Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — They Keep a Comins. [ARTICLE]

They Keep a Comins.

Hon. Henry W. Harrington, the Greenback candidate for Governor in 1876, has declared for Hancock. In a letter to his son-in-law at Vevay, Ind.. he says: “The Convention selected a.man who has made a prominent part of the history of the eventful period; who must believe to its surroundings and in whose hands the party mttet. and will advance and meet and mold the emergencies which; have prison from the new relations of a past his tory as full of events as hsve boss experienced by any nation ia the world. I shall, as I now look at mat ters. vote for Hancock,” The comments of the Yevay Dtonocrat upon Mr. Harrington’s letter express truthfully the sentiment atAhe gentleman’s friends in Switzerland and Mai ion counties, and other portions of the State where he is known. The Democrat says; The declaration by Hr. Harrington of his determination to support Hen.' Hancock will be very welcome to his triends and admirers, of whom he has many in this county, where-hehas been so long, and well known as a profound lawyer and an omtpeat’ statesman. It will be received by them as the opinion oi a man. who thoy feel is actuated by no -tiiMserving motive, and who is one of the last to be suppeeted of being in*’ fluenced in his political course cyan application of party,discipline. Mr. Harrington’s ohoioc is that of- unAmerican citizen of the highest order of education and intelligence, made., after a careful survey of the political field, and given in favpr of the candidate whose election appears to b# the most desirable for the future success and perpetuity of our free institutions.

Gen. Hancock looked to the eonttitution for guidance; to the principle* es civil liberty; to the rights of the people, and having the great charter for his chart, was certain to commit no crime against the rights and liberties of tbe people. He wrote to Sherman : The army is laboring under disadvantages and has been used unlawfully at times in the Judgment es the people (in mine certainly), and we have lost a great deal of the kindly feeling which the community atlarge once felt for us. “It is time te stop and unlo: d.” Here we have the dlreot declaration that the army had been used unfully; that it had Deen used to maintain Legislatures never lawfully sleeted. To use the army unlawfully.is wrong under all circumstances, but to use it to beat down the liberties of the people is a crime es such fearful proportions to defy exaggeration. That such was the oasc Is fully set forth in Grant’s dispatch to B. 'B. Packard, of New Orleans, dated March 1,1877, which is an unequivocal indorsement of GeneralMaaeoelt’s declaration to Sherman. Tho dispatch was as follows:

Executive Mansion, > Wasxineton, D. C. Maich 1.~ t To Gov. 8. B. Packard, Now Orleans: Sib:— ln answer to your dispatch of this date, the President directs me to say that he feels it his duty to state frankly that he does not believe public opinion will longer support the maintenance of the State government of Lousiana by use es the military, and that he must concur la tMa manifest feeling. Troops will hereafter, as in the past, protect life and property from mob violence when the State authorities fail, but under the remain ing days of his official life they wilt not be used te establish or to pull down either of the claimants for mbtrolof the State. It is not his purpose to recognise either claimant O. O. Sxiffin; Beefy.* For months previous to the date es the foregoing dispatch troops had supported the infamous usurper, Packard. They had protected the villains who reversed the will of the citizens of Louisiana, sod > new that the frauds and forgeries required te place Hayes in power had been perfected, U. S. Great, four days before the expiration of hie term of office, sends a dispatch to Packard, nayfog that public opinion will no laager support the use of military In maintenance of Mtate governments. It was this use of the military that rrit denounced and that Grant at last war oompeiied to admits* against public Dpinien. Grant and the le-

#tfe!iean manager* kaaw full wall they were using eke army to prop eg fraud, and wave finally eompellad to bow to tbe demeads of. .aowuteagefi public opinion. Ia view of such foots tbe utff raneee of Oeaoral Haacoek tofbottuater of hla name and oadaai. him to (ho Amorioaa people.