Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-09-04
HOW HENDRICKS WAS BEATEN.
Authentic Statement by his Best Friend

The New YORK sun publishes the fol-
lowing from the pen Of Winslow s. Lewis,
: Of Indianapolis, the brother-in law, and
confidential political manager Of Hen
bricks. The original, in Mr.. Lewis own
hand writing, is in the hands Of theSun's
Washington correspondent:
The Convention was composed of the
best, the greatest men Of the Democratic
party, and the teorst.
Perhaps no Conucntion OF that party
ever embodied moro Of the conservative
and patriotic elements Of tho party, than
were al New York, on July 4th, but
among them were felt tho unsoon iniluen-
ces of revolutionary character, which, in
the end, meeting with the trading and
huckstoring element Of the State Of New
York, led by Horatio Seymour and his
immediate friends, caused irroparable dis
aster.
In order TO n truthful representation OF
the state Of parties at the time that Con-
vention met, ! will endeavor TO describe
the position and status Of the leading can
didates Of that Convention when 10 met.
l will do 10 with fairness and candor,
and regard for truth, which will challenge
contradiction,
First take pendleton, not because he
was hrst with his party, but because no
4 represented an idea and sentiment which
controlled the Convention somewhat al
first, and wholly at last, and selected the
candidate.
Pendleton was young and ambitious.
Although others were more eminent, no
could not bide his time, and being loca-
ted ut favorable point (Cincinnati) for
the radiation of political influences, early
commenced, insidiously at first, aud fn-
ally with naughty means attempted TO
force himself upon the party.
The most potential aud the first sup.
port he received was from the whisky
ring"
BY the aid Of money gained in the cor
rupt influences of whisky swindling, he
was aided materially, as was not only
notorious, but was established by Wool
ley's testimony before the Managers,
where he swore he was engaged in cleo
pioneering for Pendleton as business.
With the siDews of war thus gained, he
iiNhOu up lu OhAoi luutuud, anu lilUolr,
all the soldiers OF fortune" without yisi-
BILE means of support, and sent them out
as travelling missionaries to make converts.
With pockets full of money they went
from State to State, with their "trayeling
groceries," and while the Conservative
masses and the greatest and best men Of
the party were trying to organize by
means calculated to commend themselves
TO the country, these Pendleton drum.
mers forestalled action of the better class
One by one the leading Democratic
presses and newspapers were suborned,
and before the Convention met the PEN
dleton cabal had strength and power
that warranted them in assuming naughty
and imperous airs over the majority and
the better class, who soon saw that PEN
dleton must be def Gated in Convention,
or Grant would walk over the course.
Not only had Pendleton by this time
apparently the majority of the Northwest,
but quickly there had come to his aid the
leading and unreconsuucted rebels of the
South, led by William Q. Preston and
his confrere Vallandigham; and hence we
saw rebels unrepentant, and revolutionary
sympathzers in the North, all in the Pen
deton boat. birds of feather" &c.
But that is not all. They went to New
York as ograrians, as Jewelers., taking adj
vantage Of the depression in business,
scarcity of money. want Of employment,
caused by the drain of money to Europe,
to buy what we could produce in our own
country aud make at home had we ade-
quate home protection.
They tried to make the issue against the |
debt not openly, not with view to cause
"harmony Of interests" but insidiously |
attempted to produce sectionalism and |
discomfort, and thus shake public credit
and destroy public faith. Quickly the
keen and sagacious rebels Of the Preston
stripe were on the alert to aid in this OBJ
ject. Anything to prevent tranquility
End settlement Of our sectional difficult
ties. Quickly, too, the bitter and dis
appointed Vallandigham rushed into the
strife, and all seemed to indicate the over
throw of all conservative influences, al
though the great majority Of the Conyen.
ton was Conservative aud wished to con-
serve everything, and thus commend it.
self to the country.
But the Conservative influences proved
too strong, and, led by Seymour (who af-
fected ''holy horror" of the Pendleton
and its nefarious objects), they
we're depressed. Seymour, with patroniz.
ing airs, then became par excellence the
leader of those opposed to Pendleton,
thereby getting into the confidence Of
men to stab them to the
heart, and leave them PROSTATE and bleed
ing at the end, as will be observed when
we follow this inscriptions schemer to
the last scenes and find him praising Pen.
dletou and shaking the hands of his con-
the chiefs of the whisky ring,
the Prestons and Vallandighams, and
gloating over the triumph they had gain
ed by duplicity, bad faith, and huckster-
ing.
Here endeth the first chapter Of that
Convention-that CORY slaugh
ter-house, in which. at its closing, the
chief executioner, Seymour. stands sar-
grinning, receiving the congra-
Of his intruments who had aided
him in the tragic scene, waving his long
dagger, dripping with the blood of his
trusting victims, every one of whom he
nad smiled upon, and drawn back into
/ hidden recess, professedly to whisper !
words of friendly aid and advice, and then, {
.;tb on annarentlv friendlv arm around