New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-30
MR.. HENDRICKs's WAR RECORD.
HELD IN CONTEMPT BY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
vANCE's PROCLAMATION.
'BY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUgE.l


BY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON, Oct 29.-"I wonder if
Thomas A. Hendricks knows that he Is at heart thor
oughly despiscd by every II the South who took a
leading part in tho rebellion" said North Caroln.an
today.
why should they despse him Did he not sympa-
thze with the South throughout the warl You must
have forgotten that in 1868, in public speech.
Mr. Hendricks said; 4 ready to say to the
people the South in again, and will secure TO
YOU your constitutional rights and II you desire them
additional gurantees. II there is any man who desires
10 continue fighting and spending the peoples money,
and lives do not sympathze with him. II must also have
escaped your memory that In speech IN Chicago, the
night after the adjournment Of the Democratic National
Convention Of -Gi he expressed the hope that life still
remained in the masses and they had not been sunk
so low by the years despotsm but that they could
rise to crush out abOtonsm and hurl the smutty old
tyrant at Washington out OF political existence,
For tho last few years no continued we
as nation have been oppressed and
have suffered IL ever a nation could suffer.
Let the remember the injuries which have been
inflicted upon them and rise In their might. "
NO I do not forget that Hendricks was peace
Democrat that hc did all that he dared in the way or
Encouraging cnstmcns in the Union army and encour-
aging desertions thcrcfrom, as well as re
.istance TO the conscrption Nor do
forget that ~ a Senator he opposed all The
but the reason why the Southern leaders depse him Il
that he wa both moral and physical coward lie
belonged 10 that Of Northern Democrats who egged
Oh the resistance by promises OF material and IN
men and money and them when the south had taken mp
arms took precious good not 10 endanger their own
persons or poke, books. What the South needed and
had reason expect from her Northern alAes-hleh
and money-she never received.
How much respect do you suppose man Ike >ena-
tor Vance my state, for example can have for Hen
dricksl Why, In North Carolina we had a
good many men who were opposed TO
the prosecution OF the war Ny
tho Jen Davis Government. They opposed the Con
federacy exactly Hendricks and the olheI
Com erhead- opposed the Union cause -ultcour~siu7
cnstuent- I'm Tie army and encouraging desertohs ahu
resistance 10 the cOnscrI ton laws IN l-o3 Wheh hen
bricks delivered the speech you Mentioned ahce va
wa, circulating in Indiana, proclamation 10y Governor
Vsnce ~. circulating North Carolina. 10 was
elected against many persons IN the country VINO lncitt
and encourage deserOns and harbor and conceal the
Jeserfer. commanded them 20 desert from such base
corarllv aud reasonable conduct ana warned them
maj oerv.e tney would subject themselves 10 PUNISH
nent a. we'll "a 10 the everlasting contempt and detes-
tatiou OF All GOOD and honorable men. Governor vance
In this proclamation also declared certainly no eilic
could be greater nor cOwdrdce more AFFECT no
more base than for citizen OF the STATE enjoying ,
privileges and protection without sharing us oahSers
! 10 encourage desertion or harocr deserters
In his zeal and indignation Governor vance rlctureo
the future and those no aided anu ehcouI
aged thcu OF the eventual success o. Ine CVl
feicrJcv IN these words: II permitted 70 i've III III,
state AT all you will he made infamous. lon VIII DC
hu-I from the polls sulied IN lAt HlItsts' A4J W
vour couutrvfnen will not believe yOu on o3tu ana
honest me viii every vhenre shun you as a pes rhce
That proclamation vas issued on May l. IHo0' 40 you
imagine that Governor Vance can hod III any
Northern man. who IN the NOlth uu "H"' Ho ~ N''''
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