Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-31
CURTIS ON HENDRICKS.
The Shameless Hypocrisy of the ssRefOrm"
Cry With such a Man on the Ticket.

party shows how powerful he believes
it to be, it is worth while to see what
kind of public man his associate, the
representative of that sentiment is, since,
In the case of Democratic success, the
Government might fall into his hands.
Mr.. Hendricks has made no distinctly
favorably impression whatever upon the
country although he has been Governor
and Senator, and long engaged in public
affairs. Trained, like Mr.. Tilden, in the
school of pro-slavery politicians, he was
the inconsiderate ally of the aggressiOns
of slavery and the debauchery of the
National mind and conscience. He was
a faithful supporter of the degrading
Democratic effort to stif1e freedom in
Kansas and to dishonor the National
name.
During the war he was Copperhead.
Governor Morton, in his heroic contest
with the rebel Legislature of Indiana,
had no support from Mr.. Hendricks, who
was elected by that Legislature to the
Senate of the United States. He left his
church when it's minister preached
loyal sermon, exhorting his people to
sustain their Government. And early In
the war he said in speech:
eff the war, being prosecuted, shall
have the effect of abolishing our market
in the South, by destroying the peculiar
system Of labor in that section, then 1
would advise the Northwest to look out
for itself"
1t was Just at the time that Mr. Tilden
was engaged in publishing tracts to dis
credit and denounce Mr.. Lincoln's con
duct of the war. Mr.. Hendricks jealous
ly aided this work by addressing meet
ings, the calls of which summoned "all
who are in favor of peace, all who de-
sire to be free from the death grip of this
wicked, tyrannical and imbecile admins
tration, its arbitrary and illegal arrests,
and it's draft and CONSUMPTION laws, by
which peaceable CT liens are dragged
from their homes and all the endear-
ments of domestic life, to butcher and be
butchered, to come out and hear this
advocate ofpeace and reunion" And in
this vein he spoke. In February, 1868,
at such a meeting, he denounced Mr..
Lincoln for making an abolition war. 1t
was the anti-slavery men who were
guilty:
eff Congress would take bundle of
switches, and switch them all out of the
White House, it would be we'll for the
people; but until that is done it will not
be well. You may hear the prayers in
our churches; your sons may go out to
the battlefield; but our country is not to
be restored as it was until abolition is
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Colored regiments had been authorized,
and he exclaimed:
"The browning act of injustice has
been completed. They have passed a
bill in the House of Representatives to
arm an army of negroes. 4 Every
man who voted for that bill, and the
President when he shall have signed it,
will have offered a direct insult to every
white man and woman in the United
States-an insult that every proud man
will resent"
Naturally the audience responded,
"Kill the niggersw and Mr.. Hendricks
would be, of course, a jealous guardian
of the equal rights of both races! He adj
vised his hearers, if anybody came into
their neighborhood without law to arrest
deserters, to ''attend to that gentleman
at once;" and the response was, "We'l
attend to them, old fellow" He did moi
advise enlisting, for he said that he
would not Recommend anyone to dc
what he did not intend doing himself
And he continued:
81 am ready to compromise at any
time. I am ready to say to the people
of the South, Come in again and we
will secure to you your constitutions
rights, and if you desire them, addiTiona
guarantees If there is any man who
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ing the peoples money and lives, dc
not sympathize with him. Congress will
not meet until next December, and unit
that time the Government will be unde
the control of the Abolitionists. 1t may
be that events will settle the question
before that time. If it goes on
a little while longer as it hai
since the President issued hi
proclamation it is going against us. d.
not know whether that proclamation il
going to be taken back or not; I am 60
ing to vote to take it back the first OPP
portunity 1 get. [Cheers ] It was
wicked thing to have issued. The PEG
pie say to Mr.. Lincoln, You must stauC
by the Constitution. You have no righ
to make an abolition purpose of thi
war Mr.. Lincoln says to the people
You are not loyal; I am loyal He says
You fellows, you men in workshops anC
on farms, I'll put you in dungeons if yol
do not be still when shake my head
These were Mr.. Hendricks views anC
words while his country was engaged il
q mortal struggle with slavery and trea
son. Is there any good reason why b,
should be selected from forty millions o
people to be the possible head of a Gov
eminent which he did his best to de
stroy?
When the country that he sought t,
destroy emerged victorious from the wal
Mr.. Hendricks as Senator denied tn
power of Congress or of the people t.
abolish slavery by a constitutions
amendment. He voted against all tn,
new amendments. He was one of tn
three Senators who voted for PROPOSE
ton that no colored man should vote un
less he was worth $3.50 in his own RICH
or in that of his wife. Such was not hi
emancipation that the Indiana soldier
would not suffer him to speak at ban
Quet to General Sherman or at a reunion
of veterans. Since the war he has beer
known only as Democratic aspirant 70
the Presidency, apparently for the rea