The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-07-08

partnership, or descent, or trust; a suit
of eiectment or claim to chattels, or the
application may relate TO robbery, theft,
arson or murder. How am to take the
first step in any such matter? If ! turn
to the acts of Congress find nothing on
the subject. I dare not open the au:
thors on the local code, for it has ceased
to exist.
"And you tell me that in this perplex.
ing condition l am to furnish by dinL of
my own hasty and crude judgment, the leg
islation demanded by the vast and mani.
fold interests of the people I repeat, sir,
that you, and not Congress, are responsible
for the monstrous suggestion that there
are no local laws or institutions here to
be respected by me, outside the acts of
Congress. I say unhesitatingly, if it were
possible that Congress should pass an
act abolishing the local codes for Louisi-
ana and Texas-which I do not believe
and it should fall to my lot to supply
their places with something Of my own,
do not see how could do better than
to follow the laws in force here prior to
the rebellion, excepting whatever therein
shall relate to slavery. Power may
destroy the forms, but not the principles
of Justice these will live in spite even
of the sword. History tells US that the
Roman pandects we're lost for long
period among the rubbish that war and
revolution had heaped upon them, but
at length were dug out of the ruins
again to be regarded as priceless treas
ure."
These two great papers may be said to
form the platform of General Hancock.
AS such they were accepted by the
democracy of 1868, and their author. was
prominent among the candidates for the
Presidential nomination at the Conven-
ton of that year. Of course it was not
to be ex pected that he should long
retain command at New Orleans, and he
himself applied to be relieved February
27, 1868, his course having brought him
into conflict with. Congress and with the
General of the Army. His request vas
granted March 16, 1868, and he was
shortly afterward sent into exile as
commander of the military division of
Dakota, where he remained three years
-1S69-72. In 1872 he was appointed
commander of the military division of
the Atlantic, with headquarters in New
York city, where he has since resided.
This appointment. made upon the death
Of General Meade, was creditable to
President Grant, since, unfortunately,
he was not on speaking terms with
General Hancock. The democratic
nomination for Governor of Pennsylya-
MIA was rendered him in 1869, but
declined. He was again prominent
candidate for the Presidential nomina-
tion at Baltimore in 1872. General
Hancock was married in st. Louis in
1856 to Miss Elmira Russell. He has
had two children. One of them, Miss
Ada Elizabeth Hancock, a young lady Of
gr, promise, died n New York at the
age Of eighteen years. The only SUR
viving child, Russell Hancock, is now
planter in Mississippi.
In person General Hancock has justly
won the sobriquet of "the Superb" He
is the beau ideal of the gallant soldier,
tall, shapely, blonde, with clear blue
eyes full of meaning and decision. He
is knight sans pcur ct sans reproche,
gentle to his associates, kindly and
genial to subordinates, yet possessed of
an innate dignity with which few would
care to trihe. His discipline is plain
and direct, his loyalty to superiors uu-
questioning and unhinching, his de.
votion to law and justice ingrained upon
his inmost self. The democracy is to be
congratulated upon having made choice
of standard bearer whom men of all
parties delight to praise, and in whose
hands the reins of government may
securely be trusted.