The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-17
DANIEL W. VOORHEES,
A Fine Tribute to the Memory Of the
Great Democratic Statesman.
HIS WAS A PRlNCELY CHARACTER.
Els Mnsnnnimiiy Towards Opponents
ana WnrmhcnrtcHncss Towards
Friends. Made His EOnircrcs En-.
tcem nuu Love hsirn-h Giant on
the Fi0Gr Of Congress and ~ the Rnr


louisville Courier-Journal)
The death of Daniel W. VOORHEES, re-
moves another Of the actors on the pOlit :
ical stage who were conspicuous among
me elders sitting in the gates q genera
iron anu more ago. For above 81 third
oil 4 century he was a force in American
po'tticS. For that whole period he was
the idol Of his party in one Of the great
SKATES Of the Union. Ie was 4 man Of
intellect, man Of force. n man OF mag
netisn. man Of culture, and. above all
a man of the people. lie was an ear
nest. sincere man and what the heart Of
VOORHEES, forged that the tongue Of
Voorhees, uttered. No statesman Of his
day was less Il self-seckcr. He was one
Of the few conspicuous statesmen Of his
time who were content to follow when
they might have led.
TIIIRTY-SEVE CONGRESS.
Voorhees, entered Congress with Glenn
rnt L. Nallandigham and S. S. Cox
ThaddcuS Stevens was the leader Of the
House. which he dominated in even
greater degree than Mr.. Reed dominates
the present House And such Con-
Ercss! 1t is no lsparasement to any
ONO OF our time to say that the Thirty
seventh and Thirty eighth Congresses
were far superior. both in constructive
ana destructive craftsmanship. TO any
that has sat in that Capitol for the
twenty years last rast 1t was natural
that they should be 50. Great occa-
sion makes the great man, aud the pc
Rod 1861 60 was the greatest OCCASION.
so far as concerns this hemisphere Of
tho century.
No ordinary man could be CONSPICUOUS
III the Thirty-seventh Congress. AZ
that time VOORHEES, was less than ~
years of age and yet, before lie was Il
wear older, he was as great Il force in
the House as any member of the minor
ity--a minority that included Critten-
len and Wickliffc, Nallantlingham, Pen
uleton and Cox. The paramount issue
vas the conduct Of the greatest war of
modern times, and. incident to it, WAS
the personal liberty of the citizen. The
Republican leaders were terribly in
earnest, and had no notion of being
checked by n strict observance Of the
rights guaranteed by he writ Of Ia heas
corpus Voorhees, had distinguished
himself as counsel for the defense in the
trial Of one or the accused Of the John
Brown raid, and rs an orator he was
the first on the Democratic side. His
speech on the Death OF Liberty" made
In the Thirty-scvcnth Congress, is the
Democratic case Of that day, and while
lie was right in the argument he did not
realize that the occasion was such as to
make exception to all accepted rules.
HIS MAGNANIMITY
Though Voorhees, might have contest
cd the supremacy with him, he cordially
recognized the prilnacy of Thomas a
Hendricks in the Democratic party OF
Indiana. And to that magnanimity on
his part was due the fact that for many
years the Democracy Of Indiana was not
torn by faction. Perhaps Hendricks en-
pected moro admiration than Voorhees,:
but certainly, Voorhees, was more loved
than Hendricks. The former was Mir.
Hendricks: the latter was Dan. Hen
bricks was the communicating chief:
voorhees, WAS the trusted lieutenant
And to this WAS due the fact that not
even the GOODNESS between the followers
Of Hendricks and the followers OF Nc
Donald could impair the superb d!sc-
plinc Of the Indiana Democracy The
Republicans were not SO fOrtunatc Oil
yer Il. Morton was an autocrat. He re-
PEELED Julian and drove him out Of the
party; he saw ''many NIariuscs" in Har-
rison and. as long as Morton lived, IIar-
riSon was kept in comparative obscurity.
and when Morton died he left n Pandora
legacy TO his party, the faud betwcen
Harrison and Gresham
The greatest campaign OF noorhccs'
career was that OF lS7G--thc T'f.an cam
paiGn. The Democratic candidate for
Governor was the celebrated Blue
leans Williams. who had been mem
w "a tHS j. oE!N-louItl congress, ana
as chairman of the Committee on Ac-
counts he had refused to pass the door
Keepers bill for lemonade, which the
members Of several previous Congresses
enjoyed at public expense and which
Senators We're not in for. Williams was
an Old -fAshioned man, as plain In APP
pearance as q stone fence, and as Demo
cratic in d&mcanor as q coon-skin can.
Voorhees, accompanied him over the
State and the pair appeared on the
stump III every county from Steuben to
Posey from Lake 10 Switzerland 1t
was the most stubbOrnly contested cleo
ton in the history Of American politics
and the ablcst conducted Hendricks
WIS the Democratic candidate for Vice