The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-02-20
Out of His Own Mouth" SC.

IL is difficult for man who is not honest
and yet is constantly making professions of
honesty, to be consistent. There is always
something crooked 10 his record. Mr. Hen
bricks, the recently elected United States
Senator from Indiana, is one OF the untor-
Inmates in this regard. He is even SO un-
ortusate as to expose his duplicity in a
single speech. Out of his own mouth let him
be judged. The peace party make the Pres
idents Proclamation pretext for their op
position to the Government. But for this,
Mr.. Hendricks tells US, .here would mot
Lave been dissentient voice in all the
North" Here are his words:
say to you gentlemen. if the President Of The
United States in the langus ge Of the Crittenden res
oiutions, hsd held the banner of this country for
the Constitution snd restored Union. that all the
states shall remain under that Consultation with
every right secured and unimpaired there would not
have been dissentient voice in all the North
Mr.. Crittenden's resolutions were adopted
soon after the rebels commenced the war tor
the destruction OF the Union and the Gov
ernment
There was but one vote against them III
the House of Representatives. Eighteen
months thereafter notice of the Emancipt-
ton Proclamation was issued. Now, during
the eighteen months. in which time the
slaves of rebels, how did such men as Mr.
Hendricks behave themselves :? The En-
quirer says 1.-THE heart of the real Demo
Gratis of the country never was in The war
Where was Mr.. Hendricks heart? Let
him speak Tor himself. Regarding deser-
tons he said in his Shebyvile speech:
know that in some of your reighborhoods you
src sperated by seeing young men who have taken
French lgave from the army, taken back They should
not have done so Before volunteering. they should
have thought well of the matter. At that time
did not advise anybody to enlist, because was not
going myself, aud would not recommend any one to
do thing would not do myself
1t appears then, that when men we're call
ed for to save the county at the time too,
when Mr. Crittenden's resolutions, almost
unanimously adopted by Congress, were
fresh and when there was no emancipation
to trouble the conscience of virtuous Dem
ocrats. Mr.. Hendricks heart aeas not IN the
Uar. He, by his own admission, did moi
adyise anybody to enlist Why :" would
not recommend any one to do a thing
would not do myself That sounds br we
or candid. or something of that sort; but ii
is very flimsy excuse an apology SO trans.
parent that a man with half an eye can see
through it. II is very plain that every body
could not, ought not. 60 TO the war. mas
much as we had no slaves to work for the
support OF armies in the field, or families at
home. it was necessary to keep large pro
Portion of our white population to sustain
those who did go TO the war. 1t is possible
that Mr.. Hendricks might have been more
valuable TO bis country at home than in the
field. Ii so, his place was at home. But
this would not preclude him from aiding bis
country in its day of peril, by his influence.
The reason he offers, therefore, for not ad-
wishing "sny body to enlist IS not the true
reason. Neither is his present opposition
caused by the Presidents proclamation. 1t
is plain, from the fact that his Influence
from the start has been against the Govern.
ment, that his heart has never been in the
war; and it is equally plain that his heart.
from the beginning. has been In the rebel
lion. He stands now, precisely where he
stood when the Criitenden resolutions were
adopted. He was too cowardly to avow his
true sentiments then. and he is not honest
enough now to give the true reason for his
present position. If lie told the truth he
could not make party capital, but BY howl
ing Abolitonism. and appealing to preju
dices, and exciting the passions of the peo-
pie, he can, or thinks he can make party
capital, and therefore be bowls. appeals,
misrepresents and acts cut the part of a
shrewd and designing denagogue. Out Of
bis own mouth we have proved him dishon-
est aud disloval Cincinnati Gazette.