Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-09
A Soldiers Reply to Dan. Voorhees,
Card.
Correspondence T. H. Union Democrat.l
In CAMP NEAR LaTTLE Rock, Ark, !

Correspondence t. H. Union Democrat.]
In CAMP NEAR LITTLE Rock, Ark, !
September 26, 1868.
Mr.. EDITOR Through the kindness of
friends I have received copy of your
valuable paper, and in it an appeal to the
soldiers of Indiana, from that black
hearted traitor, Daniel W Voorhees,;
and, as is usual from him in his speeches,
it is an appeal to the ignorance of the
soldier, thinking that by fattery and de-
ception he can gain the good will and
friendship of the soldiers If he does
he is greatly mistaken. After reading
his card our minds naturally run back
two years, and we commence examining
the record of Mr.. Voorhees,, and as his
printed speeches have all been read by
US, and, through the kindness of friends,
we have received the substance of such
speeches as were too vile to be put in
print, and we know every vote be gave
in Congress. So, Mr.. Voorhees, can see,
we are pretty well posted, and in every
speech, in every vote, in every act, there
is nothing but treason of the deepest dye.
In Washington City, yes, in the very Lob
by Chamber, we see him arm in arm with
rebel officer, passing out by private
way, going, no doubt, to his private apart
ment, where he might the more securely
foster his reasonable plots against the
best Government the sun ever shone up
on. His every speech denounces fhe
Government and villifes its officers; de-
claring in speech made in Sullivan in
1862, that were he as guilty as they, he
would seek the briny deep, and there
cleanse his hands from the blood Of the
slain, expecting to behold the mighty deep
turn crimson, ere they would be clean;
yea, he would wish the lighted lamp for
ever burning at his pillow, to frighten
the Pickering ghosts of the slain!' Amid
all these fierce denunciations of those
engaged in suppressing the rebellion, we
do not hear one solitary syllable, breath
ing even disre5pect for Jefferson Davis
and his minions, who are the cause of
the rupture of our Government, with all
its train of attendant evils. He has cast
his ballot in Congress directly against
the act making our Treasury Notes a
legal tender. In doing this he knew
that if they were not legal tender our
Government Bonds would fall in New
York-one-half, and thus, the poor sol
dier, whose friend Mr.. Voorhees, pro-
claims himself, would be compelled to
see his family reduced to beggary, from
the fact that the paper issues of the Gov
ernment would have been utterly worth
less but for the act referred to; so much
for his love for US. Again; we find him
voting against the Conscription Act
Here is an excellent example of his love
for us; withholding the aid most needed
by our exhausted armies, and thereby ma
teriallv aiding the rebellion we are striv-
ing to crush. Deep must be the love
for the soldier that prompted his course
in reference to that Act Weary as our
veterans were with heavy campaigning,
and looking forward hopefully to the lev
les of Conscripts who would so sensibly
tighten their labors and swell their deci-
mated ranks, Dan. votes directly against
our dearest wishes and interests, and
then pathetically proclaims himself our
friend" We don't seeit
In his famous Sullivan speech, in
which, he denies, calling us Lincoln
dogs I am credibly informed there can
be several hundred good witnesses pro-
duced who will swear that he made use
of the expression we ought to have a
collar, and on that collar inscribed in
large letters-Lincoln dog.
But time would fail and space forbid
the narration of his treason, and l will
close with this exhortation to thee, oh
Daniel-servant of the Devil and truck
ler of JEFF Davis: In the name of the
soldiers of Indiana, call upon you to
repent of your sins; turn and do thy past
works over again, if SO, they may repent
of the decree that has gone forth against
thee and thy worthless life may yet be
spared; if not, and you still persist in
your treason, remember, Daniel, servant
of the Devil, that your days are number
ed, and ere long your treason will be
stopped, and your guilty soul will be
handed over to your master, and doomed
to everlasting horrors, and with thy trait
orous brethren sink to the lowest depths
Of the bottomless pit, where deep des-
pair - Raven-winged - will drop her
blackened pinions above thy soull where
the seething heat of Helrs red waves,
made seven times more fearful by the
added fuel of thy treason-polluted soul
shall ebb and flow around thee, and when
after the slow passage of endless ages
thou shalt exclaim-" How long, OIL
Lord, how long?" thy only answer shall
be the demoniac laughter of the gibber-
ing fends around thee echoing the
mournful answer Of" foreveri" Be-
ware! oh, Daniel, or such will be thy
dooml S. A. NJ, Corporal Co. E,
43d REQ Ind Vols