The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-27
BLACKBOARD AND SLANDERER.
Esen E2uaIer's Opinion of Hen
bricks.

In 1876 Gen Butler, at North Vernon, Ind, de-
lFefed the following SCathIug speech in reply to
a remark made by Hendricks in speech at
North Vernon. Butter followed Hendricks and
from the same platform, said:
Il had come into the State; had made some
seven OF eight speeches; / had never mentioned
tile name Oi mortal man in the State; i had
apOIUgiZed. as / did here, to every audi
cnce that addressed for appearing before the
people of Indiana in connection with a State
election, and / had done nothing of which
should complain at the hands of any gentle
man, and yet Mr.. Hendricks degrades the posi-
ton ne seeks and the one he has held so much
as 10 say 60 he people of North Vernon: Gen.
hutler Is coming over here, and you must look
out Tor Your spoons. Now, that is slander; the
Democracy, thank God, can ind nothing else
to use IN the way Of argument. My record has
been closely examined Tor the last ten years.
and tLis-this Is the culminationl
have been the personal friend and honored
guts. OF every Democratic President since IS45; /;
nay was the friend, neighbor and family guest
o! resident Pierce, who appointed Thomas A.
II nIricks to subordinate office to pay for his
vote. LApplausa.I II Mr. Hendricks wants any
more OF that | can tell a good deal more about
that transaction. Tremendous cheering and
crle-, 90 ON. Give it to him. Tell it ALL" etcJ
j do not come here to hear false witness against
my neigh ors, or true witness about transactions
that should be confidential and ought not be
told. avn not here for that purpose; only say
that 5lr Hendricks makes very large draught
or my gentlemanly instincts Loud applause
and cries of go on"l
"oue word about this, aud let's have done
win It and go on TO something that may be of
some prOat to mortal man or woman. Every
creature on earth judges according to the
standard which he has, which is his own capa-
bllltv, hls own sense of Dropriety, or his own
powers. The Hy that lights on the dome of St.
Paul $ Cathedral looks around him to the dis
t3nee ol eight leet, the extent OF his vision, and
thinks it q t3lr, slightly piece Of work The pig
that feeds out oi the trough thinks it a very ex-
Celcnt piece of architecture That is the best
he can do with his Instincts that is as much as
ne 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
whoever believes that l, Major General OF
the United states, with life and death at nv
tugarH ends, exercising that unlimited and
desponc power given me by the war. went
round picking uD spoons, knows that he would
have done Il it he had been in my place. Tire
mendOus auplause.J 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 90 where he could do it,
] have. Cheers
But Mr.. Hendricks said in his speech made
aga n-t the enfranchlSement of the black men
that he had never volunteered himself nor en-
courag9d anybody else to volunteer, and there
fore he can be excused. But what must be the
depth of man $ heart who can beittle and de-
mean himself so far as to utter this sort of
thing III some drunken whisky-soak, some
lOatinE rascal shOuld say it, could pardon him
God knows he does The best he knows how:
but here IS a man who lived awhile with
gentlemen, man who has been in the Senate
OF the United States and man who, since nv
admini~traE on IN New Orleans, has taken my
LtHA III IIltuuEulp, LAe mana lie Knows to be
the hand OF greed, or else he lies [Cries of He
does lie: OF course he does" Cheersl
- have done with this once and forever: but
| want to lay two or three facts before YOU for
the use of your SeHjiHeis and your Hendricks
They say took s3,50o,000 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 70 this and no hole has been found in
the account Great cheering. Go through and
look ana when you have looked through tell the
other side uf the story. Don't put down part and
leave out the rest, lest God treat you as He did
Auantas and Sapphira. | ted33 600 starving men
and children, most of them the wives of rebels
III the army. From the 9Th day of June to the
9Th day OF September, 1862, [ employed / 100
men IN cleaning up the streets, in cleaning the
canals, ana making II healthy for the widows,
children. and wives of the Confederate soldiers
gave them 400 feet square of land at the Gus
tom House that since has sold for 81 so A foot
tanned the hospital of the Sisters of Charity at
an expense Of $4,000 a month"; and another
Catholic hospital at an expense of 5000 a
month. m. de luciT children 20 TO school, and
furnished the teachers Cheers l policed
their city, kept 10 in order, that from that 9Th
day Of June forward a child or a woman could
walk through the city of New Orleans with
more safety than they could go up the stairs
into the Ncatuge. Office. Laughter and cheers.l
j thought lt was not exactly right to tax the
people OF the North, who alreay had so much
to bear to pay for all this. and so | made the
r1ch men and the property of New Orleans pay
Tor lI MS IS part OF the history OF this coun-
try that IS notorious, and has been printed and
published for years, and men who can read and
understand ought to know it. You can go to
the Treasury Department at Washington and
md that | sent from New Orleans, in good.
hard, sound dollars about S5OO,O0O to the Treas
ury OF the United States. Wen, now, with that
power of administration for good or evil, sup
pose Thomas A. Hendricks had been there do
in- what / was, how much time would he have
had lett to look after spoonss
We'll, now, | have done with this forever
For the first time in my life have | alluded to it.
except last night at North Vernon / hung the
man who tore down the American flag on the
spot whera he desecrdtcd the emblem OF his
country power, and last night [ pilloried the
blackguard who struck nv character on the
spot where he committed the crime"