The Indiana State sentinel., 1880-07-14

Eshment of Military Comm issions and fh
summary processes of martial law, he at the
same time vindicated his obedience to the acts
o. Congress; his performance OF soidierly duty
and his just appreciation OF the demands of a
pure and wise statesmanship: He was sent TO
preserve social order and the peace OF civil
society while Institutions and people were ad-
1usting themselves to new conditions. He was
,gara Iu1nisned Is With great niiissry power; As
10 use Ii II necessary. he had determined TO
do so. He told the people he would do so. The
He did not pander to Iheir prejudices. He did
not daily with their passions He did not
wink at their disorders. He held aloft before
On its folds he inscribed: "No arbitrary pow
er; habeas corpus; trial by jury free speech (;
rights OF person and rights of property"
and their fathers at Runnymede, and mad been
baptized In the best blood of dead patriots for
800 years. And IN this sign he conquered
conquered their convictions, conquered the ir
prejudices, conquered their actions. conquer
ed their hearts. He pacifed Texas perma-
neutly. He would have pacified Louisiana
termined to ravAge that fair State, and the
hungry harpies,
"With claws for hands, and looks forever
lean,"
swooped down upon it, and defiIed what they
Tell me the statesman who had loftier aims
or surer method.
HANCOCK DEMOCRAT.
Mr.. Jefferson, eighty years ago, defined a
Democrat one who maintains 'equal and
exact Justice to all men; the support OF the
state Cover nments in all their rights; the
preservation OF the General Government in
its whole constitutional vigor; jealous care
OF the right of election by the people; absolute
acQuiescence i'm the decisions OF the majority !;
the supremacy OF the civil over the military
authority; economy in the public expense;
the honest payment OF our debts, and sacred
preservation of the public faith; freedom of
religion freedom of the press; freedom of the
person under the protection of the habeas
corpus, and trial by juries impartially Sc
lecJed."
This is the very portrait of Hancock. He is
the incarnation Of the supremacy OF the
civil over the military authority. He is
the embodiment OF the definitions OF civil
Speaking of the significance of the nomina-
tion, Mr.. Pendleton said:
HIS CANDIDACY MEANS
peace, a true fraternal union, a Government
ana country beneficent alike TO all its peo
pie, and beloved by all alike, cess alton of
fraternaI strife, a cessation OF sectional diff
cultles, cessation OF the era of construction
and reconstruction, attention to the measures
OF administration so as TO perform either by
action or resction, that duty which has always
been so dear to the Democratic party, of exalt-
Ing the individual and redreSSing all the
wrongs which law or lawlessness has inflicted
on him. 1t meass peace at the polls without
the presence OF an army to preserve it; 1t
means a free ballot TO every citizen, white and
colored, native and n naturaliZed, without Mar
shalS to electioneer with MIN, or Supervisors
10 lnIlmludte MIN; III means free elections,
fair counts, peaceful inauguratiOns; Ii means
to reverse the WAYS of the Republican party,
to uncover its corruptions, TO rectify its err
rOrs, and to restore 10 the Government the
simplicity, the honesty, the frugality of the
Farmer Republic which our fathers created.
1t means, in one word, TO garner and to
gather and to com bine the blessing of that
Union which Hancock saved at Gettysburg,
and OF that civil liberty which he established
at New Orleans.
And as his candidacy means the hope of
this blessed change, so his election would Sc
cure its full fruitiOn.
Mr.. Pendleton closed by noticing the favora;
ble prospects OF the canvass. Hancock's can
dldacy has produced peace and union in our
party. It has united the Democracy OF New
York united the Democracy of Pennsylvania;
tnspir1ted the Democracy of Ohio. The Repub-
licans are on the full run. They are in full re-
treat.
Occasionally, one braver than the rest,
pauses that he may hold up the Lattered rem
nants of the bloody shirt, or cry out "traItor,"
or "Ku Klux," or repeat some stale lie about
the Democrats, but IL is only that he may
eaten breath to run the faster. Let push
them at every point. Let assault them
wherever they make a stand. When a volley
OF musketry had checked the ad-
eoeS Saneing cre6 enemy at W%iIiamsDuTg Han 5s
bayonet" Volunteers are daily coming
TO our standard-good men are daily
leaving the Republicans-our candidate and
our cause are in vulnerable. They deserve the
favor of just God. 1 do not forget the in
junction, LET not him that girdeth on his
armor boast himself as he that taketh il off,
but do say that all the indications betoken a
a signal and complete victory.