The Louisiana Democrat

Ex-Governor Hendricks was serenaded in San Francisco a few nights ago, and responded in a speech. The part relating to politics was as follows:

"I do not choose to-night, in addressing you to speak upon the political question at any length. They have placed Mr. Hayes in the Presidential chair. I do not think that the judgment of the American people is that he was elected; but without election he has been placed in the Presidential chair. He is for the purpose of the office, the President of the United States, and you and I will give to his Administration, for the good of our country, that support which is due to any officer, de facto. But this wrong that you and the great body of the American people believe has been perpetrated must not pass into precedent, to be followed in the future. It is a crime rather to be detested, and the work of the future in part, is to correct this, and to prevent its becoming a precedent. Hereafter the man who is elected must be President of the United States. And four years from this time it will be the business of the people of the United States to express a judgment upon this question not to be misunderstood."