Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-12-14

erty and that taking both together
! they make saIe pair on the
railroad question. As further commentary
upon this resolution may add the single re-
mark that 1t was the Republican party that
| granted the homestead to actual settlers up
on the public lands, boon which had been
haughtily denied through every Democratic
| administration.
COMPOSITION OF THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION
Let us consider briefly the composition Of
the st. Louis Convention that passed this
remarkable platform and placed in nominal
tion those distinguished reformers, Tilden
and Hendricks.
There was the old STAKEHOLDER, with heart
| full OF bitter memories, believing that eman-
! cipation was robbery and his only hope of
indemnity in the Democratic party
| There was the old agitator and secession
| list, who had hurried States into rebellion
and drafted ordinances of secession.
There were the officers and soldiers who
had borne the Confederate flag upon many q
bloody field. and who proudly pointed to
their rebel record as their title deed to office
and glory.
There were the members of the rebel Con-
eress at Richmond, who had debated with
closed doors the question of the black flag.
There were the architects and defenders OF
Belle Isle, Libby, Andersonville. and Sails
bury, scenes of horror of which the Modocs
in their lava fortress had never dreamed.
There were the Northern sympathizers
and doughtaces, who had waited and watch
ed over the border, whose hearts and hopes
were in the South while their bodies were in
the North.
There were a few Union soldiers who had
carried their scanty laures to a Confederate
market, where decoy signals were scarce and
There was the sore-headed Republican,
| whose neglected claims for Office had shaken
his faith in civilization and convinced him
of the necessity for reform.
In short, there were assembled the mourn
ers for slavery, the organizers OF rebellion,
the Kuklux and White Liner the Northern
sympathizer and dough-face. the advocate OF
State sovereignty, and the representatives OF
every element that had torn the country
with civil war. drenched it with blood. and
watered it with the tears of the widows and
orphans.
GOVERNOR HENDRICKS.
OF Mr.. Hendricks, the Democratic candi-
date for Vice-President it is not very i'm
portant to speak in this community. YOU
have known him as member OF Congress, oil
the Legislature. OF the Constitutional Con-
vention, as Commissioner % the General
Land Office, as Senator of the United States
as Governor OF the State, for nearly thirty
years. and during all that time he has sug-
gested no policy. produced no measure
started no idea which any human being can
remember, save and except one which we are
all asked to forget. His place of general re-
tirement and relaxation has been upon the
fence. and he has never gotten down upon
the one side or the other until ms party had
taken such decided ground as left no doub,
about their position. Like Tilden. he will be
the last Of his line, and viii leave no idea
measure, or policy as q political contribution
to those coming after him. His official life
in small things has been respectable, and
successful in lodging larger responsibilities
UNEQUALED CAREER.
Perhaps no political career of equal ex
. tent in this country can be referred TO which
has been so barren Of good or important re
: suits. In the winter of 1S60-6l he stoOt
with Buchanan and the leaders of his party
, in denying all right of coercion. in justifyinI
: the South, and throwing all blame for tn,
, then threatened rebellion upon the Repub
! licans of the North. Alter the breaking on
, of the war he sunk from sight for a time
and his position was wholly unknown
, Toward the conclusion of 1861. when tn
country was depressed by misfortune, b.
, again came to the surface along with tn
leaders OF his party, and was bitter In hi
, demonstrations against the war and the gov
. eminent.
: his GREAT SPEECH.
On the 9Th OF January, 1862, mt the State
Convention OF the Democratic party, hi
made the most celebrated speech of his life
in which he attempted to show by laboreC
argument that the interest OF the North
western States was wholly with the South
and not with the East that the New Eng
e land States had been our oppressors, so tina
i the inference of was that tie States of tn
z Northwest should form a Northwestern con
federacy for the time being. to be afterwar,
: united with the South, and 10 cut loose iron
: the States in the East
He arraigned the war party as the mos
. intolerant ever known, as corrupt, as tn
= II ur1 ax,1 la. 4.
{ wholly responsible for the war, and said tina
r il the war should be so prosecuted as t
abolish our market in the South by destroy
ing the peculiar system of labor in that sec
u ton he would advise the Northwest to lool
: out for itself. His favorite phrase was. "rh
9 restoration of the Union upon the basis o
Il the constitution" by which he meant tn
y preservation OF slavery. and giving to
: equal rights in all the territories; and i
q referring to this in q subsequent speech i
: the campaign he SAID:
IF this is rendered i'm possible by the folly 0
wickedness of the party IN power, then IN
o mighty Northwest must take care OF herself an
n her own interests. and not allow the arts an
Q inesse of New England and the Eastern lust {
!. power. commerce and gam 70 despoil her Of he
u richest commerce and trade.
!. Mr.. Hendricks fully believed at the tim
: : that he had struck the current of Demo
|, cratic thought and action, but afterwar
|, feared that he had gotten of the fence pre-
, matureiy. 1t was In my opinion, the wors
speech made in any n ofthern State durin
!, the war. and exerted the most deleteri
: Gus influence. 1t was the fruitfu
, parent of that crop of conspiracies and treas
: enable schemes which afterward disturbe
. the peace of the State, and so nearly com
: promised her position in the Union Th
! Sons of Liberty and other disIoyal organizs
tions and the reasonable schemes that wer
: formed were but the offshoots of that centra
. idea of his speech--that the interests OF In
. diana were not with the East. but were wit
the Soush, and that the Eastern States shoul
!, be left out IN the cold Mr. Hendricks di,
! not belong to any of these organizations, a
= believe. but that he knew all about them
that he never condemned them. and tina
: their leaders and contrivers were all hi
|, friends i never doubted for moment, an,
, that his position was this: that il they sue
: ceeded in their purpose he would reap tn
. benefit. but if they failed he was not re
! sponsible for their action.
: HATRED or THE MORO.
1 He has ALWAYS exhibited an uncontro1labl,