The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-04

A, the IStgLLIGEScER has before ex-
L,iued, Gen. Hancock has always been a
p,uOcn.-neyer at any time Republi.
AN. lie secured his appointment to
Ne, Point because OF his Democratic
nrptsVe, went into the army q Demo.
m, and along with the old army officers
b.Oteths war formed Democratic coterie
ia The military service. They were all
Southern iu their feelings. They re.
asrted the Southern tone that pervaded
the National Government before the war,
vhen such men as jeff Davis aud John B.
Ford we're at the head OF the war depart
nout-ths former during Pierce's Presi-
lsuty and the other during Buchanan's
tenn. Hancock married q Southern wife
lad moved iu that circle OF association.
Alhbympsthies were in that direction.
Like Mcclellan, lie went into the war dep
reating the ascendency Of Republican
Piuaples-principles despised by the old
amy officers as class. 1t was common
expression at the outset Of the war, among
hOse oil them that did not join the rebel
loo, that they were willing to fight for the
Union but not for tho niger. They de-
aSuaced such men as Sumner, Greeley,
SElrd and Chase as the authors OF the
vn Massachusetts, was their special alb.
&rsuce. They took good care to let 1t be
tnoUnby everybody that they were not
tbOlitiOu ympathirers, but simply fight
ltstOrth Union and the Constitution as
Understood aud interpreted bv Democrats
kiae secession, This was their political
rI'u so far as they had any. 1t was
thoroughly antl.Republican.
HlOOock went through the war as a
Hsnht army officer. He did his duty as
military mSn and won his laurels as
'sa Heis entitled to wear them, and
tie country sccords him all due honor as
l military man. This much admitted,
S'neons up another most important
Iad uOueatous question, viz: ought the
country, when It has a choice, to prefer q
ala oI HanCock's political antecedents
Nd VmpAthies to q man Of Garield's
GEsdenS and sympathies? As mere
alIHy men Hancock and Garfield stand
'atas aue footing. Both did their duty
athe var, hut with this essential differ.
'aS Garfield had deep and earnest con-
ndioHs before the war aud during the
w as to the underlying causes oI 1t.
a'E1 not only heart and soul for the
Fseratlon Of the Union, but was heart
t'd soul in sympathy with Abraham
tacoln's emancipation proclamation. He
'Sa0t indifferent on the slavery ques'
asa before the war nor during the war.
tie IeIt and believed and knew that
,AVeY was a great wrong In
laeIi-I baFbaric institution "a re.
pNash to our civilization and a
Ga'iAat menace to the Uuion. He saw
sAi It not only made slaves Of black men
eai otWhite men; that it prescribed free
Con Of opinion and discussion; that II
aa'e the Tree states hunting ground fol
"s'lVe slaves, and every citizen a slave
a'eAe' under heavy penalties; that Il
"a'uned vast acres OF land in wasteful
@I'a'O, and drew line OF caste .hetweer
lsVs owners and poor whites; that 1t re
se''ed I energy aud enterprise, and kept
NJ country spArsely settled; smothcred
~! general intellectual life and engend
s% q condition OF license, Irresponsible
Wand disregard Ofliie.
H''u nAu convictions on all the ele
S'aS' such as we have enumerated
u al' entered into the underlying causes o
% 'qeTA'. lie was not devotee to tn
"HA' pleasures Of Southern life as Har
%et vas His sympathles were with th
'l's rather than the master. His INTEL
s'Ace told him that such an institutlou Ii
O''aneA " aud country wasan anarchronisu
.aa' sla,,, there must be an "lrrepressible co,
:, Sef between it and freedom; that eth,
sAssE or freedom must be the recognize
|,uI'0'ItoS principle in our national 9
4'' aud that the demands and exa