Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-08-24

drenched it with blood, and watered
it with the tears of tho widows and
orphans.
GOV. HENDRICKS RECORD.
OF Mr.. Hendricks, the Dem ocrsti6
candidate for Vice President, it is
not very important to speak in this
community. You have known him
as member of Congress, of the Leg.
islature, of the Constitutional Con-
vention, as COMMISSIONS err of the Gen.
eral Land Office, as Senator of the
United States. as Governor of the
State, for nearly thirty years, and
during all that time he has suggested
no policy, produced no measure.
started no idea which any human be-
ingcan remember save and except one
which we are all asked to forget.
His place of general retirement and
relaxation has been upon the fence
and he has never gotten down upon
one side or the other until his part
had taken such decided ground as
left no doubt about their posit ion.
Like rilden he will be the last of bis
line, and will leave no idea, measure
or policy as political contribution
to those coming after him. His Off
cial life in small things has been re.
spectacle, and successful in lodging
larger responsibilities.
UNEQUALED CAREER
| Perhaps no political career of
equal extent in this country can be
referred to which has been SO barren
of good or important results. In the
winter of 1960-61 he stood with Bu-
chanan and the leaders of bis party
in denying all the rights of coercion,
ia ustifying the South and throwing
all the blame for the then threatened
rebellion upon the Republicans of the
North After the breaking out of
tho war he sank from sight for a time
and his position became wholly un.
known. Towards tho conclusion Of
1861, when the country was de-
pressed by misfortune, he came again
to the surface along with the leaders
of his party, and was bitter in his
demonstrations against the warend
| tho Government.
HIS GREAT SPEECH.
On the 9Th of January, 1862, at
the State Convention of the Demo-
cratic party, ho made the most cole
brated speech of his life, in which he
attempted to show by labored ergu-
ment, that the interests of the North
western Statos were wholly with the
South and not with the East; that
the New England States had been
our oppressors, so that the inference
| af all was that tho States of the
North west would form q North est
ern Confsderacy for the time being
and to be afterwards united with the
South, and to cut loose from The
| States in the East.
He arraigned the war party as the
most intolerant ever known, Us COR
rupt, as the author of hard times and
desolation, as wholly responsible for
the war, and said that if the war
should be SO prosecuted as to abolish
our market in tho South by destroy
ing the peculiar system OF labor in
that section, he would advise the
Northwest to look out for itself. His
favorite phrase was: "The restora-
ton on the basis of the Constitution,
by which he meant the preservation
slavery. and giving it equal rights in
all the Territories.
| WHO ARE THE REFORMER5.
Think of it, the leaders of the re-
beIlion, the Ku-Klux, the White
Leaguers, the organizers of murder,
the plundoring hacks and humbugs
that have come down to US from
twenty years of Democratic misrule
before the war, the broken down fu-
gltivcs from the Republican party,
who have been kicked out for inca
pacity and fraud, and, in short, all
the authors of the great misfortunes
that have fallen upon our country for
the last quarter of Il century, uniting
together and shouting themselves
hoarse;with the cry of reform. With
such men plumber is the purpose and
reform the pretense. They are as
incapable of reform as they are for
making reparation and atonement to
the. country for the innumerable
crimes thoy have committed. Many
of them arc bankrupt from the rebel
lion. lank, starving, fierce and raven
GUS as furnished wolves, and at the
first opportunity will bury them-
selves in the public treasure as the
vulture does its head in the newly
found carcass.
These relics OF the rebellion, these
lingering remains of the Sons of Lib
erty, these connecting links with
former generations of frauds. robber.
les, and shams, these putrescent rem
iniscences Of slavery, congregated at
st. Louis and dubbed themselves re-
| formers.
| Tweed, when he was overtaken by
misfortune, was not so rich as Til
den but it is an open secret that he
had in contemplation after continu-
ing business for year or two long
or, to turn reformer and become the
Regeneration Of the public and private
morals of New York.
is IT PROBABLE OR EVEN POSSIBLE
To me it seems highly improbable
that a man who has for thirty years
been the associate and counsel OF
the stock gamblers of Wall street,
who for many years lived with
Tweed in sworn fraternity in Tam
many Hall and was his co-operator
in the foul politics of New York, and
who has wrecked so many railroads,
can he conscientious aud patriotic
man.
Tilden and Hendricks were both
members of the Chicago Convention
in 1864, held in the midst of tho last
great struggle with the rebel army,
when it WAS apparent that the rebel
lion was doomed, unless rescued from
the North, and united in franz
lug that reasonable declaration
that tho war was a failure and ought
TO be abandoned. That declaration