regiment to take, and hold that spot, until he could bring up the artillery. Hancock had now pressed the Confederates back, and was holding the ground around and beyond the Dunker church, but at this time Gen. Lee forwarded two fresh divisions to his left, and with this re-inforcement the Confederates again advanced, driving General Hancock back some distance. Here the fight was a perfect pandemonium, the sharp rattle of musketry, the heavy booming of cannon, the earth fairly shaking under the tread of two desperate armies, which crossed and recrossed that blood-stained field five separate times. The situation in which Hancock was placed was exceedingly critical, and Gen. Franklin was promptly ordered to his assistance. He hastened forward and Hancock again gave the order for an advance. In the meantime Hancock had brought up all of his artillery, and concentrating his batteries he opened a murderous fire upon the enemy's lines.

He then fell heavily on Gen. Hill's extreme right, and forcing him back, compelled Hill to call for more reinforcements. For two hours the battle now raged. The rebels being again reinforced, a column was formed, under cover of the woods, to capture Hancock's batteries, which were doing terrible destruction to the rebel lines. The column started at a run to cross the open space and charge the guns, but the heavy fire of the artillery, and the cool, steady volleys of our infantry sent them reeling back to shelter, and covered the ground with their dead and wounded. It was now Hancock's time to charge, and with the brigades of Gens. French, Meagher and Morris, he at their head, raising himself in his saddle, swinging his sword high in air, he rushed like an avalanche upon the retreating foe, driving them more than half a mile. Again and again did Gen. Hill attempt to recover his lost ground, but in vain. Hancock had pushed the rebels to and through Sharpsburg, which he held as night spread her mantle of darkness over the field of death and put an end to one of the most sanguinary battles the world has ever seen. Gen. Hooker now came to inquire of Hancock whether he could hold his ground on the morrow. Hancock replied, that "with the help of God and cold iron he could hold it for a week." On that small piece of ground, between Antietam and the Potomac, night found more than twenty thousand men dead or wound

ed, but Gen. Hancock master of the situation on the right and in possession of the field. J. W. Y.

A FALSE MAGNANIMITY.

There is nothing in modern life so shameless as the false magnanimity of the ring managers of the Republican party. They boast of their forgiveness of the South, when they had nothing to do with it but to object to it; and now that they take credit for it, they insolently attempt to fetter it with new conditions. They rally half a million office-holders and office seekers to a new war upon the South, and try to cheat the South out of the pardon offered by the laws and sanctified by the Constitution, by declaring that the people of the forgiven Sections must be disfranchised at the polls because they are still disloyal.

This is to turn pardon into persecution. Now the glory of our country is that when we closed the war we made the Southern people our full equals by taking them back to our hearts and homes. But now the ring Republicans, under Garfield, are doing their wicked best to undo all the clemency of the founders of the Republican party, by showing that this clemency was only intended as another slavery. I call this a false magnanimity. A better word would be to call it a bold malignity. And the worst of it is, that in this bad work men are ready to take part, who, under other circumstances, would shrink from such a code of morals

as a complete abandonment of ordinary truth and personal honor.

ROSECRANS ON HANCOCK.

No word has been spoken of Hancock by the great soldiers of the Union but praise. He re ceived the highest honors from Lincoln and Meade before they died; and from the living Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, McClellan, Baldy Smith, Franklin, Walker (Superintendent of the Census), Phelps of Vermont, Slocum, Dunn (Adjutant General), Stedman, Fitz John Porter, Irwin, Coulter, Mulholland, from all these the commendation is of the highest. The gallant William Starke Rosecrans spoke of him at San Francisco, at a great meeting, as follows:

At a great Democratic ratification meeting in San Francisco, June 25, General Rosecrans, as Chairman, being introduced, said: "Fellowcitizens, to preside over an assemblage such as this, composed of men distinguished in all the professions, in commerce, in trade, in the artsmen with patriotism and intelligence, whose purpose in meeting here is so well understood, is certainly a very great honor, but superadded to that honor is also the fact that they assembled here to perform a very great and very solemn duty. They are to give the voice of this great State and express the judgment on behalf of a very vast number of their fellow-citizens upon the selections made in Cincinnati for the candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency to be voted for by the Democratic people. That adds to the interest, but neither of these would suffice to have induced me to appear in public-not that I lack interest in the Democracy. Few have made more sacrifices for those principles than I have from the beginning of the war until this day. [Cheers.] Nor would I have been here under any ordinary circumstances, al