The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-12-20
BAN.kW. VOORHEES,.
A Speech by the Tail Sycamore of
the. Wabash.

cry E~C 3 go.
Tho Democratic Senator from Indiana
Presents a Mastery Review of the DEM
ocratic Issues of the Current Poiis-
xfsf icaI. Campaign.
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The following is-an abstract OF Sen
atoryoorhees speech recently delivered
at Worth ngton, Ind. He said,
1.-THE domnaat issue in the present canvass
Is made up by a demand for a change. for the
purposes of reform and publication. on pthe
one hand, and by a strenuous determination
TO remain in the enjoyment OF the emolti-
ments of power on the other The peop,e
who seek no Offices. and expect to hold none.
are interested only in the work OF reform and
in good government. To them II matters not
what party is In power, nor what individuals
ecuted in upri lit laws and II their honest en-
forcement. 4 he great body OF the people are
1 only pa, tisan 4 r the pub ic good as they UNI
derstaud II, aud whenever they distrust their
: agents. their public servants in the affairs of
government, al hongh of their own party,
name and creed. it viii be seen that party ties
are speedily disrcgarded, and parry leaders
\ repudiated and Oyerthrown-
There is abundant evidence of this fact all
arouna us at this time. A large nnmber of by
far the ablest Republican newspapers lin the
. United States. those great Journals (which
have heretofore led their party to victory, are
now supporting the Democratic candidaterfor
President, because they have lost faith in the
present Leaders and methods of their own
organization. Many of the best known names
OF the Republican party are pursuing the
same course and from tine same motives. As
soc!atOns of gentlemen hitherto devotediy
attached TO that party have also been organ
tied as clubs in almost, ii not every, Stale in
the Union, to aid in the elevation of one not
of their political faith to the Presidency. So
great and widespread is this movement in the
Republican rarity IN favor OF independent
voting at the coming election that my co..
league in the Senate, General Harrison felt
the necessity of dwelling extensively upon it
in his speech at Indianapolis. on the .z3d of
August Nearly one-third of his elaborate
1 and care ly-prepafeds speech on that occs-
sion was taken up with a critical assignment
of the reasons why Republicans should not
leave their party under the lead of George
William Curtis, Gail SchurZ and other promi-
ncnt men. He also INDUCED in an earnest
and anxious appeal TO the members of his
party not to desert at least not just now, but
proper time for the Republican party to DIE.
This is curious language for General to hold
to his followers on the eve Of battle, but with
conspicuous OBJECTIONS in every rank and on
ali SIDES 1t was the best, perhaps he could
use.
Il will not stop to indicate the Democratic
party in rs relations with slavery by asking
whether Washington, Madison, Jackson, Clay,
and all the mighty hosts of the earlier and
purer days of the Republic were immoral aud
dishonest because they walked in friendship
with it.. No such vindication is needed: but
VIII pause TO ask Senator Harrison how he,
of al ether men, dares 10 become the accuser
.ty or Individual, on that subject! 1t has al
ways been understood that he has at | asst a
proper pride of ancestry. Inc portrait of his
the White House. and reminds the visitor r Of
the boundiess tide which carried him there
only little more than forty years ago. and at
BIN away. General William Henry Harrison
was a hero of many fields, faithful at all
times to his sense of. duly, and free from
aas ss
| Senator from Indiana, is willing to blacken
his name and consign him to lnfamy in
party. William Henry Harrison not only i
walked 10 friendship with slavery all his fffe
b but while GQvernor fthe Northw esterr7er-
ritory he favored the abrogaton of the ordi-
nance ofsl7s5, insorfter to intsodsce slavery
into all the territory subject to his jurisafc-
zion. Indiana and Illinois, and perhaps other
mencea their s careers with slavery pa fa,t S2d
upon them If his weltknown policy had pre-
vailed tstssft8.i - ~ sET1 ~ = &
"Rut Senator Harrison in the next specin.
L cation in support of his general charge;Of no
litical immortality says the Democratics party
has walked in Friendship with treason II
there is a human being living so ignorapt>of
the civilwar this eountfy.as to believe the
Republican party Of itself conquered the
South; that the Democrats party was op-
pcsed to the supprsssIgn Of the rebelliqn and
and money for the restoration of the Union,
fbave no argument To make st this fade- day
NTH such person. Il was the Politics SEthe
and SIN excites. the vengefnl animosi-
y OF ., the political pharises. Tne
Governor Seymour, Of New York, in Tue Iagt
few days before me giant conflict ut Gettys-
burg, alone saved he Union army from being
driven back, and yet have no doubt General
Harrison would say to-day that Governor
seymolfr-the creates aud Iftost distinguished
liyipg Rem crat'Twas disioyal during the war
and walked in friendship with treason. PEP
haps he would say the same OF, Hancock. who
on many dreadful held rode into the laws OF
death to Uphold tae Tag. or course he would
same shameful inputation.s Inc Democracy
of the whole country have rallied to the sup
port OF each one of these ifee eminent men
too much to say that without their great and
patriotic services the Union cause would have
failcd or been retarded, apd the struggle pro,
Of all parties in the North were earnestly de-
voted to the Union, and poured out blood
and treasure fer that object. hat Q mar
row school of Republican leaGers rieter-
mined to make the civil war the occasion
Cor the destruction of the Democr attic party
by charging 1t with infdehtg to the Govern-
tas eau%ny on oS fSRess sin
All that he. AMI other Republican leaders of
| like m1nds with MIN, require of the deepest
oytu udltoI. otdiucus 10 tbe elbows N Inc
blood of Union soldiers, is that he shall vote
the Rerublican ticket. His treason though
rank and smelling 10 Heaven, then becomes
loyalty. heard General Malone on the floor
OF the senate glorify his services in the Con-
federate army. He announced in the facos
of the Republican Senators around hin that
he had no apolvgy to ofer'nor regrets to ufti
for the blood he had shed. He told them in
shrils defiant tones, that for his conspicpops
efforts to disrupt and destroy the Amer
I fcan Union he had no repentance nor
contrition of heart. He proclaimed his
adhesion, however, to the Republican party,
and he was welcomed with shouts of joy.
andmy colleagues md his party associates
folded him to their breasts with all the biotch-
ee and stains of bloody treason fresh upon
bin. Until two years ago there was no other
haff1e instbe whole South more execrated by.
the Republicans than that of General Chal-
nlefs, OF Mississippi. He It was who leo the
Confederate forces 70 the aIlego jnhuman
sIlugherUf colored troops atDFort pillow.
His name was always mentioned by a certain
class in the North with u shud1er of horrof;;
aud he was cursed as the mercilcss author of
an atrocious massacre committed on people
who had ceased to fight and sought TO ssrren-
DER The Republican party in the last Con-
gress swiftly, and with every token of pleas-,