The Magnolia gazette., 1882-03-03
GEN. HANCOCK ON auITEAU:
lfE D1scussKs THE TRIAL AND ExPREssEs
VALUABLE VIEWS on orirsR SUBJECTS.


VALUABLE VIEWS on oTlnsR sUBJEcrs
Helena world.I
Ueu. Hancock expressed himself very
forcibIy. when 10 the city few days ago,
upon the Gnitean trial. While 10 com
mon with all good citizens, be would
have been pleased to see the assassin get
iustice as near the day his atrocious
crime was committed as possible. July
3. he thought it was perhaps for the
best that the trial occupied the time
that it.did. First, it showed that the
ineanest and most despicable creature is
allowed the same law that regulates the
highest aud the best in tins republican
country: second it proves to the pubhc
at home and abroad the great strength
and permanency OF our institutions,
covering, as 1t did, the space of several
months, the criminal usiug every means
known to law and not deprived of speech
in the court. room, yet convicted OF muir
der, third. the extraordinary side occur
rences of the scence, and higher than all,
the assassin himself and his CRIME
brought home to 100000 600 OF people
by the dispatches daily tor many days
would not be without wholesome etfect
upon that class who place a small es-
innate upon the life Of tue head OF the
government. Tie General spoke feeling
ly of the reception given him at Cleve-
land during the funeral obsequies Of
the late President Garfield, aud said
that the raised hats and silence OF the
people indicated that great reverence
and respect which Is so prominent an
attribute of the American people; an
attribute which speaks volumes for our
country.
He thought that the people OF the
South did not appreciate their adsan,,
tnges in soil, timber, water courses, and
that the time must come when we wonld
not only make the articles at home that
, make the cotton and have the great white
staple as a surplus, but that home fac
tories would follow, and cotton would be
grown and baled and sold and manufac-
tured by friends and nsighbofs. lie
! had always wished to possess large
plantation in the Mississippi bottom, ,ano
, Thought that he could have it run sue
cessfully even though lie should reside
> far distant. He would have his neees
? saries produced at home, though admir-
: ing the enterprise of those gentlemen O.
the West among whom we have ou
+. corn cribs and our smoke-houses, anc
he would see e.. it that less cotton see'
y was sold and more put npon the earth
: Further, be would rigidly guard ever,
: piece OF timber, as tue tiae is not Ia
: distant when the oak and the cypres
apd the pine of the South, now so lightl
regarded by us, would be the mos
z valuable part Of our resources. In proc
e of this he cited the advancing strides .
4 the great timber manufactures OF tn
West and the gradual giving way OF tn
forests of that section to the ax,
2 The General certainly has the righ
e idea about farming in the South, and
|. capable Of impartiug instructions
: many who have resided upoE the plat
I, tations always, and the best evidenc
u that he is correct is that we sometime
4 see his ideas carried into practice, IN
# they always win. Gen. Hancock thougl
g the uplands between Helena and Fore
City as fine as he had ever seen, and sa
4" that there ought not to be any troub
/ whatever to produce good crops OF gra
=, ana grasses upon such soil. He hope
Il to make his next trip from Little Ra'
by the Arkansas Midland RailIoad, Al
: seemed to know quite MS much OF o.
+ railroad enterprises as the best post'
. rmcngu us.