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The Salt Lake Herald
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah
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The New York Tribune reports Democratic journals revising General Hancock's conduct in the Surratt case, with denunciations from Mrs. Toney (Mary Surratt's daughter) and Professor Toney. Reviews of his 1867-68 Fifth Military District role portray him as a tool against reconstruction laws. His Cheyenne Indian campaign cost $9,000,000 and failed.
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New York, 26. - The Tribune says: Democratic journals have begun to give a revised version of General Hancock's conduct in the Surratt case. Mrs. Toney (a daughter of Mrs. Surratt) and her husband, Professor Toney, denounce Hancock. A review of Hancock's career in the Fifth Military District in 1867-68 shows him to have been the tool of conspirators who intended the overthrow of the reconstruction laws. It is shown that General Hancock's last active military campaign, that against the Cheyenne Indians, cost the government $9,000,000, and proved a failure.
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New York
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26.
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cheyenne indian campaign cost the government $9,000,000 and proved a failure.
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Democratic journals revise General Hancock's conduct in the Surratt case. Mrs. Toney and Professor Toney denounce him. Review of his career in the Fifth Military District in 1867-68 shows him as tool of conspirators against reconstruction laws.