Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-24
BLACKBOARD AND SLANDERER,
Ben Buffers Opinion Of Hen.
bricks.

In 1876 Gen. Butler, at North Vernon, Ind, de-
livered the following scathing speech in reply to
North Vernon B9ter foewed aessea ana
from the same platform, said:
Il had come into the State; 1 had made some
the name Of mortal man in IN the be State; had
apologized, as did here, to every audi
ence that I addressed for appearing before the
election, and had done nothing Of which
should complain at the hands Of any gentle-
man, and yet Mr.: Hendricks degrades the posi-
as to say to the people Of North Vernon: % ~ Gen Gen.
Butler is coming over here, and you must look
out for your spoons Now, that is SANDER; tho
Democracy, thank GOD. can find nothing else
been closely examined for the last ten years,
and this-this is the elimination!
have been the personal friend and honored
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 tel good deal more cr about s@S
that transaction. Tremendous cheering and
cries. Go on Give it to him. Tell it all" etc.]
do not come here to bear false witness against
that should be confidential and ought not be
told. I am not here for that purpose; only say
that MIR. Hendricks makes very large draught
on on my n.y.! gent@eman!y Mt en- Instincts Loud applause.
"eS wefd S aSS%s sh aud let's hav. done
with it 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-
:bility, his own sense Of propriety, or his own
Pauis Cathedral looks around him ' to the e. dis. H
tance OF eight feet, the extent Of his vis1on and
thinks it a fair, slightly piece Of work. The pig
ts out IT. Of the eoSga thinks
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
judges every other man by himself, and
whoever believes that I, Major General Of
the United States, with life and death at my
despottc power given me by the war, went
round picking up spoons, knows that he would
have done it il he had been in my place. Tire
mendous applause] That is his conception Of
the office OF major general. That is his idea of
what man should do. and what he would do If
he had the courage to go where he could do it,
But Mr. Hendricks said in his speech made
against the enfranchisement Of the black men
that he had never volunteered himself nor en-
couraged anybody else to volunteer, snd, there
depth of a mans heart who can belittle and de-
mean himself so far as to utter this sort of
thing? If some drunken whisky-soak, some
loafng rascal should say it, could pardon him.
God knows he does the best he knows how:
but here is man who lived awhile with
gentlemen a nan 9taaoS who has been In the Senate
Ol Guo OulCoU SCdCeSs anu a man VINO. since nv
administration in New Orleans, has taken my
hand in friendship, the hand he knows to be
the hand of greed, or else he lies [Cries Of He
does lie; Of course he does" Cheers]
want to lay two or three facts before you for
the use of your Sentinels and your Hendricks,
They say took s.. 100000 from the people OF
War Department.; they have been examined by
every rebel and every rebel sympathizer from
that day to this, and no hole has been found in
other side Of the story. Don'tput down part and
leave out the rest, lest God treat you as He did
| Ananias and sapphira I fed 50, 600 starving men
in the army. From the 9Th day of June to the
9Th day Of September, 1862, employed 1.1Ot
men in cleaning up the streets, In cleaning the
children, and wives of the Confederate soldiers
gave them 400 feet square Of land at the Gus
tom House that since has sold for $3.50 a foot
tanned the hospital Of the Sisters Of Charity a,
| an expense Of $4,000 month, and anothea
Catholic hospital at an expense Of $1,000 .
month. I made their children 60 to school, ant
furnished the teachers lOheers.] policei
their city, kept it in order, so that from that 6tt
day of June forward a child or a woman couli
walk through the city Of New Orleans will
into the Sentinel Office. Laughter and cheers.
Il thought it was not exactly right to tax thte
rich men and the property Of New Orleans pay
for it. This is part of the history of this coun
| try that is notorious, and has been printed ant
understand ought to know it. You can 70 t,
! the Treasury Department at Washington an,
find that sent from New Orleans, in good
ury Of the United States. Well, now, with tina
| power of administration for good or evil, sup
| pose Thomas A. Hendricks had been there do
| ing what was, how much time would he hav
| had left to look after spoons?
| We'll now, l have done with this forever
For the first time in my life have alluded to 1t
except last night at North Vernon. hung tn
| man who tore down the American flag on tn
| spot where he desecrated the emblem of hi
| country's power, and last night pilloried tn
| blackguard who struck my character on tn
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