The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-17

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tend it the United States, and did VIGOROUSLY
control the Democratic National Convention in
1868. That Tweed and his gang were the champion
thieves of the nation had been well known for
years before his fall it is now and was firmly
believed while Tilden and he in sworn frater-
nifty in Tammany Hall as when Tweed was in
the penitentlary. But when, in 1871, the
New York Times published the specific proofs
of his vast villalnies, the courts, grand
juries. and every man in public life compelled
to take notice, and then Tiden, matter of self
preservation, jumped over the fence, turned States
evidence and rendered valuable services prose
cutting witness and attorney. as he knew where to
find the evidence and to put his finger the diff
ferent transactions. If the criminality of Tweed
and his Tammany gang had not been notorious for
years, or if Illden had turned prosecutor and wit
ness before their exposure, his character
former would stand better than it does.
is 1T PROBABLE OR EVEN POSSIBLE?
To me it seems highly improbable that 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 frater-
nifty in Tammany Hall, and was his co-operator in
the foul politics of New York and who has wrecked
| so many railroads, be a conscientious and
patriotic man. If the published, and so far as I
know, the uncontradicted accounts of his manlpu-
lation of the Chicago and Fond du Lac, the Galena
and Chicago, the Kenosha and Richford, Grand
Rapids Harlem Extension the Peninsular of Mich
igan and other railroads that might be named are
true, he and a small ring with whom he operated
have under the forms of law taken from the COM
seems impossible to distinguish the Continental
improvement Company, of which he the
| originator from the Credit Mobilier, and the ev
idence of Cakes Ames before the Congressional
Committee in 1873 reveals Mr. Tilden as the origi-
nal adviser and counsel of that notorious and deadly
institution known the Credit Mobilier. 1t is ask
| ing too much OF human creduity to believe that
man who has thus lived and fourished, and grown
rich and gray, have the spirit of true reform
er or be governed by any other motive than the
! lust of power.
| CHICAGO CONVENTION
/ TiIden and Hendricks were both members of the
| Chicago convention in 1884, held in the midst of
the great struggle with the rebel army when it
| was apparent that the rebellion was doomed unless
! rescued from the North and united in framing
that reasonable declaration that the was
| failure and ought to be abandoned. That declara-
ton made at the time and under the circumstances
was political crime of the first magnitude, and in
/ any other country in the world struggling with
| armed traitors would have been punished as high
| treason.
GOV. HENDRICKS.
Of Mr. Hendricks, the Democratic candidate for
Vice-Presdent it is not very important to speak in
! this community You have known him as a men,
Der of Congress- of the Legislature, Of the consti-
tutional convention, Commissioner 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 poll
cy, produced no measure, started no idea which
any human being can remember, save and except
one which are all asked to forget. His place OF
general retirement and relaxation has been upon
| the fence, and he has gotten down upon the
one side or the other until his party had taken such
decided ground as left doubt about their posi-
ton. Like Tilden he will be the last OF his hne
litical 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 extent in
this country be referred to which has been so
barren of good or important results In the winter
of l8eO-61 he stood with Buchanan and the leaders
of his party in denying all right of coercion in JUS
tfying the South, and throwing all blame for the
then threatened rebellion upon the Republicans OF
| the North. After the breaking out of the war he
| sunk from sight for time, and his position was
| wholly unknown. Toward the conclusion Of 1861,
when the country was depressed by misfortune, he
again to the surface along with the leaders of
/ his party and bitter in his demonstrations
| against the war and the Government.
| GREAT SPEECH.
On the 8th of January 1862 at the State Conven-
| ton of the Democratic party, he made the most
celebrated speech of his fe in which he attempted
| to show by labored argument that the interest OF
| the Northwestern States was wholly with the
! South and not with the East that the New Eng
| land States had been our oppressOrs; so that the
inference of all that the States of the Northwest
should form Northwestern Confederacy for the
time being to be afterward united with the South,
] and to cut loose from the States in the East.
He arraigned the war party the most 1ntolerant
ever known, corrupt, the author of hard times
and desolation, wholly responsible for the war,
and said that if the should be prosecuted as
to abolish our market the South by destroying the
peculiar system of labor in that section. he would
advise the Northwest to look out for itself. His Ia
vorite phrase was, 'tThe restoration OF the Union
upon the basis of the constitution" by which he
meant the preservation of slavery, and giving to it
equal rights in all the Territories and in referring
to this in a subsequent speech in the campaign he
said
g If this is rendered impossible by the folly
| wickedness of the party in power then the m1ghty
| Northwest must take of herself and her own
interests and must not allow the arts and hnesse OF
New England and the Eastern lust Of power, COM
merce, and gain to despol her OF her richest COM
merce and trade"
Mr. hendricks fully believed at the time that he
had struck the current of Democratic thought and
| action, but afterward feared that he had gotten
off Tho an 0rn1 a
the worst speech made in any Northern State DUR
ing the war; and exerted the most deleterious 1nu-
ence. 1t was the fruitful parent of that crop OF
conspiraciea and reasonable schemes which a1ter-
| ward disturbed the peace OF the STATE, ana so
nearly compromised her position in the Union
| The Sons of Liberty and other disloyal organlza-
tons and the REASONABLE schemes that were formed
were but the ofshoOts of that central idea OF ms
speech-that the interests of Indiana were not with
the East but we're with the South and that the
Eastern States should be left out in the cold Mr..
Hendricks did not belong to any of these organlza-
tons, believe. but that he knew oil about tnen
that he condemned them, and that their lead
ers and contrivers were all his friends, never
doubted for moment, and that his posluon was
this: that if they succeeded in their purpose ne
would reap the benefit, but If they failed ne was not
responsible for their action.
HATRED OF THE NEGRO.
he has always exhibited uncomfortable hatred
OF the negro and in this represented the loWesG anu
most vulgar elements of his party. In the Senate
opposed the freedom of the slaves escaping into
our lines during the war. He bitterly opposed the
of the emancipation proclamation, and, speaking
against the resolution of repeal, said:
g It wasas plain to him as the multiplication table
that it should not be repealed"
On the 10th of February, 1864. on the resolution
to allow negroes to ride in the street cars in Wash
ington, he said:
. It seems to be considered great outrage that
the negroes in the District of Columbia are not al
lowe to take their seats in the cars with the
white men and women that travel on The roads IN
this city, If L we're allowed to express opinion
on this subject should say the outrage would be
the other way"
On the 5th of December 1867, in speaking on the
District of Columbia BILL ha said he opposed to
allowing negroes to sit uries or hold office, and
that it policy which subjugates the whites to
the colored race.
OPPOSITION TO AMENDMENTS.
Mr.. Hendricks was in the Senate when the Ihlr-
teenth amendment to the constitution was adopted
aboishing slavery; when the Fourteenth amend
ment adopted, securing equal rights, protection
and mmunities in all the States, and pronlOlting
the payment for slaves and the rebel war debt
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