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Show MR. HENDRICKS AND THE WAR. Ills Loyalty to the Government at Washington Shown by a Card of 1861. Aurora, 111., December 8. Vice-President Hendricks had many personal admirers ad-mirers here. During the "campaign 4ast year, in a speech delivered at Lincoln Park, in this city, Richard J. Oglesby publicly accused Mr. Hendricks of being a leader in the Democratic National Convention Con-vention at Chicago in 1864, and stated that he implored that "body to pass a resolution res-olution declaring the war a failure. A copy of the Governor's speech was sent to Mr. Hendricks by a personal friend, and in a few days a letter was received from Mr. Hendricks, in which he said : "I am surprised that General Oglesby should have said that, as I was not a member of that convention, had no connection con-nection with the making of the platform ; indeed, had no knowledge of the contents con-tents of the platform until published. I inclose a card which I had occasion to . publish the first month of the war. My conduct throughout the war was governed gov-erned by the sentiments expressed in this card." The card was as follows : "My attention has been called to an editorial in the Indianapolis Journal of to-day (April 25, 1861), in which it is stated that at a Union .meeting held at Shelbyville a few evenings ago a committee com-mittee was appointed to wait upon me with the request that I should speak, but being called upon by the committee I refused re-fused to speak, saying that 'I had no hand in originating the difficulty "and would have nothing to do in extricating the couniry from its perilous condition. The writer has been wholly misinformed. misin-formed. I never heard of the appointment appoint-ment of such a committee, and suppose none was appointed. No committee waited on me with such a request. Had I been so honored, I certainly would have responded. I have never withheld with-held my views upon any question of public pub-lic interest from the people of Shelbyville. Shelby-ville. Upon all occasions, when it appeared ap-peared proper, I have expressed my opinion in relation to our present troubles. Since the war commenced I have uniformly uni-formly said that the authority of the Government of the United States is not questioned in Indiana, and that I regarded re-garded it as the duty of the citizens of Indiana to respect "and maintain that authority, and to give the Government an honest and earnest support in the prosecution of the war. until, in the providence of God, it may ' be brought to an honorable conclusion and the blessings bless-ings of peace restored to our country, postponing until that time all controversy in relation to the causes and responsibilities responsibili-ties of the war. No man will feel a deeper solicitude in the welfare and proud bearing of Indiana's soldiery in the conflict con-flict of arms to which they are called than myself. Allow me to add. that in my judgment a citizen or newspaper i3 not serving the country well in the present pres-ent crisis by attempting to give a partisan aspect to the war, or by seeking to pervert per-vert the cause of the country to party ends." |
