The New Dominion

Justice to Gen. Hancock.

We copy the following paragraph from the leading columns of that Stalwart republican journal, the Troy Times—"Poor Hancock is to be pitied. Although a weak, vain, and ambitious man, he was too good a soldier to be slaughtered by the Democratic party."

This is unworthy of even a Garfield organ after election. Gen. Hancock is not weak or vain. He is an able, just, upright, noble minded man; and if he had been weak, the battle of Gettysburg might have ended very differently. Neither is he ambitious in the low sense intended by the above slur. His ambition is perfectly honorable, because his first thought is to serve his country. No design of promoting dishonest cronies or base-hearted parasites, no scheme against the public treasury, enters into it. Such ambition as his is deserving of nothing but respect and admiration.

Neither has he been slaughtered by the party which nominated him at Cincinnati. He has been supported earnestly and manfully by the Democratic masses. A clear majority of the popular suffrages is his. In spite of unprecedented difficulties and of every discouragement, they have carried him so near an election that the republicans have nothing to exult over as respects the margin of their success. They have won through the incompetence, stupidity, meanness, or treachery of so-called Democratic leaders here in this city. But Gen. Hancock has every reason to be proud of the support he has received; and the Democracy need not be ashamed of the gallant candidate whom they have barely failed to elect.

N. Y. Sun.