American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-07-17

EngllSn must De pronounced the most
available that it was in the power of the
Cincinnati Convention to make. In the
first place, it will command the sup
port of the whole Democratic party.
There is not to-day anywhere within
the ranks of that organization the least
division of sentiment, or dissension
growing out of conflict of interest.
When Mr.. Randall took the platform.
amid the cheering of the Convention,
TO second the motion to make the nOm-
inatiOn of General Hancock unanimous,
he gave by that act a guarantee to the
party that the Wallace and Randall
wings of the Pennsylvania Democracy
should thereafter move in harmony,
uniting the best efforts of both to secure
the Electoral vote OF their State for its
most distinguished citizen. 1t is now
probable that General Hancock will
carry Pennsylvania. But the reconcil-
iation of Tammany and Irving Hall,
through the persons of Mr.. Kelly and
Mr.. Fellows, is even more significant
and cheering. New YORK is now as
sure TO cast her thirty-ive Electoral
votes for the Cincinnati nominees as is
either Kentucky or Missouri. Mr.. Til
den, Senator Bayard, Judge Thurman,
Judge Field and other eminent Demo
Gratis whose names were considered by
the Convention, will strive with gener-
GUS rivalry to surpass each other in
strengthening the hands of the man to
whom have been confided the standard
of their common party. General Han
cocks public life has been apart from
theirs. and the reasons for his nsmina-
ton do not reflect in the slightest de-
gree upon the claims of any one of
them.
The important State of Indiana has
not been overlooked. Her value to the
Democratic party has been recognized
in the nomination of one of her favorite
sons to the Vice-Presidency, and her
people must be proud of their ability to
furnish q name worthy to be coupled
with that of Hancock. and which will,
at the same time, add strength to the
ticket. Mr.. Hendricks being unwilling
to take the second place, Mr.. English
WIS. all things considered, the most
available candidate for the position in
the whole list of possible nominees.
The fact that the f :toral vote of
New York and Indiana added to that of
the Southern States would suffice to
elect the Democratic nominees seemed
to render it advisable that the ticket
should be made up from those States;
but complications which could not be
obviated made it inexped:ent to look to
New York for q name for the first
place. The nomination OF General
Hancock, reuniting the divided Democ-
racy of that State, relieves the embar-
raised situation there, while it increases
the chances for success in all the North
ern States. The ticket has been gwen
to Pennsylvania and Indiana under
more auspiciOus circumstances than it
could have been given to New York
and Indiana.
The soldier vote in the North is an
immense element of strength, and Cen
eral Hancock is military hero, beloved
above all men by the thousands with
whom in old days he shared the for
tunes of war and the perils of battle.
A Union soldier, with a record so unim-
peachable, SO exceptionally brilliant, at
the head of its column, the Democracy
gives the country the best possible as
tuity of the Federal compact. OF the
man himself there is no need to add a
single eulogistic phrase. His fame is
and in this country his
name is household word. 1t was our
lot to know him in evil days. He came
to us clothed with absolute, dictatorial
powers. We had been conquered, and
there remained to us no alternative but
submission. He wac inn
surrounded by parasites and
and all the species OF that
low order of human nature which
shrives upon the misfortunes of men
md Nations. He was petitioned to
suppress the courts. annul the laws,
Jake away the right of trial by jury, divest
he people OF their property for the bene-
it of corporations, and to imprison and
punish by military commission. But
General Hancock was as continent in
peace as he had been courageous in
war. He was literally First in peace"
He announced the grand principle that:
' Free institutions, while they are es-
,ential to the prosperity and happiness
If the people, always furnish the strong
,st inducements to peace and order"
That was the whole philosophy of a
wise, just and practicable reconstruc-
ion expressed in one pithy sentence.
It had been better for black men and
white men, better for the Republican
party, and better for the whole country
lad the weighty meaning of that SEN
ence been better understood. Its con-
,eption placed him just fifteen years
head of the Republican party's most
agacious leaders. He is, therefore, in
he highest and deepest sense states
nan; though he has never moved in
he dark and treacherous ways of what
$ called practical politics." He has
hown his love of liberty even in the land
# the conquered, and his reverence
or law while clothed with the arbi-
rary power of military dictator. We
nav be sure that he will never attempt
o overthrow those free institutions
which he was so careful to upraise
where they had been temporarily SUBJ
'erted. His name was historical in
ther generations, and he has worn it
His ancestors were heroes
nd statesmen in the early DAYS of the
republic, and he has all the traits
which made them illustrious among
heir peers. In this great crisis of its
istory he is q tower of strength to the
He will be elected, and
o man will venture to dispute his
tile. His nomination is not threat to
ne revolutionary spirit of the Republi-
an party; it is a compliment to the
alignment of the country.-M o. Pcd-
Une.
- The EUening Post in considering
he "grand nomination" at Chicago
vaves aside the uncomfortable facts that
ne q" grand nominee, after taking stock
l the Credit Mobilier from the late
lakes Ames. denied that he had ever
,ken it, and that the "grand nomi-
ee" took So, 900 rs counselfee for argu-
To- a claim which was to come before
is committee. The Post deprecates
ersonalities and calls for a heightened
anvass. "Yes, I'll fight you if you
ont hit this black eye got last week"