Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-17

Special to the Cincinnati Gazette, t6rantA
sWAsH1rsroN. AFay 8S. The political
sensation Of the day was Voorhees, speech.
A-moFning paper had TepesentedE him as
hating and hesitating in regard to accept
i inc Greeley. This be made the occasion
/ for personal explanation, and ie i.amedi-
ately became apparent that it was a
carefully prepared declaration Of war on the
attempts making to commit the Democracy
% Greeley It seemed 90 have special re-
ference to the condition Of things In the
South, and was a powerful review OF
Greeley's course il regard to the South.
MANY members on both sides characterize
the speech as one d great shrewdness, and
well calculated TO check the Democracy in
any further advance toward Greeley. 1t is
very plain that the speech was a firebrand In
bis party on the floor. Several Of the
Pennsylvania Democrats, together with the
New YcTkers, exhibited deep feeling Dor
dering on open and bitter personal denun-
citation Of VOORHEES,. 1t was intimated that
he bad sold out TO Grant, because he had
held that Greely's bailing JEFF. Davis was
! too narrow plank to stand on that Grant
had really done more in preventing Andrew
johnson from arresting Robert Lee, Jos.
Johnston, and others like them. The idea
that Voorhees, has deliberately sold out is
circulating among the Greedy Republicans
tonight, and this is the best indication of
the effect against them. The Republican
side was deserted and all crowded around
VOORHEES,. The Republicans were DESTROYS
that heshould proceed the disorganizing eff
feet on the Democrats which was so ap-
parent.
Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The excitement over the hall was very
! great, aud continued for some time. Moth
else was talked about. The speech was
made, it was said, to influence the South to
send anh-Greeley delegates to Baltimore.
Mr.. VOORHEES,, in conversation subsequently,,
stated that as long as certain Democrats
were working privately for Greeley, he had
| a right to express openly his views against
him. Several Of the Democratic members,
| not desiring TO participate in general de-
bate, very briefly took the position of await
ing the action of and abiding by the de-
eision of the Baltimore Convention.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
By eulogizing Grant and representing
him as better candidate for Southern sup
port than Greeley, he overreached himself
and exposed the demagoguical character of
his performance. The effect of the speech
will be to help tho Liberal cause by exhibit
ing the weakness of the desperate politicians
who appear to be bargaining for the support
of men like Voorhees,. Among those who
walked over and congratulated VOORHEES,
were Gen. Butler and several other admin
istration members.
We extract the foregoing from The Wash
ington specials to our Cincinnati exchanges.
We regret exceedingly the course which
Hon. Mr.. Voorhees, has taken, but while
regretting it we regard it as much more I'M
fortunate for Mr.. VOORHEES, than for either
Mr.. Greeley or the Democratic party. His
attack upon Mr.. Greeley has done Mr.. G.
no harm in the South. II the effort
was intended to weaken Mr.. Greeley here,
it will prove an utter failure. Notwith-
standing the frequent charges that have been
made about the ignorance of the Southern
people, our Northern friends should learn,
if they do not already know, that
in addition to the press we have
a political school called the g Stump"
which is a wonderful political educator.
Thesins and iniquities of Mr.. Greeley have
been more frequently discussed and de-
nounced and are far more thoroughly I'M
derstood in the Southern, than in the
Northern States. It is but human nature
that that which directly interests Us should
be most quickly learned, ndlongest Temem-
bered. BY reason of the long and emphat-
ic opposition of Mr.. Greeley to g the pecu-
liar Institution, /" and to the views and what
we deemed the highest interests of the
South, he has become more universally
known to the Southern people than any
man 10 Of - the North, NotYithstand-
ing his former pronounced and wei under
stood antagonism to us, the recent develop
ments have established in a startling man.
ner that the nomination Of Mr.. Greeley by
the Cincinnati Convention was by far the
most popular for the South which that Con-
vention could have made. We shall not
stop to recapitulate the reasons fer this
seeming paradox. We simply state the
palpable fact.
While expressing our regret at the course
which Mr.. VOORHEES, has taken, we must
also express our unqualified disapprobation
at the manner in which he has been criti-
cised by some of the leading Democratic
journals Of the West and Northwest. We
are not of those who are prepared to be-
lieve that Mr.. voorhees, has been or can
be bought by the Grant party. He is
eminently eloquent and has all the impulse
OF genius of a high order. His long and
bitter warfare upon Mr.. Greeley and his
political principles has created and imbedded
in his very nature the strongest partizan
preiudices against Mr.. Greeley. He has not
occupied the position as a Northern Demo
crat to feel with full intensity the grinding
oppression and bold assumptions of power
by Gen. Grant as President of the United
States. Mr.. Voorhees, has not occupied the
position as a Northern Democrat to feel with
full intensity the grateful healing inau-
ence which the doctrine of "heaven- blessed
charity and mercy" ,sught by Mr. Greeley
since May, 1866, has had upon the disfran-
chlsed, politically disabled, bayonet-ruled
people of the South. Mr.. Greeley has done
more to break down the ''carpet-bag'' dy-
nasty which has ruled, robbed and ruined
the South, than all others in the North.
Whatever may be his sins of omission and
commission, as between him and Grant
and there the choice lies, for lan
talk of an independent Democratic
nomination is the merest madness
as between Greeley and Grant the South
win not stop to consider, it viii unhesitat-7
ingly choose who as far back as May 1G,
1865, wrote to citizen of Nashville:
'Just now the assassination Of President
Lincoln has made the North furious, but
we shall outgrow that.
81 heartily concur with your view Of what
should be our national policy ard am doing
my utmost to have mercy and maguanim-
ity its ruling attributes.
81 shall not hesitate to labor and suffer