Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-04
GEN. HANCOCK on GUITEAU.
He Discusses the Trial and Expresses
Valuable Views on Other subj ects.
He lena World.

Gen. Hancock expressed himself very for
ciblv, when In the CITY few days ago, upon
the GUT eau trial. While IN common with
all good citizens, he would have been
pleased to see the assassin get Justice as
near the day his atrocinus crime was COM
mitted as possible, July 2, he thought It
was perhaps, for the best that the trial
occUpied the time that It did. First, it
showed that the meanest and most despica-
BILE creature is allowed the same law that
regulates the highest and the best In
this republican country; second, it
proves to the public at home and
abroad the Rreat strength and parmsnercY
Of our institutions, covering, as it did, the
space Of several months, the criminal using
every means known to law and not de-
prived of speech in the court room, vet con-
victed OF murder; third, the extraordinary
side occurrences Of the scene, and, higher
than all, the assassin himself and his crime
brought home TO so 600 600 Of people by the
dispatches daily for many dsvs would not
be without a wholesome effect upon that
class who place a small estimate upon the
life of the head OF the government. The
General spoke feeingly Of the reception
given him at Cleveland during the funeral
obsequies of the late President Garfield, and
said that the raised hats and silence OF the
people indicated that great reverence aud
OF the American people-sn attribute which
speaks volumes for our country.
He thought the people of the South did
not appreciate their advantages in soil, tim
ber and water courses, and said that the
time must come when we would rot o. lY
make the articles at home that make the
cotton and bave the great white staple as a
surplu but that home factories would fol-
low, and cotton would be grown. and baled,
nd aaf Nv frfo
neighbors. He had always wished to pos
sess large plantation in the Mississippi
bottom, and thought that be could have It
run successfully even though he should re-
side far distant. He would have his neees-
saries produced at home, though ad-
miring the enterprise of those gen
tlemen of the West among whom
we have our corn cribs and our smoke
houses, and he would see to 1t that less COT
ton seed was sold and more put upon the
earth. Further, he would rlgidly guard
every piece of timber, as the time is not far
distant when the oak and the cypress and
the pine Of the South, now so lightly re
garded bv us, would be the most valuable
part of our resources. In proof of this he
cited the advancing strides of the great
timber manufactures of the West and the
gradual giving way Of the forests OF that
section to the age.
Inc 0eneTai ceTtdluly mas Lne TlEHJ luea
about farming In the South, and is capable
of imparting instructions to many who
have resided upon the plantations slways,
and the best evidence that be is correct is
that we sometimes see his ideas carried into
practice, and they always win. General
Hancock thought the uplands between
Helena and Forest City as fine as he had
ever seen, and said that there ought TO not
be any trouble whatever to produce good
crops of grain and grasses upon such soil.
He hoped to make his next t'ip frnm Little
Rock by the Arkansas Midland Railroad,
and seemed to know quite as much OF our
railroad enterprises as the best posted
among US.