Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-15
SENATOR MORTON ON THE STUMP.
The ISLANDERS on President Grant Refute d
how Ill orace Greeley LHbored for the
Hassage of the ku-klux BilI-Hendricks'
War Record.


Passage of the Ku-KhGx BiilNHendricks,
war Record.
Senator Morton addressed a 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 NAV 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-
cution of the war and the suppression of the
rebellion, and charged me with having calum-
mated HIM upon this subject. He said that
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
1t the duty of citizens to respect and maintain
the national authority and give it an honest
and 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 sentence
from this document, or tell where it could be
found nor give any description of it by which
anybody could hunt it up. I must confess
that have no knowledge of it. and am sur
prised to hear of its existence. If he pub
hshed such sentiment during the war it has
escaped everybody recollection, and was lot
repeated by him at any subsequent time dur
inn the war, or for years afterwards.
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the war, and, so far known, he did not in
any one of them advocate the 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-
clsm of every war measure, and it must be
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 trifes with public intelligence and
the recollections of men and contradcts 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 1868 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, an evidence that he supported the
war in 1868, he voted for the army appropri-
alton bill. In regard to this l can say that at
that time his vote for it in the Senate was not
necessary, and it would have required more po-
litlcal courage than Mr.. Hendricks generally
has credit for to have given vote in Congress
against any appropriation for the army, and
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 it
before several weeks ago.
MIR, Hendricks. in acceDtinp 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 obliterate his anti-war record, and ap-
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 misrepresenting him l will quote
the passage. Speaking of myself, he SAID
In a more recent speech he has called my
sincerity in question, in that I said had turned
my back upon the past; we stand in the pres
emit, and only look to the future. No fair
minded man understands this language as a
deser5aon of convictions of right, or an aban-
donment of essential principles. This may
Illustrate. opposed the amendments to the
Constitution, for 1 thought then as believe
now that during civil war, and until passions
excited thereby have cooled, the public mind
is not in PROF er condition safely to change the
foundations and 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 it 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
pretension is like other attempts to appear in
the character of 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-
iition of slaves, not because of the time when
the amendment was brought forward. 1t is
perfectly notorious that he voted against aid
fought at every step tie adoption of the four
teenth amendment, bitterly denouncing every
provision of it as subversIve of the spirit and
genius of cur institutions. 1t is also notorious
that he voted against the fifteenth amendment,
denonnclng negro outrage and political equal
ity in their consequences as immoral and de-