The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-18
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extracts from the Jdln1 Disc sssiOh
RetWeen Gov. BakcF "hu
Senator Hendricks

and all thaU AAHu VI t1AbBs VIC COpy
literally from the report of the joint
debate between the two candidates for
Governor on this point. We copy the
report from the columns of the State
Sentinel, therefore Democrats will
hardly call in question its correctness.
1t will be observed that Senator HEN
DRIcKs-as has been the case with
most of his speeehes-devoted a
great deal of his time to the
negro and evidently regards the
African. as his strongest card.
His friends have been boasting
that he would put Governor BAKER
through course of sprouts.' for
his speech in Ohio in favor of negro
suffrage, and be made haste in his
first discussion to- make, good their
boast. How he came out will be
seen by the extracts we give from the
speeches. Senator HENDRICKS, un-
expectedly to himself, found. that he
had caughta tartar. When confront
ed with his vote on the DooLITTLE
amendment, he squirmed worse than
a skinned eel. His friends evidently
realized that their candidate had
gone for wool and come home shOrn
As we have already stated, Governor
BAKERS triumph in this part of the
discussion occasioned the greatest
delight among his supporters, who
hardly knew how to give expression
to their qualification.
On the negro question Senator
HENDRICKS spoke as follows:
My countrymen, 1 want to make one
comparison before you to-day. This
reconstruction measure of Congress
is made up of several provisions of
law. The first step was the Freed
mems Bureau in the Southern States.
Under that policy and law an agent
county and parish in the Southern
States; and. he was to be the guard
ian of the negro. If one of you SOL
diers had remained in Georgia. Ala
bama. South Carolina, Louisiana, or
any of the Southern States at the close
Of the war, and had bought or rented
farm, and wanted to- hire negro,
you could not make a, contract valid
o. binding on him unless submitted
10 aud approved by the Freedmen's
Bureau agent in the county. That
rests upon the idea that the negro is
not competent to take care Of himself
That same Congress, within year
from that time, saw fit to give the
negro the right to vote aud hold
office, and from that day to this the
negro has been engaged in the work
of making laws and tearing down
and rebuilding the structures of hu-
man governments. This rests upon
the idea that the negro is not only
competent to take care of himself but
everybody else. ELaughter.l When
l left my home a couple Of weeks
since a friend was visiting at my
house. He had recently been in the
neighborhood of the old home of JEFF
! fersoD, in Virginia, and as he stood in
| front of Monticello, with the Univer-
sity of Virginia on his left, an ac-
quaintance called his attention to a
poor old bare-foOted negro, and said
he: Do you know that colored
MANI" No" he replied. well.
that is the Senatorial delegate sent to
reirame the Constitution of the State
of Virginia, and he has just returned
to his home" Laughter.l Under
the Freedman's Bureau bill that ne
gro could not have made binding
contract with you until it was submit
ted to the judgment and approval of
a white man; but under the recon-
struction policy of Congress he
IS competent to make and un-
make State governments and
Unions. What do you think
of a policy such as that? Has it
brought you prosperity? Have you
been benefited by this policy of
breaking States down that they might
he built up by negro supremacy
Why didn't my competitor allude to
this subject? He thought it proper
to discuss it In Ohio year ago when
he made a speech in Mozart Hall in
Cincinnati. Nearly three columns of
that speech were taken up with an ar
gument going to prove that the negro
should be voter in Ohio. Here is
his speech published In the Indianap-
oils Journal. Laughter. But you
don't have to go to Ohio to get his
i views on the subject of negro suffrage
In Indiana. In speech on the 4th
of j uly, one year ago, in this State,
at knlghtstown, as published in the
4 indianapolis Journal, On the 9th day
| of July, 1867. is published the follow
ing. Remember, just one year ago in
July, at KnightstOwn, Indiana, this
speech was made:
Believing such considerations to
be appropriate to the occasion. have
no hesitancy in saying that ne sup
preston of the rebellion and the con-
which are still to flow therafrom,
ton on the broad platform of. the De-
claratlon of Independence, and con-
sequently assure to all classes OF our
citizens, of every race equal and i'm
partial civil and political rights
thenceforth and foreverp Z A0i953i
My competitor has told you how.
| this country has grown. / can go back
to the time Washington presided over
the convention which formed the Fed
eral Constitution; when there were but
thirteen States and million of in
habitants. Now there are thirty
seven States and forty million of peo-
pie. Under the policy of the fathers
we have grown from great to greater,
until we are now among the greatest
powers of the world, and our popula-
ton has spread everywhere from the
Alleghanies to beyond the Rocky
Mountains. and are occupying the
valleys and plains of the Pacific
shore. In the imagination of my
competitor, we have still higher and
prouder mission to accomplish-when
we allow the negro to be the equal of
me t Th1te man in thiscountry. Laugh
! want to take twelve Fighting
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