The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-05-23

Clay, had said that it was better to be right
than to be President, and so he said that 1t was
better to be right than to succeed he entered
his solemn protest against the attempt to trans
fer the Democrats of the country-as loyal
body of voters as ever lived-to camp Wnere
there was nothing belonging to them. d, -
Mr.. Roosevelt, of New York, asked Mr' ii
VOORHEES, whether he would support the candl-
date of the Democratic National Convention
a. Baltimore. whoever that candidate might
| be.
Mr.. VOORHEES, replied that he was not in the
habit of boiling Democratic nominations lie
believed that the gentleman himself would have
some difficulty in answering his own question.
| Laughter But he did not despair of success.
His position was in favor of standing by the
principles of his party, and he would vote for
the man who represented those principles He
had no fears, however, of what the Baltimore
Convention would do. But he could not vote
for man who spoke of the Democratic party
as that to which all the haunts of debauchery
gave tenths of their support. 1t had been
sometimes said that this nominee had gone Dali
for Jefferson Davis when he was In prison, out
| that was too narrow platform for any party 10
stand upon, Laughter. 1t would be most
dangerous thing TO raise an issue as between
the man who put Mr.. Davis in Jail and the man
who bailed him out. 1t would not be safe
issue at the North, and he implored his South
ern friends not to make it, 1t might provoke
comparison which would not be favorable to
the nominee of the Cincinnati Convention.
MIR. Davis had not been helpless. A hundred
millions of properly at the South stood ready
to bail him, and it sometimes seemed to him
TlMr. Voorhees, that it was merely piece OF
restless impertinence on the part of the nomi-
nee of the Cincinnati Convention to offer him
self as bail for MIR. Davis. When Andrew
johnson and Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary OF
War, desired, and proposed, las he knew to be
the fact,) to arrest Robert E. Lee, Joseph =.
Johnston, and other prominent Confederate
officers, there was but one man who could pre-
vent that thing being done, and that was the
present incumbent of the Presidential ONCE:
General Grant had stepped forward, and told
them that those men had given him their pa
role % soldiers, and that that parole should be
respected. [Applause from the Republican
side of the House.
Mr.. Speer, of Pennsylvania, said he wanted
to call the attention of the Democracy OF the
country to the fact that Mr. VOORHEES, was ap-
plauded by the Republicans.
Mr. Sherwood, of Pennsylvania, said the
speech was made in the interest of the Repub-
MrSpeer was understood, amid the confusion
that ensued, to tell Mr. VOORHEES, to 60 to the
White House and get his pay.
Mr.. VOORHEES, resuming, said that if ne
should be driven to take the stump and press
the claims of Mr.. Greeley, he would lind can
didate opposing him who had done more kinder
things for the South than his nominee had
done.
Mr. Roosevelt here charged that Mr.. Voor-
hees had recently been in consultation with
President Grant at the White House.
Mr. VOORHEES, said ne had not crossed the
threshold of the White House for three years,
and whoever made such statement uttered
vile calumny.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he made that statement
on information given him. He had heard two
or three days ago that such an interview had
taken place.
Mr.. VOORHEES,. Then the gentleman associ-
ates with men who do not tell the truth. II he
[Mr. Voorhees, was now making his political
grave, he could step into it. He had made his
speech for himself, and did not pretend to
speak for any one else.
Mr.. Randall, of Pennsylvania, asked Mr.. '.
whether he would have voted for Judge Davis
and advocated his election if he had received
the nomination at Cincinnati.
Mr.. Voorhees, replied that Judge Davis rep
resented many things in common with his own
views.
Mr. Randall. He is Republican.
Mr. voorhees,. That is not the point. l
cannot Join combination which represents
nothing that am for. On great constitutional
questions Judge Davis stood, In troubous
times, where l stood, in behalf of the rights
and liberties of the citizen, while such men as
Greeley were burying them into the earth. The
strong probabilities are, in my Judgment, that
if Judge Davis had been presented at Cincin-
-: hor-a q
jority of the Democratic party of the country.
In that I may be mistaken; am only stating
nv own individual opinion. should have re-
garded him with very great favor. 1t is quite
different thing whether l should vote Tor q
Republican who has much in common with
nv own views, or for one who has nothing at
all in common with them.
Mr. Randall. should not vote for either of
them unless he was endorsed by the Democrat
ic Convention.
Mr. Voorhees,. That is right
Mr. Randall. And I should vote for either
of them if endorsed by the Democratic Con-
vention. =,
Mr. Bird, of New jersey. I would not vote
for either of them if he was endorsed:
Mr.. Kerr Of Indiana said that so tar as the
statement in the paper quoted from referred to
him, it was simply untrue.
Mr.. Niblack. of Indiana, repeated the same
remark, adding that nothing but the power Of
organization would compel him to vote for Mr.
Greeley, but that whenever the Democratic
party acted on the question he would yield
obedience to its action: a.,
MIR. Holman, of Indiana, also repudiatedl the
newspaper article so far as it referred to him.
He aid not propose to forestall the action OF
the Baltimore Convention.
The House then resumed its regular busi-
ness.
= How much more intelligent and fascina.
ting the majority of young ladies would De, sa
newspaper reading. We do not mean the fash
papers of the day, which are filled with matter
which, if it does no harm can certainly do no
GOOD. but TO newspapers-those which make us