The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-03
GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS.
The Contempt in Which Hendricks Is
Held by Democrats of the South.
Comparison of His Course During the War
with that of Governor Vance-Miscel-
laneOus Political Information.
MIR. HENDR1CKs,s WAR RECORD.

Held in Contempt by OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Vance's Proclamation.
Washington Special
81 wonder if Thomas A. Hendricks knows that
he is at heart thoroughly despised by every man
in the South who took leading part in the re-
bellion, said North Carolinian to-day.
why should they despise hint Did he not
sympathize with the South throughout the war;
You must have forgotten that in 1863, in . pub
lie speech, Mr.. Hendricks said: 4 am ready to
say to the people of the South, come in again,
and we will secure to you your constitutional
rights, and if you desire them, additional guar
antees. If there is any man who desires to
tinue fighting and spending the peoples money
and lives, | do not sympathize with him. 1t must
also have escaped your memory that in a speech
in Chicago, the night after the adjournment of
the Democratic national convention of 1861 he
expressed the hope that life still remained in the
masses, and that they had not been sunk so low
by the four years of despotism but that they
could rise to crush out Abolitionism and hurl the
smutty old tyrant at Washington out of political
existence. For the last few years, he contin-
ned. we, a nation, have been oppressed and
have suffered, if ever nation could suffer. Let
the masses remember the injuries which have
been inflicted upon them, and rise in their
might.
mo; do not forget that Hendricks was
peace Democrat that he did all that he dared
in the way of diScouraging enlstmentS in the
Union army and encouraging assertions there
from. as well as resistance to the conScripton
Nor do l forget that as senator he opposed all
the war measures proposed and carried through
Congress; but the reason why the Southern
leaders despise him is that he was born u moral
and a physical coward. He belonged to that
class of Northern Democrats who egged on the
South to resistance by promises of material aid
in men and money, and tier, when the South
r,nt
to endanger their own persons or pocketbooks.
What the South needed and had reason to ex-
pect from her Northern allies-men and money
she never received
How much respect do you suppose a man
like Senator Vance of my State, for example,
can have for Hendricks? Why in North Carolina
we had good many men who were opposed
to the prosecution of the war by
the jeff Davis government They opposed the
Confederacy exactly as Hendricks and other
Northern eopperheads opposed the Union cause
-discouraging enlistments in the army and en-
courging assertions and resistance to the con
scrption laws. In 1868, when Hendricks deliv-
cred the speech you mentioned, Vance was
Governor of North Carolina. While Hendricks
speech was circulating in Indiana, proclamation
by Governor Vance circulating in North
Carolina. 1t was directed against many persons
in the country who incite and encourage desert
ions and harbor and conceal the deserters, com
manded them to desist from such base, cowardly
and reasonable conduct and warned them that
otherwise they would subject themselves to pun
ishment as well as to the everlasting contempt
and detestation of all good and honorable men
Governor Vance, in this proclamation also de-
ART. Certainly no crime could be greater
or cowardice more abject no treason more
ase than for a citizen of the State, enjoying its
Fivileges and protection without sharing its
dngers,' to encourage desertion or harbor de
serters.'
In his zeal and indignation, Governor Vance
pictured the future of deserters and those who
aided and encouraged them, in of the event
ual success of the Confederacy, in these words
IF permitted to live in the State at ALL you will
be made infamous. You will be hustled from
the polls insulted i'll the streets, jury of your
countrymen will not believe you on oath, and
honest men will everywhere shun you as pes
thence. That proclamation was issued on May
II, 1868. Do you imagine that Governor Vance
can hold in any respect Northern man. who,
in the North, did what he SO hotly denounced in
the South2"