Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-22
A B0MBsHELL IN THE GREELEY CAMP.
voorhees, declares Against Greeley.

day the following speech was made:
Mr. Voorhees, dem. Ind, } rising to a
personal explanation, submitted para
praph from the Washington Republican
to the effect that he was hating and hest
tating on the question of supporting Gree
ley, and, as ali his Democratic colleagues
were all said to be IN favor of Greeley, he
was likely to lose the favor of the district
where his voice had so long been potential.
He declared that he did not halt or hesi-
tate as to the nominee of the Cincinnati
Convention. Who ever believed in his
high protective tariff principles might sup
port him but he (Voorhees) would not
Greeley was the lifelong champion of the
doctrines which he (NooThees) opposed;
the great champion of protection, the
most clamorous advocate in all the land
for the kuklux legislation which desolated
the homes of the Southern people. While
the present administration had simply eX-
ecuted the law dictated to the Congress by
the Cincinnati nominee, within recent
date, Greeley had desired a further extern
sion of the Presidents power to supend
the Bd6eds corpus and he was an earnest
an urgent advocate of the present force
bayonet election law. He had two months
ago clamored in his great organ for law
to place elections in the State of New York
under Federal control, and in certain con-
tingencies under military control. Was
such a man fit to receive his vote, or to be
n President?
GREELEY SCREAMING FOR BLOOD,
Was he called, as friend of
the Southern people, to vote for n man
who advocated the right of secession, and
yet when the Southern people did what
he told them, no wild beast, hungry for
blood ever screamed over its prey as Gree
ley had shouted ION to Richmond" to kill
every one of them for doing what he had
told them they had right to do? A red
sea of blood had not been enough to salts
fly this man but he had also insisted on
the confiscation of the homes and proper
ty of the women and children of the
South. Others might do as they liked but
as for him (Voorhees) and his household,
he would not do this thing. Parties to be
successful must be banded together on
common principles. No other combina-
ton of men was worthy of success. No
one desired success more than himself; but
there was something better and sweeter to
the heart than success twas better to be
right than to succeed.
Heprotested against the attempt to trans
fer the Democrats of the country to the
camp where there was nothing belonging
to them.
Mr.. Roosevelt Dem, New York, } asked
if Mr.. Voorhees, would support the candi-
date of the Baltimore Convention?
Mr. Voorhees, was not in the habit of
voting against Democratic nominations.
He believed that the gentleman himself
would have difficulty in answering his
own question; but he did not dispair of
success. He would stand by the principles
of his party and vote for them and who
represented them. He did not of course
know what the Baltimore Convention
would do (; but he would not vote for a man
who spoke of the Democratic party as that
to which all the haunts of debauchery
gave nine-tenths of their support
GRANT AND GREELEY COMPARED.
1t had been sometimes said that this
nominee had given bail for Jefferson Davis
when he was in prison, but that was too
narrow platform for any party to stand
upon. Laughter 1t would be most
dangerous thing to raise an issue as be-
tween the man who put Mr.. Davis in Jail
and the man who bailed him out. 1t
would not be safe issue at the North, and
he implored his Southern friends not to
make it. 1t might provoke comparison
which would not be favorable to the nomi-
nee of the Cincinnati Convention. Mr..
Davis had not been helpless. A hundred
millions of property at the South STOOD
ready to bail him, and it sometimes seem
ed to him (Mr. Voorhees, that it was mere
ly piece of restless impertinence on the
part of the nominee of the Cincinnati Con-
vention to offer himself as bail for Mr.. Da-
Wis. When Andrew johnson and Edwin
NJ. Stanton, Secretary of War; desired and
proposed, las he knew to be the fact,) to ar
rest Robert L. Lee Joseph l.. Johnson,
and other prominent Confederate officers,
there was but one man who could prevent
that thing being done and that was the pres
ent incumbent of the Presidential office.
General Grant had stepped forward and
told them that these men had given him
their parole as soldiers, and that that pa
role should be respected. Applause from
the Republican side of the House..
THE COMBAT DEEPENs.
Mr.. Roosevelt here charged that Mr.
Voorhees, had RECENTLY been in consulta
ton with President Grant at the White
House.
Mr.. Voorhees, said he had not crossed the
threshold of the White House for three
years and whoever made such state
ment uttered a vile calumny.
The entire Republican side fiocked ovel
to the Democratic side, and evinced the
deepest interest in every word that fell
The galleries were equally interested
Some of the Democratic members became
greatly excited erthe speech, and sought
by points of order and interjections, to enc
it. Mr.. Speer, of Pennsylvania, called Mr.
Voorhees, attention to the fact that only
Republicans applauded him, but the latte
retorted that Mr.. Speer had voted all las
week with the Republicans on the tariff
When he concluded quite number o
Democratic members congratulated him
but the excitement over the hall was very
great and continued for some time. Moth
ing else was talked about. The speech wa
a Il id NlA SANNNk