Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-05-13

number Of other bills for the relief OF disA-
l-liti6s, granting pensions, payment of claims
&c, were also introduced and referred.
MR.. VOORHEES, ON GREELEY
Ar. voorhees, lind. arose to q personal eN-
P.ahaton, and, having obtained consent 20
proceed, sent TO the clerks desk to be read a
Psrsetsph from newspaper, 20 the effect tina,
ne was hating and hesitating as Ia the position
ne should take as TO the sulport OF the
nominee of the Cincinnati Convention
lie said he recognized the delicacy Or the posi-
Ion In which he was about 60 place himself aud
desired IL 10 be understood that ne spoke for no
one but himself. IL this had been the only aliu-
ston TO his course, he might perhaps have passed
II by, but he did not acquiesce in the pro,,o-
stiOn that because a man was a member OF
Congess has mouth was closed and some
one else must SPEAK Tor him. As regarded
hls nesitating and hslting as TO the support,
ne did not. He had been a member OF the
mouse when there were not more than fifteen or
twenty members TO represent the democracy.
ana the time Tor hesitancy and halting was then.
ana not now. His course might have been full
oil errors, but he said that he had firmly adhered
10 his convictions. He reviewed the antece-
dents of Dir. Greeley a high protective tarif'
icy inimical to the western Constituency
which he mir. Voorhees, representsd
Golng farther back the issues which al decided
MIR. Greeley had maintained that the sts,sS
that felt agrieved had an inalienable right 10
set up for themselves whenever they desired.
Had he recanted? on the contrary on the Io.b
of April, 1854, he had published book. giyiny
an analysis Of his opinions az that time-in
which these views were repeated. lie had
been assured 10y the people Of the south
that more than any one thing that had
ed them - take the step thew did, was
the voice OF the then victorious republican party
through its organ, but when they went no wild
beast ever sprung for blood as he did, shouting
"On 70 Richmond" A red sea of b,ood was not
enough TO satisfy him. no general was quick
enough. no army wonld fight enough for him
When the law was passed IN 1852 confscating
children of the southern states, he. not
satisfied with blood, gloried an this law
He had been a savage advocate Of the kukluN
law, and lac said that while the President A A.
under the oath OF office, executed the law; Gree
ley had, without an oath, clamored for the law
itself. He had been one of the earliest and most
earnest advocates Of the bayOnet election Law.
Two wears ago this month he had clamOred and
ragged for law placing the election in the state
OF New York under the control of federal troons
Was such man fit to lead a reform movement?
ot1 1 might 90 as they pleased; as for himself
ana MS household they would have none of this
worship. There was something higher and
Sweeter than success. One whom he held in the
highest reverence had said that he would sooner
be rlght than be President. He would sooner ha
right than be successful The democratic party
had three million voters, and he protested
against the transfer OF il to a camp where III ere
was nothing belonging to it.
Mr.. Roosevelt n. " asked II he wonld sun
port the nominee of the Baltimore convention
whoever he might be.
MI. NooIucte sdlu lie WOULD denne his position
as standing by his principles, and voting for the
man who represented them. II had been said
mat Mr. Greeley went bail for jefferson Davis
mat was too narrow a platform to stand upon
million of men stood ready TO offer the bail
and II had seemed to him a piece of need
les lmpertnence on the part of Mr.. Greeley
Nhen Andrew johnson proposed to arrest Gen
Lee. Joseph johnston, and other leading officers
OF the rebellion, there was one man who hal
stepped in and told him that these men had
given their parole as soldiers, and should NOT
De arrested. That man was the present incum-
oent OF the presidential e air. and he feared ifha
took the stump Cor Greeley he would find one
opposed TO him who had dOnemore for the south
Loud applause on the republican side and IN
the galleries.
Mr.. Spier Pa called his attention 20 the fact
that the applause came from the republican
side OF the House, and said he desired the conn.
try to know that this was 80.
Mr. VOORHEES, retorted tina. the gentleman for
some days here had been arp auded tor voting
with the other side on the tarif Dill, TApplause
on the democratic side.l
In reply to an interTOg alton from Mr.. R0ose-
welt, he said that he had not crossed the thre>h-
hold OF the executive mansion ia three wears
and in reply to questions by Mr.. Randall PA.
salu that there were many points upon which
himself and Judge Davis were i'm accord, aud
minated that had he been nominated at Gin
clnn9t he mi ht have supported him.
considerable Excitement on both sides of The
House was caused by the speech of Mr. Koor-
let>, and at the close several democratic mem
pers rose and defined their positions in a few
words.
AIr. Il. F. Myers introduced bin for the re-
ief OF the sufferers by the tire az SOmmerset
Pa, similar to the Chicago relief bill. which
was rererred 10 the committee OF WAYS and
means.