Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-03

without excepting Mcclellan or Hancock
Laughter and applause and during the
campaign, Mr.. President, that resulted in
the election of Mr.. Lincoln, the Senator
from Indiana, who is now In favor OF the
prosecution of the war Of the rebellion
for putting down the south, who so eulo-
glzes the officers of the Union arms and
the genius of the Union commanders, who
poses here as special friend OF
Union soldiers and denounces ana
asper5es q criticism upon the
political character and affiliations OF
those who were engaged in the Wal, made
q speech at Green Castle, which was re-
ported in the Cincinnati Commercial
August Is, 1864, by Joseph B. McCul-
lagh, now editor Of the Globe-D Democrat
in ST. Louis. Mr.. ingalls, read extracts
from the speech, which declared the war
8 failure, and spoke Of Lincoln as mon
ster and unhappy felon. Passing to the
question of the electoral commission OF
1876, Mr.. Ingalls, said he was not es-
pecislly enamored of Mr.. Hayes laugh
ter and yet, inasmnch IS the question OF
Mr.. Hayes title, brought out in contro-
versy by the Democratic party as one CT
the issues of the approaching campaign,
he felt bound to say that Hayes title to
to the presidency was the most absolute
ly irrefrsgsole Of any in the whole list OF
American presidents, because 1t was the
only one which was ever passed upon By
8 constitutional tribunal partly organ
lied for thst purpose. The DEM
ocratic party should not for
get that the electoral commission
was one of its own devices. 1t
was not the first time that they who had
digged the pit and digged it deep, had
fallen into it. Laughter. It will be
remembered that Henry WalGerson issued
his celebrated proclamation, calling on
loo, 900 Kentuckians to visit the city OF
Washington on the anniversary of the
battle OF New Orleans for the purpose OF
experimenting the electoral count.
Laughter. He Ungalls) had had con-
versation with President Grant shortly
after the issuing of that celebrated Irocls.
nation, and hsd asked him II he thought
there was going to be any trouble. Gen
eral Grant paused moment, and with
that deliberate method which character
lied his utterances, replied: "No, do
not think there Is going to be any trouble,
but it has been rule OF mine to be always
ready" and, added Mr.. Ingalls, with
ence to some my FERROUS impulse,
troops, parks OF artillery and mu-
nitions of war had begun to come to the
capitol and the attention of the Demo-
cratic party became extreme, because, as
if there was anything that would turn the
average Democrat inside out with indig-
nation, it was the sight OF q soldier in
blue uniform. Laughter the "one
hundred thousand unarmed Kentuckians"
had not made their appearance, aud the
count proceeded, Notwithstanding the H.
dignation OF the Democrats at the result
of their devices. The people were per-
petually reminded that the Republican
party was guilty Of an enormous and
gigantic fraud in the election and seating
of Mr.. Hayes. Mr.. Cleveland had appar-
entity warranty deed for the seat which
he occupies, and yet, compared to the
title which Mr.. Hayes had to his seat, he
was in possession Of stolen goods and the
receiver was as bad IS the thief in the
court o, justice, and he had nsver been
elected &C all. He had been counted into
Office by q partnership between Dick
Turpin and Uriah Heep, foot.
pads and sneak thieves, Car
touche and Pecksniff, and it WAS some
consolation to know that in that partner
ship those apoststes and renegades had
lost their share Of the swag. Laughter
and applause. The country had still
against it the Southern Confederacy. Il
was confronted with l5S votes of solid
south, as 1t had been at every election
since the election Of Hayes. The solid
south was the Confederacy, and the sue
cess of the Democratic party means the
success Of the Confederacy, which was
to- day as much an organized, active, ag
gressive force in politics as in 1861 and
in previous times. Slavery was dead and
secession was dead, but all the ideas, all
the impulses, all the purposes and inten-
tions Of secession remained. He hon.
ored and admired, but regretted and de-
plored the constancy of the south
to that idea, its loyalty and
fidelity to the leaders under
whom 1t fought, and its determination to
unite and construct the history of its
country so that 1t would be able to say to
the generations which are to come that,
while 1t was overthrown by overwhelming
numbers in the field, yet within twenty
five years af :er the war closed its leaders
had been restored to political power. In
this connection be asked who was Lucius
Quintus Curtis Lamar? He never WAS
suspected of being 8 lawyer. Laughter !
His bitterest enemies never accused him
of that. Hs never had been admitted to
the bar of the Supreme court, on whose
bench he was appointed. He never had
tried reported case in sny tribunsl,
state or national, for thirty years. Il
was an open secret that the President at
one time peremptoriIy refused to appoint
him. He asked what necessity t ere had
been for the President to affront the loyal
sentiment of the country by placing
on the bench Of the Supreme court
a man who was not lawyer and never
had been, and who had cslled Abraham
Lincoln buhoon. Why Of xll men in
the south did it select him and force him
on reluctant President and reluctant
people? II was because Mr.. Lsmar was
the nearest and dearest friend and repre-
sentative of Jefferson Davis. There was
no other explanation Of 1t. If that was
not true then his nomination was 8
burlesque without excuse and without
explanation. Ingalls, then referred to the
speech made in the House of Represent
tatlves in 1879 by Mr.. Blackburn, de-
clsring 1t to be the purpose and intention
Of the Democratic party to keep on until
1t wiped out rom the statute books the