Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-08-29

new YORK 10 purchase tnem ana confer WIN you
and me. am satisfied it is the very article they
want, aud as you know all about them. you can
speak by the card. You have seen the article tried
loudly in good cause. : There are about
20, 600, and we desire to sell them at once"
Now, why should Mr. Wall send this PROPOSE
ton for the sale OF $3.50, 900 of rifles to Mr.
Voorhees,. who was no dealer in arms but law
the salary-grab of $1,000, never had money
enough to ray his debts; never paid
Colonel Woolley largo amount Of Dor
rowed money till he was sued; and never
even paid his taxes. as the whole State knows
and laughed at "consumedly" few years ago,
whom the exposure was madei They must have
been for somebody else, with plenty of money,
that Mr.. voorhees, was agent for
REBEL sYMPATHIEs -vALLANDIGHAM.
tits well known that Mr. Voorhees, was the in
innate friend and co-operator of Clement l..
Valandigham, who made no conceaiment of
his hostility to the government and in any other
country would have been hanged promptly, as
he richly deserved When he sent out of
the country, mercy that he merited as little
as mad dog, fcr ne was traitor black as
Arnold, Voorhees, said of him in his speech on
the 9Th OF March, 1864:
''Will some poor crawling despised sycopbant and
tool of executive desposm dare to say that shall
not pronounce the name OF VallaDdigham2 The
scandal and stigma OF his condemnation and BAN
ishment have filled the civilized world and the
Lethean and oblvious wave of Thousand years
cannot wash away the shame and reproach of that
miserable from the American name. Some
members have attacked with fierce elamor the great
American statesman and Christian gentleman. who
suffers his exile in the of liberty foreign
soil So the basest cur that kennelled may bay
at the bidding of master, the aged lion in the dis
tance"
While this "great American statesman and
Christian gentleman" was in Canada he proba-
bly, saw, he certainly made an appointment to
SEQ, Mr., Voorhees, in the interests of the rebel
lion. In one Of his letters from Windsor, Cana
da West, that was found in Mr.. Voorhees, office
in Terre Haute, he says "Our people will fight
and he ''is ready" and appoints a place to
''nleet" him ''on the Lima road"
On the I'd of May, 1864 thirty-two leading
Democrats of this State certified their ,sympa-
10 Ristine, IS. AthOn, o. B Hord, State officers
and Sons of Liberty; Andrew Humphreys, ID. r.
Eckles, w. A. Bowles, H. III. Dodd, Lafe Deve-
lin, d. II. Colerick, Joseph E. Mcdonald.
In the papers found in Mr.. yoorheess law
office was petition signed by c. L. Vallandig-
ham, ID. w. Voorhees,, and Benjamin Wood, in
favor of two republics and united South. Also
a letter OF his partner and brother-in-law, John
E. Risley, to III. H. Tor Dick Dodd, of August
9Th. 1864, just when Dodd was deep in his plot
to release the rebel prisoners in Camp Morton.
murder Governor Morton, and rob the arsenal,
overturn the State government and give it to the
rebels. He wrote thus: "Hunt e. Co. have
played the devil, according to reports. Does
he attempt to implicate any of our band, and
does it affect our people in any degreel Can
Morton overcome our people by his military or
ganization2 / have read with deep interest the
meager newspaper reports of affairs in our State,
and am anxious to learn more" Risley did
the rebel dirty work that Voorhees, avoided to
divert suspicion.
Here is what he thought of Mr. Lincoln in a
speech on March 5th, 1864:
.'Genghis Khan and Tamerlane preserved by tho
pen OF the historian for universal execration found
no pursuit so pleasant as calling for more men for
the harvest of death and like present
tive shutting with jests and ribadry the warm faint
of blood on every gale"
and the blessings Of liberty annhated" because
four millions of slaves were set free. apparently
There is not one square mile of free soil in the
Aroostook to the Columbia" because slavery was
forever prohibited on every square mie.)
CoNscRIPTIoN.
In his speech on the CONSUMPTION act Febru-
airy 23d, 1863, he said:
Cease rs you value your lives; as you
value the peace of the conntry; cease as you
dread the lurid flames of civil war at
your own homesteads" this was while
rebel officers were in Indianapolis plotting
with Democratic members of the legislature. who
torous militia bill of Bayless w. Hanna and civil
war was no idle threat in the mouth of leader of
the rebel auxilaries in lndana) cease these
attractions of the constitution (as if had to
gard the constitution. though the rebels didn't
dare no more to lay your hands on the white man 8
liberty say to you that as the Lord God reigns in
heaven. you cannot go with your system of pro-
vostmartials and police-ocers arrestng free whites
for what they consider their duty and maintain
peace in the loyal States Blood will flow. You can
not and you shall not forge the letters limbs
without struggle for the mastery"
The wholesome effect of these inculcations
was seen a few months later in the expulsion of
Union men and the murder of CONSUMPTION Off
GERS in Mr.. Voorhees, district He and others
! <p an N
from the army that over 1000 deserters came
homo in the single month of December, before
this speech was made, and the effort TO recruit
the ranks thus thinned is what he threatens
that blood shall flow for. And it did flow, too,
by stealthy and cowardly assassination.
WON HAVE NEGRO SOLDIERS.
On the 18th of January, 1863 a bill was intro
duced to authorize the enlistment of IJ0, 900
colored volunteers to relieve the burthen OH .he
shoulders of the whites. On the 18th an attempt
to Kill it by tabliDg was sustained by Voorhees,,
who wanted the whites to do all the lighting and
suffering, but didn't want the negro to be free
He was beaten by 50 to So, and then he and the
rebel allies in the House set to work to beat it
by flibustering, and they kept the House in ses-
sion till o'clock in the morning. from IL the
o sy and On
called 48 times Mr. Voorhees, helping all through
| the costly row. 1t was done to waste time, and
no pretense was made that it was not. He was
willing to make the taxes pay for it, though.
This whole disgraceful and wasteful scene. with
Mr.. Voorhees, share of it, can be seen on page
5S3 of the Globe, and the pages on both Sides
DOWN ON soUTHERN WHITE SOLDIERS.
On February &c, 1865, Blair. of Missouri from
the military committee, reported a bill to enlist
volunteers in the Southern States. Voorhees,
voted with "noes" "A, to 81 "ayes-" He was
ready enough to help the South by coaxing home
deserters, but he wouldn't consent to allow the
IN Ma Inv he en- MT of nv
white mon in the South, or negroes anywhere.
Page SAC of Globe.
FAvORs GOLD GAMBLING.
June7, 1864, bill was brought in to prohibit
| specializing and gambling IN gold. Voorhees,
voted with So others to kill it, and did it. Globe,
page 1898.
HELPS A LAND GRAB.
| May 81, 1864, on the bill to give the Northern
Pacific railroad every other section of land for