Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-03-16

legislating for the country which they
endeavored TO destroy, and trying TO
pinch and belittle and minimize the
amounts 10 be paid TO the mutilated
and disabled survivors of the army of
the Union. | will tell the Senator
from Missouri and the rest of his asso-
ciates Just where this thing is going TO
stop. 1t is going TO stop when the ar
rears of pensions are paid, when the
limitation is removed and every sol
dier on the rolls, or who gets on the
rolls, is paid from the day of his disa-
bility, or lin case of a SURVIVOR from
/ the date of the soldiers death, and
when every surviving soldier of the
Union army is put upon the rolls for
service only. That is when it is going
to stop. If you do not like it make
/ the most Of il.
MIR. BLACKBURN REPLIES.
Mr.. Blackburn rose TO reply, and
| said, after the confusion succeeding
\ Mr. Ingalls, speech had subsided, that
! he was AT loss 10 account for the
/ course of the Senator from Kansas in
| Juggling him into the TRADE in which
/ he had just INDUCED. He was sure
I that he (Mr. Blackburn had never
boasted his identification with the
military service, and had never re-
ferred TO the fact of his having been
a Confederate soldier. Unlike the
/ Senator from Kansas, he (Mr. Black
burn) thought his military services
too modest and too humble to prove
a subject of interest TO the galleries.
He did not need to be told by that
Senator that Kentucky had always
been loyal. That Senator knew that
he 1Mr. Blackburn represented a con
stituency which had sent three men
to the Union army for the one man
that Kansas sent and it was not with
out pride that he recalled the fact
that of thirty odd States then in the
Union Kentucky was the only State
which had, without draft, supplied
more than her quota OF men TO both
sides during that struggle. Why the
Senator from Kansas should have
travelled out Of his way TO make an
onslaught upon him he did not know.
He did not know that he (Mr. Black
burn) was a necessary connecting link
with the Senator's acceptance Of the
presidential nomination.
When the Senator from Kansas un-
dertook to speak Of the Chief Execu-
tive of the country in the terms he
had seen fit to employ, and which (he
took it, were deliberately prepared
and conned, he (Mr. Ingalls, certainly
could not take issue with him Mr.
Blackburn if he concluded that il was
not entitled to response or reply in
presence so august and distinguished
as the Senate of the United States.
What cause Of grievance the Senator
had that warranted him in applying
wnfcn wotru 'lfOU Gbi1)errmrssofeNth
the hustings (he would not say that it
would be disgraceful even to be EN-
ployed by fish-women0 he did not
know. But when that Senator under
took to denounce the Chief Executive
of the United States after such fash
ion as to deliberately declare that no
man afflicted with ignorance so pro-
found, with obscurity SO gross, should
consider himself as unfit 10 become
the Presidents successor, it did seem
to him Mr.. Blackburn that the dig
nity of the Senate Chamber refused
permission to respond. He was not
here to defend the President from
such unwarranted attacks. He knew
but one sin which the President had
committed in the eyes OF the Senator
from Kansas. That might be the un-
pardonable sin. 1t was that having
defeated the Senator'S party at the
polls, he had given TO the American
people for three years past so efficient
so honest, so clean-handed an admin
istration "a to doom the last Of Repub
lican aspirations TO disaster. Applause
on the Democratic side and in the gal
leries But the Senator from Kansas
has even gone farther and done worse
in his intemperate zeal. He had not
spared the sanctity Of the grave. In
his frantic efforts TO stir up prejudices
between sections already reunited, he
has dragged up for abuse and vilifica-
ton before the American Senate such
men as had furnished with their un-
blemished swords the brightest pages
Of American history. Mcclellan and
Hancock were to be denounced in the
Senate Chamber az allies Of the CoDfed-
ates. Would it not have been in bet
ter taste (at least more ereditable TO
the courage and eandor Of the Sena-
tori if he had made such a charge be-
fore both OF these men were buriedf
Mr. Ingalls,, (from his seat. ~ did
often" rMurIlurs Of applause and
laughter.
Mr.. Blackburn.-Then, so much the
worse for the Senator from Kansas.
What warrant or ground had he for
that, except that they were both diff
ferent from hiInself-at least In polit-
ical faith; If (may We not hope also in
many other regards? Hancock an ally
for rConfederatesi Was he not regarded
and believed, when weltering in his
hood on Cemetery Heights he refused
to be removed from the field and per-
sisted in giving the orders which
checked the last advance Of Long
streets irresistible battalions? Was
it this man, who was honored by the
American people, whether Republi-
cans or Democrats M to the very date