. Life and military career of Winfield Scott Hancock; his early life, education and remarkable military career. tax not only by their votes andtheir voices, but to the death. It was for a timeas bitter and almost as bloody as the previous warwith the English, or the earlier wars with theIndians. The State was excited to its borders,and the whole country was seriously United States Marshal was obliged to flee forhis life, and the house of John Neville, where hehad been harbored, was burned, and a numberwere killed. There was no security for life, andan open defiance of law, in fact
. Life and military career of Winfield Scott Hancock; his early life, education and remarkable military career. tax not only by their votes andtheir voices, but to the death. It was for a timeas bitter and almost as bloody as the previous warwith the English, or the earlier wars with theIndians. The State was excited to its borders,and the whole country was seriously United States Marshal was obliged to flee forhis life, and the house of John Neville, where hehad been harbored, was burned, and a numberwere killed. There was no security for life, andan open defiance of law, in fact one wide reign ofterror. What did the government do at that time ? Ke-membering that the offenders were our own citi-zens, that the law which they complained of hadborne hardly upon them, that some of the officialswere tyrannical, and that the proceeds of theirwhisky manufacture, w^as in fact at that time, thechief means of livelihood in all that section—markhow singularly these causes of the great rebellionin Pennsylvania eighty-six years ago, resembledthe alleged excuses for the greater rebellion which. Gen. George G. Meade.
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