Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
Hancock and English.

eNlTd ISSUE OF tne lEMOCRAT, last
week, that the work of the Cincinnati
Convention had been well done; that |
it would commend itself, not only to
the Democracy of the Union, but to
the conservative and patriotic masses
of all parties, and that while the par
ty had looked towards Cincinnati for
some days with profound anxiety, and
yet with strong hopes, these hopes
had been realized in the magnificent
outcome of the deliberations of the
Democratic representatives there as
sembled. To-day our JOY is more than
doubled at the triumphant burst of
enthusiasm with which the people of
the entire country-from Maine to
Texas and from the Atlantic coast to
the far distant Pacific-have respond
to the names of Hancock and English,
the standard bearers who will lead the
Democratic party to victory next No
vember. The party enters upon the
contest with zeal and determination
to win, under the leadership of its gal
liant and distinguished nominees, never
before witnessed in any political cam
paign. The exhibition of this feeling
has not been confined to any one local
ity, but it has aroused, as with mag.
netic force, the people of every COM
munity and every State, and the same
force will assert its power throughout
the canvass that is before us, and grow
in potency and vigor until the day on
which the voters deposit their ballots in
the boxes arrives.
Winfield Scott Hancock is name
that in itself would be u tower of
strength to any cause with which it
might become associated. The record
of the man is luminous with bright
deeds and brilliant services to his
country. They shine with splendor
that will never fade while history is
read. A hero of two wars-the DASH
ing young lieutenant of Contreras and
Cherubusco in foreign land, brevet-
ed for gallantry on the field of battle,
and the great general, in his maturer
years, in the war of the rebellion. His
grand achievements at Williamsburg,
along the Chickahominy, at Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Charlottesville, Get
tysburg, in the Wilderness, Spottsyl-
vania, on the North Anna, and Tolo-
potemy, at Cold Harbor, Petersburg,
Deep Bottom and Reams Station have
rendered his name the synonym of
courage, gallantry and heroic devotion
to duty-"the Knight without fear,
and without reproach"-and no living
public character to-day has a stronger
hold upon the respect and affection of
his fellow countrymen and brother
soldiers. In the latter class, among
those who served with or under him,
from officer to private, there is no
bounds to the love they bear him.
Such was Hancock in war, and
equally fortunate has he been in the
discharge of important and delicate
civil trusts. When war ended he was
the first to lay down the rule of the
sword, and declare that in time of peace
military power should be subordinate
to the civil authority. In the cell
ebrated General Order No. 40, will
be found the most concise and perfect
epitome of the true principles of civil
government ever written. This order,
and his able and discreet management
of affairs in Louisiana and Texas, in
the broken and confused condition of
society in those States after the war,
resulting in the restoration of order
and civil government, proved him to
be the wise statesman as well as the
peerless soldier.
This day he stands before the Amer
lean people the soldier.statesman, low
ed and honored alike for his deeds in
war and peace, and the "signs of the
times" indicate with unerring certainty
his triumphant election to the Presi-
dency of the United States.
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