The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-08-04

I the registration of voters, and witt
a most extraordinary and munih
cent generosity which would have
been extraordinary and muniticen
if the rights with which he deal
had been his own rishtS-passel
over the determinations of theS,
questions and the Interpretation o
the law to the very rebels in New
Orleans against whom the law was
to te enforced. lie summarily re
moyed-although he had declared
the supremacy Of the civil law anC
had vauntinglv announced his own
abdication of military authority
several LOYAL members of the City
Council, and ordered the famous
Packard under arrest. But the end
was at hand Having thus made
himself the special agent for carry
ing out Andrew Johnson's policy
and the special agent for the setting
aside the act of Congress-, he array
ed against himself the loyal people
of the North and South III an entire
body. Moreover there was at the
head of our armies the silent soldier
patriot, and statesman, General
Grant. [Applause.] One by one
as roses fall, fell those extraordinary
orders Of General Hancock. under
the quiet direction of General Grant
that they be suspended or revoked
[Applause.] His entire course was
disapproyed by General Grant The
pride of the soldier-statesman was
humbied, his vanity was wounded,
and he wrote to Grant, begging for a
further consideration, and in this eX-
traordinary letter he says: q To sus-
pend my order would be to destroy
my usefulness. IL remark parcn-
thetically that General Grant was
unable to destroy his usefulness, but
that his career there he was anxious
to terminate) [Applause.] But he
says: And also show such a want
of a sense of what | conceived due
to me and my position in this mat
ter, and would necessitate a respect
ful request to be relieved from my
present command 1t appeared
that the country was able 10 endure
that request, and was quite able to
struggle prosperously through such
a calamity as that which would flow
from relieving General Hancock
from his command. Grant was in
exorable. He generally l. Zap
plause.1 The offensive orders were
suspended and revoked.
In the night time General Ham
cock left the scene Of his triumphs,
and the furtherancc Of the schemes
of President Johnson in the hands
of the rebel mayor, Monroe. His
mission was ended. lie left New
Orleans in the night, March 16, 1868,
in response to an order to report in
person at Washington Applause. !
He then went into business as a
Democratic candidate for the Prcsi-
dency, his administration in New
Orleans being his stock in trade
This was in 1868. The next yeI
the is.le having thus having been
prese.,ted, the Democratic party ac-
cepted il and declared that these re-
construction measures which Gen
eral Hancock had undertaken to re-
woke and set aside were usurpations
and were revolutionary, unconstitu-
tional, and void. General Hancock
supported that platform and the
ticket placed upon it because he
was compelled to support his own
policy.
There was Grant on one side as
the representative Of the great, loyal
party, and there was Hancock's IA
nous order and the platform OF the
Democratic party sustaining that
order on the other.
1t is enough to say that Hancock
and his order, the Democratic party
and the Democratic platform were
pulverized finer than powder. Zap
plausc.] Hancock was the selected
agent Of Johnson for the enforce
ment of that policy. Their views
and purposes were identical. John
sons policy was rebuked in 1866.
and, as | have said, utterly repudi-
ated and ovcrthrown in 1868.
LCheers.] The Democratic party il
1880, putting at its head the author
of the famous order, petitions the
American people for a rehearing, and
asks for reversal Of our decision.
They ask the loyal people of Ameri-
ca, having once approved Grant and
Sheridan lapplausol !, and disapprov-
ed Johnson and Hancock, that the
decision be now reversed, and that
we now approve the latter ] ann
ready that the cause should go TO an
immediate hearing. Time and the
grand events since 1868 have lOrti-
fled Us in the opinions we then held.
\ great and prosperous country Sc
cured as the inevitable result of that
policy. is the solidest argument OF
lis wisdom [Cheers.l accept the
issue and meet it again. hope fOr
the last time | trust that this shall
be the last time. and that we shall
forever extirpate from our politics
those dangerous and pestilential her
estes Of which General Hancock is
to-day the exponent, and of which,
in the years past, he has been the
representative.
HAxC0CKS ATTITUDE TOWARDS
TILDEN.
The attitude Of General Hancock
toward Mr.. Tilden at the last Presi-
Dental election is, to say the least OF
it. curious. He was, from all reports,
little too eager to tender his serv-
ices to the great usufruct, and bis
eagerness to tender his services to
the mysterious cipherer OF Gram
ercy Park-to the whispering states
man OF that fashionable region
NAV account for the intimate rela-
tions which subsist between them
to-day. General Hancock declares,
however. and has declared since bis
nomination, that with him the past
Is secure. Possibly he believes this,
but General Hancock must not com
plain if we ask him 4 few questions
BY way of cross-eXamination. The
INST i made un OF manv Great events.