The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-05

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Democrats TO compare its sentiments
with those advanced by the distin-
guished gentleman in his speech this
evening.
Said Mr.. Hendricks to the Louisi-
ara Democracy, and through them to
the Indiana Democracy:
How are you to conduct yourselves
toward the colored people. They
were once your friends and you were
their friends. There were social re-
lations between you - the relation of
master and servant. They had your
confidence and you had theirs. Is 1t
possible that the stranger can now
come in and make these ancient ser
wants of yours his servants and your
enemy? [Applause] There isn0 0cca-
SIGN IN these ael0 relations aohich mere
forced upoqe you. that yoas should enter
tain sentiments of dislike to the negro De-
cause Of ii. 1t I0aS not of has Seeis1ng;
he did not produce this change Of retG-
tons The altered condition OF
things has been forced on the coun,
try and on you, not by the .colored
man, but BY ambitious politicians
North and South, who wish to make
capital out of it. :" That's so, and
cheers hope to see Southern, men
taking this weapon, which is placed
in their hands, and using it for their
country's good. [Applause- You
hare no cause TO entertain against the
colored people a feeling Of prejudice
{" We don't want to do it. When
your young men are far OF IN the
field, and even your aged men-maDy
of them were absent during the four
years Of the war-you left these col
Ored men at your homes, where they
stood sentinels at the doors, where
your wives and your children were
safe under their protection. They la:
bored and cultivated your lands, and
raised those products which support
ed the armies in the field. And now.
is it possible that the forelgner-1
speak not Of the foreigner as a man
Of another country, but men foreign
to your interests, men of other sections
of the country-is it possible that
they shall come In and make these col
ored men to hate you and destroy you?
Your Interests are the Interests of the
coLored men. A few col0red men may
be bought round the lobbies OF the
Legislature. They may be Temporal
riIy invested with q few othces; but
you go TO work and persuade the
colored men that their interests are
secured by just laws, and by just laws
alone, and that these apparent bene .
fits which are conferred on q few OF
their number do not go to make up
the benefits of the great body ofthem.
Give them to understand that the
offices which are conferred on the
colored men here and the colored
men there work positive Injustice to
the people at largo. Let them under
stand that with regard to their
civil rights you are willing to
give them just laws. The negro Of
his Ob0D notion, as not going to
ask for social equality or social rights.
1t is the northern adVenturer only
who is trying to agitate that question,
to make it ground work of i'll feel
ing between you and the colored man.
In 1867, Senator Wilson, addressing
an audience az this square. declared
this true doctrine, that no L1ao G91 dny
| land could Opan any mans pdTLOr to
Qny other man. The social rights, the
social position of a man depend upon
himself. They are not regulated by
law, and the man that insists that there
shalt be social relations betI0een the
SDhites and blacks, Inconsistent 10ith the
proper relations Of those t.0o races. IS
The friend of neither. He is the enemy
of both races. [Applaus. In my judg-
ment, the colored people will be salts.
fed if you assure them that you will
give them just laws, fairly administer
ed. Do this, and then the outside
adventurer can not turn their votes
against you. Let the colored man
understand that the legislation of
your State is not being carried on to
make few men rich at the expense
of the great body of the people. APP
peal to the colored man to stand by
you in your fight for honesty, for
Justice, for integrity and for equal
lalcs. and that appeal a0iU reach has
heart as readily as 1t reaches the heart
of the great body Of the l0hite people.