The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-07-17
DEMOCRATIC INCONSISTENCIES

We can comprehend how eX-rebels
might SO admire Gen. Grants greatness
as Il commander and his generosity as
their conqueror, as to honestly vote for
him for President, without any eXpccta-
ton that he would come around to Con-
federate views of the results of the war
as embodied in the Constitution and the
laws. But this was not possible with
Hancock. All his magnificent slaughter
ing of rebels was condoned by the "Solid
SOUTH because of his facile obedience
to Andrew .Iohnson's policy and his enun-
citation, in Louisiana of the Jolnsonian
doctrines with which Judge Black, Rob
ert J. Walker, and Judge Campbell
"crammed y him, during the thirty days
he spent at Washington before taking
his command and earning the castigaton
he got from Gen. Garfield, on the 18th
of January, 1868, when our next Presi-
dent said, with characteristic prophetic
accuracy:
eve see him issuing general order.
in which he declares that the civil should
not give way before the military. We
hear him declaring that he finds nothing
in the laws of Louisiana and Texas to
warrant his interference in the civil ad-
ministration of those States. 1t is not
for Tim to say which should be first. the
civil OF the military, in the rebel com
munity. 1t is not for linn to search the
defunct laws of Louisiana and Texas for
IA guide to his conduct. 1t is for him to
execute the laws he was sent there to
administer. 1t is for him to aid in build
ing up civil governments, rather than
preparing himself to be the Presidential
candidate of that party which gave him
no sympathy when he was CALAMITY fight
ing the battles of the country"
What Gen. George II. Thomas, who
was not only great commander, but
great man, Indignantly refused to do,
Hancock made haste to do, to get the
Democratic nomination for the Presi-
dency. He failed in 1868. In the twelve
years that have elapsed he has added
nothing to the craftsmanship for
which Johnson's rebel tendencies gave
the inspiration and Judge Black the
brains. The high position lie fairly and
heroically won rs fighter of rebels has
pie, while every year has broadened and
deepened the knowledge and the fame of
the man who was UNNECESSARILY his in
tellectual superior, before the civil war
gave Capt. Hancock, \. Q. NJ, chance
to win glory in the regular line of his
business.
1t is the misfortune of Hancock that
his nomination was due to the :. Solid
South, )" in whipping which into the show
of subsection he earned all the laurels he
can fairly claim as his own, Or which he
probably ever would have claimed had
not the Presidential fever affected his
whole nature, in 1861. His candidacy is
the most illogical of things, and will
turn out the most farcical His main
support in the North must come from
the men who hated him while he was
most "superb" in battle; from the draft
llOtClS WIZ lstuC Vic SIlcctS VI ne"
York city run red with innocent blood,
in order to help the men he was fighting;
from those who have made constant war
on the army and on all military candi-
dates; from Roman Catholics who have
been taught, year after year, by constant
reiterations in Democratic and Roman
Catholic papers, that he was "the muir
derer of Mrs. Surratt."