The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-05-31
NEW CHAMPIONS,


NEW CHAMPIONS.
Senators Voorhees, and blackburn In Their
New Roles Of Lauding Federal Soldiers.
Why, asks the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, should Senators Voorhees, and Black
burn put themselves forward as supcrflu-
GUS defenders of the fidelity Of Generals
Mcclellan and Hancock to tho National
Unioni Were these Senators faithful to
tho Unionl Can their officious champion
ship be testimony to the loyalty Of any
mani Rather does it not render suspicious
that upon which Senator Ingalls, cast no i'm
putation.
Senator Morgan interrupted Senator In
gals observations that the Southern oppo-
sition TO the pension bill was because ''the
South does not like the Union soldiers" to
say that "thc South like General Hancock
very well, and voted for him." Mr.. ingalls,
retorted that they voted for him under COM
pulsion, meaning to fool the Northern peo-
pie by voting for Union soldier.
1--WE know why Hancock was nominated,
We know why that other ally Of the Confed-
eracy, George B. Mcclellan, was NOM
mated, who had just declared that the war
was failure, after he had been trying for
two years to make it So"
back-lapping strains at--what II, instead Of
retorting that these Generals served the
Confederate purposes politically, ho had
rctorted to this dishonoring Confederate
patronage that 1t was because they were
traitors to the flag in the war, what would
1t be to theml How could they defend the
Generals from this pertidy without self-con-
dcmnationl
We're these Senators loyal to the National
Union, to the constitution, to the flag Of
their country, or even to the States Of which
they were citizensl What wcrc they that,
they should rant with theatrical passion
over their constructive imputation of disloy.
atty upon othersi
Did not Blackburn enlist in the Confeder-
ate army to break up the Nation of which he
was citizenl He had not even the thin
disguise Of loyalty to his State; for he en-
listed in war levied against his State and
Nation.
The constitution defines this to be treason
and calls him who does it q traitor. Is there
no such sentiment as honor in civil life!
Has the citizen who turns traitor to his
country any standing from which he can de-
fend soldier if his loyalty to his flag should
be accused!
Did not Voorhees,, while living under the
protection OF the laws Of the United States
and Of the State of Indiana, do all he could
to give aid and comfort to the Confederate
enemy! Did he not necessarily accuse ths
motives of tho Administration in the war, as
not to restore the Union. but to destroy
slavery and the constitution?
Was not all his course as public man
and party leader calculated to create disaf-
fection toward the National cause and the
army, to dissuade volunteering, to promote
sedition. and give countenance to traitorous
secret organization at home, and to send an
influence to the army which tended to ex-
cite disaffection and desertioni
Did he lift up his voice to denounce tho
organized and armed conspiracy whose
dark-lantern councils mined the State Of
Indiana, plotting to rise, liberats and arm
the Confederate prisoners Of war, seize the
State and invite in the Confederate army?
Did he not, while member Of the U. g.
House Of Representatives, sworn to sup
port the constitution, oppose the measures
to raise and support the army, and do all he
could, by means of his legislative Office, to
disarm the Nation before the Confederate
armiesl
Giving aid and comfort to the enemy is
called treason by the constitution. Did this
give and and comfort! In the Confederate
ranks Mr.. Voorhees, would have been only
food for powder. A bullet would have
paid no more respect to him than to the
most illiterate Butternut. But in Congress,
lolding the high trust of legislator for the
Nation in civil war in which its existence
was at issue, he was worth moro to the
than regiments brigade-a
!ivision OF men as good as he-could be in
he field
Is there no treason, no treachery, no dis
loyalty, no dishonor by betrayal Of public
trusts, save in the army! Is there no senti-
ment or rule Of honor outside the military
service! Is every man except the soldier
exempt from the honorable obligation of
loyalty to his country's flag and given hon
orable immunity to odisloyalty, treachery and
treasoni Is not the legislators oath to
support the constitution as much an obliga-
ton Of honor as the oath of the soldieri
What is the measure of difference In honor
soldier?
Mr.. Voorhees, was conspicuous leader in
the Democratic National convention when it
declared the war to restore tho Union Q
failure, and nominated for its candidate q
displaced General whose only qualification
that attracted Democratic support was his
military failure. The platform and the can.
didate were designed to give notice to the
Confederacy of the withdrawal Of tho Ma
tional armies, and Of submission to such
terms as the Conf3deracy might dictate.
Was that the giving of aid and comfort to
the enemyi Democrats must think that the
people have short memories when they pose
as defenders OF the honor of the soldiers,
and try to spread this Oficious defense over
the treasonable and treachcrOus course Of
their party through all the agony Of tho
National struggle, when the Democrat who
would be loyal to his country had to cut
loose from his party. and when the Demo
Gratis who volunteered to fight for their
country were read out Of the party.
Presidential Possibilities.
Tho staid old independent paper, the
Philadelphia Telegraph, states the probabili-
ties Of the Presidential election this fall very
clearly when it says: "The Democrats have
made up their minds that they are assured,
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