Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-24
FROM CHATTANOOGA TO CON-
GRESS.

spoke the truth in his speech at Curran,
in Sangamon county, last week-and
Gen. Palmer is a gentleman not given to
inaccuracy or wildness of statement
that chapter of Gen. Gartield's history
which makes him out a gallant and brill
liant soldier will have to be rewritten, for,
according to Gen. Palmer's statement, he
was neither gallant nor brilliant-unless
abandonment of his companions on the
eve of battle can be called gallantry and
brilliancy. 1t was on the 18th of Octo-
Der, 1868, that Gen. Garfield left the
army to take his seat in Congress. Con-
eress was not to assemble for six weeks,
so that he needed not to be in a
hurry; there s.as plenty of time
for him to take part in the ex-
pected battle near Chattanooga, for
which the army was at that very time
preparing, and get to Washington long
before the meeting of Congress on the
first Monday in December. But he had
so little thirst for the honors to be won
on the battle field, and yearned so ar
IDENTIFY for the tanner but safer honors to
be won at Washington, that he made
haste to get away from the army. On
the 18th of October, says Gen. Palmer,
he mounted his horse and rode to the
rear, leaving his comrades exposed to the
enemy's fire, and already in line of bat
tle." at was remarked in the army at
the time" adds General Palmer, s'that
General Garfield had left the army at a
time when no true soldier would have
done So"
Hancock certainly would not have done
so. He would have thought that the
best place to represent his constituents
was on the battlefield.
THE Schoharie Republican reports
these political changes Judge Smith of
Herkimer and Jacob Smell of Fort Ploin,
Montgomery county, two well-known
stalwart and influential Republicans, adj
dressed the Democracy of C~anajoharie on
Friday of last week, IN the occasion of
the Hancock and English banner-raising
at that place. Ex-Sheriff Wagner has
also come out for Hancock. These are
changes of no little Importance, as every
n of them has a large following. The
great Hancock boom is booming all along
the line, quietly but earnestly.
BESIDES John w. Forney, Alex. Nc
Clure and Edward Joy Morris, of Phila-
delphia, who have left the Republican
ranks and declared for Hancock, these
are since reported John Jay Smith,
the historian /; General Hoffman, of the
Loyal Legion ; Stephen d. Winslow, ed
itor efsthe Commercial List William
Stewart, q prominent merchant /; Charles
j. Patterson. the ell-known author.
DR.. Magoon, a prominent Baptist clergy
man ; Mr.. Bennett, Of the famous Tower
Hall clothing house, and Charles Wistar,
of Germantown-all leading Republicans.
PROBABLY the paragraph given below.
from the Carson Times, is true, and prob
ably it is not. 1t is given a place in the
SENTINEL for what it is worth, being re.
garded by this journal as merely a cam.
paign zumor. There can be no doubt
tLat Colonel Fair would make a strong
and successful race should he determine
to enter the liss Of aspirants:
1t is authoritatively announced that
James G.. Fair will be a candidate for
the United States Senatorship from Ne
vada. IL IL understood that by q cable
dispatch he has authorized the presenta-
ton OF his name. Mr.. Fair has coin,
piausibiiity and q large following who will
give him powerful backing.
In a letter to the next Vice President.
VIM. H. English, Colonel w. Forney
writes at seems to me to be so mon
strous that after seventeen years of peace
we should still be in the midst Of recrim.
nation and partial war, and that the
party with which l have been identified
for twenty-five years, after having made
such a glorious record, has no prouder
boast thar to seek to govern the country
by reviving passions and preiudices Of
which we ought long since to have been
ashamed"