The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-05-29

''"u eiio"teo on to Richmond-to xii
every one of them for doing what b,
told them they had the ina,ienahl,
r'ght to do. That was a solemn mao,
OF history which could only be revised
Inc waters of the ocean conld M,
wash 1t out. Mortal man could No,
gainsay it. Nv
"A he'd Sea of blood had not beer
enough to satisfy them, but he had also
INSISTED upon the confiscation of the
homes and property of the women and
chiidren in the South. Others might
40 as they pleased, but for him (yoor.
hles) and bis household he wonld M,
10 this thing. Parties to be successful
must DC banded together on a comma,
principle. No other combination Of
men was worthy of success. He was
told that his party desired success
against this administration no one de-
sired 1t more than himself, but there
was something which was better than
success, and sweeter to the heart than
success.
A great man had said it was better
TO DC right than to be President; and
SO he said it. was better to be rjrbt
than to succeed. He entered his nro-
TEST against the attempt to transfer
the democrats of the country to a
camp where there was nothing be<
longing to them.
MI. Roosevelt asked Mr.. VOORHEES,
whether he would support the candi-
date of the Democratic Convention at
Baltimore, whoever that candidate
might be7
MIR. VOORHEES, replied that he was not
IN the babit of voting against Demo-
cratic nominations. He believed that
the gentleman himself would have
some difficulty in answering his own
question. 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 Balti-
more Convention would do; but he
could not vote for man who spoke of
the Democratic party as that to which
all the haunts of debauchery gave
nIne-tenths of their support.
1t had been sometimes said that tbis
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. 1t would be
dangerous to raise an issue as between
the man who put Mr.. Davis in iail
and the man who bailed him out. It
would not be safe issue, and he i'm
plored his Southern friends not to make
it. 1t might provoke q comparison
which would not be favorable to the
nominee of the Cincinnati Convention.
Mr.. Davis had not been a helpless
man, hundred millions of property at
the South had been ready to bail him,
and it sometimes seemed to him (Voor-
hles) that it was merely piece of i'm
pertinence on the part of the nominee
of the Cincinnati Convention to offer
limsels as bail for Mr.. Davis. when
johnson and Edwin NJ. STAN
ton, Secretary of War, desired and
Gas 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 had stepped forward
and told them that these men had
given him their parole as soldiers and
hat that parole should be respec-
ted. From the Republican side of the
House. If he should be driven to take
The stump and press the claims of Mr.
Greeley he could find candidate OPP
JOSluS uiul WIZ udtl tOuC luOIC anu
kinder things for the South than his
1ominee had done. Roosevelt sugges-
ed that Mr.. VOORHEES, had been recent
Y in conference with President Grant.
Mr.. VOORHEES, said he had not crossed
he threshold of the White House for :
hree years, and whoever made such a
statement had uttered vile calumny.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he made the :
on information given to him s
le had heard two or three days ago
hat such an interview had taken =
,lace. Il
Mr.. Voorhies-Then the gentleman I
associates with men who do not tell
he truth.
Mr.. Randall asked Mr.. VOORHEES, ,
whether he would have voted for .
Judge Davis, and advocated his cleo t
ion if he had received the nomination |
It Cincinnati? 1t
Mr.. Voorhies-Judge Davis repre-
ents many things in common with my
'wn views. {
Mr. Randall-Ha ia a paouhl;co, | 1