The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-12-19

into such an argument But, sir, when
the Senator says that the time has come,
and he tharks God for it, when the OPP
probrious epithets to which he referred
| towards the men who have heen in the
rebellion
Mr. HESDRIcKs No, sir; I did not
say that.
| Mr.. MORTON. The Senator did not
hear me out, quite. l understood him
to say that the time had come when op-
probrious epithets toward the men who
have been in this rebellion and those
who have sympathized with them in the
| North, as we understand them to have
| sympathized-t = rigs .-r7- gr9 gam
Mr.. HENDRICKS. l did not say that,
either.
Mr.. MORTON. That, understood to
be the idea of the Senator. s. ~
| Mr.. HENDRICKS. No, sir.
Mr. MORTON. The Senator said that
the tine had passed when the epithets
which had been applied toward the Dem
ocracy of the North-if the Senator will
accept that statement of it-could not
be any longer used. I think the Sena-
tor will find himself mistaken I think
the popular hatred of this rebellion, and
the hatred of those who aided and abet
ted it in the North, is just as strong as
it ever was; and the idea that this feel
ing has passed away aud subsidized will
be found to be mistake. It may some
times sleep; while the people have their
minds diverted to some other questions
they may turn aside incidentally, and
] for time even act with the other party !;
but, sir, in ten years from this time that
feeling will be stronger than it is to day,
and twenty years hence, in my opinion.
it will be overwhelming; and the next
generation will entertain it far more
strongly than the present.
But, Mr.. President, that is unimpor
tant to the present purpose. The Sena-
tors position may be stated briefly thus ::
The Senator acted with the Democratic
party of Indiana and the North he was
and is prominent and distinguished
leader. If that party was in favor Of
the prosecution of the war and Of put
ting down the rebellion, and in favor of
the adoption of the measures neccessa-
ry for that end, then the Senator was in
favor of that; if the party was not,
then the Senator was not, becaus he was
and is in harmony with his party.
Mr.. President, in regard to the incon-
sistency CT enforcing negro suffrage at
the South and not doing it at the North
I said-and / said what is a fact, and
the Senator's intelligence will accord to
! the truth of it in moment-that there
are men everywhere in the North who
are opposed to enfranchising the negroes
in the Northern. States on account of
their prejudices against them on the
ground of color, and who say there is
no necessity for it in Indiana, there is
no necessity for it in New York, there is
no necessity for it in Ohio, because there
the negroes are protected anyhow in the
enjoyment of their rights, and they say
there is no necessity for it there on &C
count of the public safety. ~
| That is the argument they use. l do
not accord with it myself; but the same
men are just as earnestly in favor now
of negro suffrage in the South as any
other class of men, because events have
proved that it is necessary in order to
the establishment of legal and loyal
State governments down there, not be-
cause they love the colored men in the
South better than they love him in In
diana or Ohio, but because public events
haze shown that loyal State governments
can not be established and maintained
in the late rebel States without his vote /;
and perhaps the same feeling prevails in
regard to the government Of this Dis
here by charter. 1t is believed that a
very large majority of tue white voters
are disloyal-have either participated
actually Or sympathized earnestly with
the rebellion, and for that reason l un-
dertake to say that the majority of fifty
thousand who voted against negro suf-
frage in Ohio would vote for it in the
District of Columbia, because they be-
lieve that here it is necessity to the
establishment of a loyal domestic city
government