The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-09
DAN VOORHEES, RECORD
NAILS HIM TO THE
CROSS,


Ananias and sapphira Live Again
in the Person of D. w. Voorhees,.
The Journal asserts and dares him to
the proof, that from 1861 to 1865 he
never uttered one word in favor of the
prosecution of the war for the Union. or
in favor Of the Union cause or Union
soldiers; that he never gave one dollar
to the Union cause in any way or shape;
that he denounced the Union cause, and
abused the Union soldiers in his public
speeches, and that he was in secret com.
munication with the conspirstors in In
dianna known as the Sons of Liberty,
and with rebel symparhizers and agents
elsewhere. As evidence of his position
during the war, the following facts are
| submitted:
In December, 1860, four months before
the breaking out of the war, Mr.. Voor.
hees wrote the following letter of intro.
duction for a young man going South:
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Dec. 12, 1860.
My friend, Captain Francis A. Shoup,
| is about visiting the South with his sis
ter on account of her health.
have known Captain Shoup since our
bOyhood. We were schoolmates. He
| is q graduate of West Point, and was in
the army as q lieutenant four years. On
the disturbing questions of the day his
sentiments are entirely with the South,
and one Of his objects is a probable
home in that section.
/ take this occasion to saw that his
sentiments and my own are in close har-
mony.
The bearer of this letter went South,
and on the strength of it obtained com.
mission in the Southern army, afterward
became brigadier general, and was
killed In battle. 1t will be observed
that Mr.. Voorhees, said that Captain
Shoup's sympathies were "entirely with
the South" and were in CLOSE harmony"
with his own.
In April, 1861, at the beginning of the
war, MIR. Voorhees, said in a public
speech at Greencastle:
l say to you, my constituents, that as
your Representative, ! will never vote
one dollar, one man or one gun to the
Administration of Abraham Lincoln to
make war on the South.
Fifteen months later, in another speech
before Democratic audience in Sulli-
van county, he denounced Union soldiers
as ''Lincoln dogs and hirelings." In
proof of this we submit the following:
SULLIVAN, IND, Sept. %, 1868,
We, the undersigned citizens of Sulli-
van county, Indiana, were present at q
public meeting held IN Sullivan, August
8, 1862, when the Hor. D. w. Voor.
hees said, speaking in reference to the
Union soldiers, that they should go to
the nearest blacksmith snop and have an
iron collar made and placed around their
necks, inscribed thereon in large letters,
MY Dog-Abe Lincoln;" and at the
same time he referred to Union soldiers
rs Lincoln dogs and hirelings.
Valentine Hick, Helen Hereford,
Jas. NJ. Laudermilk, Mrs. M. E. Earl,
Warden Williams, Thomas Button,
Lafayette Hartley, Jno. w. Hawkins,
Philip w: Peck, Richard Dodd,
Jacob ID. Miller, Nelson Burton,
Isaac Hilderbrand, Seth Cushman,
Margaret Hereford, Owen Adams,
Mary Hereford, j. H. Ridgeway.
In 1864, after the exposure of the
Sons Of Liberty and the plot to plunge
the State in revolution, the military au.
thorities took possession of Mr.. Voor.
hees law office in Terre Haute. Among
the papers found there were the fol-
lowing: A letter from an uncle in Vir-
ginia bearing date February 10, 1862,
saying: "We want you to hold that
10000 men in readiness, as we know
not how soon we may want them;"
letter from Senator Wall, of New Jer.
sey, dated August 81, 1868, in which he
said: 81 enclose you two letters from a
man by the name of Carr, in reference
to arms; o letter addressed to him SIM
ply "Philadelphis" will reach him; can
vouch for the excellent quality and
great efficiency of the rifles;" and that
he 'is ready" and fixing a point at
which to meet Vorhees; besides many
letters denouncing the war and Govern
ment, and referring in terms more or
less direct to the progress of the Sons
of Liberty and our movements in op-
position to the war for the Union. These
are but few of the evidences of Mr..
VOORHEES, position during the war. If
he can produce in opposition to the
foregoing any evidence that he ever
uttered word in favor of the Union
cause or approval of Union victory
during the war, or that he ever contrib
uted a dollar to the cause or befriended
a single Union soldier in any way, the
Journal will publish it with pleasure
and give circumstances. But he can
not do it. The evidence does not exist.
Mr.. Voorhees, was a Southern sympathi-
zer during the entire war, and was
known throughout the entire length
and breadth of the State as Copper
head of the deepest dye.-[Indianapolis
Journal, June Goth, 1879.