Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-07-29

The News has several times endsav.
ored to trace up the pedigree Of General
Hancock. 1t seeming very probable that
he was o member Of the old Down-East
Hancock family. and. in fact, should DO
able to trace his ~gensalogy back to the
old Yankee codAsh-sater. John Hancock.
But this has been boldly disputed. and
the statement freely published that hs
was descended from another and more
sristocratic Hancock family. not tainted
with plsbeian Yankee blood. Strange to
say, however. not even the most ardent
Democratic editorial worshippsr OF the
..supsrb soldier" In this section has been
able to give his true pedigree, or perhaps
IL they could. they did not care to. But
the fact Is now undisputably established
that Winfield Scott Hancock. the present
Democratic nominee for the Presidency,
this sudden favorits Of the Solid South.
In a lineal descendant Of old John Han
cook, the bold signer OF the Declaration
of Independence. We are now able to
give his foil and correct pedigree. som-
piled from Official Eastern sources and
records. The Boston Posi- condsnses Ii
rs follows. beginning with John Han
cock Of Lexington:
John Hancock was born in 1870. died In
1850, aged so years. He was . minister at
Lexington, Massachusetts,. John Hancock
was born In 1908. died In l74s. aged Al.
He was Q minister OF Braintree. MAssa-
shusstts. and . son OF the preceding. John
Hancock, Ii. D., WAS born In 1887. died
in 1898, aged Sc years. He was the nrst
OF the signsrs Of the Declaration OF Amer
lean Independence. q son Of John Hancock
Of Braintree and the grandson OF John
Hancock OF Lexington. He was . native
Of Quincy. Massachusetts,; graduated ~
Harvard College in 1854; member OF the
House Of Representatives from Boston In
1866; President Of the Provincial Congress
Of Massachusetts, in i774; President Of the
Continental Congress in l775; Governor
of Massachusetts, in 1850 TO 1854, and l7ST
to 1898. Benjamin +. Hancock was . son
OF John Hancock. IL. D.. signer OF tho
Declaration Of American Independence;
was . lawyer at Norristown. Montgomery
county. Pennsylvania. in 1898; was .
member Of the Baptist church and super
intenden. OF the Sunday school. Winfield
Scott and Hilary Hancock. twin brothers,
and sons Of Benjamin +. Hancock. were
born In Montgomery township. Montgom-
cry county. Pennsylvania, in 1874. Hilary
Hancock. twin brother, 10 . lawyer 81
Minneapolis. Minnesota.
There now, here you have 1t In . nut
shell. Winfield Scott Hancock comes
direct from the good old psalm-singins
Down.Esst Yankee stock. and his father
was also q psalm.sinsing Ysnk.
Hail! happy day. The millennium has
come. The naughty Southern ars-sstsI
and the Yankee bsan.eatsr lie down to.
gsthsr In frstsrnal embrace; the persim'
mon Fuckers no more in scrid hate
toward the aggressive bean; the aristo'
cratic F. F. v. eagerly reaches out to
shake hands with Goldfish aristocracy
across the bloody chasm. M the high
toned Southern chivalry clamors loudly
for Q blue-bellied Yank to como and rule
over them. How easily they forget and
forgive. and with what grace do they
now lick tho feet OF the Lincoln hireling
who helped to lick them SO soundly q
few years ago. JEFF. Davis. please say
grace over the grand crow banquet. Rise
Bob Toombs and ''call the roll Of your
slaves at the foot OF Bunker Hill mouu-
msn.." as you used to threaten to do.
Call two rolls il you like. Twang the
banjo and the jswsharp. succotash and
j~ohnny-caks for the Solid South. You
used to brsg that n Southern man
could whip Ave Yankees, yet how one
Yankee whips you all. The 'lost cause
and the ''bloody shirt" are buried to-
gether. The millennium has come.