Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-04-09
Mr. Voorhees, Speech.

Correspondents of several newspapers refer,
in enthusiastic terms to speech made few
days ago in the House of Representatives by
this distinguished orator, in which he ar
raigned with unsurpassed eloqueuce and un>
answerabe facts and arguments the policy and
the crimes of the radical administration of the
government for the last six years. We pre-
sent the following extract from synopsis of
this great speech, as reported by the Wash,
ington correspondent Of the Baltimore Ga
zefle
And so. Mr.. Voorhees, proceeded to arraign
the Republicans, charging that since peace
came, seven years ago, that party has poured
upon the unre.isting and helpless South the
floods of disorder, corruption, bankruptcy.
crime, oppression and ruin; that BY its con-
duct and politics every blessing of free gov>
ernment has been scourged from the face of
country contsining over twelve millions of
people, and larger in extent than many of the
foremost powers of Europe by this party the
Constitution has been trampled under foot,
dwarfed into dead letter, or widened and
extended by fraudulent amendments, accord-
ing as the inscriptions purposes of power
full party would be best promoted from turret
to foundation tho Republican party have torn
down the government of eleven States have
rent all their local laws and machinery into
fragments and trampled upon their ruins
MIR. Voorhees, described the ostracism and
political punishments visited upon the old
citizens of the South. Every man who.
during the conflict between the sections. was
clothed with the slightest responsibility, has
been marked by the blight of iuelligibility
and, like the leper of old. it was made crime
for the people to again reach forth to him the
hands of friendship. Even the sacred in
stincts OF human nature became disuuaiifica-
tons for office, the ties of kindred were made
criminal and he who gave cup of cold water
and crust of bread to his thirsty and fam
ished son, under arms for cause which he
believed to be right, and for which he was
willing to die, was branded with dishonor and
driven out from the councils of his country.
men. The loving mother who sheltered her
weary and wounded boy, laid him in his own
familiar bed at home once more, kissed his
lips, wiped away the gathered dew of death
and with broken heart closed his dear ewes
forever, was condemned for these acts of an
gelic mlnistering and incurred the penalties
of conhscation. He who dismountcd and gave
his horse to brother in the moment of dan.
ger. aud close pursuit; the sister who wrought
and sent clothing to him on tho toilsome
march; the maiden who prayed for her lover
as lie lay dying in the Wilderness or at Stone
River. all fell under common curse. Even
the white haired grandmother of four score
years, whose youthful husband, perhaps was
at the Cowpeus, Eutaw Springs and York
town, or, may be fought under Jackson at
New Orleans, in the war of 1912, was depriv.
ed of her pension, that small morsel of bounty
from an unsenerous Government. if her heart
yearned or her aged hand was extended in
sympathy to her children and her children,
children on the plains of the South A more
sweeping and universal exclusion from all the
benefits, rights, trusts, honors, epjoyments,
liberties. and control of Government. was
never enacted against a whole people. without
respect to age or sex, in the annals of the
human race. The disgraceful disabilities
imposed upon the Jews for nearly eighteen
hundred years by the blind aud bigosed ma
lions Of the earth, were never moro complete
or appalling.
HS- Prof. Morse, the inventor of the tele
graph, died at his residence in New York
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