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Senator Hendricks Speech.


dianapolis on Tuesday night, and made a
speech. He wept piteousy over the wrongs
and sufferings of the men recently in rebellion.
Lee and Beauregard have lost their commits
sons in the national army; number of men
who were Senators and Representatives before
the rebellion cannot get re-elected the rebel
whites who have lost their means in the war
cannot refill their exhausted pockets by sell
ing negro or two; and in short, the wrongs
and deprivatons heaped upon "a brave and
chivalrous people, by the Republican party
have not been eqdalled since Grant aud Sher-
man, in 1865, disarmed about 150 900 of them
and sent them home on their parole of good
behaviour.
Mr.. Hendricks denies that there is any
peace, or can ever be any peace, at the South,
as long as there is Republican President, and
for proof of it refers to Frank Blairs threat
to renew the Rebellion, destroy the Southern
State Governments, eject the present Repre-
sentatives in Congress, and compel the admis-
sion of new ones elected by the Rebel organi-
cations.
But Mr.. Hendricks is most piteous in his
lamentations over Southern wrongs when he
discusses bill which was before Congress,
providing for a reduction of the army and the
withdrawal OF the troops from all the States,
except the garrisoning OF forts, ETC., and the
distribution among the several States according
to the population, of arms for the State
militia. The bill directed that there be dis
tributed to the States, and delivered to the
Governor thereof, from the national armory,
292,0 coo rifles with the accoutrements, to be
held by the States for the use of the militia.
The distribution proposed would give 1000 for
each Senator and Representative. Mr.. Hen
bricks saw nothing in this measure but an
attempt to arm the negro and enable him, at
the point of the bayonet, to control, subjugate,
rule and govern the thirty-three or thirty four
millions of white people in the United States
The whole number of arms falling to the share
OF the reconstructed State governments was
only $1,000, leaving among the people of all
the other States, pa 900 muskets with which
to defend them elves against the South.
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky would
get one-fourth more rifles under the bill than
all the reconstructed States combined.
The reader will hardly believe that the ex-
candidate for President, the present Senator,
and the candidate for Governor of Indiana,
devoted large portion of his speech to
statement Of the sutferiDgs and expressions
which the South might endure under that
bill, when he knew, and the South knew, and
his hearers knew, that the bill did not pass,
and is not the law. MIR. Hendricks tears upon
this subject are only equaled by those shed
by the venerable maiden who wept because
If she should ever get married and If she
should have baby, and If the baby should
wander Off and fall into the river and be
drowned, how afflicted she would be Mr..
Hendricks attempted some weak assaults upon
taxes and expenditures, but Commissioners
Wells official report on that subject, printed
in the Tribune this morning, brushes his mis-
representations and those of other Copper
head statisticians in he egg.
Domestic Difficulties of the Democracy.
From. the NJ ?. Times.
The Democratic party, just now, is not a
happy family. 1t has troubles within and
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mise to be greater. To the difficulties attendant
upon a.war against Grant are added the diff
culties arising out of sectional differences in
the ranks of the party itself. Its fight would
be an arduous one under he most harmonious
circumstances. 1t is especially difficult now,
because East and West are not cordially in
unison, and CALLING fire is kept up in the
rear of both by the dictatorial Southerners.
The financial question is a cause of coolness,
II not of contention, between Eastern leaders
and Western. Among the main body of the
party, in both sections, unanimity undoubt-
edly exists. They agree in the demand for
paying the bonds in greenbacks, and mean
while for taxing them nationally and locally.
The rank and file are hearty Pendletonians,
theoretically and practically. But the officers
those who control the supplies, direct the
movements, and judge of the tactics that may
be advantageously employed-can do no more
than agree to differ. The East, they know,
must dodge reputation, while the West will
have 1t, hot and poisonous as cheap whisky.
Eastern managers, therefore, exclude Pendle-
ton, while Western Democracy wants him
above all other canvassers. Mr.. Tilden is
valiant after fashion; he insists that his
party shall be aggressive; but he and his as
secate managers in this State have horror
of Pendleton and his heresies. Whoever else
may come to talk in this State or in New Eng
land or in Philadelphia Pendleton must be
excluded. BY this course the wise men of the
East hope to find pretexts for their hypocrisy
touching the currency and the bonds.
The Western Democrats, on the other hand
are more positive. They care nothing for Sey
mour except as the occupant of PeDdleton's
platform, and they will tolerate no attempt tC
evade or explain away its meaning. They ART
for taxing the bonds almost ont of existence
and paying off what may remain of them il
greenbacks; and they insist on conducting the
campaign on this basis. The pets of the East
ern Committee obtain no favor there. Sey
mour, who rides awkwardly astride the bono
question, is not wanted; and Blair, whose let
ter treats the financial question as subordi
nate, everywhere encounter Indifference. Th
West does not want to hear Seymour or Blai
or anybody whom Messrs. Belmont and Tildel
may select. 1t wants the outspOken Pendle
ton and those who are as fearless as he in tn
cause of repudiation. Here as we'll as there, tn
issue really to be settled is one OF good faith o
reputation; but only the Western manager
fight manfully under the latter flag. Tn
hypocrisy OF the Eastern leaders disgust
Western Democrats as much as the platform
disgusts the country.
The most formidable of the party's Difficult
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