The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-17

TicSluent, but Morton was yet living
with vigor enough left to fight his las,
and most heroic battle Indiana was
then an October State and the Demo
Gratis triumphed. The night OF the cleo
ton Morton started on Il special train
for California. and it was Morton who
carried the two Pacific states for Hayes
But the campaign OF 1876 uTade Daniel
w. voorhees, Il Senator in Congress for
twenty years.
AS a LAWYER
At the bar Voorhees, WIS a success
ful practitioner. He was not the great
jurist like Marshall, Storey, Curtis,
Black, Carpenter, Thurman, Trumbui
or Ben Hill. Such jurists are born so,
just rs generals and poets are born. But
voorhees, was great advocate. He
was not The orator of the class Of Wen
dell Phillips. Henry Winter Davis Jo-
seph Holt Or Thomas j.. Marshall; but
he had clear analytical mind. a ready
and attractive vocabulary and Il reso-
nant and persuasive voice. Above ALL
he was genial man, q man Of sympa-
thy, man who hated oppression,
man to whom the suffering OF a fellow
creature was personal torture. And
SO 1t was that he met With almost un-
broken success at the criminal har-nCt
only in his own State. but in Missouri,
IN Maryland, in Tennessee and in Ken
lucky. Phillip b. Thompson, Sr., of
Kentucky, Is perhaps the most success
full criminal lawyer this country has
known since James II. Brady, and that
ncstor OF the criminal bar would have
chosen voorhees, among all the lawyers
OF the Union rs his associate in a dis
puted case.
Voorhees, loved good fellowship. Malice
and he were strangerE. Though q par
tisan of part!sans, he never carried his
politics into social life. The friendship
between him and the late James c.
IL o1 nni, R,.-t
quaintance until death separated them
Beck, Blaine and Voorhees, were q host
Wncn i'll social converse. and many an
Attic night they have made Of It, But
III the Senate when Il political question
was he theme, is was lay on Macduff
One day Blaine was skivmishing along
the whole Democratic ine--eng cling
Voorhees,, Beck, Thurman, Hill, Lamar
ana others. He was citing some statis-
ties Of Southern elections. and in his
hurry he read from the wrong column
IN moment he corrected himself with
the words: Il was wrong about that"
Before he gave the correct reading.
Voorhees,. his face as threatening as
thundercloud, supplemented Blaine's
words. II was wrong about that" with
the words "as usual" For once in his
lie the Plumcd Knight was discon-
Gerted. y Sena torial smile relaxed the
chamber. Blaine soon Welded the floor
went over 10 Voorhees, seat and con
fcSsed that the inudvc;:ant and sponta-
neous sarcasm had put him out more
than all the logic Of Thurman and all
the e!orucnce Of Hill.
\ PRINCELY MAN
Voorhees, was a rrincely man. He
could never realize the value Of Il dol
lar Nearly thirty years of hi; life was
spent Al this capitol and so far az pro-
vidnS against n rainy day was con
ccrncd every day was rs though the
next YVES the day of Judgment His
heart was open 10 every tale OF dis
iress and 50 was his purse. though,
alas! the latter WA; al too frequently
empty. It was this phase of lis char
actcr that prompted him to support all
pension legislation looking to an IN
crease Of the loll. He Was no dcma goguc
and never calculated that the sli,;ltes,
political advantage would result to him
self. Since 1861 he had given to the pro
rcssional t'pendants'' of this town
enough 20 have rendered himself in
dependent in his old age. Perhaps This
is Weakness perhaps. The man of
heart, however, will regard it as n
treasure, which, in the sweet bye and
bye, will Yield greater return than
all the wealth OF ali the mines, th ,
all the riches OF all the Golfers OF all
the banks Of all the world.
Fen Years in the House and upwards
OF nineteen in the Senate measure The
duration OF MS services i'll the national
councils. Ana every moment of il was
honorable. When corruption stalked the
corridors, l.ynd in the committee rooms
and brazen ana tWhntoh sa on the 400,
OF either chamber Daniel w. voorhees,
lived through it all without n suspicion
CT guile attachin" to him. lie was not
aS great q man aa Morton: he was not
as deep q thinker n Harrison; he was
not rs accomplished 4 man rs Turpie;
ne W2s not az eloquent man as VIII
lard. but he was 4 more lovablo nan
man either one OF them, and ;akc him
al IN All, he conferred as much interest
on MS STATE as either of them. He was
Il manly man and an unsclish patriot.
KIND hearts are mora than coronets
And simple faith than Norman blood
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