New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-12
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
FORNEY ON HANCOCK,

v.
Paila ielpnia: Hubbard & Co.
Wonderful, exclaims Colonel Forney. during
one of the frequent rhetorical outbreaks "nlc"
decorate this remarkable narrative, wondeiiu
the Gift of speech Ii SWANS more than muse pe-
cause il is articuate Inspiration. Mere har'"'nS
one thing but intellectual harmony Is IKE p"V.'ns
words into the songs of the birds, or the sigts
of the sweet south breathing over
bank of vo,ets" Never perhaps had we
alternately realized the truth OF the
nronoston which stands at the head OF tins extract
un,il we rose rom tie reading of Colonel Forney
Look II wiring is the record of the spoken woio'
then there is no doubt that Colonel forneys gnu "i
speech, at any rate is the most wonueriu '"'"e vi
the age. There are moments OF emotion recurring
abont two or three times on page, wheh HIS III
spiratlon can he hardly called artculate; we snouic
ratLcr style it tumultuous and lneXpresSlble' Du,
il Is ALWAYS grand, even when IL Is elooin'os' anu
most peculiar; and if the intellectual harmony III
which il seeks uttcrance does not often remind us OF
fine song of the birds our readers VIII see De-
fore wo are done with the subject that
Tbc-c Is no lack Of the yell of the sweet South,
b,ratbing over Governors Island and the First
National Bank OF indianapolis. What becomes OF
tbe campaigu biographies has long been an interest
ING problem. Ey.ry four years fatty or hundred
thousand volumes, with great deal OF gliding on
,,,.covers ar. cast upon the country They are
900, II, commlttce-roOms and railway news
stands for brief summer; they are borne INTO the
rural districts by pervaSivc book agents, ana toN
ore ncvor hoard of afterwarl. Their fate IS mys-
terry. Perhaps they have all dnifed mo
remote f4yM houses where there is no
literary current TO carry them away
and th.r, II may BE- they are accumuIatlng,
.torc with ;he Pictorial History of America
Lives of ll!usirious Pirates" and tie Patent
Ifi IT,. Rcpori % astonsh future generatl ons WIN
tie evidence oi our taste and scholarship save
possibly IN these quiet domestic interiors the Ola
campaign biographies are never seen. even at inc
secondhand boob-~ta!ls Hawthorne himself couid
,,t ,,ok,, g campqign Life worth hvlag. Bat
there is a destiny FOR Colonel Forncy'S production
i VIII always have money valn-; and al auctions
,crof er we shall not he surprised to see the COL
lccfors of icets bidding wildly for the possession
fit. IL this campaign life of Winfield ;. Han
cool, the Democratic candidate for President of the
Un,ei states" observes Colonel Forncy, Is lit-
tie defective. I cannot bo blamed" Blamed! We
should think no!
Il NAV be well to premise that Colonel Forney
Wa. anci.nt.y a s.auach Democrat, and that when
flo d. mocr.cv began to 90 to pieces the rock OF
secession he joined the Republicans and became
Clerk of the House Of Il pTcsentatlves, Secretary OF
the Senate, and editor of TWO newspapers, Doth
daily The newspapers long ago slipped away from
him. the Socretaryship was gone, and II W&s per
hars in the dolusion that the Republican party was
gong too that he turned over once more to his
former political iath. " The little organs ana
paccmen OF party Just ushered INTO beng oheyear
after Imvself cooperated wi III it to put down hui
man slaveIy"-how can he have cooperaied with IL
one wear b fore il was ushered into being'-" are
now as angry IA so many disturbed mice IN rich
cheese because they say that / have lett the Ring
Republcansv The Colonel. however, makes us an
offer - VIII JOIN any side, or drop any side, II bv
So doing can get the American people u be GOOD
10 each other" OF coarse we should like 10 have
the American people good to each other; hut 1t
would DC too much t. ask Colonel Fcrncy to change
again.
In such volume as this" remarks our author,
"vhen So many illogical advantages are assumed
by the friends of General Garfield. the strongest
.y.,em of personal retaliation upon the private
character of the Democratic candidate for L eSl-
dent might be justified" We are rot sure that we
uuite understand the reasoning; bat We dissent
entirely from the conclusion The author of Dem
Dcrat,c campaign biography Of the D'mocrdic
candidate wOuld certainly not lie Ju3u-
ieI in attacking the personal character
his hero even b. way Of "rcta alton" for "illos-
iclladvaniales' TODD It would no: only he wrong but
would tend to create disturbance IN the family.
Fortunately Colonel rncy docs nos avail himself
Of what he Dcl'eNt 81 20 MS ht'Nfi-I', III Ni''i-
ever he does make General Hancock ridiculous it is
evident that he is not % il. We are toG that
the General was born III Montgomery County. Penn
sylvanin $50 called after General Richard
Montgom ~ the IRISH American General killed AT
Queenstown IN 1870. only nine years before tiiat
county was faEcn iTom inc larg'r district OF 'ml-
adclpliiar-a statement which viii surprise those
who have always believed ina Gcncrai Mouteom-
ery was killed at Quebec, and that
Queenstown never formrd rart Of
Philadelphia. Coloue! FoTncY'S subject was named
Winfield : -ot. because his parents were largely
Influenced by the fascinating incident Of the brill
liant hero " lao was stili suffering from the wounds
he had received IL rep ling the secoud British III
vasion Of our northern frontier-then hearing Tie
golden honors Of Congress, aftcr declining the
generous proii r Of hgl political Office from the
Administration OF President Monr0'.' We wish we
knew whether 1t wL- the nor hetu Itoa.l"T or the
British invasion that bre Tie god n hoHoGs Of
vongIess-but ia matter We cIn rcai none" Of
UancocAs If, withou; feeling thai Ne was &c raised
by careful parents, who had Justified their own de-
nestle metho;!s"-T hatrVcr that may have
been" into his eary trdinn@. lie aWd; minded
lis mother: and tins 'cads Colonel GCr1cy
TO ask why 1t Is that boys are losing the hadn't OF
minding their mothers. "Asslie,Iy,' he cXciaImS,
"admiraljon for the is not dead ainoag men /?
II would b. interesting no doubt, to inquire how
far obedience to maternal authority Is influenced
by admiration for the s"X; but, without panSing
to decide the problem" Colonel Forncy proceeds 20
commune at appalling length with nearly all the
old residents of Mon gomc.y County. and then he
hnriies to West Point, where " the nOyitlate OF
Winfield was crow ned by the resp cctab!liiy of his
examination At this era no man or woman in
this country mad any conception wncro the next
thirty years woud carry Our country"
and even " HmcOck could not read his
own future rne rapid development of the en-
pre of the West was made interesting by his mar
rage" with lady of 81. Loais. Crossing the
Rocky Mountains " he landed Oh the shores ~
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