Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-04
ONE OF HENDRICKs, sPEEoHEs.

ONE OF HENDRICKS, SPEECHES,
 In the winter of 1S62-'63 Mir. Thomas A. 1 Hendricks, the gentleman who is now fgur- 1 ing as the tail of the Democratic kite, was
 elected United States Senator from Indiana.
 In celebration of this event he was given an 'Fovation" at Shelbyville, February 5, 1882
 The Lincoln haters were present in large
 numbers, and hooped and yelled their senti-
 naents through the streets with impatience
 until the hero of the occasion appeared with 1 his speech. This speech ought to be used as 1 one of the campaign documents of the Inde- ] pendent Republicans.
 1 MT. Hendricks assured his hearers that if the l president of tho United States, in the Ian l guage of the Crittenden resolutions, had held
 up the banner of this country for the consti- 1 tuition and a restored union, that all the States shall remain under that constitution, ! with every right secured and unimpaired, l there would not have been a dissentient voice in all the North. But, he went on to say, the president cannot change the purpose of the originally declared, and make it an abolition war, and then hold the people of the North a unit. After more talk of
 this kind he turned his attention
 to the bill providing for the en- hstment of negroes. Concerning this he said: The crowning act of injustice has
 been completed. They have passed bill in the house of representatives to arm an army of negroes-15O, 900 negroes! Let me tell you, gentlemen, that every Democrat in the house voted against the bill, and every Republican voted for it with three exceptions; and if I had it in my power, I would set the names of these three men in gold. A hundred and fifty thousand negroesl What does it meana Does it mean that 10000, 600 of white men of the North are not courageous, bold, powerful enough to contend with the men of the South, and therefore the government must invoke the aid of the negroa Does it mean thats I under stand that the pretense is raised that the negroes shall fight down where it is not healthy for white men to fight This pre- tence, gentlemen, is sham.
 Gentlemen, every man who voted for that bill and the president, when he shall have signed it, will have offered direct insult to every white man and woman in the United States, an insult that every proud man will resent.
 MT. Hendricks further said that he was ready to compromise at any time ready to say to the people of the South: F'Come in again, and we will secure to you your consti- tutional rights and if you desire the addi- tional guarantees" And he also said: We have elected majority of the next house of representatives, and unless the border State men go unexpectedly and MT. Lincoln cheats the people with his representatives from mill tary districts, we shall be able to &C., complish something. But that congress will not meet until next December, and until that time the government will be un- der the control of the abolitionists It may be that events will settle the question be- fore that time. If it goes on a little while longer as it has been since the president is sued his proclamation it is going against us
 This is the way Mir. Hendricks supported the government of the United States in one of the most critical periods of it's history. Ought he now to be elected president, and es- pecially can independent Republicans vote for him with good conscience?