Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-09
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the Person sr D ". Voorhees,
indianapolis Journal, June 70. 1873.
The Journal asserts, and dares him to
the proof, that from 1851 to 1865 he never
uttered one word in favor OF. the prOsecu-
ton of the war for the Union, or in favor
Of the Union cause or Union sOldieFss
that he never gave one dollar to the Union
cause i'm any way or shape; that he de-
nOUnced the Union cause, and abused the
Union soldiers in his public speeches,
and that he was in secret communication
with the cOnspirators in Indiana known
as the Sons of Liberty, and with rebel
sympathizers 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.. VOr-
hees wrote the following letter of intro
duction for Il young man going South:
EINDIANAPOLIs, IND, Dec. u, 1860.
'EMy friend, Captain Francis A. Shoup,
is about visiting the South with his sister,
on account of her health. I have know
Captain ShOup since our bOyhOOd. We
were schOOlmates. He is graduate of
West Point, and was in the army as lieu
tenant four years. No more honorable or
upright gentleman exists. On the disturb
tirely g5itb the South, and one of his objects
is a probable home in that section. p
take this occasion to say that his senti-
ments and my own are in close harmony
ED. w. VOORHEES,
The bearer of this letter went South,
and on the strength of it obtained COM
mission in the Southern army, afterward
became a Brigadier-GeneraI, and was
killed i'm battle. It will be observed that
Mr.. VOORHEES, said that Captain Shoup's
sympathies were sc entirely with the
South ard were in /" close harmonY''
with his own.
Ina pril, 1861, at the beginning of the
war, Mr. VOORHEES, said in apublic speech
at Greencastle:
g | 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 a Democratic audience in Sullivan
county, he denounced Union soldiers as
d" Lincoln dogs and hirelings." In proof
of this we submit the following:
SULLIVAN, IND, Sept. 28, 1868.
| We, the undersigned, citizens of Sulli-
van county, Indiana, were present at a
uublic meeting held in Sullivan, August
), 1862, when the Hon. d. W. Voorhees,
! said speaking in reference to the Union
| soldiers, that they should go to the near
| est blacksmith shop and have an iron col
| lar made and placed around their neclIs,
| inscribed thereon in large letters, g NJ Y
| Dog-Abe Lincoln;'' and at the same
time he referred to Union soldiers as Lin
coin dogs and hirelings.
Valentine Hick, Helen Hereford,
Jas. NJ. Laudermilk, Mrs. NJ. e. Earl,
| Warden Williams, Thomas Button,
Lafayette Hartley, John W. Hawkins,
| Philip w. Peck, Richard DOdd,
! Jacob ID. Miller, Nelson Burton,
Isaac Hildebrand, Seth Cushman,
Margaret Hereford, Owen Adams,
| Mary Hereford, J. IL. RidgeWay.
|. In 1864, after the exposure of the Sons
of Liberty and the plot to plunge the
| State into revolution, the military aau-
thOrities took possession of Mr.. NOor-
hees' law office in Terre Haute. Among
the papers found there were the follow
ing: A letter from an uncle in Virginia,
bearing date February 10, 1862, saying
g We want you to hold that 1OO, 600 men
i'm readiness, as we know not how soon
we may want them;' letter from Sena-
tor Wall, of New Jersey, dated August
2I, 1868, in which he said " enclose
YOU two letters from man by the name
of Carr, in reference to arms; a letter
addressed to him simply Philadelphia
will reach him; ] can YOuch for the eX-
celIent quality and great efficiency of the
| rifles" a letter from {. l.. Nallandlg-
! nam, Lncll III Ndnautl, dSSIlIlAiS oOl AlCCS
that = our people will fight, and that he
'' is ready and fixing point at which
to meet Voorhees,; besides many letters
, denouncing the war and the government
, and referring in terms more or less direct
= to the progress of the Sons of Liberty
and other movements in opposition to tht
war for the Union. These are but few
= of the evidences of Mr.. voorhees, posi-
t ton during the war. If he can produce
= in opposition to the foregoing, any evi
} dence that he ever uttered a word in ia
I vor of the Union cause or in approval o
a Union victory during the war, or thai
= he ever contributed dollar to the caus'
or befriended Il single Union soldier il
c any way, the Journal will publish it witt
: pleasure and give circumstances. Blu
I he can not do it. The evidence does no
Z exist. Mr.. Voorhees, was Southern
, | svmpathizer during the entire war, ant
o was known throughout the length ant
: breadth of the State as Copperhead o
e the deepest dye.
He Preferred 90 walk.
AShe's pretty hot, amt she?" said
: backwoods passenger, addressing the eli
= gineer of a Mississippi steamer that wa
:. racing with another boat.