The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01
IT CONES RIaHr-HANDED!

1T CONES RlaHT.HANDED!
Among the recently pronounced &C.
cessfons to the Hsncock column in the
city of New York, to confine the obeer-
walton to available limits, are those of
Generals Sickles and Rutterfield, both
prominent, influential Republicans and
fighting generals during the war, the
former leaving a leg at Gettysburg the
day before Hancock was wounded and
the latter chief of staff to Gen. Meade,
and, II we are not in error, during the
Same tremendous and decisive struggle
between the bleeding sections. The
causes which have led these men OF
mark to abandon the councils and for
tunes of the party to which they were
attached by the endearing and tender
recoIlectfons of we1I-nigh lifetime at
manhood's prime and in the midst OF
peril spent in its service, are entitled
to more careful study, greater weight
and more minute analysis than we
find time just now to allot to the task,
seductive though it be; and, perhaps, an
elaboration of the causes acting upon
these well-known citizens is not de-
mandel by our readers, since they are
already firmly fixed in their devotion
to General Hancock and Democratic
doctrines. An announcement such as
that just briefly made conveys the in
telligence of two accesions satisfactorily
where, in euphonistic Western phrase
ology, "the woods are full Of them,"
and particularly since ali the changes,
both big and little, are predicated,
without exception, upon distrust OF
Garfield and the bloody shirt in per-
petuity as demoralizer to start with,
and as restorative, Implicit con-
hdence in the character and pledges of
Gen. Hancock and a patriotic, fervent
and profound desire for the restoration
of sectional tranquility and permanent
national peace and prosperity. In fact,
it is a striking and eloquent character
istic of this campaign-the two stand
ing without a parallel-that it is not re-
quired, or even expected that any rea-
son whatever is to be furnished by the
supporters Of Hancock for urging his
election over Garfield, cor any other
man" if we be permitted to use Sc
cond not inapt westernism. 1t comes
right-handed and perfectly natnral-as
natural, we may say, as the action of
the involuntary muscles of the heart
whence, in truth, the sentiment and
purpose spring to ennoble and make
glad the warm-blooded possessor. And
just as the citizen is a Hancock man
| wanting neither reason nor pretext-
absolutely Independent as to criticism
OF standing or motives, a most envia-
BILE and exclusive satisfaction-so, as a
fact, he cannot, with any decency or
attenuated shred of self-respect, aban-
don Hancock, or refuse him support,
for the best reason possible to be dis
covered, which has yet to be done to
have any weight at all.
This, to be sure, is exceptionally high
ground to take, but there is no difficult
ty, on an appeal to the facts, to main
only in the respect just noticed, but
also in the fact, from which the first
issues limpid and invigorating as cool
waters, that the Democratic candidate,
General Hancock, is an exceptional
mau-one like Saul, towering above
his fellows, and mighty as a warrior,
sound as statesman and upright and
magnetic as n leader. Conspicuous in
all that he has done, or undertaken,
solid in conception and brilliant in ex-
ecution, he has stalked into that prom.
inence due the leading figure in the
great movement for national reconcilia-
ion, and on the little island off New
York City, whore, fortified not so much
by guns as by his magnificent bearing,
he commands and receives the conf
dence aud admiration of whole peo-
pie, he, the meanwhile, occupied with
the duties of subaltern in the army,
and in solving, as a subordinate though
trying responsibility, how best to
| serve those who have imposed great
civic burthen upon his shoulders Work
ing, we cannot conjecture how pain