The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-06-29
DAN VOORHEES,.
His speech mt Terreuaut~.

~ Saturday night iIoa. ID. W. Voor-
hes oil indiana, addressed an asse,nblage
oi soout 3, 900 people, in the Court Hou.e
SPARE, at Terrc llante. Indiana. ne /
tald he thanked providence that he Wa I
permitted to speak for himself He lad
Tor nearly ten Years received the en.lorse-
ment OF his constituency; bad bsensnstain. |
cd by them at all times, because he dis. |
hnctiy held TO certain principles OF govern. 7
inent, winch lie thought 10 be right, and
opposed others which he thought TO be
wrong. lie was there 10 answer whether
ne had been false to the trust placed in his
hands fe had neither epithets nor abuse
TO hnrl at his adyersaries He had The
advantage OF them IN the truth of his 10.
slion, and consequently his temper was
oeuer than theirs he sad, they who were
conscious oil being IN The wrong always
get angry hrst. and destitute OF argumen,
they at once resort TO denunciations and
SANDER. As 10 the imputations tl,o, have
been cast on his motives in recar,I 10 lis
recent speech in Congress against the nom
ton OF Mr Greeley by the Democratic nart,,
they will receive no rely from him: I, ~,
have received none here, and if the ,yh 4.
tenor OF his life will not silence SCH o e
PERSONS, no words could us
! The Cincinnati Convention was
ment inaugrtated by dissat-fied pan,,i,t;
cans, and IT was natural ma, The b.
craft should have watched IL witL ;n,eres,
AZ likely TO divide and ov ertbro,y ,ha -.
IN power, Many had hoped Az he J;j
."nt me Convention would nominate as lis
I'n""'a,e one whose devotion to liberty
" ""o",e' ol th+ powers oil government
" ti 10 revenue reform, opposition to
"oIo'uIe eq'mlity OF the whites and blacks
, a"u ",o granmous action towards the south
l~ouV' enable the National Democratic
oV.nvGntion to nominate him
nat might have been done if the Con.
yention had been differently composed. 4
+, instead Of vain corceit there had been
!, more sound sense; il instead of regarding
\, The Democratic party "a mob to tall in
y with and follow any little SQUAD that
marched by, they had looked on them A,
they are, the bravest, pure-t and most con
sclentlons population on the face OF III.
d, earth The bare presence of Democrat
W IN the city at that time was regarded h,
the managers of the Convention rs an in
sun AMI lac was warned away with boot.
AND cries, as spotted l,per would hav,
?, been OF old from an assembly of puri6ec
Jews.
Every suggestion made by the Demo
Gratis was recalled from with disgust. as !
i contained the contagion Of SMALLPOX
lie asked ifthree million men had sunL
, so low as TO tamely submit to this insuI
d and seorn like the blows spaniel receives
For his own part. he would not
n. Bnt u the tone and temper of that con.
vention were hoisted TO the Democrnti,
party, how should he characterize ia.
u nomination iiself2 He was in his SCAT nt
;, his iesk in the House when it was announ
ce,i that Horace Greeley had been nomina.
ht ted for the Presidency. It no more occurre,
to him that he tGrceley) or the men VIII,
had nominated him would have the bra
zen tuinl% 20 expect Dem ocrats 10 sur
port ..'iu han lie lid that tic Disciples a
The Christian religion would tpn AVA
4, rom their faith in tn hour anil worsh
81 Mahomet as the prophet pi jld lie con
graduated himself and his friends abou
70, hlm that the unexpected folly OF the con
ventlon had opened 10 Them n sure An
easy road TO victory and to the restoration
Of good.
lie knew Grant would ne nominated i
philadelphia, and then the Republica
party would hc torn in twain 4 hons
divided against itself could rot stand an
he saw the house ct his political adver-at
~ divided. lie believed they could beatGr
with pnre statesman, he was oppose
10y n candidate who had not advocated nm
endorsed all his politics as Greeley had. -
lie was not bowed down when he hear
from Cincinnati his face was rather LITE
mp and frightened with hope lac recalle
the fact Tint Mr.. Lincoln was elected b.
cause two Democrats were rttuniug and h
was convinced that they had a better chan,
for success than they have known sin,
Pierce twenty years ago For thirty Yea
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