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ment will be under the control of the Abolition
lists. It may be that events will settle the
question before that time If it goes on q little
while longer as it has since the President issued
his proclamation, it is going against us. / do
not know whether that proclamation is going to
be taken back or not am going to vote to take
it back the first opportunity / get [Cheers
1t was wicked thing to have issued. The peos
pie say to Mr.. Lincoln, You must stand by the
Constitution. You have no right to make a1
Abolition purpose Of this war Mr.. LincoIA
says to the people, You are not loyal; am
loyal He says, You fellows you men in work
shops and on farms I'll put you in dungeons If
you do not be still when shake my head.'n
These were Mr.. Hendricks views and words
while his country was engaged in mortal
struggle with slavery and treason. Is there any
good reason why he should be selected from
forty millions of people to be the possible head
of governmentwhich he did his best to destroy3
When the country that he sought to destroy
emerged victorious from the war, Mr.. Hep
drlcks as senator. denied the power Of Congress
or of the people to abolish slavery by a ceilsti-
tutional amendment He voted against all the
new amendments He was one of the three SEN
ators who voted for proposition that col
ored man should vote unless he was worth $3.50
in his own right or in that of his wife. Such
was his notorious opposition to the war and to
emancipation that the Indiana soldiers would
not suffer him to speak at a banquet to General
sherman or at a reunion Of veterans. Since the
war he has been known only as Democrats
asprant for the presidency, apparently for the
reasons that he lived in a Western State and
would be acceptable to ex.rebels copperheads
and infationists.
Last year Mr.. Hendricks went into Ohio to ad-
vocate the election of Governor Allen upon
platform of repudiation. But he was so evident
ly mindful of the nomination of this year that he
dissatisfied both sides of his party, and has been
laughed at with great deal of contempt ever
since for his desperate struggles to sit on so
sharp a fence But his real sympathies were un-
derstood, and he was the presidential candidate
of the most dangerous wing of his party. Fore
seeing sure defeat with such candidate how
ever, and having decided that their own plausi-
Bile cry was reform, the managers prevented
his securing the first place. but nominated him
for the vice presidency, thus proclaiming unfnis-
takably both the insincerity of their cry of re-
form and the power of the Democratic repudi-
ators
No man who is familiar with public affairs and
men would claim that Mr.. Hendricks is in any
sense whatever a representative of the loyal and
sincere patriotism of the country, of sound and
wise financial system, or of improvement in the
civil service. He is no more representative Of
reform than Fernando Wood, and no more stands
for what the Democratic platform declares to be
the cardinal necessities of the time than
any other familiar Democratic politician in the
country His association with Mr. Tilden upon
the ticket is an illustration Of the hollow pre-
tense OF the Democratic campaign There may
be Democrats whe in some way. represent saga
clous Judgment and craftsmanship and the eIe-
walton Of political life, as Mr. Wheeler does
among the Republicans; but Mr. Hendricks is
no more one of them than Isaiah Rynders