The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-05-25
on GreeLey and Gr0,s


Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees,, member Of Con-
gress from Indiana, rose in the House of Repre-
sentatives on the 18th instantto make aperso1 al
explanation of his political position, and b
ing obtained permission ofthe House proceecs ?
to make the following speech:
GAS to the nominee of the Cincinnati CON-
vention, whoever believed in the high pft.aet-
tive tariff principles of its chief man miQl &
support him, but he (Voorhees) would noe.
Was he expected to support Mr. Greeley be-
cause he had been the lifelong Champion Of
doctrines which he (Voorhees) opposed Was
Western laboring constituency that was gfs q d
down by high protective tariff monora&
support the great champion of protect
Was he expected to support man Who. 4,
been the most clamorous advocate in all .e
land for the Ku Klux legislation which had
desolated the homes of the Southern people |?
If Mr.. Greeley's nomination promised relief to
that blasted and down-trodden section There
was not much that he (Voorhees) would not
forego to subserve so holy and so benign a pur-
pose. But Mr.. Greeley had been the ca nest
advocate of the legislation which had paralsszed
and Frustrated the South and was that the
reason why he should not get his support He
was told that the present Administration had
been cruel and unkind to the South but the
which the Cincinnati nominee had difiated
to Congress. That was all the diff eIiee
between them. One was the Executive officer
acting under his oath of Office to execute Tire
law, and the other was a man who had snoloath
on his conscience in regard to the mattcf hut
one who had urged the passage Of that rescla-
tiGn. Was he expected to support Mr.. Greeley
because within a recent date p desired TIL
further extension of the Presidents pt to
suspend habeas corpus allaover the s 81!
Was he expected to support him eeGi he
was the earnest and urgent advocate the
present force-bayonet election law, th sub
jected every voting precinct of 2O,000I etc
the supervision, and in certain CONT lies
to the control of the militsEy x
pected to supporth him becsase two
this very man.had elau
/ great organ in favor OF q Jaw to r.,
elections in the State of New York undcl-u al
| control and also in certain contingencies m
der military control Was such a man At to
receive his vote for the Presidency? Was such
a man fit to be in that high place? Was that
the voice of craftsmanship which was called
| for at this great hour? Was that the reform
| that had been promised Was he to go before
| the loyal Union sentiment of the countAF Gnd
| appeal to it in favor of man who stood on the
record for the "inalienable right" Of State or
a community to dissolve this Union? Was he,
as friend of the Southern people, called upon
| to vote for man who during the entire fall
and winter of 1850 wrote with all his acknawl-
edged power in favor of the inalienable right
of any dissatisfied portion of the countr! to
break up the Union and form another Govern
ment for themselves
II y y Il II y
When Andrew johnson and Edwin NJ. Sian
ton, Secretary of War, desired and proposed (as
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 being done. and that was
the present incumbent of the Presidential Office.
them that those men had given him their
parole as soldiers, and that that parole should
be respected. Applause from the Republican
| side of the house..