The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-08-06
uryprrCks SAYS SPOONS.
And General Butler PiIlories Him I'm
Characteristic Style.

ton he seeks and the one ne nas
held. SO much as TO say TO the peo-
pie of North Vernon General But
Ter is coming oyer here, and you
must look out for your spoons.
Now. that is SANDER the Democra-
CIV, thank God, can find nothing else
to use in the way of argument My
record has been closely examined
for the last ten years, and this-this
is tie elimination
Il have been the personal friend
and honored guest Of every Demo
cratic President since 1915; nay, /
was the friend, neighbor and family
guest of President Pierce. who APP
pointed Thomas A. Hendricks to a
subordinateof office to pay Tor his vote.
JApplause.l IfMr Hendricks wants
any more of that | can tell a good
deal more about that transaction.
Tremendous cheering and cries of
Go on. Give it to him. Tell it
all" etc. | do not come here to
bear false witness against my neigh
bors. or true witness about transac-
tions that should be confidential and
ought not to be told. | am not here
Tor that purpose; | only say that
Mr.. Hendricks makes very large
draught on my gentlemanly in
stincts. loud applause and cries
of go on.
"One word about this, and let's
have done with it and 20 on to
something that may be of some
profit TO moral man or woman.
Every creature on earth judges ae-
cordiag to the standard which he
has, which is his own capability, 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 distance Of eight
feet. the extent OF his vision, and
thinks it a fair, slightly piece Of work.
The pig that feeds out of the trough
thinks it very excellen; piece of
architecture. That Is the best he
can do with his instincts that Is as
much as he can understand. He
does not understand the mansion at
the back OF whose barn his thought
is at all. Every man, therefore,
Judges every other man by himself,
and whoever believes that /, major
general of the United States. with
life and death at my fingers ends,
exercising that unlimited and des-
potic power given me by the war,
went round picking up spoons,
knows that he would have done it if
he had been in my place. ITremen-
dous applause That is his concep-
ton of the Office Of major general.
That is bis idea Of what man
should do, and what he would do if
he had the courage to go where
be could do il, as | haye lCheers. I
"But Mr.. Hendricks said in his
speech, made against the enfran-
ehisement of the black man, that he
never volunteered himself, nor en-
couraged anybody else to volunteer,
and, therefore, he can be excused.
But what must be the depth OF a
mans heart who can belittle and
bemean himself so far as TO utter
this sort of thing? Ifsome drunken
whiskv-soak, some loafng rascal
should say it. could pardon him.
God knows be does the best he
knows how; but here is man who
lived a while with gentlemen, man
who has been in the Senate of the
United States, and a man who, since
nv administration in New Orleans,
has taken my hand in friendship.
the hand he knew to be the hand of
greed, or else he lies. Cries of
He does lie; Of course he does"
Cheers
Il have done with this once and
forever; but l want to lay two or
three facts before you for the use of
yonr SeRtiHesl and your Hendricks.
They say l took s3,500,000 from the
people OF New Orleans. There are
my accounts at the War Department,
they have been examined by every
rebel sympathizer from that day to
this, and no hole has been found in
the account. Great cheering.1 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 Ananias
and Sapphira. / fed $4,000 starving
women and children, most of them
the wives OF rebels in the army.
From the sixth day of June to the
sixth day of September, 1862, | en-
ployed 1,l00 men in cleaning up the
streets, in cleaning the canals and
making it healthy for the widows,
children and wives of the Confeder-
ate soldiers. | gave them 400 feet
square of land at the Custom House
that since has sold for $3.50 a foot,
amounting to quite million dol
lars. | maintained the hospital of
the Sisters of Charity at an expense
of $1,000 month, and another
Catholic hospital at an expense of
5000 month. / made their chill
dren go to school, and furnished the
teachers. LCheers.] IpolIced their
city, kept it in order, so that, from
that sixth day of June forward. a
child or woman could walk
through the city of New Orleans
with more safety than they could go
up stairs ih the Sentinel Office.
Laughter and cheers.
81 thought it was not exactly right
to tax the loyal people of the North.
who already had so much to bear.
to pay for all this, and so | made
the rich men and the property of
New Orleans pay for it. Cries of
fright, right, and cheers This is
part Of the history OF this country
that is notorious. and has been
printed and published for years,
and men who can read and under
stand ought to know it. You can
go to the Treasury Department at
Washington and find that | sent
home from New Orleans, in good,
hard, sound dollars, about s500,O00
to the Treasury of the United States.
Well, now, with the power of admin
istration for good or evil, suppose
Thomas A. Hendricks had been there
doing it when l was, how much
time wonld he bava had laft - Iool-