Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — Mr. Hendricks. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Hendricks.

Thomas A. Hendricks was one of six Senators who voted against the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution (abolishing slavery). He was one of eleven Senators who voted against the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution (conferring citizenship upon the negroes and prohibiting the payment of rebel debts). He was one of thirteen Senators who voted against the fifteenth amendment (establishing iiesrro suffrage). * He"was one of twelve who voted against the civil rights bill. He was one of fliteen who voted againht passing the same over President Johnson's veto. He was one of the seven who voted against the reconstruction act of the Thirty-seventh Con-/ gress, and one of ten who voted against passing it over the veto. He was one of thirteen who voted against the first bill lor the admission of Colorado, and one of twelve who voted against the second Colorado bill—both being vetoed by President Johnson. He was one of fourteen who voted against the admission of Nebraska, and one of nine who voted against passing the bill over the veto in 1867. These are a few reasons why the people of the West, and especially of Colorado and Nebraska, will not help to make Hendricks presiding officer of the body he did so little to adorn when he was a member of it— Chicago Tribune.