The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-12

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SENATOR HENDRICKS AND THE FIF
TENTH AMENDMENT.

SENATOR HENDRICKS AND THE FIF-
TENTH AMENDMENT.
From the Y. Sun
It was a misfortune to the Democracy
whom Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana left
the United States Senate, for he was their
ablest Senator. He has recently been MAX
ing speech to the Democrats of New
Orleans, in which he dwelt at length upon the
fifteenth amendment, aud the future relations
of the whites and blacks in the Southern
States.
Speaking of the amendment, Mr.. Hendricks
said:-
"New relations have come to exist between you
and the colored people OF the South. How will you
place yourself In regard TO those new relations ?
They have not been OF your seeking and they may,
perhaps, be very dsagreeabe to you; but the negro
Is a voter In Louisiana, he will be In Indiana II
the fifteenth amendment is declared adopted, and
It is not worth your while. nor is 1t worth my WHILE
to go back on the fixed fact"
Having reached this sensible conclusion,
Mr.. Hendricks in the strongest terms advises
the Southern Democracy to conciliste the
negro vote, and thus take it out of the hands
of the carpet-baggers. He urges his political
friends to pursue the most liberal course
towards the oolored population, to treat them
as neighbors, and to give them every pos
sible assurance that they intend to recog-
nize all their rights, including that of suf-
frage.
These sentiments we're received by the
hearers of Mr.. Hendricks with signal marks
of approval; and it is significant sign of the
times that the speech is copied into the
PhGniD, q leading Democratic journal Of
South Carolina, published at Columbia, the
capital of the State. In commenting upon
the speech, the PhGnip says that Mr.. Hen
dricks' views twill be found eminently prac-
tical, liberal, and judicious;" and it declares
that the sensible men of the South will oor-
daily adopt them.
Some little time ago, when the adoption of
the amendment was still an uncertainty, that
astute Democratic journal, the Chicago
Times, in an elaborate article on the subject,
declared that ''the probabilities are that the
country will unwillingly accept the amend
ment, and thus put a quietus on the negro
question" This, doubtless, hits about the
average sentiment of the Democracy of the
Northwest; while the bolder and more posi-
tive tone of the Columbia PhBnig expresses
the opinions and purposes of the Democracy
of the South.
When Thomas A. Hendricks, one of the
foremost Democrats in the Union, speaks
thus, and when the organ of the Democracy
of South Carolina commends his opinions as
eminently practical and judicious, and when
the Chicago Times recognizes the acceptance o
of the fifteenth amendment as q foregone
COuClublOu, VI COuloo tuo ouDJoCt 10 bobtious
In what an unenviable predicament does
this leave the short-sighted but long-eared
Democratic leaders of New York, who went
through the empty form of repeating
the legislative ratification of the amendment;
and those of Connecticut, who passed stun
ming resolutions against it in their recent
State Conventions and those of Rip Van
Winkle New Jersey, whose Legislature woke
up enough to reject the amendment jus
after its complete ratification was placed be
yond contingency.
For year past the Sun has been trying tc
beat the ideas now expressed by Mr.. Hen
diicks into the heads of the Democratic lead
ers of this section of the country. They will
probably accept them just late enough Il
arouse the masses of the party to demand tina
these resctionary leaders shall be sent to tn
rear of the advancing column, while men o
progressive ideas like Senator Hendricks ar
Dlacad at its head. ... .... ... .......