The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1872-05-25
than success, and sweeter to the heart
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than success, and sweeter to the hear
than success.
Agreat man had said it was better to b
right than to be President; and so he sait
1t was better to be right than to succeed
lie entered his protest against the at
temptto transfer the Democrats of the
country to camp where there was moth.
ing belonging to them.
Mr.. Roosevelt asked Mr.. VOORHEES,
whether he would support the candidate
OF the Democratic Convention at Balti-
more, whoeverthat candidate might be?
MIR. Voorhees, replied that he was not
in the habit of roting against Democatic
nominations. Ee believed that the gem
tleman himself would have some difficult
ty in answeringhis own question. Laugh
ter.) But he did not despair of success.
His position was in favor of STANDING by
the principles of his party and he would
vote for the man who represented those
principles. He had no fears, however, of
what the Baltimore Convention would do;
but he could not vote for a man who
spoke Of the Democratic party as that to
which all the haunts of debauchery gave
nine-tenths of their support.
If had been sometimes said that this
nominee had given bail for Jefferson
Davis when he was in prison, but that
was too narrow a platform for any party
to stand upon. Laughter 1t would be
most dangerous to raise an issue as
between the man who put Mr.. Davis in
Jail and the man who bailed him out 1t
would not be safe issue, and he i'm
| plored his Southern friends, not to make
it. 1t might provoke a comparison which
would not be favorable to the nominee
| of the Cincinnati Convention. Mr.. Davis
had not been helpless man, hundred
millions of property at the South had
been ready to bail him, and it sometimes
seemed IS him (Voorhees) that it was
merily piece of impertinence on the
part of the nominee of the Cincinnati
Convention to offer himself as bail for
Mr. Davis. When Andrew johnson and
Edwin NJ. Stanton, Secretary of War, de-
sired aud proposed, las he knew to be
| the fact" to arrest Robert E. Lee, Joseph
E. johnson, and other prominent Con-
federate officers there was but one man
who could prevent that thing being done
and that was the present incumbent of
the Presidential office. General Grant
these men had given him their parole as
soldiers and that that parole should be
respected. Applause from the Republic
can side of the House. If he should be
driven to take the stump and press the
claims of NJ. Greeley he could find can
didate opposing him who had done more
and kinder things for the South than his
nominee had done. Roosevelt suggested
that Mr.. Voorhees, had been recently in
conference with President Grant,
Mr.. Voorhees, said he had not crossed the
threshold of the White House for three
years, and whoever made such a state
ment had uttered vile calumny.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he made the state
ment on Information given to him he
had heard two or three days ago that such
an interview had taken place.
Mr.. Voorhees-Then the gentleman as
s0ciates with men who do not tell the
truth.
Mr.. Randall asked Mr.. voorhees,
whether he would have voted for Judge
Davis and advocated his election if he had
received the nomination at Cincinnati
Mr.. Voorhees-Judge Davis represents
many things in common with my own
views.
Mr.. Randall-He is Republican.
Mr. Voorhees-That is not the point.
cannot join combination which repre-
sents nothing that am for. On great
constitutional questions Judge Davis
stood in troublous times where I stood
in behalf of the citizen-Thile such men
as Greeley were hurrying them into the
earthquake.
The strong probabilities are, in my
judgment, that if Judge Davis had been
presented by Cincinnati he would have
been accepted by a majority of the Demo-
cratic party of the country. In that /
may be mistaken; [ am only stating my
own individual opinion;I I should have re-
garded him with very great favor. 1t is
quite different thing whether should
vote for q Republican who has so much
in common with my own views, or for one
who has nothing in common with them.
Mr.. Randall should not vote for
either of them unless they were indorsed
by the. Democratic Convention
Mr.. Voorhees-That is right.
Mr.. Randall-And | should vote for
either of them if iudorsed by the Demo-
cratic Convention.
Mr.. Bird would vote for either of
them if be was indorsed. =
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