Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-24
Hancock.

Ma. Gens COmC'y Uepts Las anu ltAAss
Hancock.
The Democratic party has done honor
to itself and to the principles it repre-
sents by the nominating as its standard
bearer in the ensuing presidential con-
test Major General Winfield Scott Han
cock, of Pennsylvania. The descendant
of distinguished family, he was edu-
Gated as soldier, graduated with honor
at West Point, he distinguished himself
as a brave soldier and efficient officer
during the battles of the Mexican war,
his services being rewarded with promo
tion for gallant services in the battles of
San Antonia, CherubuSco and the other
battles in front of the city of the Monte
Zumus. From the commencement
to the end of the late civil war
he commended himself to the Union
sentiment of the North by his valor
and skill in dozen hard fought battles.
Mcclellan, his commanding officer,
named him the superb" and in one of
his dispatches, after hard fought battle
and glorious victory, announced the re-
suit by telegraphing that Hancock
fought splendidly." At Antietam he
sprang into the trench and took COM
mand of the second corps on the death
Of the gallant Gen. Richardson, and
wrestled victory from the jaws of defeat.
At Gettysburg when our own Reynolds
fell, Gen. Hancock took his place, stayed
the retreating Union forces, extended
the Union lines, checked the advance of
Lees magnificent army, waged battle
for two days against his veteran hosts
and finally repulsed them, falling severe
ly wounded at the moment of victory.
For his gallant services he was awarded
10y Congress vote of thanks in the name
of the people of the United States.
by services like these he won the ad-
miration and applause of the entire
North and when after the war had end
ed he was placed in command of the mil
itary district of Louisiana and Texas,
he won equal admiration from the peo-
pie of the South by the magnanimity with
which he treated his late enemies and
the frmness with which he upheld the
rights of the civil powers. The follow
ing extract from his general order of No.
vember %, 1867, is worthy of being writ
ten in letters of gold and impressed Ola
the memory of every American
"In war it is indispensable CO. repel
force by force and overthrow and destroy
insurrectionery force has been over
thrown and peace established, and the
civil authorities are ready and willing
to perform their duties, the military power
should cease to- lead and the civil
administration resume its natural and
right(ul dominion. Solemnly impressed
with these views, the General announces
That the great principles of American
liberty are still the lawful inheritance of
this people, and ever should be. The
right Of trial by jury, the habeas corpus,
the liberty of the press, the freedom Of
speech, the natural rig hts of persons and
the rights of property must be preserved.
Is it t., be wondered at that the people
of the South, first crushed in war and
afterwards plundered and robbed by
camp-followers and carpet-baggers,
should look to this magnanimous con-
querer as their .deliverer? And is it to
be wondered at, that when opportunity
offered, the solid South, led on by the
gallant Louisianians and Texans, should
shake hands with the solid North and
demand him as their leader in rescuing
the government from the fraud which
has usurped it's powers and brought it
into reproach both at home and abroad.
The unanimity with which the: nomi-
nation was made, and the enthusiasm
with which it is everywhere received
gives assurance that it will be ratified
by an overwhelming majority 10y the
people at the polls, " and if he is elected
he will take his seat
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