Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-06-30
HANcoCK's oIVIL RECORD.

1t is remarkable with what unan.
unity the Independent and therespoota.
bic portion OF the Republican press
concede the fitness Of the Cincinnati
candidates fcr the places for which
they have been named. The sponia.
neous outbursts of enthusiasm with
which the namo of General Hancock
has been received, says the Lancaster
inteliigeHcer, is the natural consequence
Of choice made with such essential
unanimity by the representatives of
the party from every section Of the
country, who recognize in him the en-
bodiment of loyalty to the Union, of
patriotism, Of Democracy, and around
whose historic name hang the sweet
ordors of that whitest of blossoms
civil liberty The hide bound Repub-
lican partisan press, deprived of its
old.time weapon of sectional hate and
forbidden TO indulge in its favorite
propensity for mud singing by Gen'l
llancock's personal record, "spotless
as star" has been compelled to take
the untenable position that Hancock's
services to bis country having been
of o purely military character, he is
untitled, either by education or tenn
permanent, to discharge the dntics of
the executive Office, The independent
press, on the other hand, is united in
its opinion that General Hancock 5
career as a civic ruler has been not less
creditable than his course as q military
cbicitain. They accord to him the
possession ut once Of the attributes Of
the soldier and the statesman. They
recognize the illustrious services he
rendered TO the cause of constitutional
liberty and law when as commander
of the Fifth district, con prising the
States of Louisiana and Texas, he was
first to place the civil authority above
the sword, first to proclaim that the
bayoret should make obeisanco to civil
law, They realize that the name of
WINFIELD SCoTT HANCOCK is not alone
the heroic emblem of the Union, but
also The splendid symbol Of that civil
liberty which is the basis of popular
government, and upon which is reared
the proud temple of Freedom.
The Philadelphia Ledger, the most
conservative of Independent journals,
has this tribute TO General HancocL's
services
But il is not alone as a soldier that
Gen. Hancock has a history. After
the war, and when that difficult prob
lem of tho care and restoration of the
Southern States, which had been left
without Governments, had TO be crap.
pied with, he justly earned great dis
tinction as an administrator Of the laws
over the large district of country GOV.
cred by the States Of Louisiana and
Texas. What was to be done with
these States, that had lost their condi.
tion, their privilege and right as self
governing communities, had exercised
the minds of statesmen like Thaddeus
Stevens, Seward and Lincoln. But
they had tobe brought within the pale
of the Government and to General
Hancock was allotted to the States
above mentioned, as the Carolnas
had been allotted to General Meade
1t was in this capacity that he won
his reputation as a soldier administer
ing civil law, and gained at once the
Acknowledgements of the Government
and lasting gratitude and admiration
of the people whose present and future
he had in charge This in the present
aspect Of affairs is the most important
chapter of Gen'l Hancock's history"