CIVIL WAR CONGRESSMAN SENATOR IN VOORHEES LETTER SIGNED re CONFEDERATE GENERAL !

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DANIEL WOLSEY VOORHEES
(1827-1897)
CIVIL WAR DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONGRESSMAN and LEADER (1861-1873),
POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION ERA UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM COVINGTON, INDIANA (1877-1897)
&
ANTI-WAR COPPERHEAD DURING THE CIVIL WAR!
On Oct. 17th, 1859, the Harper's Ferry Incident occurred. A battle ensued against John Brown and 21 followers who were attempting to start a slave rebellion. Among the captured from Brown's party was John E. Cook, the brother of then Indiana Governor, Ashbel P. Willard.
Daniel W. Voorhees
was hired by the Governor to defend Cook. Voorhees went to Virginia where he gave a magnificent speech in Cook's defense. He drew attention to the notorious John Brown and other Abolitionist leaders who had incited this outrage by influencing young minds. While Cook was acquitted of the treason charge, he was declared guilty of murder!
HERE’S AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY VOORHEES ON A “
U. S. SENATE TELEGRAM
” LETTERHEAD FORM, 1p. DATED JUNE 12, 1894
TO
DANIEL S. LAMONT
(1851 - 1905)
US SECRETARY OF WAR APPOINTED BY GROVER CLEVELAND 1893-1897
VOORHEES REQUESTS LAMONT TO “…
CALL THE ATTENTION OF THE PRESIDENT [GROVER CLEVELAND] TO=DAY TO THE CASE OF
…”
CSA GENERAL & COL. JOHN STUART WILLIAMS
(1818 - 1898)
CIVIL WAR GENERAL IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY (1861-1865)
and
POST-BELLUM US SENATOR FROM KENTUCKY (1879-1885).
The document measures 8” x 5” and is in Very Fine Condition.
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BIOGRAPHY of the HONORABLE
DANIEL W. VOORHEES
VOORHEES, DANIEL WOLSEY
(1827-1897), American lawyer, political leader, and Congressman and Senator from Indiana (father of Congressional Territorial Delegate, Charles Stewart Voorhees),
was born in Liberty Township, Butler county, Ohio, on September 26, 1827, of Dutch and Irish descent. During his infancy his parents removed to Fountain County, Indiana, near Veedersburg. He graduated at Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University, Greencastle, Indiana, in 1849; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1850, and began to practice in Covington, Indiana, whence in 1857 he removed to Terre Haute.
In 1858-60 he was U.S. District-Attorney for Indiana; in 1861-66 he was elected as a Democratic representative to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (when he was succeeded by Henry D. Washburn, who contested the election).
In 1869-73 he was again elected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress.
Voorhees was then appointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Oliver H.P.T. Morton.
He was reelected in 1885 and again in 1891, and served from November 6, 1877, to March 3, 1897.
He was Chairman, Committee on the Library (Forty-sixth Congress), and the Committee on Finance (Fifty-third Congress).
During the Civil War he seems to have been affiliated with the Knights of the Golden Circle, but he was not so radical as Vallandigham and others. He was a member of the committee on finance throughout his service in the Senate, and his first speech in that body was a defence of the free coinage of silver and a plea for the preservation of the full legal tender value of greenback currency, though in 1893 he voted to repeal the silver purchase clause of the Sherman Act. He had an active part in bringing about the building of the new Congressional Library. He was widely known as an effective advocate, especially in jury trials. In allusion to his unusual stature he was called "the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash." He died in Washington, D.C., on April 10, 1897, and interred in Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
Some of his speeches were published under the title, Forty Years of Oratory (2 vols., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1898), edited by his three sons and his daughter, Harriet C. Voorhees, and with a biographical sketch by T. B. Long.
Bibliography
American National Biography
;
Dictionary of American Biography
; Jordan, Henry D. ‘Daniel Wolsey Voorhees.’
Mississippi Valley Historical Review
6 (March 1920): 532-55; Kenworthy, Leonard S.
The Tall Sycamore of the Wabash, Daniel Voorhees
. Boston: B. Humphries, 1936.
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