The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-05-29
WAsf1INGTON, !
May Sd. {
HOUSE.

anu hau ies'" d newspaper pafagTap!
from the Washington Republican t,
the effect that lie was hating and hes
itating as to the position he shoult
take on the question Of supporting Mr.
Greeley, and that as his Democratic
colleagues were all said to be in favo
of Greeley he was likely to lose tn,
favor of the District where his voice
had 80 long been potential. He de.
clared that he did not halt or hesitate
that he had not halted Or hesitated
when he had not more than fourteen
Democratic colleagues in the House
nor did be now.
If he could ever be tempted to aban-
don the principles of his political life.
it might have been then as to the nom
inee of the Cincinnati Convention
Whoever believed in the high protec-
tive tariff principles of its chief man
might support him, but he (Voorhies)
would not. Was lie expected to SUD-
port Mr.. Greeley because he had been
the lifelong champion of doctrines of
which he (Voorhies) opposed? Was
be expected, as Western man repre-
senting Western laboring constitu-
ency that was ground down by a high
protective tariff monopoly, to support
the great champion of protection p
Was he expected to support a man who
had been the most clamorous advocate
in all the land for that Ku-Klux lesis-
lation which had desolated the homes
OF the Southern people? If Mr.. Gree
ley's nomination promised relief to
that blasted and down trodden section,
there was not much which he {Yoor-
hiesl would not forego to subserye so
holy and SO benign a purpose. But
Mr.. Greeley has been the earnest ad-
yocate of the legislation which had
paralyzed and Frustrated the South.
and was that the reason why he should
get his support?
He was told that the present Admin
istration had been cruel and unkind to
the South, but the Administration had
simply executed a law which the Gin
cinnati nominee had dictated to Con-
gress, that was all the difference be-
tween them-one was the Executive
officer acting under his oath of Office to
execute the law, and the other was
man who had no oath on his conscience
in regard to the matter, but who had
urged the passage of this legislation.
Was he expected to support MI. Gree
ley because within a recent date he de-
sired a still further extension of the
Presidents power to suspend the writ
of habeas corpus all over the South
Was he expected to support him be-
cause he was the earnest and urgent
advocate of the present force bayonet
election law that subjected every vo-.
ting precinct of 10000 people to the
supervision, and in certain contingent
eies, to the control of the military p
Was he expected to support him be-
cause two months ago the Tribune had
clamcred and urged it lhis great or
gan) in favor of a law to place the local
election in the State of New York un-
der Federal control, and also in GER
tain contingencies under military con-
trol3
Was such a man fit to receive his
vote for the Presidency? Was such
man fit to fill that high places Was
that the voice of craftsmanship which
was called for at this hour? Was that
the reform that had been promised p
Was he to so before the united senti-
ment of the country, and appeal to it
IN favor of man who stood on the re-
cord for the ''inalienable right" of a
State or of a community to dissolve
the Union9
Was he, as friend of the Southern
people, called upon to vote for man
who, during the entire fall and winter
OF 1860, wrote with all his acknowl-
edged power in favor of the inaliena-
Die Fights of any dissatisfied portion of
the country to break up the Union and
form another Government for them
selves9 Mr.. Greeley had not recanted
those opinions, but on the contrary
IN his book on "The American Con-
fict," in 1864, he had analysed them
and defined them to this effect, that if
On consultation convention and the
like, the South still desired with any
considerable approach to unanimity
to separate, it should be allowed to
do 80.
Mr.. speer, of Pennsylvania, objected
that the remarks were not in the ma
tnre of a personal explanation, but the
speaker overruled the objection, and
Mr. VOORHEES, proceeded with his speech
amid great excitement and confusion,
which rendered much of what he said 1
'naudible at the reporters desk. He
repeated that Mr.. Greeley, after three j
years of war, had still held and pub
ashed the same sentiments. II
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