The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-06
HENDRICKS, MORTON, COLFAX
s'Gath' Writes Approximately of Indt
ana and Her Most illustrious Sons.
The Hoosier States Grand Record in the Wa,
Of the Relationships Remarks Sug-
cested BY the Monument TO Her Soldiery.


great West was settled. Kentucky and ohis
were the territories of concentration; and Indi
ana became mere territory OF those two States
Int il ia of advantage to commonwealth to
develop slowly and even be left, as Indians
was by the rapid settlement OF Illinois on the
west. Missouri on the southwest and Michigan
on the north. The reflex wave of settlement
has been chiefly observed toward Indiana
Tracts of land there. not considered to De Oh
great value. have affected the experiences OF the
settler to the West.
Nature seems to have done for Indiana as
much for any portion Of tho great West. der
settlers were not prescribed in their quailty IKE
those of Ohio by any particular Revolutionary
services They came out of the plain poor white
element of South and North. and perhaps the
only important religious accessions to Indiana
were those Of some honest Protestant pastors
from about Tennessee, who began to see that
slavery and freedom were not exactly the same
bread and butter; and from some Quakers, who
settled in North Carolina and perhaps Virginia,
concluded that as their ancestors had moved
across the ocean and been benefited, they
might cross the mountains and get some
benefit Indiana was the first of the Weesern
States leaving out the Louisiana Territories,
We are all wrong, as Americans, about the jesu-
TRY of the Catholic Church. American Catho-
lies are not going to be mere conspirers against
the free institutions of their country. They
will be narrow and suspicious, according to the
entertainment the American mind gives them.
Warmed within our Republic approaching the
federation which is the boast of the present age.
the Catholic, like the jew. will rise to she self
respect accorded to him. Probably the worst
influence in America in the way of liberation is
the old Puritan element, and we can behold
what has become of that by seeing Boston al
most com pletely in the. hands of the Irish
American Catholics. l fancy that Boston to-
to- kAxo Me IN Ia IA N Ga6
to be when only the elect of God controlled it,
The remarks i am making are suggested by
the monument Indiana has ordered in honor OF
her soldierv. 1t has not been my honor and
privilege to be citizen of the West. though L
often asked in the East if did no. come
from Indiana, Ohio or Illinois. To these fatter-
ers have remarked that from the time of my
youth, when saw the West and it contributed
to my settlement in life have been its citizen,
as much as Sir Henry Vane after he had been
rejected by Massachusetts, when he systemat-
ically took of that colony in spite of his in
juries, that old Winthrop. the Governor, was
might have been our opponent he has
been our true and devoted friend"
the Western States until about
1865, when was about twenry-four years old.
In the interval have seen the West develop
into such a mighty power and civilization that
if We had no East at all the West would be one OF
the greatest nations of the earth. have always
said in the East that the reviving and honorable
power of this country was the West There
the republic keeps its convictions; there the in
incible military strength OF the Northern
States is to be found. The great civil war was
not the making of the West, but tho finding OF
it out. And when We think OF sherman ana
Grant and Sheridan and many others, poor sons
of the West, and how continental and federal
their scope and quality were. we wonder il We
could ever have been a nation without this West.
Parties move up and down, and our friends Of
to-day are our opponents tomorrow; but have
never ceased to be impressed with Indiana from
the civil war. To that State Lincoln removed
with his pai ents from Kentucky. Out of that
State came two of the most extraordinary men
have ever seen. Morton and Hendrlcks. How
can Hendricks be accounted for. with his mar
veous gentility, never seeking the brutal lines
of warfare, but always addressing himself to
counted for, brought up Democrat, who threw
himself into the battle against slavery with
spirit equal to that of jeff Davis in the South!
Hendricks and Morton had their, spats and
vet believe they respected each other Morton
had not tho capacity in . polite way to equal
Hendricks in the amenities OF debate he was
stronger than Hendricks, but. ii he had been as
considerable and scrupulous as Hendricks, his
supporters might now be even more proud or
him. Morton was the lion of the North in the
civil war. Hendricks supported all the consid-
crate government measures The two men
ought to be put together in any monumental
commemoration which 10 to be made. The one,
with a powerful temperament, resented any af-
trout TO his convictions, as If they had been
made to his person. The other, standing by his
less he was pressed to tho wall have always
thought with pleasure OF what Hendricks said
to me not long before his death about President
Hayes's installation into the presidency, which
deprived Hendricks of the presidency of the
Senate. Said he: II have always stood by
Hayes we had no business to make an agree-
ment, and then hold the beneficiary of it ac-
countable for the way it was settled" printed
this remark OF Hendricks, and some time after
that saw that when he was buried -Presi-
dent Hayes went TO the funeral Let the
Americans learn to consider that We are not two
nations of men because there two parties in
the country. With regard to our trade regula-
L. hat hath aaFffR md
all the factions mean the best good to their
country.
My reference to Indiana concerns some notice
of its war monument l understand that
Schmitz, Of Berlin. in Prussia, has been Sc
lected to build the great battle monument OF
Indiana. This Is entirely right In the max
ing of works of art there should be no country.
Mechanical industries, which affect the develop
ment of ones own land and the employment OF
ones own people, belong to a different plane
from the building of artistic things which relate
to the common criticism of human kind Inc
Germans of Indiana have played such great
part in its development that II Is a tribute TO
battle monument of Indiana should be taken
from that noble country which set to the great
West its example of individual freedom. No
man out of Italy in modern times has been such
an example to America as Columbus. although
we have called our race and our country after
one Of his literary and maritime chroniclers and
competitors But old Martin Luther, in spite
of his animal quality, remains one OF the great
men Of the earth in teaching every individual
that he can dare to defy outside, foreign and
false domination
Luther's denunciation of Henry VIII who
founded the Protestant Episcopal Church. were
just hearty and harsh as any comments ne
made upon princes and pontiffs to the south of
them. I sometimes think that il his theology
had been accepted instead of that republican
theology of CALVIN, the world would have had
less to apologize for. Founders of systems who
imagine themselves to be God. often make the
mistake of the who was intrusted with
giants power and using it like giant crushed
every simple. weak and youthful thing. Luther,
who was a monk, like all the Protestant reform
ers, gave q tone of eeniality TO all such
countries az Sweden and Denmark, and
the north OF Germany. which has
not resulted in their acceptance of his particu-
lar doemas but rather in q government OF man
bv man without any miraculous interpretation or
ACKNOWLEDGMENT We see to-day Prussia domi-
mating Germany. and the influence which domi-
different from the individual sentiment OF