The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-04
Senator Voorhees, Defends Gems. Nc
CIellan and Hancock.

Il
dents message was taken up and Mr..
Voorhees, proceeded to address the
Senate thereon. He said that an extern
sive discussion of the tariff in the SEN
ate and House left no doubt as to the
attitude of the Republican party on
that question and il had at last been
forced to throw away masks and false
faces and TO admit that taxation was
not to stop at the revenue line of the
Government, but was to be turned loose,
without limit and without shame, on
the labor of the people for the sole pur-
pose OF enriching favored few-a syn
dicate Of devouring, insatiate monopo-
lists. The Republican party leaders,
driven by madness 10 suicide and hari
kari, were going before the American
people opposing every reduction OF taxes
except those paid by tobacco and alco-
holio spirits. He did not intend that
that issue should be lodged in the COM
ing political campaign. at least in In
diana. The position of the Republican
parry might be described thus:
First. taxation not TO be limited by
the expenses of the Government. with
a view TO the protection of manufactu uI-
ing monoplisJs. Second, all the pro-
lection given and all its profits to inure
" NhC VI CdDtIdt4SNo,
but not dollar of II TO The laboripg
men and women. Third, that il any
reduction of taxes was To take place. iL
must be on alcoholic liquor and tobacco,
and not on the prime necessaries Of life
Passing to the charges that the Dem
ocrats in Congress have been hostile to
the Union soldiers in the matter of
pensions. he contrasted the action of
both parties in that matter and claimed
that the Republicans would make a
mean aud parsimonious record toward
the soldiers and that rank and bitter in
justice had been done them by provis-
ions of law under Republican sway,
while the Democrats in Congress and in
the executive offices had been liberal
in the EXTREMIST sense.
Referring TO che attack made in the
Senate upon the memory of Mcclellan
and Hancock. he said the presiding
officer OF the Senate, holding the highest
Official position now held by Republi-
can, had descended to the floor and at
tackled the memory OF American heroes
who were sleeping where flowers and
tears were annually commiDgled on
Memorial Day. resting from their glori-
Gus lives in the quiet bIvouac OF the
dead. The pious task OF making re-
ed by one whose own conspicuous daring
in arms had given him the generous
right of chIvalry to speak in their
praise. It was true that not even the
eloquent tongue of Blackburn could
reach Mcclellan or Hancock with as
surances of their corntTy's devotion ard
love:
&c, Can honor's choice provoke the silent dust
Or hattcry sOothe the dnll cold ear of deaths''
hrrN hr NTFaNR If h.a
Kentucky on that occasion had been ap
honor to American manhood and to
American soldiery. There were sug-
gestioDs. however, inspired by the
wanton ami astounding assault of the
Senator from Kansas. which would not
sueedily pass from the public mini J..
That Senator, a recognized leader of his
party Lad stood in bis Place in the
Sena'e and denounced two great Union
generals as traitors 10 their country.
allies OF the COnfederacy, and no word
OF dissent or rebuke had been uttered
by a single associate IN either house.
Democrats had waited and some had
wondered, bnt the silent acquiescencs
IN the horrible charges remained unbro-
ken.
NJ CLELLAN'S PATRIOTISM.
Mr.. Voorhees, proceeded TO draw a
vivid picture of events during the war.
beginning with he scenes on the night
of the first battle of Bull Run. when the
wearied ga!lOp of the co1rier could be
heard as he came over Long Bridge and
reached the war department with dis
patches OF disaster from the front. In
that hour OF y .tiOngl extremity Nc
Cellau hai been called hv despairinp
ofilcIal authority 10 perform task
greater FAR than was ever performed
by Alexander, Hannibal, Cse ar or Ma
pole"n in the same length OF time.
Then he recalled latter the secnud
uisast Tous battle OF Manassasl McCiel-
Ian riding out 20 meet the retIeatinp
trUops and being greeted with cheers
more thrilling and patriotic than those
which greeted Napoleon on his return
from Elba- Thsn came the battle Of
Antietam- victory unparalleled in the
war The immediate peril being gone
and a sense OF security being felt. Me
CieIian had been again stricken by
partisan malice and had closed his lofty
military career forever.
An eagle towering in his pride OF place
was by 4 mousing owl hawKed at and KILLED"
AND TO tins day cIamOrOus kites.
crows and other iguobIe scave pper
birds sought &c tear and mutilate Nc
CIeiian's august tame- Yes, Mcclellan,
he said. was Democrat, and when re-
moved from command on the 7th of
November, 1862, he could with uplifted
hand have sworn that he had saved the
repIblic, as did Cicero In the forum at
Rome.
Among the highest, the most FORUM
ate and most distinguished characters
produced bV the war, where. he asked
could name be found cIeaher, freer.
from self-seeking or more devoted to a
snmolime sense OF duty than that of
Mcclellan
Amer lite's ftfuI fever. he sleeps WELL,
NOT disturbed by the partisan dec,am
alton OF judge advocates, provost mar
shals OF peevish politicians.
Mr.. voorhees, then changed the scene
to Gettysburg. where. he said. the last
hope or the Southern COnfsderacy dis
appeared forever. What invisabIe
spirit of the air. he asked. intent upon
evil 10 the Senator from Kansas, could
have been in attendance on him when
he stood up aud opened his mouth in the
Senate chamber on the Oh of March.
Mcclellan and Hancock were the heroes
or the two most consequential battles OF
the wtr-Antietam and Gettysburg
The loss Of either of which would have
brought European recognition to the
Confederacy and darkness and dismay-
IL not final dissolution. They had com
mauded In the only battles fought north
or the Potomac, and each time had mel
the enemy as an invading force. strong
conhdeDt and flushed with recent yicto-
ries- Antietam and Gettysburg had
involved the possession of the capital
ana The perpeiuity of the government.
and 10 Mcclellan and Hancock (uow
stigmatiz-d as allies of the Con:ederacyl
had been committed the measureless
and awful trust ct defending and pre-.
serving them both.
Ii asked hereafter where were the
greatest leaders of the Democratic party
duTiHg the war. (whers the Democratic
cAndInatA of -G4 for .ha Drnoia......