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From the New York San
But if his present physical condi-
ton of healthsshould cause Mr. Til
den to decline nomination. .ands to
prefer the only homer higher than the
presisasaeys the assssszsfslsslltu4neis,s IT.
then We have SO many and 80 worthy
candidates from among whom VIC
might safely agree :. TO- choose bv
throwing their names aAte a hat and
let blind-foaded man pick one put.
Yet, still many and al, good as
they are, We are free to, stste,. that
there is one, who seems to combine
the conditions of popular strength
adapted to the sitaation and she time,
which would make him sure offs iar-
ger majority than any, othery We.
refer to Hancock of Pennsylvania.
Not because he was great and pre-
emiaently glorious general; not be- >
cause he was q true hero-one of
those who win great victories bysin-
fusing into their troops. the magnet
ism of their own heroism and Of their
own personality; not because he se-
lectea the ground, q fought aid" won
hesreallyi decisive battle of the v.r,
Gettysburg; not for his entire bril-
liant record from the beginning to
the end Of the war. Military glory
has but moderate fascination for US.
1t is mainly for the far greater and
Eobler civic glory of his conduct Af-
ter the war, as military commander
Of the Fifth District (Louisiana and
Texas) in 1878, under the Recon
struction Acts: Then and there it
was, that Gen. Hancock proved him
self more than a great general
genuine and able. patriot statesman,
while firm and inflexible in his loyal
ty to duty, and a Democrat faithful
to the principles of Jefferson or a
Jackson. I, His famous yssGeneral
Order No. 4O.' will be. engraved here
after on the pedestal of his statue,
aud his mastery answer to the pub
lie attack of Gov. Peasc of Texas,
and the whole long series Of ohis, re-
plies to all the attempts made upon
him to induce him to swerye from
his policy of the. subordination of the
military to the civil-of force to
right and to law-constituts q recortl
for sarpassing 10 true nobleness and
the best glory all that of his undis-
puted heroism and moral and intel
iectual features, IS a commander in
the field Of tactics and battle. So
long a. he rstained the command Of
that Fifth military District a(froms
November 1867 to March 1861 he
was the incarnate veto Of that whole
base andvile carpet-bag method of
''reeonstruction, "a which, after his
removal, smaturel under Graas into
results SO ruinous and SO disgraceful,
that even Grant himself, at the close
Of his eight years had to abandon
and confess its error. It was irnpos-
sible for the men in power Ct Wash-
ington to allow. Hancock 10 r. stand
"like a stone wall" as an. insur1
mountable barrier in the way Of their
partisan designs. He was virtually
removed and mainly through the SC
ton Of that same Garfield as chair
man of the 9 military committee,
whom the Republicans have nomi-
mated. The first attempt to accom-
plish that object was throug gh q bin
to reduce the number' Of mnjor-gen-
erals, the real object of which WAS to
get rid of the Democrat hero Of Get
tysburg; but they did not dare to
carry it out. But the object was at
tanned in another way by transferring
to. Gen. Grant (not yet presitlent)
the constitutional. authority yofs the
president as commander in chief, of
the army. A series of measures was
then initiated which 90 tended to
humihate. Hancock before his subor-
dinates, that 30 high and noble a
spirited man could not retainEa spesis
,don he had never sought, and be was
compelled to ask to be relieved from
it by compulsion as effectnsi as
though he had been officially renov!
ed. But the memory of his conduct
! is imperishable, and it is no wender
! that the state Of Louisiana formally.
placed him in Nomination for the
presidency In that position, grace
fully proposed By the vaaq0ished
south. he EiA be thesl regensrator / lof
the old time party purity and cpatri-
( otic loftiness OF national polItics, and
,sectionalism will be Is forever dead
as is secession. The very Fact that
while SO Thorough D iDem0erat end so
1 tnasterly q statesman. and one 80
purely in harmony, with the genius of
l cur country, he has been aloof ffom
all the entangleinet1ts Of mere party
politics must certainly fac4htateA the
passage to the support of ssehia man
Of those hundreds Of thousands Of
honest Republican voters, who NOR
ally cannot now vote. for, Garfield,
and also OF those countless old sol.
diers of tbs army Of thsiP Pasouc 'ot
whom more than any otherB man be
4 was the hero. and the Idol And
they Dwell chiefly in the Northcru
! and middle states, several OF Which
are now the only dodbtful oncs. He
, , certainl to carry his o~n, sHenasyl'
vania, New jersey, New York aspf
y Connecticut :, aud probably eyer
D Maine, while every Southern elector
al vote via be- caSt for him With al
enthusissm which no 6tAss kosshsss
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