The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-01

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OF the results Of TIE war With adj |
mirabie tact and keen sense Of Justice
to the laws of the country as well as /
to the people of Louisiana and Texas,
he recOnciled the differences that had /
previously prevailed and which had
had their orr gin in the abominable car
pet-bag governments that since the
close Of the war had blighted those
States. Instead Of.a oppressor, the
Louisianians and Texans found in him
a governor inspired by motives of the
purest patriotism and Of the highest
justice.
On assuming command, November
%, 1867, he issued his well-known
General Order, No. 40" in which he
laid down his programme as governor
of the district. This document was Il
revelation to an oppressed, robbed and
Inundated people. In it he expressed
his convictions that the people of
Louisiana and Texas desired peace,
and he declared his purpose to ensure
it, by allowing the civil authorities to
carry out the civil laws. There was
everything in this ''order" to produce
a profound sense of gratitude i'll the
hearts of whom it was addressed. Fol
lowing it came for Il while the bless
ings OF peace and prosperity, and but
for the fact that the administration at
Washington removed Gen. Hancock
from his sphere of just and beneticent
government the period of misrule i'll
Louisiana and Texas would have come
to an end ten years ago. How honest
ly, how impartially and how prulently
he conducted the affairs of those two
States is shown in the case Of his con-
trOversy with the carpet-bagger social
ed Governor Pease of Texas. This in
dividual had arbitrarily removed the
judges and county officers whom he
found III office and had appointed
his own creatures to fill their places.
Gen. HancOck's first act on assum-
ing command was to redress the injus-
tice that had been done to the people
of Texas, and i'll his General Order
No. 40' he repaired the wrong that
Pease had committed. He declared
that ''the right of trial by jury, the
habeas corpus, the liberty of the press,
the freedom Of speech, the natural
rights of persons, and the rights of
property should be respected"-nOble
sentiments that have never been for
gotten by the American people.
Again, in a letter to Pease, he said
that "On them (the laws Of Texas and
L .uisiaua, as on a foundation Of rock,
oil hn SIR 4
social order in these two States. x = 3
Power may destroy the form, but not
the principles Of justice; these will
i've in spite even OF the sword"
The lust course of Gen. Hancock in
the South offended the carpet-paggers
and their Radical friends in Congress,
who endeavored by hostile legislation,
directed against him, either to have
him retired from the military service
or to make his position as Commander,
of the Fi.r,h Military District irksome
and embarrassing. Finally the issue
of Obeying a wrong or resiguIng ms
gOvernOrship was presented to him.
He chose the latter course, and i'll {
letter to Il friend, in which he spoke OF
his difficulties, he said: Nothing car
intimidate me from doing what 1 be
! lieve to be honest and right" HI
made application to be relieved from
his command on February u, 1868, ;
victim Of Radical partizanship whose
= name has become a tower of strength
in the land.
Gen. Hancock was brought out il
1868 as a candidate for the Democrat
! ic nomination for the presidency. II
the National Convention of that year
he received 144I votes. Again il
1876, he received at the St. LOui
, Convention rs votes for the same nom
nation.