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

though as a citizen of this republic nothing that concerns its future is indifferent to me; but till now I have not seen a time when it appeared to me a great and solemn duty to stand out in favor of actual Democratic work. The Democratic convention at Cincinnati has proposed a candidate for President of the United States, to whom, when a young man, I taught civil and military engineering, and know him very well. He is a clean man-[loud cheers]-a gallant and prudent commander, and a brave and chivalrous officer. I think the nomination promises to do things for the future which ought to make every patriotic man's heart leap for joy." [Loud cheers.]

GENERAL HANCOCK RECEIVING THE NEWS OF HIS

NOMINATION.

I was looking out of my bay window, corner of Seventh and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, on a bright Saturday morning, June 19th, when a band of music, sounding from the east, attracted my attention, and in a few moments the Americus Club, a leading Democratic organization in that city, ap peared on the sidewalk, and at the head of it my old friend, Daniel Dougherty, Esq.

The beautiful day, the stalwart men, the cheering music, the shouting crowds, added somewhat to my surprise, as it did to the evident satisfaction of Dougherty, who kissed his hand as he passed on his way to the Democratic National Convention at Cincinnati, where, as I have elsewhere written, he made for himself new fame by his great speech in favor of Hancock.

I did not conceal my admiration for Mr. Dougherty's course, nor did I hesitate to express

the hope that General Hancock might be made the standard-bearer of my old party for President of the United States.

General Garfield was a relief from the crowd of men who had hounded General Grant at Chicago. I spoke of him as I felt in that spirit, until I saw the blasting record as it was revealed by his own friends, most of which, up to that time, almost entirely unknown to me.

On the 23d of June, 1880, General Hancock was nominated at Cincinnati, and I can well imagine his own emotions when the congratulations upon that event were sent to him at Governor's Island, excited by the unanimity with which his nomination was crowned, and glorified by the splendors of the rhetoric of Dougherty and Daniel. I sent the following congratulatory dispatch to Mr. Dougherty before General Hancock's nomination.

PHILADELPHIA, PA,, June 24th.

TO DANIEL DOUGHERTY, Member of Convention, Cincinnati: I congratulate you, dear old friend, on your great speech in favor of the living hero of Gettysburg, the Murat of Pennsylvania. If nominated at Cincinnati for President he would deliver this great Commonwealth from the terrible curse that has polluted its fair fame, destroyed the hopes of its young men, and enriched its insolent politicians. It will be a welcome to hundreds of thousands of Republicans who regard Grant's sacrifice at Chicago as the unspeakable ingratitude of the age, and it will consolidate North and South in the holy bonds of fraternal peace and prosperity. I embrace you,

JOHN W. FORNEY.