Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-10

MI. ' ONIIlttS StstlGu tllSlt llt Ildu hot
said be was in favor of the destruction
If slavery. bat he had said he was glad
it had taken place. and he was. .
Mr.. IDgaIls-The Senator from Indi-
ana at the time when he delivered that
speech had two editions prepared, one
for circulation in the North and one for
circulation in the South. In 1860, con-
tinued Mr.. ingalls,. after the Senators
from South Carolina had withdrawn
from the Senate Chamber, when prepa-
rations for war were rife all over the
South. the Senator from Indiana had
written a letter for F. \. Shute, which
that gentleman took South with him
and fled in the Confederate War De-
partment in support of his application
for appointment as Brigadier General
in the Confederate Army. The letter
was dated December y, 1860 The let
ter SAYS: "On the disturbing question
of the day his (Shute's) sentiments are
entirely with the South, and one of his
objects is a probable home in that sec
ton. | take this occasion to say that
his sentiments and mine are in close
harmony. Daniel W. Voorhees," Il
SUPPOSE" said 3Ir. ingalls,. "that the
gentleman says that is campaign SIAN
der"
Mr.. Voorhees, That is not cam
paign slander, but it is one of those
things that the people of Indiana have
passed for nearly thirty years.
]. W. Bright had been expelled from
the Senate for as small an offence. And
yet the Senator ventured to asperse. his
(AIr. Ingalls0 military record and ques-
ton his right to speak about the rela-
tons of Mcclellan and Hancock to the
Democratic party. The Senator said
that the charge that he had called Union
soldiers "hirelings and Lincoln dogs"
and said that they ought to go to black
smiths shop and have an iron collar
around their necks with the inscription,
MY dog, Abraham Lincoln" was cam
paign slander and a scandal that had
been spit upon. That averment could
be substantiated by as creditable wit
ness as there was in the city.
Mr. VOORHEES, even if the Sena-
tor said it, it would be absolutely false
and a palpable lie.
Mr.. ingalls, Senator is diSorderly
Continuing Mr.. ingalls, read from a
paper signed by citizens of Sullivan
county, who stated that they were pres
ent at meeting on April 6. 1862, when
Mr.. Voorhees, made the statement about
Union soldiers and the blacksmith shop
This statement was signed by respecta-
bic citizens of Indiana who were not
ashamed of their names and residences
which were attached.
A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE CIRCLE.
He reminded the gentleman that he
had been endorsed only by the Dem
ocratic party of Indiana. Everybody
knew what business the Democrat
ic party of Indiana had been engag-
ed in during the war Seventy thou
sand of them had been members of
the Golden Circle and had been con-
spring against the Union. They had
entered into combination according to
Gen. Holt for the purpose of aiding
soldiers to desert, discOuraging enlist |
ments, circulating reasonable publica-
5iOns, giving intelligence to the army
and assassination and murder; and it |
was susceptible of proof that they did
to murder Gov. Morton. This
which the Senator said he
never belonged to, had ritual of which
l12 copies were found in the Senator's
)tiice at the time when Hancock was at
he Bloody Angle. In that same Office
vas found correspondence between the
senator and Senator from New jersey
or the purpose of furnishing 10000
stand of armS-not to the National Gov
because the Senator was not in
with the National Govern
nent; not to the State Government of
Indiana, because that Government was
n loyal hands, but for the purpose of
out the objects and purposes
# that OganiZatiOn. He was aware that
he Senator stated that though those pa
)erS were found in his Office it was not
,ept by him. The Senator afterward
tated that there had been an unwar-
anted search of his private papers.
len. Darlington had stated publicly
What had been found in the Senator's of
ice. A hundred and twelve copies of
he ritual Of reasonable order The
Congressional documents were
n the Office. The correspondence of
senator Wall, from New jersey, was in
he Office. In the rebel archives was :
ound letter from G. c. Clay, dated st. ,
July II, 1864, addressed to
ac0b Thompson in Montreal. It was
ull Of confidential communications to !
ir. Thompson as the agent of the Con- i
ederacy, and told him what was done ,
Y the Knights of the Golden Circle. 1t
aid "Voerhees is to be here Monday
nd Tuesday and perhaps Ben Wood"
What was Voorhees, to be in Canada for,
nd why was Jacob Thompson, of the ,
Outhern COnfederacy, advised of it? A
stter from E. c. Hibben declaring that
lincoln bayOnetS were shouldered for
old-b -blooded murder was in the Senator's
flee. a letter from j. Hardesty, who
1anted Voorhees, to have those 100000
len ready, was found in the Office.
There was a curious explanation about
his letter. When the Senator, previ-
us to the breaking out of the war was
l Virginia, he made speech in which L
e said that if any attempt was made to {
Oerce the South hundred thousand h
indiana Democrats would come down to d
eSlSt the effcrt. In the Office was found =
petition of c. L. Vallandigham, Dan :
Il w. Voorhees, and Ben Wood in favor +
f two Republics and a united South. 5
he letter from J. Hardesty was ad- o
ressed to his nephew, d. w. voorhees,, +
nd said: ''We want you to hold that q e
ne hundred thousand in readiness, as t
e do not know how soon we may want q
lem." Il
With regard to the question as to the n n
de on which the Senator was during $
le struggle. On the 5th of March, ss
564, the Senator spoke of Vallandig- Ii
am as representative American pa :,
lot who had done so much to uphold i
le American Republic. In an address v
his constituents in 1861 he had de- 4
arpd that he WOuld Davar vote n cinrIa -