Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-05-18
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THE SPEECH.
WHY VOORHEES, is HIMSELF OPPOSED TO
GREELEY, AND WHY lie THINKS THE
DEMOCRACY SHOULD REPUDIATE HIM.

DEMOCRACY SHOULD REPUDIATE HIM.
WASHINGTON, May 13.-Mr. Voorhees,,
Democrat, of Indiana, in the House of
Representatives to-day, rising 10 personal
explanation, sent to the clerks desk and
had read n newspaper paragraph from the
| Washington Republican, to the effect that
! he was hating and hesitating as to the po-
sition he should take on the question of
supporting Mr. Greeley, and that as his
| Democratic colleagues were all said to be
in favor of Mr.. Greeley, he was likely to
lose the favor of the district where his voice
had 80 long been potential.
He dselared that he did not halt or hesi-
tate. lie had not halted or hesi!ated when
he had not more than fourteen Democratic
colleagues in the House, nor did he now.
If he could ever be tempted to abandon the
principles of his political life it might have
been then. As to the nominee of the Gin.
cinnati Convention, whoever believed in
the high protective tariff principles of its
chief man might support him, but he Mr.:
Voorhees, would not. Was he expected
to support Mr.. Greeley because he had
been the lifelong champion Of doctrines
which he Mr.. VOORHEES, opposed Was
he expected, as q Western man, represent
ing Western laboring constituency that
was ground down by high protective
| tariff monopoly, to support the great cham
| pion of protection ..Hr HHf
Was lac expected to support q man who
had been the most clamorous advocate in
all the land for that kuklux legislation
which had desoated the homes of the
Southern people Z If Mr. Greeley's nomi-
ration promised relief to that blasted and
dUTntrodden section. there was not much
which he VOORHEES, would not forego to
,l,sa, hol md e, h,-D irt,
But Mr.. Greeley had been the earnest ad.
vocatc OF the legislation which had para
lived the South, and was that the reason
why he should get bis support 7
lie was told HAT the present Admins
tration had simply executed law which
the Cincinnati nominee had dictated to
Congress. 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 n man who had
no oath on his conscience in regard to the
matter, but who had urged the passage Of
that legislation. rnH
Was he expected to support Mr. Greeley
because within recent date he desired y
still further extension Of the Presidents
power 10 suspend the habeas corpus all
over the South ? Was he expected TO sup
port him because lic was the earnest and
urgent advocate of the present force bayo-
net election law. that subjected every vot-
ing precinct of twenCy thousand people to
the supervision. and, in certain contingen-
cics, to the control of the military? Was
he expected 10 nupTort him BECAUSE two
months ago this very man had clamCred
and ragged, in his great organ, in favor ufa
law to place the local elections in the State
of New York under Federal control, and
also, in certain CONTINGENCIES, under mill
tary control? Was such . man fit tn re-
ceirc his vote for the Presidency ? Was
such man tit to b. in that high place
Was that the voice of craftsmanship which
was called for at this hour?
Was that the reform to go before the
Union sentiment of the country, and ap-
peal to it in favor Of man who stood on
the record for the ''inalicnable right" of
State or n community to dissolve this I'm
ion Was he, as 4 friend of the Southern
people, called upon TO vote for man who,
during the entire fall and winter of 1860,
wrote with all his acknowledged power in
favor of the inalienable right Of any dissat-
isfcd portion Of the country to break up
the Union and form another government
for themselves Mr.. Greeley had not re-
canted those opinions, but, on the contrary,
in his book on the American CDnilict,"
published in 1864 he had aualyzed them
and defined them to this effect that il,
on consultation, convention, and the like,
the South still desired, with any considera-
bic approach to unanimity, to separate, it
should be allowed to doso
Mr.. SrEER Dem. }, of Pennsylvania, OBJ
jected that Mr.. Noorhecs' remarks were
not in the nature ofa personal explanation,
but the Speaker ovcrruled the objection,
and Mr.. VOORHEES, proceeded with his
speech amid great confusion, which render
ed much of what he said inaudiolc at the
reporters desk. He repeated that Mr..
Greeley. after three years Of war, had still
held aud published the same sentiments,
and they still stood unrcservcd. Was a
man tit to be elevated 10 the Presidency
who stood committed to the doctrine that
whoever desired To dissolve their connection
with, the Government had the inalienable
. right TO do SO
That might commend him 10 some pco-
pie, but it would not when his subsequent
course was called TO mind. Some of the
, highest men of the South had told him
| VOORHEES, with tears in their eyes, that
more than any one thing which satisfied
them that they could have a separate sys-
TEN and form Of government to suit them
selves was the voice of the then victorious
! hepuplclh party speaking through lts ac-
! knowledgcd organ; and yet when the
Southern people did what this man had
! told them they had the inalenable right to
/ do, no wild beast, hungry for blood, ever
screamed over its prey as he lGreeeyl had
shouted 'On to Richmond" :" to Kill every
one of them for doing what he told them
/ they had the right TO do. That was n
solemn page Of history which could not be
reversed. The waters of the ocean could
not wash it out mortal man could not
gainsay it. \ red sea of blood had not
been enough to satisfy this man, but he had
also insisted upon the couliscation of the
homes and property ofthe women and chill
dren of the South.
Others might do as they pleased, but fol
him Voorhees, and his household he
would not do this thing. Parties to be
successful must be banded together on 9
4 common principle. No other combination
of men was worthy of success. He wa,
told that his party desired success
Against this Administration no one desiret
it more than himself, but there was some
: thing which was better than success anC
sweeter to the heart than success A grca
man had said that il was better fo he rioh