The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-05
WHERE WAS VOORHEES,
Recalling Few Facts About . Man Whs
Poses NJ . Trisnd of Soldiers.

Recalling q Few Facts About q Man Who
Poses NJ . Trisnd Of soldiers.
Portland Oregonian.
Senator voorhees, of Indiana has just emitted
a most eloquent tribute to the memory of Nc
Clelian and Hancock, and a perfervid deuuncia-
ton 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 commemoratiou. resting from their glorious
lives in the bivouac of the dead" Mcclellan is
described as "a Democrat who was stricken
down by partisan malice Nov. z. 1862 1t is
easy TO pose ss q patriot twenty-thres years
after the disbandment Of the victorious Union
armies but let US inquire whore Voorhees, was
and what he Was doing VIXEN Antetam Was
fought and Gettysburg won On the 18th of
June, 1863, about two weeks before Gettysburg
was fought and Vicksburg fell, there Was .
mass-meetine of Democrats, rs, 900 strong, as
sembled at Springfield. Ill.,, the homo Of Lin
coin. This meeting cheered the traitor Vallsn-
digham. whom Lincoln banished TO the con-
federate lines, and passed resolutions violently
denouncine the further prosecution Of the war
and in favor Of an immediate negotiation for
meeting was Senator Voorhees,. who now blub-
bers over the graves of Hancock and Mcclellan.
On April 8. 1864, Schuyler Colfax moved TO
expel Alexander Long. Representative from the
self in debate in favor Of recognizing the inde-
pendence and nationality Of the so-called Con-
federacy then in arms against the Union"
Harris of Maryland opposed this resolution In q
speech full Of sentiments still more outraeeous
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 mo-" On April IA
resolution was offered simply censurine Long
for having used language unworthy OF . mem
Der of this house ia denouncing the further
prosecution of the war and demanding the
recognition Of the independence and nationality
of the Confederacy." On this resolution Voor-
hees voted no" That is while the war was
raging Voorhees, refused not only to expel but
even to censure Long for his reasonable and
seditious language.
On June Is. 1864. when the thirteenth amend
ment was first put upon its passage and de-
feated, Voorhees, voted mo-" The person Who
with partisan malice struck down Mcclellan.
Nov. z, 1862, was no less man than Abraham
Lincoln, who wrote the order, a. the fac-simile
shows every word of it with his own hand, for
reason, he said, that the responsibility was
bis own, and the draft Of the order should show
that it was not regarded by him a trivial doc
ument 20 be drawn by Halleck or Stanton and
then formally signed by the President
Voorhees, stunned Ohio for Vallandigham
for Governor IN 1863, and 10 course Of one of his
speeches stiemstized the soldiers Of the Union
army as Lincoln pups who ought to ell wear .
collar reading: I'm Abe Lincolns dog; whose
dog are your" And this is the man who weeps
to-day over Union soldiers whom he SAYS ingalls,
has Knocked and sneered at.