Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1882 — Then and Now. [ARTICLE]

Then and Now.

Whenever Gen. Hancock now makes a public appearance, the journals which opposed him in 1880 are, considering their gross abuse of him then, something too warm and 1 avish in their commendation of him as a soldier and a patriot. He is now described as a very decorous and most-ardent lover of his country. He was then denounced as a brute and a traitor. He is now complimented upon the robustness of his health. It was asserted during the campaign that he larded the lean earth as he walked along—the same earth which would speedily cover him, since he was a sorry wreck, mentally and physically. He is now so very modest in his bearing. He was then, according to his later eulogists, ridiculously and unwarrantably ambitious. Perhaps the General himself would, on the whole, be better pleased if, at the expense of their present superlatives, these organs bad treated him in ’BO with something like common decency and fairness. And it would certainly cj&aduce to the reputation of those journals if they would not so persistently and openly call attention to their own gross calumnies. —Chicago Times.