The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-08-12
Political Notes.

Political Notes.
- The colored Hancock and Englist
club in Montgomery, Alabama, numbers
600 members, and is still increasing.
The Democratic and Republican
candidates for governor have arranged
for joint discussion of the polical is
sues of the campaign at various places il
North Carolina.
The New York Times thinks tina
"Major.G Gen. Bunsby Hancock should
evidently be the title Of the Cincinnati
nominee" This is the kind of talk tha
helps the Democratic candidate.
= There is rumor that Gen. Butler
will not run for Governor of Massachu
selts on the Democratic ticket because
he is not willing to endauger the success:
of Col. French as the Democratic candi
date for Congress in the Eighth Distric
of that State.
"A meeting Of four hundred repre-
sentatives of the French colony in New
York WAS held on Wednesday evening
at which q Hancock and English Clut
was organized. Two thousand dollars
were Immediately subscribed for cam
pnign purposes.
- The Republican organs continue tc
report enthusiastic Republican meet
ings" in the Southern States, forgetting
that they have told their readers every
day. for years that no Republican il
'tallowed free speech or any rights what
ever" in the South.
: Gen. W. J. Smith, Republican, ad-
vised the negroes at Capleville, Tenn, in
public speech last week ITO quit spend
ing their money for whiskey, tobacco
cigars and gew. .gaws, but to save it and
buy poardcr, shot, guns and pistols aci'h
,chich to defend Themselves in this election
= The Greenback party in Connect:
cut is tumbling to pieces. 1t is believed
their vote : i'll be reduced to few hum
dred from 1914 in 1873. Gen. Weaver
is going to stump the State to see if he
cannot recall the disafected. The State
organ of the party has declared for Han.
cock.
- The Boston Post puts it thus: The
New York Times is terribly shocked at
finding in an obscure South o.rolina
paper this paragraph: 1--WE do advocate
the full use of such means as We can use
lawfully. We mean that the white.
skinned man who joins the party of cor.
ruption should be social leper, Stunned,
despised and hated" Only a few months
ago United States Senator stood up in
public hall in Bangor, and, in refer.
ence to Democrats, used language so
nearly like the above th. the Carolina
paper seems guilty of plagiarism.
= The New York Herald says of Han
cocks letter to Sherman: "Gen. Han
cocks friends we'll may invoke public
judgment whether it does not prove him
to be more than a mere soldier who
knows nothing outside of the routine Of
military command and obedience
whether, indeed, it does not prove him
to have been a conservative, high-mind-
ed, cool-beaded, law.abiding citizen in
one of the most perilous periods through
which the Republic ever has passed. 1t
is letter which displays something more
than common sense. 1t testifes to the
possession of qualifications of statesman
ship much more satisfactorily than the
letter of acceptance of the Cincinnati
nomination. There is a ring in some of
its passages which sounds like an echo
of the spirit of the great constitutional
era of the Republic, the era of Washing
ton and Jefferson. All of Gen. Ham
cocks published papers so far-and this
especially-show that whatever may be
his deficiencies, there is no tendency to
demagogism in his disposition, but that
he is sincere and patriotic and straight
forward man, and if this favorable i'm
preston continues unabated till Novem.
ber be certainly will have good chance
of success on election day"
A gentleman in Raleigh, North
Carolina, vouches for the truth of the
following statements. They illustrate
Gen. Hancoc ) kindly nature during
the war: "AnoDg the Democrats of the
old North State thore is hearty enthu-
siasm for Hancock and English. Gen.
Hancock has always been popular with
the soldiers of this State, who were near
ly all in the army of Northern Virginia.
They recognized him as their most
dreaded opponent on the battlefield, and
the kindest when the fortunes of war
placed them in his hands. Many stories
are told of his attention to prisoners and
care of the wounded. At the battle Of
Williamsburg Capt. Henry Mullins, OF
the Fifth North Carolina Infantry, COM
manded by Col. D. K. McRae, fell NOR.
tally wounded. Gen. Hancock found
him on the field, and tenderly asked the
dying youth, for he was only a boy, if
there was anything he could do for him.
Write to my mother said he, that !
died like soldier This the General
promptly did. He wrote to the young
mans mother, informing her of her sons
death, with such praise of his courage
and words of sympathy as were best cal.
culated to soothe her affliction. That
letter be sent to Col. McRae under flag
of truce. It is just such deeds as this
that help to alleviate the horrors of war.
Gen. George H. Stewart was West
Point classmate of Hancock's, and it
seems there was some feud between them.
At Spottsylvania, on May IL, 1864, Han
cock ran his corps over part of the
Confederate lines within the famous
Horseshoe capturing an entire division.
Among the prisoners was Stewart. The
General was in great rage over his cap
ture. He vas carried before Hancock,
who cordially offered his hand, with the
words: How are you, stewart?' The
latter drew haughtily back and said (: i
am Gen. Stewart, of the Confederate
army, and your prisoner, and under the
circumstances 1 decline to receive your
hand And under any other circum-
stances, General, would not have
offered it, said Hancock quickly. Struck
with the retort, aud feeling ashamed Of
himself, Stewart made the necessary