The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-04-07
A Study Of lnGalls.

sas, 10 be President pro tempore OF the
republican Senate. The sting OF Ingalls,
was 40 poisonous and his temper was 50
bad that the rich men sought safety from
his venom 10 the disgrace Of his uplifting
II was shameful act, worthy of the BODY
that has passed the Blair bill TO promote
mendicsncy; worthy OF the ocalied
statesmen who have one after another be.
rated the President for demanding re-
duction Of taxation.
Yet this blatant Senator, when put In
high place where dignity might come ana
sit alongside his dement,, chafed In the
garments of responsibility. Because he
was silent half session, his name was
eagerly written the Jacobin bulletins as
possibility for Presidential nomination.
The very colleagues who smarted from
stipgs that the wasp had forgotten, min.
pled In the hymn Of alteration. High on
his gorgeous throne great ingalls, safe,
the proud Parnassian sheer, the conscious
simper and the jealous leer, mix on his
look" II would not do The hog that
the Hebrew scorns will ever wallow In the
mire; the dog the Mussulman despises
must return to Its vomit. So this man of
virus, breaking from the restrictions of his
place as the arbiter of order In the Senate,
poured forth TRADE In which the bias
phemv of patriotism, the SANDER of immor
tai heroes and the scandal of the chosen
leader of the people struggled In rivalry
70 gain the utter disappropriation OF man.
kind. That TRADE will remain ever mem
orsble. BY that act the man with the rep
tiles tongue leaped to such immortality
AS reptiles may secure--like 10 the asp
that Cleopatra put to her dark bosom.
Ii was the 7th of March, and the Con.
gressiOndl Record, at page 1854, preserves
the grafton. He began with this compll :
mept 10 the five million voters who carried
the election of 1884: THE nomination
and election of Grover Cleveland have
made the pretensions of any American
citizen 70 the Presidency respectable.
There Is no mau In this country whose ig-
norance is so profound, whose obscurity Is
impenetrable, and whose anteCedents are
SO degraded, that he may not justitiably
aspire 10 Presidential nomination-by
the democratic party"
Then followed the arraignment OF the
Southern Senators. But we voted for
Hancock" explained Morgan. $50 you
did," screamed Ingalls,. "You voted for
Greeley. You voted for Cleveland. You
have been engaged in Illicit intercourse
with all the degraded elements of the
North for the last twenty five years. We
know why Hancock was nominated. We
know why McClellan-that other ally OF
the Confederacy-was nominated and
thus the inflamed villain strobe on, athwart
a dough. faced silence and cheering OF
pension sharks In the galleries. AT last
Senator rose-Blackburn. Would 1t not,
he asked, have been more courageous If
the speaker had made the charge-that
Mcclellan and Hancock were allies OF the
Confederacy-befOre both of those soldiers
with unblemished swords we're dead And
Ingalls,, grinning In his seat, and tingling
with the pleasure of the atrOclOus things
he had said, cried out:
II did, often"
such Is the record. A storm Of indig
nation has rolled over this broad land
The soldier who lay wounded with bleed.
Ing Hancock In that weak spot for freedom
which ran between Cemetery Ridge and
Little Round Top has felt sort of frenzy
that bastard should sit In the chair of the
Senate and speak of that Hancock as one
of the degraded elements of the North. The
Joy of the moment has departed from
ingalls,. The blow.snake has crawled In
his hole and now is az full of fear as he
was of fury on the 7th of March. 1.-THE
Democracy and their allies" he writes
have grossly misrepresented me. Every
man of intelligence knows that nv ailu
sions to Hancock and Mcclellan were moi
as soldiers but as Democratic candidates
for the Presidency"
The precise language touching McClel
Ian was 1--WE know why that other ally
of the Confederacy, George B. Mcclellan
WAS nominated, who had just declared the
war was failure, after he had been trying
for two years to make II So"
AS candidates." says ingalls, now, In
his cry OF fear, Mcclellan and Hancock
we're allies Of the COnfederacy, as Cleve
land Is, and as every democrat must be
who sspires to that office, because he mus
be elected by the 1853 votes of the Solo
South, which is as much an aggressive
and potential force In our politics as Il
was In $780,"
This villain, cornered, reveals his entire
political code. He who calls Hancock {
traitor would have men believe himself ,
patriot. We're he not lying, the distinc
ton he attempts to make were contempt
BILE. Cannot every true lover Of his cOun
try discern the true character of thi.
wretch-if not In his speech, then In the
lie he tells concerning his meaning a
as 10 Mcclellan? There has never been ,
time since the war when half the voters Of
this Union were not democrats. Withou
his foremost lieutenants, who were demo
crats-sll of them-Lincoln could not have
saved the Union. Even in its darkes
days, when half the states we're provinces
pillaged by such coyotes as Ingalls,, Gov
ernor Seymour polled 100000 vote
against 100000 for Grant, another demo
crat.
The degraded elements" Of the north
sleep under white stones on the hull baci
of Gettysburg. Their warfare is over
though that of ingalls, has just begun
Yet II public sentiment were now 81 b tie
rs during that dreadful era when lh'
heroes of Gettysburg saved the cities o
New York and Philadelphia from sack
rs scurvy fellow as Ingalls,, their detractor
would be hurried out of the Senate an(
dusgeoned In fortress.
There is not a loyal head in the head O
such malicious demagogue. 1t is not
partisan matter. 1t is, therefore, friendly
to say to the republican party, and to say /
with the words Of Junius, that II csnno
afford to take the infection which an i'm