Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1882 — VOOR HEES. [ARTICLE]

VOOR HEES.

AN OUTLINE OF THE SENATOR’S ELOQUENT REMARKS IN THE SENATE. A Washing on specift of the 14th says: AH -r the s -nate till# aßernoon l ad paaaed over a great t»a>e *f p< tty bit a u the calender, Sein.U r Dau Voorhees introduced a resolution which nerved as a basis of a speech on the policy of the State Department in the matter of the American su-p*ct now in confinement in Great Britain. At first very ii . tie attention was paid to what the Indiana Senator had to ray; bathe bad apparntly entered into the subject uiili n gloat deal more than his usual earnestness, and the result was taut hefo.e he bad been talking five mli.ti.ee he tad the proiuuud attention of the entire Senate aud the Packbd Gallkbiks. The latter purl of bis speech was the nearest s|>I proueb to anything like real eloquence beard in I the Senate lor some time. Theic was a vejn of i he ;rty paitrotlsin and loyal Indignation through lons the closing paraghraphs thnt called fortn nods Tot approval and nt time* heartv applause, that I wu wi*'i dirtlcu* y vhecked ly t*»-* i t . *r. ’t he S -iiatoi s .owed a -un- ed coi.ira.-i. between the poii ■vi t'ju wu<* ruin- lit when .Marcy was .secrei tnry oi State and the pr-seut />d.i ii.lstmtion. Si- -itor Voorhees lead tin ixtriifi Ir* n t letter w i ten by General Cuss in 185'J. who asse- ted that th** right ofespatriailon eonld not at that day be dou'.tedor dented in the United State®. ”8111,” sai-! tie "stilt carljei- than the letter <»f General Ca from which I have read, the law of American h >:.-.r, strength and : 1 >ry was iinnoituced in snch I tn jesty of truth r.nd power that I recur to it now 1 in these <l'-_enernte days with the feelingot a tniv lei-in the burning desert as he approaches ttie cooling. Uea i-.g waters ot a fountain in the de -tits of ago v-. V tn. 1.. limy- L<-1 ored forever b-- hi- earn--! -what American can read his inunortni letter t • Jin’s man. touching the arrert and imprisonment of artin Kostza by the Austria i Empire, without leeliug hi-patriotism kinrile Into i r.ine. and his eride ofeountrv rise high toward Il:ezent;h? On the Crith day of September, !Ss:i. th > <rr -nt Democratic Seer- t.-iry of sta'te pro c ; - imi-df li.-following grand utterance to the listening. expectant, and wondering nation of the ear h. ••-.Vln-n v--r, l>y the law of Nations, an indi' id- ; tta, becomes clothed with our national character. ' to be 41 native born or natnrlizi-d citizen, exile dr Ln form his early home by political oppies si n'or an emigrant enticed from it by the hope el i belter ;otune for himself and his posserity, he cuu Ct aim tub Protection of this GoAernment, and it may respond to that ci-iitn without being obliged to explain its conduetto any foreign power: for it Is its rttrjr to tn :<c its nationality respected by other Nation® ai d respectable in every quarter of the giobc. ' tn'-i-muiunal law links only to the u .t>oi;al i-.i.-i acter in determining wJint conutrv has the lie'it t> wrctecc. If n person goes from tins c.. entry abroad with the nationality of tire United s' res. this law enjoins upon other Nations t*> respect him in regard to protection as au Amer - ' c t-.-citizen.

* i-’oift ;a was not, vet n citizen of the United Stahrs.'' continued Mr. Voorhees; “he bad simpId (lecbirerl Lis i: tention io become ine. Mc- - w i nc. ’s lattirliz-itiou papers are full mid compieie. Kostza had a domicil in this country less ti an two vears, McSw.jeney has resided, a we!l--kn >wn nn 1 successful business man, a quarter • 1' a i -ntui-y in Sas Francisco.'’ Mr. Voorhees again quoted from Mr. Marcy the f.,1 wing language: Giviiigeffoctto these well-established principles and ap-.dying them tolbe facts in the case they resr.'t. in that Kostza acquired, while in the United Smtes. the national character; that lie rofaineci' th"t character when tie was seized at Smyrna and that he had aright to be respected as such while th-rebv Austria and every other foreign power. Tim power of a nation to protect and require others to respe t. at home and abroad, all who are c! rhi-d with its nationality. Is no new doctrine, i-. -.i for the first time brought into operation by Hie United States. It is common to all Nations an : has had the sanction of their praefiecs for :i -..-s. but it is new that at this late period, when tile Unite States asserts a claim toil ns a comm o' inhertance. it should at once be discovered th -: it is a doctrine fraught with danger, and like - ly to compromise the peace of the world. The t'-dted States sees no alarm and no reason for re lotiiii-.lng for .themselves what otheis have so tong ami so harmlessly enjoyed Mr. Voorhees then continued:

Sir. these are high, h»-roic words, nnd they will b e -me theoccas ou. A ' American sloop of-wa-, t'i - St. Louis Captain Ingrnham commandin'-, hml. -.vith shotted guns and lighted matches, resc -.eil. in a dis-ant sea. from chains, dungeons and ce tain death the person of a wandererand an exile. who had Barely touched our shores, bit’ who, in that brief stay, had clothed himself wi'h the mantel of American nationality. The i tperial House of Hupsburg demanded that the Goveriiinent of the United States should deliver him up io Austrian vengeance: that it should dbav rw the conduct of Captain Ingram and all the American agents in the affair, punish them ee v-.-rely and then tender to Austria such satisfaction as she might deem proportionate te the outrage complained of; and. in o-.der to force this de-m-mil upon the United States, Austria applied to tile principal powers of Europe, nnd actually induced them to warn and admonish tin's Governin' nt in regard to its duty in the premises. It was under these cii-ciimet:.iiccs. with the whole w ii Id looking on, and with all Europe iu syml> ithy withtAusti-m, tliat Marcy wrote his immortal commuuictition to th-- representative of Ausc Irian power and despotism. The Hungarian refugee was not delivered up: the eondtict of Ing .'ham and other American agents nt Smyrna wa* not disavowed : they wen- not punished: they were honored, and no other kind of satisfaction - h m this was ever tendered to the Empiie of Aus-ri-r. | Manifestations of applause in the galic-r io .] Now an American Secretary of State is con t • ted for the British Government to inform him i i tinetly though the American Minister, that it is none of his business why American citizens arc i ; British Jails; that the cases of their arrest will no* be. given, and that they shall neither be tried, ior released. The contrast is complete; it can go no further. ’lr. Voorhees concluded as follows:

There are nearly 10.000,000 American citizens an I inhabitants now of foreign birth. They <•■ me here not as aliens in blood, with race prejudices against them. They are our kindred: their blood and ottrs conmminglc. We are of common patent stock. Shall they be denied the protection of those institutions which thev help e l to purchase at so dear a cost, and which they have done so much to uphold and honor? Sir, there are now five Sen itors on th's floor who were born subjects of Great Britain—three in Ireland, one in Scotland and one in England. Shall they fall under the law of suspicion if they ehou d r visit their native homes, be ajr.-sted at the pie: a uro of the British Government, cast, into dungeons without sworn charge and held there indefinitely without trial ? They are

• AS LIABLE TO SUCH A TATE j as Daniel McSwecney or any other naturalized cd- ! izeii.i n I under the servile policy of tho Departin o.t of State and Mr. Lowell they could remain in th.-ircells instead of returning to their seats in tl’.is body It has been announced that an eminent American woman comtemplates a risit to her imprisoned son in Ireland. Mrs. Parnell would doubtless be arrested as a -‘suspect.” There is a two-fold reason «by the suspicion of British spies would haunt her —she is the mother of one who believes his people ought to have a oa nice to < wa their homes, and who loves libc - tv and justice well tnougli to suffer for them, she is likewise the daughter of Stewart, of the lonsiders. who saluted the British flag on the high seas in I*ll2 to better purpose and with far gr< a'er propriety than the sabre '(October last: t Yorktown, j Applause in the galleries ] JJple d fir the right of this women and of all women and men of foreign birth, or with foreign alliances. to visit their kindred, share in ttieir joys and their sorrows, looking upon the graves"of their p 'rents, and caress the loved ones they left behind them without molestation oil hindrance from any power whatever, as long as they break no Inw, This is not a question as to the people of any one nativity: It is not an Irish nor a Ger nnili question it applies tojnatuilized citizens of every clime and land, an it effects thv’.r right and , tb 'ir safely on whatever sea or shore they may I wander, It will bc'ecttlcd at no distant dav in ■ accordance with American honor. The peonlc of t e United Status have'tpo proud a sense 01-Jus- | tic > of their own strength and glofl.ius destiny to submi'jlonger to the policy of a party which per- , mlts the American citizen, the American flag and : the American name to be outraged with impuui- ■ ty by foreign nations, [Applause in the gallerl i"”-]