The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-01-17

ooi uOIlOH mcdsuIco WcIc EONOlutlon-
ary and void His speeches in Con-
gress encouraged the more reckless
and dangerous class of the ex-rebel
element to persist in their murder,
robbery, and outrage of the inexper-
fenced and unarmed colored people
in their midsts.
His campaign speeches have attract
ed public notice simply from the
amount of vituperative, villianous,
and rufianly abuse of the negro race
a race of people who never did him
nor his harm--which they contained.
No speech that Daniel W. Voorhees,
has ever made drew public attention
on account of any sound, practical
wisdom it contained, for he never made
such a speech. He has devoted the
oratorial ability of his early man.
hood and mature years to the task of
bravely abusing race of people who
were not in position to reply to his
villification, and whose only crime
was that they belonged. partly, to a
different race.
The latest demonstrations to the
gross ignorance, partisansbip, and lack
of craftsmanship on the part of Voor
hees, are his position on the question
Of finance and the negro exodus from
the South For the past dozen years
be has howled himself hoarse in every
campaign for the issue of a billion or
two Of irredeemable paper currency,
supplementing the demand with the
assertion that unless it were done the
country would be ruined. Forum
ately, through the wisdom of real
craftsmanship, the country has been
spared the misery, want and despair
that must inevitably have followed
in the wake of governmental adop-
ton, of any such ignorant and reck-
less scheme. Happily, everybody can
now see the extreme foolishness and
danger of such financial policy.
Last but not least among the blum
ders of this would-be statesman, is
his noisy clamor, for congressional
committee to investigate the imigra-
ton of negroes from North Carolina
to Indiana, as if Congress had any
more power to stop this movement,
even if it desired to do so, than has
an assemblage of Petroleum V.
Nasbys cross-road Democrats at
Bascom's. 1t is barely possible that
Voorhees, knew this, and simply de-
sired an opportunity to discharge
large quantity of gas, which has been
accumulatlng ever since the success
of resumption was assured, as well as
to keep his hand in at abusing, villity
ing and misrepresenting the negro
race. 1t is probable, too, that he de-
sired TO sound the keynote that would
serve as arallying cry for the ignorant
prejudiced and pig-headed portion of
his party here in Indiana. Whatever
may have been his intention, he has
succeeded in making himself appear
thoroughly foolish ard contemplate
in the eyes of sensible people.
Every prominent feature in the
career of Senator Voorhees, proclaims
him an enemy instead of friend to
human liberty, partisan instead of
a patriot, and quack instead of a
statesman. Everything that has been
said of Dennis Kearney as a states
man, may of truth be said of Voor-
hees. They are alike in all import
ant respects. Daniel is college-bred
demagogue, while Dennis is one Of
natures impromptu, spontaneous pro.
ductions. If one is statesman, the
other is and vice versa.
1t is what man advocates and doe.
that makes him statesman
Now we ask, in all sincerity, what
Daniel w. Voorhees, has done, or wha
measure or measures he has advocat
ed that entitle him to the rank o
statesman. Coming generations will
be the true judges of the statesman
ship of our day. Now, by what singl
act OF word of his will they ever hea
of his claims to craftsmanship? Will
the names of Lincoln, Brown, Sum
ner, Morton, and a host Of others
will go down to posterity laurele
and wreathed with the crown Of i'm
!. mortality: that of Daniel Webste
VOORHEES, must infallibly sink int
: that sea of forgetfulness which hi
, political career so richly merits. On
hundred years hence the student
American history will never kno
that such man existed. He has n,
made, nor has he helped to mall
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