National Republican., 1876-09-04
MIR. HENDRICKS APPEAL.

Even Governor Hendricks ignores the
fifteenth amendment We do not mean
that he processes TO do so, but that his
statement in his late speech at Shelby
vile is tantamount to that. He says:
'sIn but two Southern States is there blood
shed and death between the races. In these
States alone (Louisiana and South Carolina)
is the Republican party Dominant. In every
other State of the South the people have re-
covered and restored the American right and
power of selfgovernment, and the negro race
has ceased to be the tool of party, and peace
and harmony prevail and prosperity is rapidly
returning to all"
What does this mean but that the white
Democrats will murder negroes and white
Republicans, although the former are in
a confessed minorit y in those States, un-
less the Democrats are allowed to rule?
'1n every other Southern State the
"people have recovered anG restored the
American right and power of self gov
"ernment," &c. How have ''the people"
done this? By violence and bloodshed
And who are ''the people" of whom Mr.
Hendricks speaks so glibly? The Ku-
Klux Rife-C Club Democrats "And the
negro race has ceased to be the tool of
"party' by becoming again clods of the
earth, without any voice in the Govern
ment. By the practical notification of
those Constitutional amendments which
MIR. Hendricks and his Southern supporters
swear in Congress and in their national
conventions that they are bound to observe
and to preserve intact, but which they pro-
ceed to at once render nugatory and
trample under foot by riding the country in
armed bodies, shooting and whipping, as
sassinating and scourging leading Republi-
cans who have too much pluck to leave
the country. Mr.. Hendricks knows these
facts as well as we do, and yet he thinks
to deceive the people of Indiana into the
belief that the Democratic peace which he
boasts of in Arkansas and Mississippi, after
the overthrow there of the Republican
Administration, is the result of the honest
expression of the will and wishes of the
majority rather than the offspring of
treachery, terrorism and fear. Again,
Mr.. Hendricks asks:
"Why not restore Louisiana and South Caro-
INA 10 Lne blessings OI ROOu government, Gnat
blacks and whites alike and together may dwell
under the mild influence of peace and har-
mopy? AS wise men and patriotic citizens
ask you to judge whether it be right or ex-
pedient or human to continue the men in power
who make political gain out of scenes of vio-
lence and bloodshed"
In other words, why not remand the ma
jority of the people in those States, who
were once slaves and whom the Democrats
fought for four years to retain in slavery, to
their former condition. in order to have
that peace and harmony which can only
come of Democratic rule Why not let
the bloodthirsty and tyrannical minority
rule, because they will go on "killing mig
gers" until you do? This is the plain
English of what you are advocating, Mr..
Thomas A. Hendricks.
You think Republicans make political
gain out of scenes of violence and
bloodshed, do you? Is that what you mean?
You know that you outrage the truth In
such an insinuatlon. You know that blood
shed and violence are always provoked, in
troduced and committed by the white
Democ rats of the South. You know that