The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-05-10
ingalls, versus voorhees,.


ingalls, versus Voorhees,.
OF all the survivors Of the copperhead
politicians Dan W.Voorhees, Of Indiana,
stands out as one Of the most prominent.
He was as venomous as he could well
be in the expression OF his disloyal SEN
timents during the war. He thought
that in the nearly 25 years elapsing since
the close OF the war people had forgot
ten his unpatriotic and disloyal records.
He so far presumed on this as to attack
Hon. J. j. ingalls,, Senator from Kansas,
in an unwarranted manner recently in
the U. s. Senate.
Mr.. ingalls, in his reply gave Mr..
Voorhees, such blow in explaining his
reasonable course as to utterly crush,
humiliate and disgrace him before the
American people. 1t was the right
thing to do and it is great pity these
exposures OF politicians who were so
disloyal during the great struggle of 1861
to 1865 are not more frequent. They
cry out to let by-gones be by-gones, and
no wonder. They ought to be compell-
ed nov to cry out for the hills to fall on
them and crush them out of sight for
ever, politically.
There is no manner of doubt that
Voorhees, in the early part of the war in
a speech made in Indiana declared that
every Union soldier ought to wear COL
lar around his neck marked, ga dog-A
Lincoln" Old soldiers and citizens, too,
will remember it was a common thing
for the Democratic press and orders to
call Union soldiers "Lincoln's hirelings."
Here are several extracts from speech
made by Voorhees, at Greencastle, Ind,
August sth, 1854. This, too, at time
when Grant was besieging Petersburg,
Sherman Atlanta and Faragut Mobile.
Referring to Lincoln calling out five
hundred thousand more volunteers he
said:
Gall this seems not to deter reasonable
men from this programme of butchery
and crime"
Yes, according to this man, Lincoln,
the patriotic people of the country and
the Union soldiers were guilty of crime
in defending the old flag and preserving
the Union.
1t will be remembered that Lincoln
was candidate for reelection that year.
Referring to that fact he said:
Gentlemen, it seems to me that can
hear the spirits of the hundredsof thou
sands who have been uselessly sacri-
feed in this war pleading against the re-
election of this man. It seems to me
that the very stones would rise up to
protest against it. It seems to me that
would cry out, 'Enough-he has had his
out into hateful obscurity, there to
spend the rest of his days with the
ghosts of the murdered dead gibbering
around his unhappy pillow"
This is the way this Democrat now,
then bitter copperhead, talked about
the now sainted and marytyred Lincoln.
American history will accord to Abra-
ham Lincoln one of its highest and
greatest places. 1t will also accord to
such men as Voorhees,, not in name, but
only as representative of class who
sympatized with rebellion and treason,
but not manly enough to 60 and fight in
its ranks, and who did all they could to
bring about disgraceful compromise
and peace on any terms with those in
rebellion.
Voorhees, was no worse during the war
than others are now who are helping to
restore the Southern Confederacy to
complete national control. The very
class Of men who brought on the war in
1861 have made the South solid polite
ally, and,for the special object to control
the whole nation, well knowing that
there will be plenty Of dough faces in
the north in 1883, a. there were in the
days Of slavery, to assist them. He who
does not read this in the signs OF the
times is dull student Of current affairs.
You had apolosists and syncophants of
slavery before the war who afterwards
became defenders of treason. So we
now have apologists of and defenders of
the methods Of fraud and murder by
which the South has been made solid
Tor the Democracy. The Southern Con-
iedsracy 10 in the saddle in 1883 and far
more dangerous than in 1890. The rebel
Brigadieu in Congress tell ~ 1t is none
Of our business that one rebel soldier in
the South has ten (l0) times more polit-
ica1 power in national Affairs than the
Northern soldier who fought four long
bloody years for his country. It's our
besiness and the north viii make II IL
bsdasa that this Political inequality
Ghail NO longer exist. That ID the great
ovesshsdowing is Q in the coming
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