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teenth Amendment for the radical changes it would make. 
Speaking on the amendment he said, “The Constitution is to 
be changed; the foundations of the government are to be dis- 
turbed ; some of the old oak timbers are to removed, and tim- 
ber of recent growth is to be substituted.”^^ 
On the question as to whether or not the southern states 
were out of the Union, Hendricks held very decided views. He 
denied that an act of Congress was necessary to bring these 
states back into the Union. Voicing anew the principle of 
Lincoln, he said, “I believe that in law the states are in the 
Union, and that all that is needed is to give them practical 
relations to the federal government in every respect.”^® 
Congress decided otherwise. The Fourteenth Amendment 
was adopted, and the ratification of this amendment was made 
a condition of the admission of representatives of the southern 
states into Congress. In the vote on the amendment and on 
the other reconstruction measures of this session, the Indiana 
delegates divided along party lines, the Republicans voting for 
and the Democrats voting against all of them. 
The issue was now transferred from the halls of Congress 
to the people. The voters were asked to decide in the con- 
gressional election of 1866 between the plan of the President 
and that of Congress. The Republicans in Indiana were di- 
vided, some favoring one plan and some the other. The state 
Republican platform sought to cater to both groups. It ex- 
pressed great faith in Andrew Johnson and at the same time 
pledged its support to the majority in Congress.^® The state 
Democratic platform indorsed the principles and acts of Presi- 
dent Johnson and condemned the actions of the majority in 
Congress.^^ 
The campaign of 1866 in Indiana was one of the most ex- 
citing in the state’s history. The Indianapolis Daily Journal 
was extremely bitter in its attacks on the “Copperheads” as 
the members of the opposition party were invariably called.^® 
Among the prominent men to visit Indiana and address Union 
meetings in Indianapolis and at other points were Carl Schurz, 
Benjamin F. Butler, Governor Brownlow, and General Thom- 
Congressional Globe, 39 Congress, 1 Session, 2938-2940. 
^Ihid., 1113. 
William E. Henry, State Platfoi-ms of the Ttvo Dominant Political Parties of In- 
diana, 1850-1900 (Indianapolis, 1902), 30. 
Ibid., 27. 
See Indianapolis Daily Journal for September and October, 1866. 
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