The Evening critic., 1884-07-21
CURTIS ON HENDRICKS.
The Shameless Hypocrisy of the
"Reform" Cry with such n Man on
the Ticket.

The Shameless Hypocrisy of the
"Reform Cry with such Man on
the Ticket.
AS tho letter OF Mr.. Tilden In Its effort TO
please the repudlating element OF his party
shows how powerful ho believes It to be, It Is
worth while to see what kind OF public man
his associate, the representative Of that sentl.
ment is, since, In case OF Democratic success,
the Government might fall into his hands. Mr..
Hendricks has made no distinctly favorable
Impression whatever upon tho country
although ho has been Governor and Senator,
ana long engaged In public affairs. Trained,
noiI,1c,:ns 1en, ma IN ,he @ senool 81 prosiayery
tho aggreesions OF slavery and tho debauchery
OK the National mind and conscience. He was
cratic eors pPihef 70 Pste freedom IN KSnsSs and to
dishonor tho National name.
During the war he was Copperhead. Gov
edhor ehoi Morton, In his heroic contest with the
from Mr.. Hendricks, who was elected by that
Legislature to tho Senate of tho United States.
he left his church when it's minister preached
nloyal sermon, exhorting his people to sustain
iheir Government. And early In the war he
said In speech:
'Ii the war, being prosecuted, shall have
south, by destroying the peculiar system OF
labor In that section, then would advise the
Northwest to look out for ITSELF"
II was Just at the time that Mr.. Tilden was
engaged In publishing tracts to discredit and
denounce Mr.. Lincoln's conduct OF the war.
Mr; Hendricks Eealously aided this work by
moned "all who are In favor OF peace, all who
desire to be free from tho death grip OF this
wicked, tyrannical and imbecile administra-
lion, It's arbitrary and illegal arrests, and Its
draft and conscription laws, by which peace.
able citzons arc dragged from their homes
and all the endearments OF domestic life, to
butcher aud bo butchered, to come out and
hear this advocate OF peace and reunion"
And In this vein he spoke. In February, 1868,
at such meeting, he denounced Mr.. Lincoln
slavery men who were guilty:
"If Congress would take bundle OF switches
and switch them all out OF the White House 1t
would be woli for the people; but until that Is
done II Will not be we'll. You may hear the
prayers In our churches; your sons may 60
out 10 the battlefield; but our country is not TO
be restored as It was until Abolitionism is
buried, never to be resurrected."
Colored regiments mad peen authorized, and
no exclaimed:
completed. They have passed a bill IN the
House OF Representatives to arm an army OF
negroes. Every man who voted for
that bill, and the President when ho shall
have signed 1t, will have offered direct In.
cult TO every white man aud woman In the
United states-an insult that every proud
man will resent"
Naturally the audience responded, UKilI
the niggersi' and Mr.. Hendricks would be- OF
course, Jealous guardian OF tho equal rights
OF both racesl He advised his hearers II any.
body came Into their noighborhood without
law TO arrest deserters, to "attend to that gen.
tleman at once" and the response was, "Well
wise enlis,ing, FOR he said no would not recon-.
mend anyone 10 do what he did not mean TO
do himself. And he continued:
VI am ready TO compromise at any time.
am ready TO say To tho peopie OF the South,
Come In again and we Will secure to you your
constitutional rights, and, II you desire them,
additional guarantees II there is any man
who desires TO continue lighting and spending
tho peoples money and lives, / do not sympa-
thize with him. Congress will not meet until
next December, and until that time the Gov
eminent Will be under the control OF the Abo-
litlonists. 1t may be that event0 will settle the
question before that timo II 1t goes on
little longer as 1t has since tho President is
sued his proclamation, IL 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 got.
Cheers IL was q wicked thing to have ls-
sued. The people say to Mr.. Lincoln, 'You
must stand by the Constitution. You have no
right TO mako an Abolition purpose of this
ya am ssss '9 'ss Peope S
lowe, you mon In workshops and on farms, I'll
@ put you .na In dungeons 4 you do not be still
These were Mr.. Hendricks views and words
while his country was engaged In a mortal
struggle with slavery aud treason. Is there
any good reason why he should bo selected
from forty millions OF people TO be the possi-
Bile head OF Government which he did his best
10 destroy
When the country that no sought to destroy
emerged victorious from tho war, Mr., Hen
bricks as Senator denied the power OF Congress
or OF the people TO abolish slavery by constl
new amendments. He was one OF the three
| Senators who voted for proposition that nc
| colored man should vote unless no was worth
| $3.50 In his own right OF In that OF his wife
| such was his notorious opposition to the wal
| and to emancipation that the Indiana soldiers
| would not suffer him to speak at a banquet to
| General Sherman or at n reunion OF Veterans
| Since tnp la nj na n
Democratic aepirant for the Presidency, ap
parently for the reasons that he lived In q
western State and would be acceptable to OK
| rebels, Copperheads and innationists.
Last year Mr.. Hendricks went into Ohio &c
| advocate the election OF Governor Allen upon
platform OF population. But he was so owl.
DENLY mindful OF tho nominations of this
year that no dissatisfied both sides OF his
party, and has been laughed at with a great
deal OF ofcontempt ever since for his desperate
struggles TO sit on so sharp fence. But his
real sympathies were understood, and no was
the Presidential candidate OF tho most danger
| ous wing OF HIS party. Foreseeing sure defeat
with such candidate, how ever, and having
decided that their own plausible 'cry" was
reform, the managers prevented his securing
The nrst place, but nominated him for the
Vice Presidency, thus proclalmng unnistak-
| ably both the insincerity OF their cry OF re-
iorm ana the power OF tho Democratic re-
| pudiators.
| No man who Is familiar with public atralrs
and men would claim that Mr. Hendricks Is In
| any sense whatever a representative OF the
| loyal and sincere patriotism OF tho country, OF
| sound and wise financial system, or OF i'm
| provement in the Civil Service. He 10 nc
more representative OF reform than Fer
| nando Wood, and no moro stands for what the
| Democratic platform declares to be the car
| dinal necessities OF the timo than any othei
| familiar Democratic politician in the country
| His association with Mr.. Tildeu upon the
ticket 10 IN illustration OF the hollow pretensC
| OF the Democratic campaign. There may bC
| Democrats who In some way represent saga
| cious judgment and statesmanship, and tht
| elevation OF political life, as Mr.. Wheeler does
among the Republicans; but Mr.. Hendricks Il
no more one OF them than Isaiah Rynders.-
Hd'ptr'S Iletkiy, Sept. p 1876.