The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana.

--There are a few, among the many Northern men in public life once considered true to the South, who still have the courage and consistency to hurl contempt in the teeth of tyranny, though fully aware that the consequences may involves a loss of personal freedom. Of this class are Messrs. Vallandigham and Voorhees. The last named gentleman made a speech in the Federal Congress, on the 21st inst., the tenor of which may be judged from the following Washington telegram, which appears in the Baltimore American, of the 22d:

The speech of Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, in the House, to-day, is regarded as treading upon the very verge of treason. Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, replied to his statement that the people of Indiana were in favor of a compromise with armed rebellion by saying that the people of Illinois, also, would compromise, but only upon the terms proposed by Grant to Ruckner! ‘ "Immediate and unconditional surrender."’ The floor and galleries heartily applauded the sentiment, and the knot of disloyalists who had gathered around Voorhees to offer him their congratulations suddenly dispersed.