The Worthington advance., 1876-08-10

..~-~ HON. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS =
viii address the People & Jackson and adjoining cc"n
SEYMOUR, INDIANA, ON WEDNESDAY,, SEPT 1Irn,
AtTen O'Clock a. m.
to be FREE from the death-grip of this in
famously wicked, imbecile, and tyranical Ad-
ministration, its arbitrary and illegal arrests,
and its drafts and conscription laws, by which
peaceful citizens are dragged from their homes
and all the endearments OF domestic life, to
butcher and be butchered, CONE OUT and
hear this advocate Of peace and reunion.
come by railroad and on foot. Bring your
neighbors, and especially your reasonable
Republican neighbors, who are seeking for
the truth. Bring your baskets we'll filled
with something TO eat. Other able speakers
will be in attendance. Ladies especially in
made with railroads to carry at HALF FARE.
August %, 1864.
Not having report of the hargue
extracts from another delivered during
the same campaign, which was un-
doubtedly but a stereotyped affair and
may be set down as the same us that
given at Seymour.
HENDRICKS GREAT WAR-spEECu.
From the Cincinnati Gazette
In the winter of 1862 SO, Mr.. Hen
bricks was elected United States Sen
ator from Indiana. The event was
deemed of sufficient Importance by a
nest of antiquated Butternuts who in
habited the southern portion of the
State to merit a small celebration. The
gathering took place, according to AZ
rangement, at Shelbyyille, on the 5th
OF February, 1868. Although ostensi-
bly, an ovatien to a single man, it was
in reality bid of definance to the
General Government at one of the
most critical periods of the war. The
Llncoln-haters were present in great
numbers, and whooped and yelled their
jeff. Davis sentiments through the
streets with impatience until the hero
Of the occasion appeared with his
speech. The preliminaries had been
so quietly arranged that Mr.. Hendricks
fondly hoped that lie might meet the
exigencies of the hour without expos
ure to the world but, by one of those
strange condolences that newspaper
managers sometimes provide for, a
took verbatim report of the speech.
After getting off the stereotyped
charges of Peace-Democrats, at that
time, that the North has provoked the
war, the orator began to warm up his
Copperhead audience with sentiments
like these:
say unto you, gentlemen, if the
President of the United States, in the
language of the Crittenden resolu.
tions, had held up the banner of this
! country for the constitution and re.
stored Union, that all the States shall
| remain under that Constitution, with
every right secured and unimpared,
| there would not have been dissen.
tient voice in all the North. But the
President cannot change the purpose
of the War as originally declared,
and make it an abolition war, and
then hold the people of the North a
unit.
We have some disSentions in the
North; we have some men that are moi
true to their country. They are the
men who say that the Constitution Of
washington sis c0venent with hel
and a league with death.'' They arr
the foes of the country and their coun
try's good. The disasters that are up
on us now are owing to the influence
of these men with the President o.
the United States. If congress woult
take bundle of switches, and switch
them all out of the White House, i
would be we'll for the people ; but, un
til that is done, it will not be we'll
You may hear prayers in our churches
your sons may go out to the battle
I field; but our country is not to be re
stored as it was until Abolitionism i
buried, never to be resurrected
Cheers.]
Gentlemen, what is the effect upo]
you at home when you see the purpos
of this War changed from a contes
for the Union and Constitution to
contest to free the negroes? What
the effect upon your manly pride
What is the effect upon the army il
the field think can comprehen
something of the honor, something O
the pride, the soldier feels as he stand
upon the field, and the missiles O
death flying around him. In the mids
of that scene, testing all the high quail
tiles of a soldier, when he looks up t
| that flag and thinks it the emblem Q
the United States under the Constitr
tion, when he is fighting the battles G
that flag, he feels that he is fighting
glorious war, and he can do his dut
. faithfully. But, when the proclaim:
tion of Jan l, 1868, is issued, and he
/ told that he shall make it his busines
z to fight to make negroes free, whe1
has the pride of the soldier gone
Can he fight such a battle as thatl II
cannot do it.
t Mr.. Hendricks next relieved h
mind on the Negro Enlistment bill Ii
E had not yet discovered the presence {
. the reporter). He said:
The crowning act of injustice h;
!. been completed. They have passed
: bill in the House of Representatives
arm an army of Negroes. One hui
t dred and fifty thousand negroes , Il
me tell you, gentlemen, that ever
. Democrat in that House voted again
the bill, and every Republican vote
for it, with three exceptions !; and, if
had it in my power, l would set tt
names Of these three men in gold.
hundred and fifty thousand negroes