The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-07


socisted with General GrindIsy are numer-
GUS veterans OF the Fifth Army Corps, who
served with GrindIay during the war"
GENERAL HANCOCK AND RECONSTRUCTION,
No man in any party dares. in the face of
history and of universal public sentiment,
to utter a word dIsparaging the military
record of .nersl Hancock the Democratic
candidate for President. The verdict rem
dered by Zen OF all parties high and low.
rich and poor, learned and unlearned, SOL
der and civilian, Union and Confederate,
native anc foreign born, has been rendered.
That General. Hancock was through all the
fiery ordeals OF war, brave soldier, sa-
gacious, heroic commander, has passed into
history and is secure. That record Is beyond
and above the polluting breath of slsnder
Partisan hate not reach 1t But
grand and inspiring ss General Hancock's
military record Is admitted to be, be has
made still more iIlustrIous record. When
the clangor OF arms had ceased and the great
work of reconstructing the Union had
begun, General Hancock sheathed his sword,
and recognizing the msjesty OF the Constitu-
ton and the civil authorities, sought by
every means known to American statesman
ship to rebuild the Union and restore 1t in
all of its pristine glory and beauty. The
country had been tortured to madness and
almost to despair. And it so happened
that General Hancock was in g
position to assert the majesty OF
the law in Difference TO the highest obliga-
tions that the liberties of the people and the
peace of the country ever imposed upon
soldier or citizsn. For this he is denounced
by the Republican press of the country.
The New York Times. one of the blatant
organs of the Empire under Grant, and
whose blind bigotry would even now subj sct
the South to military rule and compel
American citizens everywhere to the intimi-
dations of bsyonets when exercising the
rights of suffrage. says:
The episode in General Hancocks career
which commended him to the favor of the
ex-Rebels, and which has made him their can
didate for the Presidency, is that in which he
figured at New Orleans in the winter OF 1865
as an impediment to the execution of the re-
construction acts. 1t is the one thing In his
military record-the only record he has
which is utterly discreditsble to him. and yet
upon 1t is based the ridiculous pretensions to
craftsmanship which are set up for him.
The record made by General Hancock
while in command at New Orleans, is char
acterized as utterly discreditable to him."
Upon such sn issue, the Democratic party is
ready to fight the battles of the campaign
General Hancock recognized the fact that
the war was over-a fact that the Republican
party does not yet admit. To reconstruct
the Union by military power vas what
he knew, and what every other man
not filed with implacable and consuming
hates knew, was impossible. To reduce the
Southern people to condition of slavery
more abject and forlorn than that OF the |
helots OF Sparta, was the Republican idea, !
but 1t found no advocate aud no defender in |
General Hancock. Soldier as he was, stand
ing as he did, crowned with all the renown |
that an sdmiring country could bestow, or
that ambition could desire, he was in posi- |
ton to take still another step forward and |
place himself upon plane of statesmanship !
as elevated as that occupied by Washington, |
when the world, filled with his fame, knew
not how to rank him on "glory's psge," and |
proclaimed him more than soldier and Just |
less than sage" To establish the patriotism |
and craftsmanship OF General Hancock, it is
not necessary that volumes should be pub
llshed, any more than it is necessary to fill |
the land with aft iavits to give him rank as
the peer OF the most chivalrous soldier of
this or of any other age. a few grand utter.
ances answers our purpose here. Hancock |
is on record as saying:
The true and the proper use of the military |
power, besides defending the National honor |
against foreign Nations, Is 10 UPHOLD THE |
LAWS AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND TO |
SECURE TO EVERY PERSON RE5IDING
LIBERTY AND PROPERTY.
THE RIGHT OF TRIAL BY Jury, THE
PRESS, THs FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THE |
NATURAL RICH rs OF PERSONS AND |
THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY MUST BE
Power may destroy the forms but not the
principles OF Justice. THESE WILL LIVE IN |
SPITE EVEN OF THE SWORD.
CAN LIBERTY STILL ARE THE LAWFUL |
INHERITANCE OF THIS PEOPLE AND
EVER SHOULD BE.
Armed Instructions or fOrcible resistance to |
the law VIII be instantly re oressed by arms
D0fNG WHAT BELiEvE TO BE HONEST
ARsfrRsRY POWER HAS NO EXIST
Upon such expressions, says the Times, 1
SIS based the ridiculous professions to states
mailship Which are set up for General Han
c0ckr But il will occur to all American
citizens who are not mad and blind with
fsnatical hates that such declarations as
General Hancock has made are the embodi-
ment of American craftsmanship. They are
the pillars Of the Republic, the corner>stones
Of American liberties; and yet the Republic
can party, like blind Samson, would tear
them up and pull them down; or, II prevent
ed from carrying out their fell designs, are
still capable OF loading up their mud bate
ries for the purpose OF insulting the cham
pion OF civil rights and of offering an indig-
nifty to the patriotic sentiments Of the
American people.
FIRST PREMIUM FOR THIS DONKEY.
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