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VOORHEES, Copperhead Record.

NOOTIccs SOppcEhcstu lNSSoi"
THE KIND OF PATRIOT" WHO HAS BEEN AP-
POINTED By THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR OF
| INDIANA TO BE THE LATE SENATOR MOTION 6
SUCCESSOR.
From the Indianapolis Journal Nov. 10.
The Indianapolis Sentinel is entitled TO patent
upon its discovery within the past few days of the
great patriotism of Daniel w. Voorhees,, the new
United States Senator. According to the Senti-
mel. '.he has broader views, more patriotic pur-
poses, and more honorable aims" than had Sena-
tor Morton. We are further informed that che
will take higher rank as Statesman and have
"greater reverence for the Constitution" &C., and
finally, we are treated to the following:
1.-The friends OF the dead Senator had better re-
quire the Journal to hush up. 1t is an inconsder-
ate friend of Mr. Morton, and is not competent to
administer upon his estate. Mr.. Morton's name
demands that it be left severely alone. Ii tn Is
not done by his friends, or if the Journals indis-
erection proyokes criticism, we can assure It that
II shall have all it bargains for and more too. Mr..
Voorhees, IS a repre- sentative of the democracy of
Indiana in the Senate. He takes the place made
vacant by the death of Mr.. Morton. He has done
valuable service for his State and country. The
democracy propose that he shall have fair show,
and tell the Journal that If II demands compar-
sons il shall have them until il sqnesls."
THIS, we take it, is thinly disguised effort to
conceal from public view the dark aud reasonable
record of any Dear Nephew" the Honorable
Daniel. We shall, Notwithstanding the threat, be
compelled with Grstano to eyclaim, "A Daniel
still, say |, a second Daniel. l thank thee, jew,
for teaching me that word" We find Daniel in
July, 1860, in an address before the students OF
the University Of Virginia, advising the assassin
alton of the republican President, should he be
elected, in the following language:
'But if the evil hour must come, II patriotism
is to be Inundated and treason exalted, if the
schemes of the seditious citizens repablicans are
to triumph. and civil strife and commotion are to
cumber this fair land, then may some Brutus
avenge the cause of liberty in the Capitol, and
may the authors of our ruin be the first to sup ia
of its horrors. See speeches OF Daniel y.
Voorhees, compiled by his son, in 1860, page o.. !
In December of the same year we find our new
born patriot addressing a letter OF Introduction to
gentlemen of the South, introducing Captain
Francis A. Shoup, who atterward became Brig
sd,er-Genera in the rebel army. The letter was
written three days after the withdrawal OF the
South Carolina Senators from their seats in the
body that Voorhees, is to disgrace, and just -four
DAYS before the State Of South Carolina passed
the ordinance of secession. While the letter Is
carefully guarded rs to the purposes of Shoup IN
going South, it is matter OF history that he went
to join, in the rebellion The letter, in Senator
Voorhees, own writing, is on file among the rebel
archives at Washington, and photograph copy
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. IL, 1860.
My friend, Capt. A Shoup, is about visiting
the south with his sister accoant of her health.
| have known Capt. Shoup since our boyhood.
We were schoolmates. lie Is graduate OF
West Point, and he was in the Army as u Lieu
| tenant for years. No more honorable and upright
gentleman exists. On the disturbing question OF
! the day his sentiments entirely with the South
aud one of his objects is a probable home il
that section.
take this occasion to say that his sentiments
- ID. VOORHEES,.
| The views of the rebel Gen. Shoup are pretty
| well known to the people of Indiana, and especially
to the Union soldiers who met him on the battle
fields of the rebellion the rebel side oil the con-
h,ct. He had the courage of his views and went
where he belonged; but our Senator said 81
take this occasion to say that his sentiments and
my own are In close harmony" but still remained
in the North, where he was safe from lighting for
his cow lotions" We next find our patriot address,
ing a Democratic meeting at Greencastle, in this
State, in the month of April, 1861, when he used
the following language;
II say to YOU, my constituents, that, as your
representative, | will never vote one dollar. one
man, or one gun to the Administration of Abra-
ham Lincoln to make war on the South"
In February 1862, we find our "pstriot' con-
Quoting a correspondence with his rebel uncle in
Virginia, and having pictured to him, no doubt,
IN glowing terms now ne COulu call around MIN
100, 900 Indiana Copperheads to aid in the rebel
lion, the old gentleman, in the simplicity of his
rebel heart, wrote to his "dear nephew, 'on the
18th of that month, in the following manner:
HARRISBURG, Febl9, 1862
My DEAR NEPHEW:
We want you to hold that loo, 900 men in readi-
ness, as we do not know how soon we may want
them.
j. HARDESTY.
Address on envelope: "Hon. Daniel w. Voor-
hees, Terre Haute, Ind"
OF course our dear nephew is patriot and an
ardent lover of the Constitution. Who can doubt
i'll There are plenty of men in Congress, several
being in the Sc nate, who went into the rebellion
and fought for the rebel cause, were amnestied,
and have returned to their allegiance to the Gov
ernment and have taken tine oath anew to support
the Consultation Of the United States. But we
know of no man in either body who, acting under
his oath to support the Constitution was secretly
plotting treason at the same time. This is just
what Mr.. Voo bees did. He should implore to be
saved from the wrath Of God and the friendship
OF the Sentinel at the same time. lie is entitled
to be dubbed "My Dear Nephew" and by that
name should be known in and out OF the Senate.