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

WILL NOT RECOGNIZE ANY AMENDMENTS.
February 6th 1872, (page 833 of the Record of
that Year, on a resolution of James BROOKS, of
New York, that 1--WE recognize the validity of
the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amend
ments to the constitution as valid parts thereof"
Voorhees, voted mo-" with y to l64 He also
voted, February Is, 1854, against the resolution
TO amend the constitution so az to rid it Of
slavery; voted to reject the proposition to amend
May 81, 1864; voted tor the resolution of Mr.
Harding, OF Kentucky, that ''the maintenance
OF State rights and State domestic institutions
is necessary for the perpetuation poIiti-
| cal fabric" He was always for slavery at what
ever time, or in whatever form it came up.
Secession Record.
ADDRESS AT THE VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, JULY
| 4TH. 1860.
Besides his defense of slavery as natural, n
evitable and divinely appointed, when Gan IN
ferior is brought into contact with superior
race" Mr.. Voorhees, volunteered defense of
secession in his speech at the Charlottesville
University of Virginia tpages 1916 of speeches
edited by C. w. Voorhees):
But when the original compact of States shall
nave faed, II fail II must, why may not the rights
of ireemen find sanetuares in the several Statesa
They were the first governments of this country
and delegated but never surrendered beyond tie
1 power OF reclamation. certain of their powers
duly and carefully specified to the Federal govern
ment In trust and 10 be exercised strictly in obed-
eDce TO that sacred deed of trust the constitution
Who shall say when the trustee becomes uufathful
and all the methods recognized in the different de-
partmenis OF the government have been exhausted
In vain TO compel the performance of the conditions
on which the trust was created, that each State Of
this Union may not reinvest itself with all its orig
| 1nal rights. privileges, and powersl"
That is Calhounsm without a qualification;
precisely the doctrine that General jackson cor
| rected with halter in his hand nearly thirty
years before. In the same address, az page 55
| IN dllating on the beauty and grandeur of the
South, he says: "T|e South, the South, the
South, shall henceforth be the watchword of
American expansion"
THE sHoUP LETTER.
On December 18th, 1860 after the senators Of
South Carolina had withdrawn from the Senate,
when secession had been practically settled ia
| that State and others of the seaboard slave
| States, and when preparations Tor armed resist
| ance to the authority of the government were
| the following letter of introduction to a rebel
FRIEND ia behalf another friend who wanted TO
| be rebel:
'IxDIANAPoIIs December II, 1860.
my friend, Captain Francis A. Sboup is a5out
visiting the South with his sister account of her
health. have known Captain Shcup since our boy
hood. We were schooImaJes. He is graduate of
West Point and was in the army as lieutenant four
years No more honorable or upright gentleman e1-
| lists. On the disturbing questions of the day bis
sentiments are entirely with the South, and one of
l II take this occasion 20 say that his sentiments
and my own are in close harmony
ellis sentiments are entirely with the South
and "his sentiments and my own are in close
| harmony" at time when South Carolina had
actually decided upon secession, and busy pre-
paretions for war were going on!
SHIFTS LITTLE.
In 1866, when the rebellion was pretty much
| crushed, and secession opinions were not quite
so readily tolerated as they had been, Mr.. Voor-
hoes made speech In the House, January g. in
reply to Kasson, of Iowa, in which he said:
Il hold that the constitution formed Union not to
be broken at the Will of any one State. IL any one
has ever supposed that upheld the right of State
to secede rum tho Union he has done great in
justice"
| War Record.
BIRps-EYE VIEW.
Having publicly and repeatedly avowed his
belief in the right Of State ito reinvest itself
with its original rights when the trustee"-the
Federal government-"fai in it's duty and
as notorously declared his faith in the huns nifty,
economy, and divinity of the slavery, or "vas-
salage of an inferior to q superior race" IL was
inevitable that when collision occurred be-
| tween union and disunion, freedom and slavery,
lie should be against the Union and freedom.
And he was. His Shoup letter was written when
the siaye power was actively preparing for q
fight, and he knew it as well as everybody else,
and he says Shoup's sentiments ere entirely
with the South" and chs sentiments and my
own are in close harmony" The confidence
of the rebels in the support Of the Northern De
mocrscy. assured by such language and actions
as those of ex-President Pierce, Bright, Val
landigham, Voorhees,, and hundreds Of other
leaders more or loss prominent and representa-
tive, was the main cause Of the war. That is
settled now beyond controversy.
When war came, through the attack of
the rebels on the government he re-
sisted it at every stop, and in every way he
could He opposed the first Issue Of greenbacks,
when the government had no specie to pay
with, and be knew that to defeat pal per money
would cripple the governments, and help the
rebels. He resisted the enlistment Of colored
soldiers, who would save thousands OF white
men from the necessity of leaving home, be-
cause it would help the government, and for one
whole day and night be and his rebel friends
fiibusteyed to beat the bill, calling the yeas and
nays forty eight times Cd motions to excuse" OF
adjourn" or such trifies, to tire out the Union
party. He opposed the taxing of whisky on
hand in 1864, because 1t would haze given the
government about S20,000,000, and saved the
people that much tax. His vote helped to put
, It into the pockets of rich distllers. Ho cor
responded with rebel friends about arms. got
letters from rebels ike Vallandighain, maxim E
appointments to meet him in Canada, ION the
! Lima road" had letters from rebels asking him
to fulfill has promise of bringing mon to fghl
for the rebellion denounced the soldiers M
''hirelings" and Lincoln dogs"-he denies this
but it has been proved over and over--decared
'she would never vote another man, another
gun, nor another dollar to make war on thu
Q South!7-this he admits to the correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Enquirer; in his district, encour
aged by his views and actions, Union were
driven from home, or had their property dc