The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-11
WENDELL ON DEvENs a. co.


Mr.. Wendell Phillips, the "silver-tongued
orator, who recently lectured in Phlladel-
phia and returned to Boston with the scalps
of Hayes and his cabinet, has been inter
viewed by New York Herald correspon-
dent. The attention of Mr.. Phillips was
called to the statement that Hayes's attorney
general, Devens, bought back Sims, the
fugitive slave, and furnished all the money.
This Phillips denies, and says:
Sims was sent back in 1851. About ten years
afterward Devens woke up and offered To re-
deem him. In the previous efforts for Smss
Ielease Devens took no part. For many years
the Shareholder refused to sell; he had Sims
cruelty whipped, and when he thought he had
punished the negro esough tor running away,
sent him to Mississippi. For many years we
heard nothing of him and supposed him to be
dead. Eleven years afterward the war
freed him and he came to Massachusetts.
The idea that Devens has repented of his
course in the Sims case Phillips also denies,
there being no record of such repentance.
and adheres TO his Philadelphia estimate
that the attorney general is slave hunter,
and adds:
| the mercy of God; but in this world, If a slave
| hunter should buy back his victim, then re-
| pent as publicly as he had sinned, and after
| wards live a hundred years and take Turk
| ish bath every day, he would be TO me, at the
end OF hundred years, nasty, in both the
| English and In the American sense of the
word.
Phillips is immensely disguised at the
shape OF affairs in South Carolina His
comments upon Wade Hampton are valua-
BILE, inasmuch as they go to show very con-
clusively that if there had been little
more pluck in politics during the past few
months the country would not be Inundated
by having fraud in the office of president
| He said:
In every sentence he has uttered on his way
| to Washington can hear the crack of the old
| slavehOlding whip. Since 1860 L have not
| heard the crack OF that whip until Hampton
| sent that insolent letter 20 Grant. III we hal
| to-day "A man in the white house Hampton
/ would never be admitted there after such in =
| science. III read the signs correctly, the peO-
| PIE have more self respect than Hayes has,
| and he will soon hear a warning growl along
| the ground tier.
Commenting upon the policy of the presi-
dental fraud, and giving his reasons for at
lacking it early, Phillips said:
The presidents friends have sold us out. 1t
| Is no experiment, but a treacherOus bargain,
| and, besides. the steps they are gong TO take
are very perslous, and once taken are irrevo-
| cdDie. lntfc II no uouDJ Oh Tile DHTZdln ludb
sold us out. The republican papers very prop
| erly held Tilden responsible Tor his nephew S
(PeltOns) acts, though Tilden never knew
| each detail. So hold Hayes responsible for
his friends when they sold him out 10 the
| white south. The bargain is plain. On the
| one side the democrats were to stop filibuster-
| ing and let Hayes be counted in. On his side
| his friends agreed to withdraw the troops; sec
OUd, 10 recognize Nichols and Hampton MS
| governors; third. TO charter the Southern Pa
| cific railway, giving away millions OF national
acres and millions OF national bonds. lie
wOrkingmen take notice. This last item won
Jay Gould and his pocketpiece, the Tribune.
| This delay and commission are only to let US
down easily and accust0m the public mind to
| the descent The troops once Withdrawn
| blood and starvation will rule The south.
| There will be no republican state
| south of the Potomac. or course no democratic
governor or Legislature Will ever call for the
national troops, and hence no soldier can
cross the sacred boundary of a tate. Henry
Wilson confessed TO me that our great mistake
was i'm lifting those territories, after the war,
into states. Then there will be a "sOlid s uth''
the old slave power under new name The
next congress and the next rr sident viii be
democratic unie the north becomes vOlca-
no. The yon will nee millions added to the
ma ional debt in the SIN pc of pensions To con-
federate soldiers. loans to southern states and
railways. payment of half the state debts, etc.
When that hell opens you will see Hill and
Lamar put on their comp NY clothes and heir
disguise of good behavior They will appear
in their own proper persons. You wi ! not see
Lamar, the actor. peri rming rhetoric over
Sumner dead body. But you will hear La
mar, the southern white, shamelessly pro-
clsiming Ia excuse for that eulOgy OF Summer,
"Iou understand. i saw the carcass and used
IL To hoodwink the Yankees"