The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-10

lOyeu place on tne STAND along With
Voorhees, at Bellaire, and therefore may
be presumed to have heard what the
speaker said in reference to the card pub.
lished in our columns that morning.
Whether he has given an exact report oi
what Voorhees, said in reply thereto We
are not able to say, having heard only q
portion ofthe remarks and those at some
distance from the stand. We quote from
the Registers report Of Yesterday as follows:
4 note had been handed to the Senator
asking him to explain the following report,
which was reprinted in yesterday In.
TELLIGENCER: uh ~ ry''
SULLIVAN, IND, Sept %, 1883.
ave, the undersigned citizens OF sul-
livan county, Ind, were present at q
meeting held in Sullivan, August s.
1852, when the Hon. D.. W.. VOORHEES,:
ail, speaking in reference to the Union
soldiers, that they should go to the
nearest blacksmith shop 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
as Lincoln dogs and hirelings. ffif
Valentine Hick, Helen Hereford,
Jas. NJ. Laudermilk, Mrs. NJ. Earl,
Warden Williams, Thos. Boulton,
Lafayette Hartley John W. Hawkins,
Philip ". Peck, Richard Dodd;
Jacob D. Miller, Nelson Berton, (
Isaac Hildebrand, Seth Cushman,
Margaret Hereford, Owen Adams,
Mare Hereford, ]. H. Ridgeway.
He said that seventeen years ago, in a
heated Congressional campaign, this dirty
little ROorbaCk was trumped up against
him. | never knew whether one OF the
signatures to It was a genuine name OF q
real person or not. II so, he is in the
penitentiary long ago. The story was so
ridiculous that after the publication Of this
certificate was four times reelected to
Congress, three times after the soldiers
had returned from the army, and they
voted, and it was by their votes that was
elected. Three Of these times, also, were
after the Republican legislature had ger.
rymandered nue. into aldistrict with I40O
Republican majority. Last year l was
chosen Senator from Indiana BY major.
ity OF % on joint ballot. OF these %, II
were ex.soldiers OF the Union army, Can
be such terribly bad fellow as Ibis
paper over at Wheeling would have you
Voices from the audience here inter
rupted the speaker with cries Of "No!n
NO" "We know you sain'tl" and such
ordinations as GO for Archiew "Giye
Campbell h-llln3tUse him up!n
Any man who says that I ever held,
much less uttered such sentiments, Is 90
mean and so dirty q liar Ii would be
acompliment to call him the first cousin
Of the father Of lies! [Applause, and cries
Of APPROVAL l to-day received q letter
from some one who signed himself: "a
Lincoln Dog" Let him leave out the
Lincoln and sign his real name. Let him
be "a Dog" and l will be content.
knew Abraham Lincoln well, and he
would scorn TO own such low thing a.
his dog.
Such dirtylittle newspapers as thisione
over at Wheeling would have you be.
lieve that was not friend to the
soldier. ANY dirty scamp who circulates
reports that J. was anything else dare not
meet me here with the falsehood on his
tongue. Never q dollar Of pay, never
cent for food or clothing Tor. the soldiers
was appropriated that Idid not vote for.
And when the gIeenbacks had depreciat.
ed introduced bill to make good the
discrepancy by increasing the sum paid.
In my own State | have whipped the Re.
publican party till It lays It's tail between
Its legs and takes the whipping tSmely.
The readers OF tho ISTHLLIaRNcER can
see Tor themselves by this report what sort
Of man Voorhees, is, and how fit he ID
to grace the high position Of United
States Senator. II in the whole his.
tory Of the heated canvass in Ohio there
has been anything more thoroughly vul
garaud low toned than these comments
Onthe card published in the 1SrELnaES
CIR, it has not been brought to our atten
ton.