, 1880-10-31
The following dispatch, brief as it l.. haa
a world Of significance at this particular

TIE following dispatch, brief as it Is. haa
a world Of significance at this particular
time: y:
MOBILE. Ala. Oct. 29.-Whitela,r Reid. Tn.
public discussion which had yesterday at rrnfoH1
Springs. Ala, with Col. ". e. Oates, the regular
Democratic candidate tor Congress In the Thrd.
Alabama District. ha stated that Gen. Hancock:
said to him: II fought for the Cniun, and not
for all the d-d outraze4 ot II reconstruction" ~
WILLARD WARNER
There Is no doubt that COL Oates made tha
statement here accredited to him. Mr.
Willard Warner is gentleman whose word
cannot be questioned. 1t is altogether prob
able, too, that the statement made by Col
Oates is literally correct, and that Gen. Ham
cock made the assertion placed in his mouth
in very much the language ascribel to HIM.
for Gen. Hancock wenttc New Orleans with
the avowed purpose Of defeating these I'D
outrages. of reconstruction" He made
speech in Washington before his departure
for the new command in which lie CON-
mitted himself to the johnson policy. In
deed, 1t is probable that this public declara.
tion of his position was exacted FROM him:
before he was appointed. His ''Order no. :,
.4o'' was formal declaration OF his purpose ::
to break down reconstruction, and all his
subsequent actions while he retained this
command were dictated By the same motive. =
What Gen. Hancock characterized as the
I'D outrages Of reconstruction u were tia
laws which Congress had devised, with tho
special aid of Judge Trumbull, tha DEM
ocratic candidate for Governor, to insure to ::
the emancipated negroes the rights which
f},otr on1
tect the Unlonists, whether native to the
South or emigrants from the North, against
the prosecutions suggested by the hate which
the Rebels bore them. The purpose OF ,thes<
i'd outrages" was merely to, reorgauiza:
the State Governments upon such a basis is
would comport with the logic Of tha.WaE,r
and to prevent the practical reGstablishment
of an oligarchy which had forfeited its pow
ers by unsuccessful rebellion against ths
Without the accomplishments
Of what Gen. Hancock regarded as ,".d-d
outrages,'' the War would have been fought .
in vain, and it would have r: been So
Nh objectionable waste of ;. money
and sacrifice Of human : life. IEsNa9*: = :
by pronounclng the acts Of Congress ss
''d-d outrages," and treating theal in TINT
spirit, that Gen. Hancock established bis
claim upon the men who sought in vain to
break down the Government From that
time he became the South's farorft candidate
for President, but it was not ultil this yea.
That the former Rebels felt themselves strong
enough to dictate his nomination. During
all the time that has elapsed since Gen. Han.
cock thus characterized the work Of recon-
lie has never, so far as we know, =:
had one word of censure or protest for the
- id outrages :" which have been committed
at the South OIL account of political conste;;:
lions by the very class with whom he asso-
:iated when he was in command at New Of.:
leans. Is he the sort OF man to elect Prest
lent OF the United States, which, as yet, In
,lude the North as well as tne South?