The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

We give in the Sentinel to day the mastery |
speech of Senator Voorhees,. 1t is worthy OF |
the great reputation of the senator, worthy |
of the great state he represents. worthy of
the great interests he advocates. In word,
Senator Voorhees, has touched the great
national heart, sounded its profoundest
depths, aroused its most active sympathies,
intensified every honest conviction, and
dealt dishonest legislation staggering blow
from which it will never recover. The
speech we publish to day is destined tc have
wider reading than any that has been pro-
nounced in the senate of the United States
during the past twenty years. 1t Is
in spirit and tone in strict accord
with the sentiments of a vast majority of the
people of the couRtTy. Every word thrills
like a battle cry. It's courage, ardor and
vigor awaken national enthusiasm. Dis
daining subterfuges, ignoring partisan soph
isms, Mr.. Voorhees, plants himself upon iur.
mutabie truths, and his logic becomes as
| impregnable as the logic of events. The great
senator masses his facts in order. Seeking
the bed rock OF our national ills, he builds
his sUperstructure of arguments upon feun-
dations that can not be shaken. He unrcvels
the complications that have been adroitly
woven around the whole subject of business
and fRance, lets in the light o. truth upon
the dark designs CT those who
have involved the country in
disasters that defy exaggeration, and
conyinces all that the people are right in
their deep seated hostility to the financial
1 Al. A.
told woes. With the sagacity and grasp of a
statesman be groups facts, and. with trans
oendant ability, shows their effects in the
immediate past and the present as also
their far reaching consequences. Rising with
the majesty of his subject, senators listened
| with profound attention and admiration,
and the people were filled with unrest until
the lightnings should pulsate his grand
utterances over the country. We do not
disguise the fact that Senator Voor-
hees' position has been a try
ing one. He fills the place in
the senate formerly occupied by Oliver p.
Morton, the great leader of the radical party
-a.man of recognized ability, and a senator
whose place his admirers declared could not
be filed This miserable partisan chimera
has now vanished. Mr.. Voorhees, great
speech, IN the power of its logic, in its ma
tlonal sweep, in its devotion to the will and
wants of the people, exceeds anything Nor
ton ever accomplished, and places the name
and fame of Senator VOORHEES, on a more
endearing basis. The speech is des-
tined to have a powerful and salu-
tsry effect upon the popular mind,
and will doubtless cause Hayes to hesitate
before he insults the people with a veto
of either the silver bill or the bill to repeal
the resumption law. The speech will be &C.
cepted as the voice of the west and south,
the seat of empire and power, and as its
mighty tones go rolling and reverberating
over the country they will be accepted
as the harbinger notes of a new era
in legislation, in which the pro-
ducing classes will no longer tolerate
vicious legislation designed to make them
the hewers of wood and drawers of water for
the moneYed men of Europe and the eastern
states. The Sentinel congratulates Senator
Voorhees, upon his great speech, which will
be read by thousands and tens of thousands
| OF admiring constituents.