The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-03-29

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| honored with his confidence and affec-
ton to the end of his blameless life, 1
cannot hear in silence your bruta.
blow at my old comrade I must,
therefore, as soldier and a citizen,
protest against any utterance that
implies an impeachment of his 10y
atty to his country.
When Reynolds fell on the morn
ing of the first day, it was Hancock
whom Mead selected to take supreme
command in front, with power to
choose the ground where the great
battle of the war should be fought
out.
1t was Ha,. cock who planted his
colors ON Cemetery Heights, where he
rallied our disordered troops and
formed the lines on those historic
heights, beyond which the rising tides
of rebellion never passed.
It was Hancock who turned In
pending disaster into victory by the
countercharge, which saved the hon
or of the army on the evening of the
second day.
It was Hancock who repulsed that
grand assault, the most brilliant in the
annals of the war, when the flower of
the Army OF North Virginia wither-
ed and died before the fortitude of
the Army of the Potomac in the final
struggle of the third.
1t was thus that Hancock won at
Gettysburg a triple crown of glory
Naturally enough both houses of Con
gress adopted joint resolution to the
effect that, in addition to the thanks
which had been voted to the officers
and soldiers of the Army of the fo-
tomac "for the skill and heroic valor
which at Gettysburg repulsed, defeat
ed and drove back, broken and dis
pirited, the veteran army of the re-
bellion, the gratitude of the Ameri-
lean people and the thanks of their
Representatives in Congress are like
wise due and are hereby rendered Maj
W. S. Hancock for his gallant, mer-
itorious and conspicuous conduct in
that great and decisive victory"
In view of Hancock's constant and
CONSPICUOUS service to his country for
more than forty years, sealed as the
service with his own blood and, in
view of his proverbial purity of char
acter, it is amazing how any man
could rise in the Senate chamber to
defame his memory. But having had
the audacity TO do so, the least that
you now can do now in reparation of
this cruel wrong, alike to Hancock's
memory and the patriotic sentiment
of the country, is to rise again in the
Senate chamber and make full retrac-
tion and apology"
ingalls, was interviewed, and asked
if, In response to Col. Anderson's let
ter, he would make any retraction or
apology. He is reported to have
said
eyes, [ may apologize, but it will
be one of the very last acts of my life,
and if you wait to see it your whiskars
will be grayer the Emperor Williams
were when he took the last look from
the window of his palace in Berlin.
Commenting on the above the State
Chronicle we'll says:
Bloody Shirt Waving and Hatred
of the South will be THE issues of the
campaign. Big Pensions for Feder-
al Soldiers Who Don't Need Aid will
be the card by which they will at
tempt to win the North. The begin
ming of such canvass is an insult to
every Southarn man, Democrat or
Republican. Democrats will have
nothing to do with party so veno-
nous to their Section, and self suspect
ing Southern Republicans must leave
the party, or throw self respect to the
fonr-winds"