New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-14
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
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Much OF the morning hour wasted in the read,
ing Of Mr. Keeys Tariff hi sent up by MT Pd4 10
Dem, Ws with the tlle altered 1ne oDleCt pi i,iI
prevent action on Mr. iJioopers supplementary ONH
MR VOORHEES, on THE CINCINNATI NOMINATIONS.
Mr. VOORHEES, Dcm., INDY rising 10 personal ex-
nanaon sent 10 the Clerks desk and had read news
aner craph from The Washington Republican, To inc
eecf that lie was hating and hesitatng to the posi-
Gppcev: and that as his Democratic colleagues were
M eai2 10 no I'm favor of Mr. Greeley he was likely 10
the favor Of the district where his voice hau so oK
He declared that he did not halt hesitate. lie had
not halted or hesitaed when be had NOT more d an
III he could ever be tempted 10 abandon the prnces OF
his political life, it might have been then AZ 10 tne
i'm fine hi Oh Protective Tariff principles of It's chief man
might support linn, but he Voorhees) woul1 NOT was
he expected to support MI Greeley because nS o u
opposed Was he expected as a Western man. repre-
senng western Sv aOI hgS Spotectiye tara mo-
nopoy to support the great champion Of Protection
Was he expected to support man who had been the
most clamorous advocate in all the land for that
Ku-Klux legislation which had desoated the homes
nation promised relief to that blasted and
down-trodden section, there was not much which
he Voorhees, would not forego to s1bserye
so holy and so benign a purpose. But Mr. Greeley
had been the earnest advocate OF the legislation
winch had paralyzed and Frustrated the south and was
that the reason Why be should his support He was
fold that the present Administration had been cruel and
unknd 10 the south, but the Administration had simply
executed a law which the Cincinnati nominee had
dictated TO Congress. That was all the dnerence pc
under his oath of Office to the law and the other
was man who had oath on his conscience IN regard
the matter but who urged the passage OF that es
Was lie expected support Mr. Greeley because within
a recent date he desired sui further extension oI INC
Presidents power suspend habeas corpus all over the
SOuh Was he expected TO support him because ne was
the and urgent advocate OK the present force
law that subjected Young
cnct of 10000 people TO the supervision ana, ~
Was he expected to support him because two months
this very man had clamored and RACED IN ms geat
organ IN svSr Oh Jaw 70 PaeJ ' copro and also in
certain contingencies under military conuoit Was MAS
such man w M such no an III to be in that
high place Was that the voice Of craftsmanship which
was called for at this hour that reform TO go be-
fore the Union sentiment the and appeal to
it IN favor of man VINO STOOD on inc RECORD nIr e
solve this UnionI Was he, as a friend OF
the Southern people, called upon to vote ioT
Winter ter OF isGo wrote with all his acknowledged
power in favor Of the nalenabe right of any dissatisfied
portion of the country to break up the Union and form
another Government for themselves Mr. Greeley had
not recanted those opinions, but the contrary In his
had analyzed them and defined them TO this effect:
That in consultation, convention and the IKE tne
unanity to separate. it should be allowed to do So
Mr. sPEER Dem, PENN objected that Mr. Voorheess
remarks we're not in the nature OF personal enpua
ton, but the Speaker overruled the o9eeuon ana MI
Voorhees, proceeded with his speech amid great excite
ment confusion, which rendered much Oh what he
said inaudble at the reporters desk.
And yet, when the Southern people did what this man
had told them they had the naLenable night 10 do no
wild hungry for blood screamed over its prey
as lie Greeley had shouted on TO Richmond TO XII
every Of them for doing what be told them Dey had
the right to do. That was solemn page OF history
which could be reversed The waters of the ocean
coud not wash IL out. Mortal could not gainsay
it. A Red Sea OF blood had not been enough to
satisfy this S SSt The he G and @sS Of s
women and children of the South He repeated that
aud published the same sentiments, and they still
stood unreversed. Was man mt to be elevated 10 the
Presidency who stood committed TO the doctrine that
whoever desired TO dissolve their connection with the
Government had an inaienable right TO do so That
not when his subsequent course called TO
mind. Some OF the highest men Of the South
more than any thing which satisfied them that they
could have a separate system and form OF Government
suit themselves the voice OF the then victorious
Republican party, speaking through its acknowledged
organ. Others might do as they pleased; but for him
thing Parties successful must be banded together
ON a common principle. No other combination of
sired success against this Administration. No one de-
sired 1t more than hnSe But snere an Was some
TO the heart than success. great man had
said that 1t was better to be right ths 70 pc IA
coed He entered his protest against the attempt to
transfer the Democrats OF the country to camp where
there was nothing belonging TO them.
Mr.. ROOSEVELT Dem. n. " asked Mr.. voorhees,
whether he would support the candidate OF the Demo
r VooRHEES replied that he was not in the habit
of voting against Democratic nominations He believed
that the gentleman himself would have some difficulty
in answering his question lLanghterl But he did
of standing by the principles OF his party
sented those principles He had fears however of
what the Baltimore Convention would do but he could
G Gos ' party O as that to Which all the hannts
Of debauchery gave nnetenths OF their support
Jefferson Davis when he IN pIl5OD; DuJ tDat
was too narrow platform for any party to stand upon
raise an issue as between the man who put Mr..
Davis in Jail and the man who baled him out;
Comparison which would Not be favorable to the nOmi-
been helpless hundred millions OF property at the
South had been ready to bail him; and It sometimes
piece Of restless mPSSr per eI%s,nns on c the
When Andrew johnson and Edwin NJ Stanton Secretary
of War; desired and proposed as he knew to be the fact
prominent Confederate officers, there was but one man
who could prevent that thing being done, and that
was the present incumbent of the Presidential
office. Gen. Grant had stepped forward and
told them that those, men had given him
spected. Applause from the Republican side Of the
didate opposing him who had done more and kinder
things for the South than his nominee had done.
Mr. ROOSEVELT suggested that Mr.. voorhees, had
been recently in conference with President Grant
Mr. VOORHEES, said ne had not crossed tne tnfesh0ld
of the White House for three years and whoever made
such a statement had uttered q vile calumny
Mr.. ROOSEVELT SAID he made that statement on In
formation given 10 him. He had heard. two three
DAYS ago. that such an interview had taken place.
Mr.. VOORHEEs-Then the gentleman associates with
men who do not tell the truth.
Mr.. RANDALL Dem, Penny asked Mr.. voorhees,
whether he would have voted lOr Judge DAVIS ana au
yOcaed his election If he had received the nomination
at CINCINNATI
Mr. VOORIEES-Judge Davisrepresents many things
In common with my own views.
Mr.. RANDALIr-He is q Republican.
Mr.. VOORHEEs-That is not the point; cannot join
a combination which represents nothing that am for
on great constitutional questions Judge Davis stood in