The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-03
SPEECH OF GOV. HENDRICKS.

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THE ILLINOIS CAMPAiGN-THE GOVERNOR
SPEAKS on NATIONAL QUESTIONS.
| Gov. Hendricks spoke at Taylorville, ILL.,,
on Tuesday evening, the 9th inst. From
lengthy speech on that occasion, the follow
| ing extracts are taken, as reported in the
Chicago Tribune: He then gave the status
of the civil rights bill, and asked if demo-
Gratis were willing to go for that. 1 am op-
posed. am unwilling to allow Congress to
| interfere with our common schools, and yet
il proposes to do it. The civil rights bill will
strike down the free school system. He
was opposed to mixed schools. He wanted
| all children to have equal facilities for get
| ing an education, black and white. The
races are not alike. and the democratic
party did not make the difference. God
| Almighty did. He was opposed to amalga-
nation. Then keep the children apart, So
cially and every other way, which would
tend to break down the barrier between
| bers of Congress in Indiana who
would vote against amalgamation.
He then treated the subject of reconstruc-
ton at length, and said it was singular that
the troubles in the South broke out every
two wears very bad, just before election, and
every four years they became frightful.
Gov. Morton, who had done most to keep
| the usurper Kellogg in office, had, in a re-
cent speech delivered in Indianapolis,
recounted a number of murders, every
one of which have been found to be
untrue. For seven years the republi-
can party had been endeavoring to restore
good government to the South. Has it been
done? Republicans, answer Well, you
can't answer that. Your own party say
that it is worse now than it has been since
the war. This trouble began when recon-
struction began, when the Congress of the
Il Jnif66 States contrary
policy of Mr.. Lincoln, said that the States
! lately in rebellion were, somehow or
other, out of the Union. Mr.. Lincoln be-
leved that the functions of the States
has besn suspended, but that the lew and
the constitution and sound policy fixed
their places in the Union, and all that was
necessary was to restore these functions to
healthy action. The trouble was aggravated
when the negro was clothed with the right
of suffrage, and the same right was denied
| to the white man, and it will go on until
the government of the States is confided to
the people in good faith, and every man,
black and white, can enjoy his
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL LIBERTY.
Now, if in seven years the republicans have
failed to accomplish this, is it not time to
change? The capital of the radical party for
years has been this trouble, and now, if
you believe in good government, and be-
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to it vote for that party whose interest
it is to restore good government, and not
| for that one whose interest il is to en-
courage further strife North Carolina,
Texas, Virginia, and Georgia, since Baxter's
| government in Arkansas has been sus-
tanned, have mono of the troubles; and why?
Because their government is of the people,
for the people, by the people. You can't
have peace until the people can rule. To-
day Louisiana is suffering under the weight
of a fraudulent government. The people
have no choice in the government. He
asked what the people of Illinois would do
if they had been treated as the peo-
pie of Louisiana had. Would you
| stand it? You say il is
| not very patriotic, but it is American. A
man would not take farm in Louisiana to-
day and pay the taxes on it. He read an
extract from the current number of Scrib-
ner, showing that a plantation worth before
the war $50, 900, had been sold tor 500, and
a number OF others in like proportion. Men
were giving away their farms when they
out of the country. Why, to-day the
wickedest thing of the age is be-
ing perpetrated in Louisiana. The troops
of which we are so proud, who ought to
| be used as they were designed to be, are be-
ing used as constables and spies upon the
people. 1t is an awful state. A boat which
trecently passed up the Red river to Shreve-
port arranged on its upward trip for full
load of cotton, and on its down'trip it was
only enabled to ship twenty-five bales,
while in the meantime the cavalry had been
| through the country under charge of a
United States marshal to make arrests, and
the people had fled at their approach, aban-
doning cotton and everything else.
THE CURRENCY.
The governor here made the only allu-
sion in his speech to the currency question.
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transportation, and remunerative prices for
your products, does this condition of Louisi-
ana suit you? Every bale of cotton de-
stroyed and kept from the market is so
much less gold in the country. You, people
of Illinois and the Northwes;, have a deep
interest in the property Of the South.
They export their cotton, and to-
bacco, and rice, and tring back for
it shining gold. With this gold they
buy your corn, wheat. flour bacon and lard.
The South is your natural, and in times of
peace and prosperity your best, market.
The great rivers give you cneap transporta-
ton, and the results OF your industry are
certain. But the troops are now destroying
the cotton and preventing its harvest, and
thus your market is lessened. Why do you
retain Kellogg and Grsnt's brother-in-law
in power? have no apology to make for
the Southern people IN the war.
They hoped, but it is over;
and Is not Louisiana now
a part of this county? 1t is ruined by carpet
bag and negro rule. would not put the
negro down. He is voter; but he is not
lord over the white man. Can not white
and black men live together? / believe they
can; but they can not If the government
is constantly trying to put the negro over
!. the white man. The taxes in that State
and others in the South from misrule and
ignorance amount to six per cent. on
the entire value of all the property.
These facts have been laid before the
president, but he won't read. The man to
blame most for this condition of things is
Attorney Gen. Williams. To him is referred
all matters pertaining to the South. He 10
not lover of his country and he hates the
South with bitter hatred. He has the