The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-05-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.

HON. DANIEL ". VOORHEES, ON GREELEY.
WAsHINoroN, D. c., May l4.-A great
sensation was created in the house yester-
day by the speech of Hen. Daniel w.
VOORHEES, on the question of the demo.
cratic convention endorsing the Cincin-
natl convention. Mr.. VOORHEES, expressly
stated that he spoke only for himself. He
read newspaper paragraph which men.
toned him as hating and hesitating as to
accepting Horace Greeley while his col
leagues favored his nomination. Hardly
had he commenced his speech when an at
tempt was made to apply the gag by
democratic member, Mr.. Spear. After
speaking of matters personal to himself,
he said: Am l, representing a,western Ia
boring constituency, ground down by a
high protective tariff, expected to support
Horace Greeley because he has been the
lifelong champion of doctrine have al
ways opposed? The difference between
the administration and the nominee of the
Cincinnati convention is that it simply
carried out the bad laws which he Gree
ley) asked congress to enact. Am ex-
pected to support this man because he de.
manded lately an extension IN time of the
law empowering the president to suspend
the writ Of habeas corpus or because he
was the urgent and earnest advocate
Of the present force bayonet election law
that subjects every voting precinct of over
twenty thousand people to federal super
vision and control in certain cases or be-
Cause two years ago he clamored and
ragged to have the local elections in New
York state placed under federal, and in
certain contingencies, under military con-
troll Is such man fit to receive my vote
for president of the U nited States a? Am I
to go before the union sentiment of the
country and appeal to it for the man who
advocated the "inalienable right" to use
his own words, of state or community
to dissolve this union? Mr.. Greeley reiter-
ated these sentiments three years after the
, war. Mr.. Spear again tried to choke Mr..
. VOORHEES,, but he was brushed away
: firmly but mildly by that gentleman, as il
he was troublesome fly. When the
southern people did what this man told
them they had the "inaliensbe right" to do,
no wild beast hungry for blood ever
creamed as he shouted, "On to Rich
mond" And when, in 1862, congress
passed the act which by its terms confs-
Gated the homes and lands of all the men,
women and children in the south who
had sympathized with the rebelion-and
who there did not9-Mr. Greeley gloried
and lauded in it. Mr.. VOORHEES, protested
against transporting three million demo-
Gratis to = camp where they have every
thing to lose and nothing to gain. Mr..
Roosevelt, democrat, interrupted to ask if
the speaker would support the nominee of
the Baltimore convention, who turned the
laugh upon his questioner by saying he
was in the habit of voting for democratic
nominations, but the gentleman will have
as great difficulty in answering that ques-
ton as do, unless am mistaken in his
own political career. He spoke of General
Grant refusing to arrest General Robt. 4.
Lee, General Joseph 4. johnson and other
prominent leaders of the south after he had
+, taken their paroles, and said it would not
be prudent to make comparison between
the man who put JEFF Davis in prison and
the man who bailed him out Being in.
terrupted by Messrs. Randall and Spear.
OF Pennsylvania, he said the high protec.
tive tariff advocates could not drive him
from his position. Mr.. Spear said with
considerable warmth, that the gentleman |
should hasten to the white house and RI. |
ceive his reward. Mr.. Sherwood said he |
believed the speech was made in the in.
terest of the republican party. Mr.. Roose.
welt, OF New York, said that it was ru.
mored that Mr.. Voorhees, had been to
the white house. At this Mr.. voorhees,
drew himself up until he seemed . giant
] and with An honeut and "A rnast indiana