The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-24
VOORHEES, DURING THE WAR.


AS specimen of the aid rendered to
the union cause during the rebellion by
Senator Voorhees,, we reproduce the
following speech, delivered by him at
Indianapolis near the close of the war:
1 said when you commenced it you
could never restore the union by war
alone. You said you could. Who has
been the false prophet, and who the
true one? Seward said sixty days,
then ninety days. You saA the L iei-
lows running around believing linn. /
did not believe him. said | did not.
was not a fool, and told you no lies.
To-day the union is as far from being
restored by mere war as it was when
the blow was first struck. First, they
asked for "a, 600 men, then for SOC, 900,
and then for half million, and at last
when this campaign commenced, q, 600
for a hundred days. Wew were told that
if we would all go in for hundred
days the war would be over at the end
of that time. Grant marches in from
the Rapidan, Sherman penetrateS the
bowels of the south-cOme to help
them for one hundred days, say these
patriotic governors, and ali the men
called for went. A short time after that
an abolitionist by the name of How
ard came out with proclamation
signing Lincoln's name to it, saying
that he wanted 4O0, 900 men, and order
ing day of fasting, humiliation and
prayer. They caught and sent him to
Fort Lafayette for forgery. And
why? Because they wanted it under
stood that they needed no more men.
They did not need any fasting or prayer,
/ either. At any rate they put Howard
in prison for telling the people they
wanted more men and needed a fast
| day. But he only anticipated Lincoln
about fifty days. Now, Lincoln issues
his orders 100000 more and absolutely
quotes from Howard about the day OF
humiliation, fasting and prayer. Here
you stand at the end of four years OF
hard and desperate fighting, in the face
of the mercileSS CONSUMPTION, with
your population exhausted, your labor
neglected, your crops short. All this
seems not to deter reasonable men
l from this programme of butchery and
crime. For myself, 1 have never be
lieved in it. wish my fears had moi
proven true, wish they could restore
the union even on their plan OF
restoration, but it has proved q
1 failure. You have tried Lincoln fol
years. He has called to the field more
men than voted for him in IS60-nearly
1900, 900. l think, have been called for
And to-day, if two-thirdS of the prop
erty of this district were sold, 1t would
not pay your portion of the principal Of
the public debt. No, my friends. i
you were to sell two sheep out of every
three, two cows out of every three, tive
horses out every three. and two acre:
OF land out of every three, then il
would not pay your share of the public
debt. This is the work of four years O
sectional fanaticism. Washington salt
it would be so. He said they would
ruin the country, and they have don,
1t. We stand to-day, as it were. in
gilded palace, every piller of which i;
undermined and ready to crumble upOI
us. If we succeed to the control of af
fairs, our task is a terrible one. w,
will take a country shattered. torn ant
bleeding, and fifty years will be re
quired to heal ito heal the wounI
which the madness of sectionalism ha
made in four years.
"You ask me to denounce the rebel
lion, but what good viii that do? L
has gone beyond the control of mep
words. Nothing that can say agains
it will AFFECT its gigantic proportions
You have betrayed the country witt
the iron-maiIed hand of war. / an
against it. l want to suppress the re
bellion, but the only way TO suppress i
is my way. and not the method o
Abraham Lincoln. You have hear
his method spoken of. Must we hav,
four years more of it? see that Nj
Lincoln said, in a speech which h
made in Philadelphia recently, that n
would peg away at it for three year