The San Francisco call., 1897-06-10
RARE MANUSCRIPTS
Of DAN VOORHEES,
His Son Here En- Route
East to Collect and
Publish Them.
Remarkable Experiences With
Lincoln, Louis Kossuth
and Grant.
Death Came to the Statesman of the
Wab sh Just When He Was Sc
curing Another Fortune.

EI-Con gresham Charles S. VOORHEES, OF
Spokane, son of the late distinguished
Senator Daniel w. Voorhees, of Indiana,
IS in the City to attend a case in the
United States Court of Appeals. and will
then go to the home of the family at
| Terre Haute on business in connection
with the estate.
He said yesterday at the Palace that
his father had died without leaving a will,
that he had made and given away several
fortunes and that at his death he did not
leave large estate.
Part of what he left is in the form OF
manuscripts, and these are to be collected
and put in book form. The matter to be
thus preserved will be of great value from
political and historical standpoint.
ut is our intention to publish a royal
octave volume of 1000 pages" said Mr..
Voorhees,, covering portion of his pro-
fessional and all OF his official life. We
will preserve a number OF his jury
speeches and all his speeches in the
House and Senate. besides his occasional
addresses and his lectures Among his
Jury addresses that will be preserved will
be the one in defense OF John e. Cook,
one of John Browns lieutenants, at
Aarper's Ferry in 1859. also his defense of
Mary Harris who killed A. J. Burris in
the Treasury Department, Washington,
d. G.
besides these we will publish in this
book the three lectures which had en-
gagged his attention during the closing
part of his life and for the delivery of
which he had contracted with the South
ern Lecture Bureau. He was in a way to
make a great deal of money, and to get
that leisure afterward which ne had never
had in his life.
One of these lectures is on Thomas
Jefferson; another Is entitled The Holy
| Sepulcher, or a Lawyers View of the
| Divinity of Jesus OF Nazareth this had
been delivered three times ana COM
manded much attention and received very
/ high praise.
"Then he had another pretty nearly
competed entitled The Public Men of
! My Own Times This was his last work.
| He was working on Il at $3.50 in the even
/ ing before he died. He had finished his
account of Kossuth and had also told his
experiences with Lincoln and Grant. He
had intended to complete it by brief re-
views of many others.
"These three, however, were to be the
, leading figures. He knew them all we'll.
| Kossuth wes one of the first public men
he knew. Father was appointed when a
very young man by the Governor OF In
diana as one of a comm ttee to escort
| Kossuth on his trip 10 the West.
| Then as to Lincoln, my father had a
long and personal acquaintance with him,
practiced IaU with him, and knew him as
scarcely any other man ever did. Senator
David Davis of II nois used TO say that
only three men living knew Lincoln. One
was himself, the other Leonard SWEET and
the other Daniel w. Voorhees,. All this
matter, with q brief Biographical sketch,
will be published in this large volume.
! There are three brothers of US and one
sister, and the sister will get me residue
| of the estate"
Mr.. Voorhees, will go East via st. Loui.
and will not return till probably Sep
! tember.