Separate them [the Republicans] from Sambo and Cuffee and they are as helpless as babes. * * How long will it be [if the Republicans obtain power] before Hon. Pompey Smash, Fred. Douglas, or some other kinky-headed and thick-lipped darkey presents himself here, all redolent with the peculiar odor of his race, to claim a seat as one of the people's representatives,' Hence, in Mr. ENGLISH'S judgment, the salvation of the nation, the perpetuity of its institutions, and the liberties and rights of its people, rested wholly upon the pro-slavery Democracy. Amid the din of coming treason and rebellon he is for Slave-Democracy-He proclaims the abject cowardice and meanness of Northern Democracy. All around him, in both Houses of Congress, as throughout the South, was heard the defiant and treasonable declaration that if the North closes us out of the Territories, if it elect a President upon an anti-slavery platform, the Union will be dissolved. All around him was heard the barbarous doctrine that " Slavery is national-Freedom sectional"-that "slavery is the natural and normal condition of the laborer"-that slavery is right and necessary whether WHITE or black!" At his very side Lawrence M. Keitt, of South Carolina, announced as a cardinal doctrine of Democratic faith that— 66 * Slavery is a great primordial fact, rooted in the origin of things. As a corollary to this it may be safely deduced that the existence of laborers and mechanics in organized societies was the result of the partial and progressive emancipation of slaves * * History tells us also that when the [white] working classes stepped out of the condition of bondage by the process of emancipation, they branched into four constantly recurring subdivisions the hireling, the beggar, the thief, and the prostitute, which have no general existence in slave countries unless there have been a commencement of emancipation." The North at the same moment was also aflame at the infamous dragooning of its cities in the execution of the " Fugitive slave law." The venerable Josiah Quincy, sen., in 1854, in Boston, Mass., exclaimed: "What has been seen, what has been felt, by every man, woman, and child in this metropolis and in this community, and virtually by every man, woman, and child in Massachusetts ? We have seen our eight companies of artillery, twelve companies of infantry, the whole constabulary force of the city police, the entire disposable marine of the United States, with its artillery loaded for action, all marching in support of a pretorian band consisting of 120 friends and associates of the United States Marshal, with loaded pistols and drawn swords, in military costume and array-for what purpose? To escort and conduct a poor trembling slave from a Boston court-house to the fetters and lash of his master!" court-house in chains, two battalions of dragoons, Nevertheless Mr. ENGLISH "proudly" announces his fealty to the Democracy-not to the Douglas Democracy-he belonged to no such party "--but "to the great Democratic party "-to the "Propaganda!" Instead of denouncing Keitt and his barbarous doctrines, he applauded him as a distinguished leader of the Democracy! Instead of denouncing the treasonable doctrines of secession, he admitted the right, but pleaded that his associates, the Propagandist leaders, would not exercise the right that they would stay in the Union, not for the sake of the Union, nor for the institutions and liberties which it guarantees, but for the sake of the Northern Democracy, who would be sacrificed by the Republicans if abandoned by the Propaganda. He and the Northern Democracy were ready to vote all they demanded. They were troubled with no sickly sentimentality on the subject of slavery." As he had voted to sustain the brutal pro-slavery code of Kansas, and the outrages by which it was maintained, so he was ready to vote for the extension of slavery -to admit slave States, to vote for the enforcement of the Fugitive slave law," to dragoon the North into obedience to its mandates-to coerce every Northern freeman to become a slave hunter at the command of the Propaganda! The “English bill" for the admission of Kansas exposed. In that spirit, and with that declaration of principles, Mr. ENGLISH addressed himself to the solution of the pending Lecompton issue. Senator Green's bill for the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution passed the Senate, but was defeated in the House. In the Senate Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky, had offered a substitute. In the House Mr. Montgomery, of Pennsylvania, also moved the Crittenden substitute, which was adopted by that body, but the Senate refusing to concur, a committee of conference was asked. Mr. WILLIAM H. ENGLISH, as chairman of the House branch of that committee, reported what was called the "ENGLISH bill" for the admission of Kansas. It sets out with the patent falsehood that the Lecompton Constitution, the violent product of the Missouri Ruffians, was framed by the people of Kansas. It then provides for the submission of the Constitution to a vote of the people of the territory, but meanly attempts to bribe the majority to accept a Constitution, to which they had again and again expressed their repugnance, by large donations of public lands for "school purposes,' for the support of a State University," and "for the purpose of completing the public buildings"-by grants of "five per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of all the public lands within the State for the purpose of making roads and internal improvements" and of "salt springs" for the use of the State. If the people rejected these munificent donations, Kansas was to be remanded to a territorial condition, and prostitution until it had the full population of hibited from coming in under any other con93,340. Either Slave Kansas or no Kansas. How it was passed-Both Kansas and the nation spit upon it-Enforced retirement of the Lecompton plotters to private life. Under the dragooning and influences of the President, aided by Cornelius Wendell with the plunder from the public printing, this bill finally passed both Houses. But the people of Kansas, indignant at so disreputable a proposition, a bribe for the abandonment of great principles, and being no longer under the terrorism of the Missouri Ruffians, rejected it by an overwhelming majority. The nation in its judgment ratified that of the people of Kansas. Mr. ENGLISH and all from the North concerned in the Lecompton plot were relegated to private life, and the attempt now by the Democracy, by his nomination as Vice President, to restore Mr. ENGLISH to public life will be defeated by an overwhelming majority of the American people. PART II. stump the State, and yet there appeared still a lack of old-time enthusiasm on the part of the faithful. State pride, if nothing else, ought to cause an outburst, and still the philanthropist and the poor man's friend did not seem to be appreciated. On the other hand, the Indiana Republicans were jubilant. They asserted that the selection of English would give them the State beyond peradventure; that he was personally unpopular wherever known; that while he was rich, he had made the majority of his money, not in legitimate business, as was claimed, but by literally grinding the face of the poor; that the working classes were his bitter enemies that the trades' unions of all grades were against him, and that, if they had had the making of a, ticket for the benefit of their cause in Indiana, a better could not have been selected. The "Poor Man's Friend” in Indiana-How the "Hon.” Wm. These opinions were so conflicting, that, as corres11. English filled his "Barrel "pondent, I organized myself into a court of inquiry and visited Indianapolis last Monday, for the joint -The Tale told by Court-House purpose of satisfying my own curiosity and informing Records--Startling list of judg-State universally regarded as pivotal. Acting upon ments and foreclosures of Mortgage-How he secured personal judgments also-A worse than Shylock. In the Cincinnati Commercial of Aug. 9, 1880, appeared the following correspondence: INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 6, 1880. For the first time in the history of the Democratic party the tail of the kite is awarded as much prominence as the kite itself. The circumstances surrounding the nomination of English were so peculiar that, even now, few fully realize how it was brought about; and, indeed, the peculiar combination of wires which secured the result is one of the singular circumstances of the campaign. Enough, however, is known to the outside, but ever observant, world to justify it in the conviction that the nominee for Vice-President was selected for three reasons; Primarily, to appease Tilden, who demanded that Hendricks should be disgraced, and who proposed that the humiliation should be as deep as possible; secondly, to mollify the ultra Southern element, which might take umbrage at the choice of a man who had been instrumental in killing a number of the misguided spirits; and thirdly, because of the absolute necessity of carrying Indiana at the October election, and it had been widely circulated that English was the sole proprietor of the neces sary "bar'l." It is more than probable, however, that the latter clause of the last reason was more potent than all else combined. Be that as it may, no inteiligent observer at the convention can have failed to notice the dazed appearance of the Hendricks delegation when it finally dawned upon their benumbed senses that English was the nominee, and that the "favorite son" had been relegated to limbo. The curses were not only deep, but very loud, and when they returned home the ticket was denounced in the most unmeasured terms. A Judas had stabbed the "favorite" and under no circumstances could the ticket carry the State, and all was lost. There was a whoop and hurrah throughout the country, to be sure, but an ominous silence was observable in the backwoods and slashes of the Commonwealth of Hendricks. The local organ, whose proprietor knew English to his sorrow, was dumb, and it was found that the pressure must come from the outside. Carefully prepared biographies of the new "favorite son" appeared in Eastern papers, and were circulated broadcast. The discovery was made in far-off lands that English was a man whose shining example every young man would do well to imitate; he had started out a poor boy, and by his own unaided exertions and by strictly legiti mate methods, had accumulated a arge fortune; he was a philanthropist, liberal to a fault in his charities, and over ready with his wealth to aid the worthy in accumulating a competence. The rural press gradually took up the refrain, while the organ be. an to pipe the tune, yet still there were discords. The Indiana Democrat is a long-suffering animal, and though hitherto his back has been well-nigh broken by many a grievous burden, he very seldom, if ever, kicks over the traces. The leaders whipped. McDonald announced his allegiance, the late favorite was billed to the world what the true condition of affairs was in the the very natural hypothesis that a man's character can be easily learned from those with whom he has lived as a neighbor for the past twenty years, I quietly began circulating among the old business-men of the city. Here there was a diversity of opinion, colored to a great extent by political bias, but all agreed upon one point, viz.: that he was a hard man in money matters, and would exact the uttermost farthing. Many of them had formerly held personal relations with him while acting as President of the First National Bank, and while they had heard rumors of his harsh dealings with all whom he actually had in his power, but little more than general reports were disdiscovered that day. In the evening I strolled around the circle, where is his residence, in the almost rear of which he is building an elegant opera-house. As I stood contemplatively observing the building now just under roof, and the barred windows of the exbanker's sleeping-room, a benevolent-appearing old gentleman stopped beside me, and passed the compliments of the day. I remarked, "and seems to be giving employment to a "Mr. English is building a very fine opera-house," large number of laboring men." "Yes," was the answer, "he is building the operahouse for reasons," and he winked knowingly, though why I know not, "and he has given employment to a large number of men in the past four years." "In building up and improving the city?" I asked. "Well, yes, was the answer, "in building up and putting subdivisions to his barrel. Nearly all his employees have been deputy sheriffs, and you can find additional particulars at the court-house." been looking for, and the next morning found me at Here, accidentally, had I discovered the lead I had the Sheriff's office. Upon making myself known to about Wm. H. English's popularity. that genial official, I bluntly asked him what he knew Well," replied Sheriff Pressly, slowly, "I am a Republican, but I can say this much, he is one of the lar has he sent into this office." best friends I ever had in an official way. Many a dol eventually had to pay the dollars, but indicated that He did not say anything about the parties who the records of the courts were open for inspection. The County Clerk's office was then invaded, and here, after diligent search, is the record I found. It is A list of suits brought by Wm. H. English since the Panic, and nearly all of them within the past three years, for judgment and foreclosure of mortgage. A "poor man" will hardly have time to examine it in detail. Defendant. No. Plaintiff. English, English, English, English, English, English, English, English, English, English, English, Date of Entry Filing Docket. Complaint. Rebecca P. Sinker et al..... 17 Robert Connelly et al...... 17 John O. Hardesty et al..... 17 John H. Batty et al........ 17 Charles O. Gilchrist et al... 17 James W. King et al...... 17 Sarah Dunbar et al.. ..... 17 Feb. 22, 76 Feb. 17, 76 Feb. 25, 76 Feb. 25, '76 Jan. 27, 76 Jan. 26, '76 Jan. 26, '76 Weitkina Lacy et al....... 10 Oct. 3, '76 Otway Allen et al.. 19 Aug. 10, 76 Caroline E. Butterfield et al. 19 Aug, 10. '76 Eliza Lippincott et al...... 19 Aug, 10, 76 English, Theresa Neather et al. 22 Dec. 22, '76 English, Conrad Kron et all.. 15 Oct. 18, '75 English, George Lowe et al.... 22 22 Dec. 22, '76 English, 22 22 Henry H. Sheets et al...... 15 John R. Elder, trustee.. 15 Benjamin Crane et al. Oct. 18, '76 Sep. 2, '75 15 Sep. 2, '75 Feb. 3, 79.. Lot 2, Indianapolis and Cincin- 113 245 M'ch 3, 79. 113 248 113 251 nati R. R. Co.'s addition. M'ch 17, 79. Lot 4, Square 60, Martindale's 120 617 121 442 115 122 addi ion. 121 575 Apr. 10, 73. Lots 87 and 88, Allen & Root's 115 125 Ap'l 22, 79. Lots 15 and 16, Allen's subdivi- Lot 3, Elliot's subdivision, `Hen- 125 218 July 8, 79.. July 8, 79.. June 11, 78. lish north Woodlawn addition. 115 464 July 8, 79.. 115 601 July 22, 79. 116 192 116 329 126 132 116 454 Oct. 7, 79.. Lot 23, Outlet 108, Fr nk's sub- 116 457 Oct. 21, 79. Oct. 29 79. 116 516 Kappe's addition; 23 and 22, Rosep's subdivision; 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, Car Company's May 24, 80. Pursuing the even tenor of my way I next visited Lots 1 to 12, 39 to 62, 89 to 100, King's Aug. 3, 80. Lo s 21, 22, and 23, C.burn's subdivision, Le 332, Allen's nor h Woodlawn Lo s 35, 36, 33, 34, 88, 86, 87, 85, 126 137 While delving through these records I also discovered that, not satisfied with Sheriff's deeds, this "friend of the poor man" had also been investing in tax titles. The law in Indiana in r gard to these titles is somewha peculiar and is regarded as so particularly "hog. gish" that very f w p rsons care to appear at the sales aud speculate upon the misfortunes of impecunious fellow-cit.zens. Officials state that Mr. English was rarely, if ever prese t, at these sales, but indications are that e" hired a hand," as the deeds a e made to him. The law p ovides that the pu chaser can ex ct 15 per cent. for the first six months, even if the redemption money is tendered the next day, 10 per cent. addition for the remainder of he year, and 15 cen. for the second year. There fter, according to a decision of the Supreme Court, 25 per cent. per annum can be cha ged for a eriod of twenty y ars, if the parties are not dead or b nsrupt by that time, otherwise the tax title becomes absolute. It will thus be seen that the security can be classed as reasonably good. r Date. Nov. 20, 77. Apl. 18, 79. Apl. 18, 79. Amount Tax Description of Book of Record.Page. $91 42..Lot 2, Sq. 51, 111 194 91 42..Lot 1, Sq. 51.. 111 197 123 42..Lot 2, Sq. 5.. 111 603 62 28..Lots 43, 51, 55, Outlot 167, 125 255 Lot 2, 125 258 125 260 125 263 125 265 300 59.. W. and E. Sq. 51. 160 17..Lot 4, Sq. 35. 21 56..Lot 48, Outlot 108, Bry an's subdivision. 35 42..Lot 11, Outlot 99, Hen- 9 36..Lot 1, Sq. 46, Frank's subdivision of Morris' add... Apl. 18, 79. 37 20..Lot 2, Outlot 99, Daugherty's subdivision..... Apl. 18, 79. Tax deeds from City of Indianapolis to Apl. 18, 79. Apl. 18, 79. 133 416 133 419 Mar. 22, 80. 4 72..Lot 6, Kappe's addition. 133 421 Apl. 18, 79. 70 42..Lots 4 and 5, Outlot 9, Blake's subdivision... 125 248 Apl. 18, 79. 123 42..Lots 92, 91, 85, 81, 80, Outlot 157, Blake's sub.. 125 250 Apl. 18, 79. 118 55.. Lots 1, 5, 6, 14, 16, Sq. 18, Johnson's heirs' addition 125 253 Mch. 8, 80. 20 80..Lot 63, Outlot 150, McCarDec. 5, 76. 328 15..Lot 1, Sq. 5..... 39 50..Lots 87 and 88, Allen's Aug. 11. 79. 16 08..Lot 16,Outlot 108, Frank's subdivision.. 32 45..Lots 51 and 52, King's sub., Bryant's addition.. 128 417 06..Lots 34 and 35, Outlot 25 128 413 133 342 Blake's addition 133 347 133 349 133 351 ty's subdivision.. 133 353 |