Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — MEMORABLE WORDS. [ARTICLE]

MEMORABLE WORDS.

Lincoln's Opinion f Hancock “Some of the older generate have said to vie that he is rash, and I have said to them that I have watched General Hancock's conduct very carefully, and I have found that when he goes into action he achieves his purpose and comes out with a smaller list of casualties than any of them. _ If hm life and health is spared I believe General Hancock is destined to be one of the most distinguished men of the eke”

General Rosecrans, Garfield’s old commander, has issued a ringing circular to the Hancock Guards in California. Senator Gonkling says that he does not believe the Democracy of New York will be ilivided in the state con test in that state. The reconstructed rebel General Longetreet says he will not go for Hancock. He went for him at Cemctary Heights and it was no go. The New Haven Register says : “J—Ames A. Garfield is a suggestive way of writing the name of the Republican Candidate for President.” From all sections of Indiaha the outlook for Democratic success is exceedingly cheering and. encouraging. Landers will carry the State by a hoai y majority, Capt.H. Egan, Ex-Auditor of Noble, county, and a prominent Republican in that part of the State for many years has announced his intention to support Hancock. He lost'both legs in the army and wields a big influence with the soldiers in his part of the Stated

Tli 9-radicals were more blatant in their claims of Indiana in 1876 than they are to-day, but Benny missed it it all the same.

Take, for instance, says the Hills*, borough, Ohio, Gazette, this fact: In the llscol year of 1867 over one" hundred millions of gallons of distilled spirits were manufactored in the United States. The twe was $2 per gallon. The revenue fcotiaitbut source should have been tivo hundred mu'* lions of dollars. The revenue collected from that source was only seventeen millions of dollars. Where I has the money gone?}

The nows from Pennsylvania is that Republicans continue to tumble out of their party into the Democratic rauks. John W. Forney is reporting soores of men, heretofore prominent radicals, weekly, and tho Philadelphia Times tells of as many more. Cos. John S. McOnlmot, of -Venango, Pa., has written to tho editor of the Venango Spectator, announcing his intention to support Huncock, Col. Me. has been a prominent Republican for many years. He was a mernbur of the Legislature in 1859.'and Speaker, and President. Judge in Venango, from 1853 to 1881, when ho resigned from the oonch to take command of the Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves.