie5, who soa
ing 1ing o eourae ns nsetted State affairs
feat ' nee @ ose OF the have bee
the att the % eapse b rs Of eer6f q Ies
done suered yiolence and wrong When the effort
speees whereby the crime
might be covered with it, y2rPiSh 6 of PATH
in Ri6ns ont With The ther
hands their own stans@a species Of lf-orgiveness
yed hsR i M is 6e asE Of m
country, Of war, and Of fNations-through the magma
from them"
1t will be observed at least that tn
sudden suffering Of General Hancocl
on the subject of the Constitution wa
not shared by General Thomas, VIII
did not think the National armies un
der obligations to surrender in th
moment Of victory to the Confedel
ates, and confess that after all the doc
trine of rebellion was Righteousness
and that of the Nation unconstitr
tional, and to be apologized for at tn
first opportunity.