—Quite so.
How did he show it?
—By bringing a bill into Congress to dismiss General Hancock from the army for insisting on all the rights of citizens in time of peace.
Good heavens!
—Yes, good heavens! I should say so. That wasn't the worst part of it. He wanted the bill voted on the next day. And the act provided that it should take effect as soon as it was passed. So that, if General Hancock had nothing outside his pay, this soldier (?) who ran away from the field to go "jobbing" in Congress, would the next day have made a beggar of the man who really saved the Union!
Do you think good, honest Republican voters (I don't mean the "machine" men), know or remember anything about it?
—We live so fast that I expect many of them have let it drop out of their minds. But now's the time for them to remember it.
Has General Hancock shown how he can deal with trying difficulties since the war?
—I should rather think so. Do you remember when they had the terrible riots in Pennsylvania, and so much property was destroyed and so many lives lost in and about Pittsburgh? Well, the very men who to-day are talking up Garfield and running down Hancock, were shaking in their shoes; Schurz, whom Hancock caught trying to make himself invisible at Gettysburg, among them. It was a regular Quakers' meeting. Finding they could make no head against it, and that the thing was spreading and getting to look like a revolution, what did they do? Why, they sent for the man whom Garfield wanted to beggar and disgrace, and besought him to take the thing in hand and restore order. They gave him full power.
And how did he act?