The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-09-24
PRoLOGuE TO VORNEYs urE pg eES.
HANCOCK.

make no apology for this book. It
has already had the double advertise
ment Of praise from friends aud abuse
from foes, and il that does not secure it
fair clientage no effort Of mine will.
My chief motive is TO help once more
to put an American into the Presidency
who will honestly lead the American
people away from quarreIs into com
radeship and confidence. Such = man
is the soldier Hancock.
Believe me, have no other aspira.
ton in writing his life. do not want
any Of his Offices. Never having been
candidate before any administration
Of the general government for place,
have simply, in order to maintain my
Independence, resigned the most valna-
bic positions voluntarily rendered to
me 10y other Presidents. can safely
make this statement. As for money,
have never learned to steal IL from the
government, though dearly love to
earn fair living by honest industry In
my own chosen profession.
The little organs and placeInensbf 6
party Just ushered into being ons year
after 1 myself coOPe:a.ed with it to put
down human slavery, are now as much
disturbed by my refusal to follow that
party into the very sectioRsIism / have
always diaised. and are ~ angry as 80
many listHrLtat mice in rieh cl,cese,
becai'sr fbsv Ray that / have left the
ring Republicans. As never belonged
to thrs' rings, cannot therefore be ac.
cused Of leaving them. In one thing |
am consistent at l,.ast. aud that is iD
sincere love Of my conIltry and ] will
join any side or drop any side, If by 80
doing ] can get the American people to
be good To each other, - be grateful 70
those who have served them, 70 put the
best men into Office, to help our youth
to be honest and manly, and have pluck
enough TO drive out OF positions Of trust
a set Of mercenaries as utterly disquali-
fed for public responsibility as any men
that ever lived. ] think it is high time
for our conntry to realize that the Iar.
rot politicians, running up and down
the .and, shrieking Rspublicanism and
abusing honest people because they will
not bow to such temporary puppets, are
mere impostors, and no more genuine
in their professions than a set Of play
actors trying to show that they are real
kings, when they are simply paste,
spaugles and feathers.
General Hancock seems 10 me to be
the constable TO clear ont these intrn-
ders. Atall events let us give the bold
soldier a full chance. believe IN him
thoroughly, and have always believed
in him. i knew him As boy and man
in peace and war, and his fathers asso
ciaies in Montgomery county were the
friends cf my youth. | do not con.
denim him because lie Was born In NV
State, for have a Scotchnan's love b
home and would not shoot him be
cause he continues Democrat, when
know that without Democrats we slioult
have been beaten In the Civil War.
This is the general scope of the vol
ume We now commit to the public. Il
has heen quick work and when rec
ollect that one distinguished Amerisar
has been toiling nearly twenty years OF
the life OF VoItaire, that another start
ell on the biography Of General Grant
twelve years sgn, and has only printeC
one volume, AMI that another ten year
ago advertised an elaborate memoir o
Thaddeus Stevens, and has not vet is
sued a single page Of it, il this cam
paign liiesf Winfield 5. Hancock, Tia
Democratic candidate for President o
the United States, is little defective
/ cannot I've blamed.
Very sincerely,
JOHS w. FoESEY.