The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-07-17
Esuysas-ti om Hancock and slaex-i-
dan.

Ia his Wilmington speech, recently
Senator Bayard said:
We know what made WashiBgto
so conspicuous when he laid down hi
power and retired to tine privacy Of hi
) home. There are MANY men as grea
as he IN military knowledge and in tn
abilities of statesnlanship, but ho'
many other men would have yolur
| tariiy laid down their selfish, tyrannica
purposes? I wish You to comprehend
this, because it is the keynote of tia
nomination of Winfield Scott Hancock
lie held great power. tie was militar1
governor of.a large extent Of country
His will conld have been as law. A
his pleasure stood the liberty of every
man. What was his conrse-his courst
alone of all the military governors IL
the last fifteen years!
When asked in Louisiana and Texas
to arrest persons he inquired where was
the Judicial process. When asked to
try persons by military. commissions,
he-pointed TO the courthouse and to
the jury OF twelve. When asked to
fine men and to take from them their
property, he demanded to know by
what right under civil laws lac conld
do these things.
There have been soldiers perhaps as
able, perhaps as courageous, and that
is SAYING a great deal; bnt name me
one who has refused over and over
again to exercise arbitrary power when
he could have done SO. "a voice,
Money No, Won can't name one. ]
have seen distinguished men, educated
wholly in the republican party, giving
advice Of the NEST arbitrary character
that can be conceived; but where can
yon find man who has had the chalice
brought to his lips that he might drink
full of control over his fellow creatures
and who you have seen put il aside
and say: 81 am q military man; | am
an American soldier, but am citizen |
with respect to the law which is the
! swore TO support ~
We saw the legislature of South |
Carolina organized at the will of cor
1oral without any guard. You all
Know what was seen in Louisiana.
10 not propose TO 60 over these reeol-.
ectiens in detail nor 10 cite the uplaw-
nj exercises of military power; bnt !
leslre to show what WAS the character
# the distinguished man whom tie
democrats have nominated during the
ime of the current of tyranny. The
'reat lesson to be derived from the re
istance made to thettyranny of King ]
teorge is the lesson l would hold up
D you now. One. of the charges /,
gainst that potentate was that he at ,
empted TO subordinate the civil to the /
Military power. ANY man who al {
empts that is not fit to be a ruler OF S
len. The man Of our choice echoes. {
he same spirit that set our people free /;
! 'T6 and which will only restore and ,
that freedom in 1880. Do |
on not remember that his power was I
) ample, that he had the same organ ,
alton, administration, Or whatever
on choose to call it, that other gen
rails had /!
Compare him with the New Orleans +
eneral who besought the president TO
sue that proclamation of outlawry-
re proclamation declaring that the |
hite men of Louisiana, Alabama, Mis-
ssippi, Texas and Georgia shall be c
leave the rest to me-" q
lch was the dispatch, / shame to say, t
a UNDERGRADUATE, lieutenant q
eneral--of the army of the United !
lates. And from the cabinet at /
ashington was sent the response f
We all approve of your action" 5
hese names have passed into history f
'vered with lasting reproach, for Bel r
zap, who wrote that dispatch, proved y
base rogue, as treacherous to the b
oney of America as to the psinciples c
liberty. This was the principle
as is to-day the great underlying
inciple of the two great parties. a
uring the struggle from 1851 10 1865 G
ere was little law and could be no c
W but force, but the difficulty has b
zen that power obtained by force has v
zen sought TO be retained by force, u
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