Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-09
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TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST o.
Hon. ID. w. voorhees, on Old Abe.

Hon. ID. w. voorhees, on Old Abe.
We have room for only the following ex-
tract from brilliant and powerful speech,
delivered by Hon. D. W. VOORHEES,, at
Green Castle, Indiana, on the 9th inst. Hon.
EMERSON ETHER1DGE had just concluded a
very able speech OF three hours, when Mr..
VOORHEES, closed the meeting by making a
short but telling speech. Here are q few
specimen paragraphs:
Five hundred thousand more men-that's
all! When Mr.. Lincoln was nominated at
Baltimore, was at Washington. Each del
egation hurried down to congratulate him,
and to tell the story of their servile, base
devotion to q mere man-and very ordi-
nary specimen of man at that. Laugh
teri The contractors, the thieves, the
money-changers, the substitute hirers, the
cotton spectators, the greedy tariff plum
derers Of New England, came rushing
down upon him to congratulate him upon
his nomination for the Presidency. have
watched and looked around Washington
city. have read the papers that recorded
the devotion of these men to Mr.. Lincoln.
They say that Mr.. Lincoln flashed with wit,
and merriment, and jest, when they waited
on him, and that he had joke for every
one of them. One Of them says, in giving
an account of it, ''you ought to have been
there to have heard the laughing" Now
let me tell you that on that night
from Mr.. Lincoln's window, there was
in plain sight at that time not less
than a section of land covered with hos
pitals-not less than mile square of hos
pitals, in which men were lying with one
leg and one arm off-wounded, sick, and
dying. Every jest he told was marked by
at least three deaths in the hospitals of
Washington City. Three human souls were
heralded into eternity by each of Mr.. Lin
coins jests and jokes. Another section of
ground, in view from Mr.. Lincoln's room,
had been dug up for grave yard, and
while he tested and joked with this servile
crew, he could look out on this scene OF dy-
ing and death, and yet you propose to me
to retain that monster in another term OF
office-that monster that, with an utter dis
regard for human life and human misery,
has proposed to prolong his term of Office.
Gentlemen, it seems to me that l can Eear
the spirits of the hundreds of thousands
who have been uselessly sacrificed in this
war pleading against the reelection of this
man. 1t seems to me that the very stones
would rise up to protest against it. 1t
seems to me that inanimate objects and
dumb beasts would cry out, "Enough-he
let him go out into hateful obscurity,
there to spend the rest of his days with the
ghosts of the murdered dead gibbering
around his unhappy pillow.
Another Administration of war! No
change of policy! Mr.. Lincoln has laid
down his programme. Essays, without the
abolition of slavery you can have no Union.
Another four years of war! And mark me,
now, my friends, there can be no mistake
about the next four years of war. You
know precisely what kind of war it is,
and is to be. In the commencement OF this
war, Mr.. Lincoln said he had no desire to
cucumber the Union question with the
question of slavery. He did not want to
destroy State rights; but now he has served
notice on you, that those who vote for Lin
coin will vote for four years more of war;
not to restore the Union, but to abolish
slavery, and free the negroes. He has said
it himself. By the abandonment Of slavery,
and by no other means, says he, can you
have Union. There is no other name by
which it can be done, except by the eman-
cipation of the black man, and his freedom
here in our midst. You will take notice of
this, and govern yourselves accordingly.
Whoever is for this war and prolonging
Abraham Lincolns tenure OF office, does 1T
with his eyes open. Abandon slavery, and
you can have Union, says Mr.. Lincoln.
Our programme is this: Pause in this
dreadful strife, and allow reason to inter-
pose. 1 know the word peace is hateful to
men who have made money out of this war;
but it will not be so to men who avefought
in this war. viii it hurt you to negotiate3
For six months, perhaps, nobody would be
killed. There would be no widows made
during that time. No mothers would weep
for the loss of loved ones during that time.
1t is horrible spectacle for these loyal
leaguers, that of an armistice, a cessation of
hostilities but it is a spectacle over which
angels would be glad. And by this means,
have no doubt, we could approach an un-
derstanding, and step by step restore our
fraternal relations and heal the wounds re-
bellion has made. We might not do it at
once. 1t may take years to doit. But sup
pose the advance of Mr.. Lincolns army had
been followed by wise and conciliating
policy. Suppose the people of the South
had boon to1d--ynn have heen misled and
we will protect you. Tennessee would
have been loyal and in the Union to-day.
But instead of this Mr.. Lincoln has pursu-
ed a policy that has furnished thousands Of