The Indianapolis journal., 1903-02-04


20 increase rather than decrease his re-
sponsibility for wrong-doing.
NO IDEA OF REVENGE
''The figure over the door of that splendid
hail Is not the goddess of revenge. IL she
were. she would like no better occupation
than the opportunity of writing I'm immut-
able letters the story of Hendricks's life
during the war of rebellion But ii is
Clio. the muse of history. 1t gives her
neither pain nor pleasure to write the story
as il is There would be no vindictiveness
IN II when he was wrong; no exultation
when he was right. 1t would be merely
the plain, unvarnished story. that though
his voice may afterwards have become the
voice of Jacob, his hand was then the hand
of Esau.
Theodore Roosevelt, in his hero tales of
4 American history, selects Clark as one of
his subjects and gives to him the credit OF
securing TO the United States the territory
OF the Northwest which otherwise, in the
language of Roosevelt, would have re-
mained part OF the British Dominion of
Canada.
THE point has been raised that Clark
was not resident OF the State of Indi-
ana. Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana were
common soil when he began his work. He
saved this part of ii to the Nation. He
was the cause of Indiana. AS well ignore
the workman who builds the foundation for
the house because he does not paint the
he was not technically a resident when
the State was finally admitted into the
Union. Clark resided on this soil from
the time he conquered it in 1779 until
about the time the State admitted.
When decrepit man, absolutely In his
dotage, he was taken across the Ohio
river to be cared for by his sister. If his
country had reimbursed him for the money
he had actually spent out of his own means
"a claim which Clark himself said was
as Just as the book we swear by'-he would
not have been driven TO such poverty and
despair. and in all human probability his
years would have been heightened far into
the period OF 1ndiana'S actual statehood.
However. be that as Ii may. history is con-
elusive that at the time he crossed the
river out Of the State his body and mind
were both so enfeebled that his departure
from this soil was not of his own vcltion,
and We may we'll regard him as being con-
structively a citizen of the State until his
technicalities. The Importance of his work
towers above such groveling distinctions.
But even this technicality. if it ever
listed. has been removed from the minds of
the people of our State. Clark has been TAX
en- into good-felowship citizen of the
State of Indiana"
Senator Johnston, of Charlottesville, re-
piled TO Senator Barcus and charged the
gentleman from Vigo with waving the
bloody shirt" He defended the position
of Hendricks during the troublous times
in Indiana during the civil war and de-
clared that the late Vice President had at
all times been loyal to the Union in spirit
and letter, as well as ready and willing
to assist Governor Morton to the limit of
his ability.
CLARK. NOT A HOOSIER.
He made the argument that no statue
should be erected to the memory of George
Rogers Clark for the reason that Clark
was not citizen of the State at any time.
The general himself. Senator Johnston
said. considered himself Kentuckian, and
of mil hot
this was his view. the senator stated. He
declared that it had been generally under
stood that the statue to be placed by the
State in the national hall would be i'm
memory of Hendricks. and he expressed
his surprise that there had been change in
the programme.
Selling the opportunity afforded by the
frequent use by Senator Barcus of 1.-The
quired if the senator from Vigo had any
idea as to what the muse would think
OF the Papers and Messages of the Presi-
DENTS" published by a concern in which
Senator Barcus is largely interested. To
this Senator Barcus replied that all ad-
verse criticism of the concern and the book
work of scandal mongers.
Senator Wood. of Lafayette. in the first
sentence or his speech. said fatty that the
only claim Thomas A. Hendricks has to
monument Is that he is dead. Senator
Wood attacked the record OF the late Vice
president during war times, and declared
that the statue TO Clark would not be a
statue to Tory Mr.. Hendricks, while a
man of ability, was not a historical char
acter of the kind contemplated by Con-
gress. He had advocated peace at any
of the preservation of the Union This
is not record that the Democrats should
be proud Of he said.
Senator Fortunes contribution to the
flood OF oratory was notable. The senator
from Jeffersonville made a really brilliant
address: After adding a word to the de-
fense of Mr.. Hendricks, Mr.. Fortune said
among other things
MR.. FORTUNES SPEECH.
"a portion of the act of Congress under
which the General Assembly is about to an
propriate 5000 for the erection of statue
reads as follows: And the President is
hereby authorized to notify each and all
the States to provide and furnish statues
in marble or bronze, not exceeding two i'm
number for each State, of distinguished
persons who have been citizens thereof and
illustrious for their historic renown or for
civic or military service 1t
will be seen at glance from the above
that before the statue can be erected in the
Capitol at Washington city the person
whom ii represents must have been a citi-
zen of the State of Indiana.
WAS George Rogers Clark a citizen of
the State of Indiana?
''William II. English's History of the
Conquest of the West Volume 3, Pages
ing lived in what is now known as the town
Of Clarksville some time prior to and in
Guiding 1906 He is described by that au-
thor as having voted at JefferSOnville, In
diana Territory, Sept. IL, 1904. on the ques-
ton of whether the people desired the Ter
ritory to be advanced to the legislative
form of government.
by the conditions of the Illinois grant
General Clark received S,094 acres in what
Is known as Clark's, or the Illinois, grant.
The records in the office of the recorder of
clark county, in which the Illinois grant
is kept, show that General Clark conveyed
and mortgaged the above property, and in
himself as n resident of jefferson county.
Kentucky.
The History of the Old Northwest
Pages l53 to 15S, expressly says that General
Clark was a resident of Kentucky. 'C,ark's
Campaign In Illinois, by Pirtle, also says
that General Clark was resident OF Ken
lucky. Under the conditions of the Ili-
nofs grant Ii is much mooted question,
In the light of a decision In first Blackford,
Indiana Reports, upon the question of the
rights of citizenship I'm this Territory.
whether Clark could have been a citizen of
the State of Indiana during the period OF
his residence there.
1T is very clear, however. that Clark was
never resident of the State of Indiana
for the reason that all authorities describe
him as having left his old home on the
banks of the Ohio in Clarksville Immediate
ly after the amputation of his leg. which
occurred In the year 1S0S. eight years be-
fore the admission of Indiana into the
Union.
"Roosevelt's Winning of the West Vol
ume ;, Page 40, has the following to
General Clark: He wrote TO Gardoqui in
the spring of l1SS. boasting OF his feats of
arms in the past and Offering to lead a
large coiumn 10 settle In the Spanish do