Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-07-01

ordered The registers 10 Be guided solely
b. their avn interpretation e The laws |
General Hancock. having thus con-
trihufrd everything in his power to
renslrr null and void the reconstrueison |
acts or Congress, and regarding his OF |
p0ri8Bity Ior usefulness in that CON-
mansi Is II N end. feqnested 20 Pc re-
lieved. II tlsis he was graiii5ed On !
March q. 1853. TIE same order asslgn-
inx hin 10 fhs command Of the Militia |
nv Divfsion ol The Aglaniic, with his |
Headquarters al New York.
General Hancock j. The senior major
general of the army, bis commission
daisng from July %. 1866. The COM
mission Of General Scho6rld dates
March 4. 1869, and that OF General |
AIc Dowcll, November %. 1872. or
the six brigsdiers. Generals Ord, An-
CUR and Crook were made such alter |
Hancock became major general.
He was married in So. Louis in 1886 |
10 Miss AImiFa Russell, the daughter Of
4 merchant Of that city. They have
bad amO ch1Idren-a 500 and q daugh-
ter. The latter died in New York Of
typhoid fever when eighteen years OF
age. His son - planter 10 Misslss'P-
Pi.
THs E1HDTDxre ron
DRwr.--WiIIiam n. EngIis6. lhe can6l
date for Vice-PFesident, was born in
Scott county, Indiana, August q, 1922,
in the village OF Lexington. He studied /
law and was admitted 10 practice in the
circuit court al she early age Of eigh-
teen, and 70 the Supreme Court Of the
United States when only twenty-three.
Before he was OF age he served as del
egaie from his native county 10 the
Democratic State convention that nom
mated General TiIghman A. Howard
for Governor, and took the stump in adj
voeating his election. Alter the cleo
ton of James X. Polk be accepted an
appointment Of clerk in the Treasury
Department. which be filed during TIA
administration. In 1850 be was seere-
tary Of the Convention 10 revise the
constitution Of Indiana, and in 1881 be
was elected member Of the State leg
islasure under the new constitution. In
| 1852 he was elected TO Congress, aud
entered that body at the commence
ment Of President Pierce's administFa-
ton, being then only ~ years Of age.
He served four terms in Congress im-
mediateIy preceding the war. He took
an active part in opposition 10 The bill
Tor the admission Of Kansas under the
Lecompton constitution, which did not
prohibit the institution Of slavery. The
| Senate had passed The bill, but Mr..
English moved to concur in The propo-
siiion for . committee of conference.
The vote OF the House stood 100 TO
1O8, but the Speaker voted IN the az
frmaiive and the motion prevailed.
From that committee Mr. English re-
ported what is known as the English
| bill, which became the law. By Il the
question of admission under the Lee
compton constitution was referred back
ITO the people Of Kansas, and they re-
fused Il, as was expected. MIR. Eng
lish was reelected to Congress after
this ,excitina question was settled. but.
anal The cioE ofvue trss.ty -s5xiA cons
gresg be retired from official lIfe. He
then entered in the banking business,
and Tor fourteen years was president Of
the First National Bank oil Indianapolis,
retiring in 1877 to private lie.
The PLATFoRM.--1. We pledge
ourselves anew to the constitutional
doctrines and traditions of the Demo
cratic party. as illustrated by the teach
ing and example Of long line Of Dem
ocralic statesmen and patriots, and en-
bodied m the platform ofthe last nation
al convention Of the party.
Q. Opposition 10 capitalization and to
THAT dangerous spirit OF encroachment
which tends 20 consolidate the powers
OF ell the departments in one, and thus
TO create, whatever be the form Of gov
eminent, areal despotism. No sump-
tuary laws; separation OF church and
state, for the good of each; common
schools fostered and protected.
8. Home rule; honest money-tbe
strict maintenance of the public faith
consisting of gold and silver and paper
convertible into coin on demand; The
strict maintenance Of the public faith,
state and national, and tariff for reve-
nue. only.
4. The subordinaiion oftae military
20 the civil power and general and
thorough reform of the civil service.
5. The right to tree ballot is the
right preservative OF all rights, and must
and shall be maintained in every part
OF the United States.
8. The existing administration i the
representative OF conspiracy only, and
It's claim OF right 10 surround the ballot
boxes with troops and deputy lnarshals
10 intlmidate and obstruct the electors.
and the unprecedented use Of the veto
10 maintain il corrupt and depotic pow
er. insults the people and imperils their
Institutions.
7: The great fraud of fs78-77. syI
which. up0n false count Of electoral
votes Of two states, the candidate de-
leated al the polls was declared to be
president, and for the frsttiEein Amer
lean history the will OF the people was
set aside under threat Of military vio-
lence, struck deadly blow at our sys-
tenn of representative goveTnment.--
The Democratic party, to preserve the
country from the horrors Of . civil war,
submitted for the time in the firm and
patriotic faith that the people would pun
ish this crime 10 1880. This issue pre-
eedes and duarfs every other. II inn
poses more sacred duty upon the peo-
bic Of the Union than ever addressed