The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
SENATOR MORTON on THE STUMP.
The SANDERS on President Grant Refute
flow Horace Greeley Enbored for the
Passage Of The Ku-klux Bill-Hendricks'
Wnr Record


War Record.
Senator Morton addressed large and
enthusiastic Republican Meeting at La
fayette, Ind, on the 25th of July. We
present few extracts from his speech:
Senator Morton said the country was enjoy
ing general prosperity under wise admins
tration, which was assailed by scarce anything
except personal attacks, not by any PROPOSE
ton of better measures of the Government
These attacks were mostly made by men who
were distinguished only as takers not as deers.
Now man who has always succeeded may be
called fool, but he is preferable to speech
makers who have been failures as generals and
statesmen He recounted the leading meas
ures Of the Government and their effect on
the business interests of the country.
Replying to Mr.. Hendricks speech at Indian
apolis he said:
Mr. Hendricks made the astounding deca-
ration that he had been in favor of the prose-
sution Of the war and the suppression of the
rebellion, and charged me with having calum-
mated HIM upon this subject. He said that l
had known all the while that during the first
month OF the war he made brief publication Of
his views, in which he said that /" he regarded
il the duty OF citizens to respect and maintain
the national authority and give it an honest
aud earnest support during the continuation
of the war, until in the providence of God it
might be brought to an honorable conclusion.
He did not undertake TO quote a sentence
from this document, or tell where it could be
found, nor give any description of it by which
anybody could hunt it up. / must confess
that have no knowledge of it. and am sur
prised to hear of its existence. If he pub
lished such sentiment during the war it has
escaped everybodys recollection, and was lot
repeated by him at any subsequent time dur
inn the war, or for years afterwards.
Mr. Hendricks made many speeches during
. TO- 10 HI -.
any one of them advocate the pr prosecution of
the war, suppression of the rebellion and
maintenance of the Union by force of arms.
On the contrary, his speeches were devoted TO
the condemnation of the Government and criti-
cism OF every war measure, aud ii must he
said that he spared no argument that could
possibly contribute to make volunteering I'M
popular and consumption necessary. And
when consumption came he denounced it as
unconstitutional, tyrannical and wicked. When
Mr.. Hendricks claims that he was War DEM
ocrat he trifles with public intelligence and
the recolectons of men and contradicts the
recorded evidence of his opinions and aston
ishes his most intimate friends. He owed his
election to the United States Senate by the
reasonable Legislature of 1863 to the fact that
he was recognized enemy of war, and had
more power and influence than anybody else
to cripple the administration In its prosecution.
He says, as ali evidence that he supported the
war in 1868, he voted for the army appropr-
alton bill. In regard to this can Say that at
that time his vote for it in the Senate was not
necessary, and it would have required more po
litical courage than Mr.. Hendricks generally
has credit for to have given vote in Congress
against any appropriation for the army, and l
think his friends and mine will agree with me
that this is the first time they ever heard of
that vote. and that he has never boosted Of il |
before several weeks ago.
Mr.. Hendricks, in accepting his third nomi-
nation for Governor, announced that he had
turned his back upon the past for ever, and
looked only to the future but he seemed now
to be not satisfied with turning his back upon
the past, but he is attempting to reverse the |
past, to obterate his anti-war record, and APP
pear in the interesting, characterof War DEM |
ocrat whose labors were crowned with sue.
cess in the suppression of the rebellion all Of
which will be received with surprise and per-
haps indignation by his old friends, the Sons
of Liberty. Another statement in his speech |
must have severely taxed credulity and recol- |
lection of his audience, and for fear shall be |
suspected OF incorporating him will quote |
the passage. Speaking of myself, he said |
" In more recent speech he has called my !
sincerity in question, in that said had turned |
my back upon the past; we stand in the pres
ent, and only look to the future. No fair
minded man understands this language as a |
desertion Of convictions of right, or an aban- |
donment of essential principles. This may |
illustrate. opposed the amendments to the |
Constitution, for / thought then as l believe |
now that during civil war. and until passions |
excited thereby have cooled the public mind |
is not in prol er condition safely to change the |
foundations aud framework of the Govern
ment"
Mr.. Hendricks gave the country to under |
stand that he opposed the twelfth fourteenth |
and fifteenth amendments only because he |
thought il was bad time to attempt to amend |
the Constitution during civil war, and while |
passions were excited, not that he had any OBJ |
lection to the amendments themselves. This |
pretenson is like other attempts to appear in
the character of a War Democrat. 1t is per
fectly notorious that Mr.. Hendricks voted |
against and opposed the thirteenth amend
ment because he was in opposition to the abo-
lition of slaves, not because of the time when
the amendment was brought forward. Ii is
perfectly notorious that he voted against aid
fought at every step tie adoption of the four
teenth amendment, bitterly denouncing every
provision of il az subversIve OF the spirit and
genius of our institutions. IL il also notorious
hat he voted against the fifteenth amendment.
ieuOunclng negro suffrage and political equal
ty in their consequences as immoral and de-