The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-05

AAOANN $50
tions and the waste of time they involve
make it necessary to declare that the adj
ministration of civil justice appertaint
to the regular courts. The rights o.
~litieants do not depend on the views o.
a General; they are to be adjudged and
settled by the laws. Arbitrary power
such as the General has been urged tc
assume, has no existence here; it has nc
foundation in the laws of Louisiana OF
Texas. 1t cannot be derived from any
act of Congress. 1t is restrained by the
Constitution and prohibited from action
in many particulars"
Very O o after this the Governor o.
louisiana who, from having been
Rebel had suddenly been converted into
a patriot, wrote to General Hancock tina,
he thought he ought to adopt the process
of military commission instead OF civil
courts and the speedy ways of martha
law rather than the civil law, as it had
beer administered. And in a letter
which I wish l had the time to read tc
you he replied with good sense and feel
ing-a letter of which any man any
where might be proud. He established
the fact that he had obeyed the laws o.
Congress and performed the soldlerly
duty that had been entrusted to him, ano
that he appreciated the demands OF
high, humane, lofty craftsmanship IN
paCifying that country and those people
He was sent down among the people o.
Louisiana and Texas at a time WheI
peoples and institutions were required
to conform themselves to a new condl'
ton of affairs he was required to main
tain civil order; to stay and steady the
threatened foundations of civil society
he was clothed with military power. Or
his hand he wore the glove OF a soldier
and he was required if necessary to ex'
ercise that power he declared that he
would exercise 1t; he found those people
conquered, disappointed, unjustly treat
ed, angry but holding in their sight the
declaration that this military power il
necessary, should be used for the pur,
pose of maintaining civil order and
executing and enforcing the laws. On
tne other hand he raised before theil
eyes the standard of civil government
on its folds he had inscribed no arbitrary
power; the rights OF trial by jury, the
rights of persons protected by hdbeaS
corpus, the faithful performance Of all the
obligations of civil society, these we're
the rights for which their fathers and
our fathers had fought side by side on
many a bloody field. These were the
rights that had been guaranteed to the
Eng ish, speaking race at Ruhnymeade
and baptized in the best blood Of
patriots for five hundred years and hold.
ing these rights and this banner of civil
government before their eyes he con
quered their convictions, prejudice, &C
tons and hearts Applause
He held up as Moses of old,the brazen
serpent in the wilderness and the plague
was stayed. He pacifed Texas per.
manently and you have heard of no
trouble there since. He would have
paclfed Louisiana but that the demons
of discord determined to sacrifice that
fair state to the ravages and foul birds OF
prey defled what they could not devour
%[applauee].
Craftsmanship craftsmanship You
who venture to say that a mar could do
these things is no statesman read over
the list of statesmen illustrious in his
tory and tell me one who has done a
nobler work and done it by nobler
means. Tell me that the man who could
write these orders and enforce them, who
could bring peace and order out of the
chaos of these two states, tell me that he
is not fit to be entrusted with the civil
magistracy Of the United States ap.
plause
General Hancock is a Democrat, a
Democrat by education, a Democrat by
practice, a Democrat because he believes
in the theory of the Democratic party, a
Democrat because he votes it's ticket.
Thomas Jefferson told us long ago what
a Democrat is; he is one who believes in
faithful and exact justice to all men; he
is one, says Jefferson, who believes in
the supremacy of the civil over the mill
tary authority; he is one who believes
in the freedom of religion, the freedom
of the press, the freedom of the person
under the guarantees and protection of
the habea8 corpus and juries impartially
selected. Genera, Hancock prove it
by these orders which | have read-is
the incarnation of the idea of the
supremacy of the civil over the military
authority. He is the very embodiment
of Jefferson's definition of a Democrat.
General Hancock ia also a soldier, l
will not undertake in the presence of
this audience tonight to recite at all his
military history. Its glories first COM.
menced on the fields of Mexico and
have shown with increasing brillianCy
the time he first engaged in battle
at Contrerss until he finally closed his
military action on the fields of Peters
Read the history Of Williama.
and Antietam, and South Noun
tain, and FrederiCksburgh, and Chan.
cellorsville, and Gettysburgh, and the
Wilderness, and Spottsylvania, aud Cold
Harbor and Petersburg if you want to
know the history of our candidate. Read
in the glowing tributes that we're paid
him by every commander under whom
be served: Mcclellan, Burnside, Hook.
er, aver Grant himself read it in the
unanimous resolution of Congress which
passed both houses unanimously read it
the declarations of the common
of Philadelphia and New York and
many of the largest cities of the Union.
1t has been said of him that he was like
IN avalanche in the swiftDess and force
If his attack and that when he was as
by others he stood firm as the
foundations of the everlasting hills.
These are the reasons, gentlemen, that l
present to you tonight why General
Hancock should be elected President of
he United States. General Garfield, in
ny opinion, ought not to be elected
President because he is the head and
ront, the foremost figure and character
the great conspiracy against civil gov.
,rnmsnt to which Judge Ranney alluded
.applause]
He went to New Orleans as a visiting
Itatesman and there took counsel with
he Returning Board, which has been
we'll said by Judge Ranney: "By fraud
ind perjury and necromancy, converting
Dam noraIio nooiOrity for T;l1an Into a