The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-13

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SarAkt 70 inciminass General Hanoosk
or he psrt be involunEarily bore il he
judicial murder Of their mother. Bus in
every Instance they have failed The
husband Of Miss Ann Surrats e daughter
Of the deceased), Professor TOnry, when
recently approached, said:
THAT The Republican party b rspclaihle E6r
the murder Of An- 6urrafk and We Do nd pro-
pose 10 furnish IL with material q We can by
when il b primarily reapoQslbae foI Tho czime--
And Il b uniaif 10 n and unbccoming IN RspuD-
leans 10 drag this subject into politics with the
view Of injuFing Gen. Hancock. We cannOt, Of
course, be expected 10 pat ourselves In any Gnch
positioa. We do mot propose 10 any anything ~
the present time, IL at all, in relation 20 Gen.
Hancock's connection, in 1855, with the sd event
Of which We are speaking. Whether be did his
duty a We view il, IL simply cur own concesn.
But the Republicans are certainly the last people
who should assail an executive o0icer for the
par< he took In what We consider judicial muir
der No party ought to think OF making cap'fAl
"Then understand that both you and your
wife repudiate the recently published interviews
and statements. both for and against Gen. Han
cock :"
aYes, sir; both Mrs Tonry and myself have re
fused 10 say anything upon either side Of the
question for publication, holding that IL e purely
personal matter, entirely outside of politics"
WHAT THE CATHOLICS THINK OF IT.
The Boston Pilot, q Catholic journal
speaks thus of the execution of Mrs. Sur
raft:
There is one point in the career of Gen. Han
cock on which il may seem proper that the PiIOt
should say special word albeit il Is TO refute ~
false and silly charge as ever emanated from
the brain Of the widest scribbler in all Bohemia
1t il the assertion that Gen. Hancock has lost
favor among the Catholic part Of our population
BY his connection with the execution Of Mrs
Surratt and this sapient opinion II based upon
the fact that Mrs. Surratt was q member of the
Catholic Church.
In the first place, it is proper to say that Gen
Hancock's connection with the affair was solely
that of an officer obeying his orders. Had we
or any other Catholic in the world, been in Gen
Hancocks place our duty would have been to dc
az he did, whether the condemned woman were
Catholic or Protestant heather or inf1del. A
Catholic knows no distinction of creed in the
performance OF his duty; he quarrels with nc
man for the execution Of his duty; he has nc
| more sympathy for man or woman put 10 death
justly or unjustly because the victim is Catholic
than if he or she were Of any other religion, OF
| no religion.
| Herein the Plot, though no organ, believes il
| voices the opinion of common sense and true re-
ligion. Catholics, of course, laugh at the idea
that they should bear ill-wil on religious ground
| to any one connected however closely, with the
execution of Catholic woman but there are q
| great many fools in this world, and very com
mon specimen is the man who suppOses other
people to be influenced by ideas and ties which
would have no weight at all with himself in a
similar case. While we have very little respect
for any man who carries his religion into his
| politics, we should have nothing but contempt
for the one who carried both into the sacred hall:
| of iustice and law