The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18
BLACKBOARD AND SlANDERER.
ben Buffers Opinion Of Hem
bricks.

In 1876 Gen. Butler, at North Vernon, Ind, de-
livered the following scathing speech in reply to
a remark made by Hendricks in speech at
North Vernon. Butler followed Hendricks, and,
from the same platform, said:
Il had come into the State; 1 had made some
seven or eight speeches; had never MENTIONED
apologized as / did here, to every audi
ence that / addr essed for appearing before the
people of Indiana in connection with State
election, and i had done nothing of which l
should complain at the hands OF any gentle
man, and yet Mr. Hendricks degrades the posi-
ton he seeks and the one he has held so much
as TO saw to the people of North Vernon: Gen
Butler is coming over here and you must look
out for your spoons. Now that Is SANDER; the
Democracy, thank God, can find nothing else
to use in the way of argument My record has
been closely examined tor the last ten years,
and ths-this is the culminationl
1 have been the personal friend and honored
guest of every Democratic President since 1915;
nay, was the friend, neighbor and family guest
of President Pierce, who appointed Thomas A.
Hendricks to subordinate office to pay for his
more of that / can tell a good deal more about
that transaction. Tremendous cheering and
cries. go on. Give IL to him. Tell 1t ALL, etc.l
do not come here to bear false witness against
my neighbors, or true witness about transactions
that should be confidential and ought not be
told. am not here for that purpose; L only say
that Mr.. Hendricks makes a very large draught
on my gentlemanly instincts. Loud applause,
\ and cries OF Go on. j
zone word about this, aud let's have done
| with il and go on to something that may be of
| some profit to mortal man or woman. Every
creature on earth judges according to the
standard which he has, which is his own capa-
| blity, his own sense OF propriety, or his own
| powers. The fly that lights on the dome of St.
| Paul's Cathedral looks around him to the dis
lance OF eight feet, the extent of his vision and
| thinks 1t fair. slightly piece Of work. The pig
that feeds out of the trough thinks IL very ex-
| cellent piece of architecture. That IL the best
he can do with his instincts; that is as much as
he can understand. He does not understand
| that mansion at the back of whose barn his
trough is, at all. Every man, therefore,
judges every other man by himself, and
the United States, with life and death at my
| fingers ends, exercising that unlimited and
despotic power given me by the war. went
| round picking up spoons, knows that he would
| have done IL IL he had Deen in my place. Tire
mendous applause.l That is his conception of
the office of major general. That Is his idea OF
| what man should do, and what he would do IL
| he had the courage to go where he could do It,
| "a have. tChcers.I
But Mr.. Hendricks said in his speech made
| against the Acknowledgement of the black men
! that he had never volunteered himself nor en-
couraged anybody else to volunteer, and, there
fore he can be excused. But what must be the
depth of a mans heart who can belittle and de-
mean himself so far as to utter this sort of
thing? IL some drunken whisky soak, some
loafing rascal should say IL, could pardon him.
| God knows he does the best he knows how
but here Ia a man who lived awhile with
| gentlemen a man who has been In the Senate
of the United States, and q man who. since my
1
\ hand I'm friendship, the hand he knows to be
the hand of greed. or else he lies. ICries of He
| does lie; OF course he does" Cheersl
| "Ihave done with this once and forever; but
| / want TO lay two or three facts before you for
/ the use of your SentiaetS and your Hendricks.
| They say took s., 100000 from the people OF
/ New Orleans. There are my accounts at the
| War Department. they have been examined by
| every rebel and every rebel sympathizer from
| that day to this, and no hole has been found I'm
| the account, GGreat cbeerine.l Go through and
look, and when you have looked through, tell the
other side OF the story Don't put down part and
leave out the rest, lest God treat you as He did
Anantas and Sapphira- ted 81, 900 starving men
and children, most OF them the wives OF rebels
in the army. From the 9Th day Of June to the
9Th day of September, 1862, employed 100
men in cleaning mp the streets, I'm cleaning the
canals, and making It healthy for the widows,
children. and wives Of the Confederate soldiers.
i gave them 400 feet square of land at tho Gus
tom House that since has sold for S250 a foot,
| amounting to quite million Of dollars. Imam
tanned the hospital Of the Sisters OF Charity at
| an expense Of 5000 a month, and another
Catholic hospital at an expense Of 5000 a
| month made their children 60 to school, and