Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-17
WHERE WAS Voorhees,
Character of the Man Who Now Desires
to Pose as q Patriot.

TO rose as Patriot.
Senator voorhees,, of Indiana. has
just emitted most eloquent tribute to
the memory of Mcclellan and Han
cock, and perfervid denunciation of
Ingalls,. whom he describes as having
"descended to the floor and attacked
the memory of American heroes. who
were sleeping where flowers and tears
were annually mingled in commemora-
ton. resting from their glorious lives
in the bivOuac of the dead" McClel-
Ian is described as "a Democrat who
was stricken down by partisan malice
November Z, 1862" 1t is easy to pose
as patriot twenty-three years after
the disarmament of the victorious
Union armies, but let us inquire where
Voorhees, was and what he was doing
when Antietam was fought and Gettvs-
burg won. On the 18th of June, 1868,
about two weeks before Gettysburg
was fought and Vicksburg fell there
was a mass-meeting of Democrats,
$4,000 strong, assembled at Spring
field. ILL.,, the home of Lincoln. This
meeting cheered the traitor Eallan-
digham, whom Lincoln banished to
the Confederate lines. and passed reso-
buttons violently denouncing the fur
Their prosecution of the war and in
favor of an immediate negotiation for
peace. Among the speakers who ad-
dressed this meeting was Senator
Voorhees,, who now blubbers over the
graves of Hancock and Mcclellan.
On April 9, 1864, Schuyler Colfax
moved to expel Alexander Long. Rep
resentative from the Second Ohio dis
trict, for having declared himself in
debate in favor of recognizing the in
dependence and nationality of the So
called Confederacy, then in arms
against the Union" Harris of Mary
land, opposed this resolution in a
speech full of sentiments still more
outrageous than those of Long. A
resolution was offered to expel Harris.
On this resolution Voorhees,, Fernando
Wood, Sunset" Cox, Holman, Ran
dali and Pendleton all voted ''no."
On April IA a resolution was offered
simply censuring Long for having
used language unworthy of a member
of this House in denouncing the fur
Their prosecution of the war and de-
handing the recognition of the indie
pendence and nationality of the Con-
federacy." On this resolution Voor-
hees voted ''no." That is, while the
war was raging VOORHEES, refused not
only to eHpel but even to censure Long
for his reasonable and seditious Ian
guage.
On June Is. 1864, when the thir-
teenth amendment was first put uCon
its passage and defeated, Voorhees,
voted no" The person who with
partisan malice struck down Mcclellan
November Z, 1852" was no less man
than Abraham Lincoln. who wrote the
order, as the fac-simile shows, every
word of it with his own hand, for the
reason, as he said, that the RESPONSE
bility was his own, and the draft of
the order should show that it was not
regarded by him as 4 trivial document
to be drawn by Halleck or Stanton and
then formally signed by the President.
Voorhees, stumped Ohio for Vallan-
digham for Governor in 1868, and in
course OF one of his speeches stigma
TIED the soldiers of the Union army as
Lincoln pups who ought to all wear a
collar reading: I'm Abe Lincoln's dog;
whose dog are you?'" And this is the
man who weeps to-day over Union
soldiers whom he says Ingalls, has
Knocked and sneered at.-POrtland Orc
qOaaian (Ind.l.