The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01
GENERAL W. 5. HANCOCK.
The Hon. Richard O'G:orman's
Estimate. .eaE'r1-

Rlchard OGOrman, one of the ahlest
Democratic orators in the Union, gave
his estimate as follows of the worth
of the Democratic candidate for Presi.
dent: Ns .f -I.nl" %. s.l5-m Eu.. b.
Did not the Democratic State OF New
York send 100000 men into the army
of the Union ? Why, if the Repub-
cans alone had gone into that fight,
they would have been swept back to
the North in a month. Laughter
and applause. Their Generals have
obtained high Positions. Republicans
have prospered in the civil war. Re-
publicans have been contractors they
have made money out Of the war they
have lived and they still live respected
and wealthy. [Laughter.] We do not
grudge them that wealth, but they
ought not to forget the history of their
country. DO you remember when the
people of Philadelphia trembled as they
listened to every breeze that might
bring to them the sound of distant can.
non when that great sister city of ours
was lnenaced by threatened invasion
from the Southern army then, when
the forces of the North took their posi-
tion in the face of the enemy for the
great fight at Gettysburg, what form
was it that rode along the serried line
Of boys in blue, speaking encourage
ment and giving to every man the
inspiration of his own high valor, his
soldier skill, his unshaken resolution,
and gave victory to the armies of the
North? That man was Winfield Scott
Hancock. [Great applause
Ay, citizens, you cheer tonight is
but the presage of the honor that will
be paid to that name when one hun
dred years have passed over our heads.
[Applause.l Whether he be President
or not President, ON his head rests a
wreath OF honor and glory, well won
by meritorious deeds. His fame will
go down the stream of his and history
name be written forever in the list of
the soldiers and patriots and heroes of
this land. [Applause. .....
Never since the days of George
| Washington has there been a nobler
soldier, a man more pure in his feel
| ings, and q man more knigfltly in all
his bearing, without fear and reprOach,
than Winfield Scott Hancock. rCheers. !
But, citizens, it is not only because he
is soldier that honor thus the choice
of tho Democratic party. Vet honor
soldiers. In the piping times of peace,
when everything goes we'll and we arc
buying and selling and making money
and losing money, we forget, for a
while, the services of tho soldier, and
think, perhaps, that he is an unneces.
sary burden in peaceful times. But
when the nation is confronted by for
eign foes or domestic revolt, it is he
bares his breast to the enemies fire,
Some men in such an hour give money,
give possessions that are dear to them
but what can man give as dear to
III, 1,Ss, 60, -
dier, earning Il few cents day-he
lives and dies unnoticed and forgotten,
he gives his life for his country. Let his
name, his services, his hartlships, his
sacrifices, be respected among US.
j honor the soldier. 1t is not only
because Gen. Hancock is a soldier that
l shall vote for him as President of the
United States. When tho civil war
was over, when each army had return
ed to its home, still, though the storm
had passed by there was not yet peace.
The waves of discord still rose and fell
down South, and Gen. Winfield Scott
Hancock was sent down there, a mil
itary commander, to take charge of u
district composed of Texas and Loui-
! siana, with the power OF life and death
over the people. Gen. Hancock at
once Issued an order known as Order
ANO. ~, "ui OclHB
| over, public affairs should be governed
by the civil law, and that he, soldier
with almost omnipotent command, I,
placed himself at the foot Of the civil
majesty and recognized the sovereignty
of the civil law. [Applause.] There
has been nothing done since the days
of Washington and jackson 50 worthy
patriotic citizen, so worthy an ac-
complished jurist and a sagacious state
man, as that order issned by Winfield
Scott Hancock. [Applause.1
| That was followed by letter TO Gen.
Sherman, which is an admirable state
paper, in which Gen. Hancock sets
forth, in proper, clear, and precise
terms, the relations of the military to
the civil power. All this showed thai
while he was skilled in the science o
war and could strike the sharpest blows
in battle, when war was over and h,
laid by his sword he could be al
obedient citizen in the face of the law
EApplause.l What is it we most re
spect in the career Of Gen. Jackson
AS General in command ut the battl'
of New Orleans he took private prop
erty for the use of his troops for th'
purpose of defending them from tn,