Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-30
..THE" ACCUSATION.

The Examiner of last Saturday passes a
few remarks upon the only charge thus
far made, as follows:
The Chicago Journal is a Republican
paper. Also is the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser. Each advises the Re-
publicans to refrain from accusing General
Hancock of completely with the murder
of Mrs. Surratt, which was, as all the
world knows, the work Of the self-mur-
derers Secretary Of War Stanton and that
other leading Republican, ex Senator
Preston King, of New York, together
with the Military Court of conspicuous
Republicans, who condemned that un-
fortunate and innocent lady to an igno-
minious death at the instance Of the fend-
ish Stanton. The Commercial Advertiser
declares that the orator who expects to
win votes on the argument that Hancock
ordered the death of Mrs. Surratt, will
lose votes. and the Chicago Journal says:
''The attempt to connect Hancock with
the Surratt affair, in any other way than
as an officer executing orders, is not likely
to prove successful. The report that
Hancock was mathematical by the Pope
ON account of this affair is not true, be-
cause Hancock is not a Catholic. The
officer to whom the anathema was directed
was Hardie, Of Hancock's staff, who was
ON of 4ha ,,nlar nHnaro aprnaata1 vr,th
the execution of Mrs. Surratt; and Father
Walter, of Washington, in whose parish
Mrs. Surratt lived, who took such active
interest in her behalf as a representative
of the Catholic Church, something more
than a year ago, prepared a card, at the
instance of Hancock's friends, relieving
Hancock from any responsibility in the
matter, except as a soldier obeying
orders"
1t should be remembered that the in
human wretch who personally superin-
tended the hanging of Mrs. Surratt was
the Republican leader Hartranft, whom
the Republicans have since twice elected
Governor of Pennsylvania, and who is
now, by appointment of Hayes, a promi-
nent Federal officer in Philadelphia. He
managed the scene upon the scaffold so
as to cause the condemned innocent lady
the utmost torture of mind and body, by
delays and devilish arts to agonize her
soul. And it is also remembered that the
Military Commission of Republican Cen
erals who sat at the mock trial to convict
and condemn and sentence the poor VIC
tim to death, at the instance of the mon
ster Stanton, had her limbs heavily man
acled every day as she was held in Court.
to add to the wretchedness Of her situa-
ton. and to %aggravate the terrible suffer-
ings to which her p~itiless prosecutors sub
jected her. Night and day, without rest
or relief, Mrs. Surratt was tortured by
her Republican keepers, under the arbi-
trary orders of Stanton, in her dark dun
geon cell, without mercy or compassion
from any of them. General Hancock, as
the commanding officer of the Depart
ment, tried his utmost to ameliorate her
condition, and to have her life spared
but the Internal bloodhounds who painted
for her death, egged on by every Repub-
hcan organ in the whole North, were re-
solved on her murder. Here in San
Francisco the Republican organ, the Flag,
daily clamored for her blood, and de-
Tended her murder after it was perpe-
trated. 1t stigmatized the pure and in
nocent lady, as ''Old Mother Damnable,
and applied to her good name the vilest
epithets in the language which dare be
put in print. The Republicans of San
Fra~Dei-e~snd ~ia approved the
famous de-
I the un-
nd for
them now~ sral
Hancock for al
der, is atrocious. 1t
the monster who butchered
aad mother, and then prayed the Court
for mercy upon a poor orphan. Upon
the souls of the Republicans, as a party,
rests the responsibility Of the murder of
Mrs. surratt, and they cannot shirk or
evade it. General Hancock is clear of
it. The hands of his present accusers
are red with the crime they UNANIMOUSLY
charge upon him.