The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-02
DETAILS OF THE SESSION.

Ingalls, Responds to The Attack Of voorhees,
and the Latter Loses His Temper.
10 the western Associated Press-
WASHINGTON, May lin the Senate. to-day,
after the disposal Of routine business, Mr.. In
gals took the floor. He began his speech by re-
calling the fact that on July IL last, Major
general Fitz John Porter, now on the retired
ist wrote letter ia which he thanked his
friends and said that his heart was always with
them, although at one time his hand and heart
had worked the best that they knew how against
them. The Senator from Indiana had com.
planned last Wednesday, with bitterness. that
an attempt had been made to blacken the names
OF all the great civil as well military leaders
in the late war who remained true to the Demo
cratic party. Fitz John Porter had been one of
those military leaders who maintained their al
leeance to the Democratic party; and he. with
In the last four mon tbs. although he had been
dishonorably dismissed from the service. and
had been restored by the action of the Demo.
cratic party and its members who had been
members of the Confederacy. had written that
his heart was always with them"
Referring to General Mcclellan. Mr.. Ingalls,
spoke OF bis education at West Point. OF his
business connection with Beaurgard and Of his
attempt to extend and continue human slavery
by the acquisition of Cuba He spoke Of him ~
having begun his military career by disobeying
the orders Of General Scott. as having Aban-
doned Pope at Centrsvile, as having failed to
put tho rebels TO the sword at Antietam. Ne
having refused to obey the orders of the Presi-
dent and follow the rebels to Winchester, and
as having fatally controlled the destiny of the
army until the battle of Fredericksburg. His
tory had pronounced its verdict upon him as .
soldier. and the Senator from Indiana would
not be able to place him in the category with
Napoleon, Hannibal and Caesar. He Mr..
lnealisl dealt with him . politician, and said
that no one could read his letter to President
Lincoln after the disastrous seven days fight on
the Peninsula and before Richmond. without
coming to the conclusion that Mcclellan was
not fully and actively in sympathy with the
forces, the ideas and the sentiments which
were then controlling the American people,
AS to General Hancock, he, also, Mr.. Ingalls,
said, was one of the military leaders who were
true to the Democracy. His martial career was
one OF the imperishable heritages of American
glory. be marched. and triumphed He filled
eternal, luminous-the Peninsula, Antietam,
Gettysburg, Charlottesville. Cold Harbor and
Petersburg. Had he been q soldier under Napo-
leon he would have been a prince and q marshal
of the empire. He had been well called Han
cock, ''the superb" But after the war closed,
he, like Mcclellan had become tainted with the
fatal virus OF an ambition for the presidential
nomination. But notwithstanding his nnacnif-
cent and unspproachable career, the American
people recognized his hostility to the recon.
dental election Of 1850, be carried
but three Northern States-Cslifornia,
Nevada and New Jersey, and the first two OF
them had been stolen by the forgery. and fraud
Of the Morey letter, issued by Democratic pol.
iteisns. He had also received the one hundred
and thirty-eight electoral votes OF the Solid
S.ath. which had been promised him In his
speech Mt Cincinnati by the Senator from South
Carolina Mr.. Hampton. He spoke of the az
fected Indignation of the Senators from Indiana
and Kentucky as discreditable to their intell-
gence or their candor. II they did not know
that he Mr.. Ingalls, had spoken Of these
Union generals. not az soldiers. but 40 poll.
ticians, and as Democratic candidates for tho
presidency. they were dull. stupid aud ignorant
indeed. II they did know IL. and persisted in
their assertions they were disingenuous, and be
suspected, II such thing were possible. that
they were both. ILaushter.l Mr.. ingalls,. con-
tinuine, said:
"Mr President, from the impsssoued euiogy,
from the rhapsody Of spprob tion that flowed
from the Senator from Indiana at the great
military achievements OF Mcclellan and Han
cock. began to have some doubt who II was
that really put down the rebellion. ! was
driven curiously to inquire what was the atti.
tude OF the Democratic party Ia the North and
OF the Senator from Indiana as ono Of its great
leaders In 1852. whom Mcclellan, the ideal Dem.
ocrat was fighting the battle Of Antietam; in
sion and dismsy the scattered squsdrons Of the
Confedsrscy. / was really, for the moment,
Mr.. President, inclined to believe that the Dem.
ocratic party Of the North, and the Senator
from Indiana, and those other great patriots
whom he eulogzes as an immovable bulwark Of
liberty. Of the Constitution ard the Union, Mr..
Thomas Hendricks and Mr.. Horatio Seymour.
and VIM. A Richardson, were in full panoply
OF battle, assisting Mcclellan, assisting
Hancock. doing what they could to make the
~ AcH IL
like the very climax of effrontery like the apex
OF audacty for these men, whose history is so
we'll known. who were from the beginning the
avowed enemies Of the cause OF the Union at
every step OF its progress, and who, like the
Senator from Indiana. were avowedly In sympa-
thy with the South at the outset, aud were ad-
vocates and apologists for slavery and secession,
who gave aid and comfort to the rebellion in ev-
cry possible way, the copperheads the butter
nuts, laughter the Knights OF the Golden Cir.
Gle. with all their brutal and degraded lies ap-
pearing here as the advocates and champions OF
Union soldiers and Of the cause of human iber-
ty. supposed from the enthusiasm displayed
in favor OF the military achievements OF Nc
Clellan and Hancock, that we should. upon in
spection, at least find that the leaders Of
tho Democracy who had been so eulogized were
in sympathy with the Union cause and in SYM
patty with the efforts that were making to
overthrow the Confederacy. Yet. Mr.. Presi.
dent, at the very time and during the very year
when Mcclellan was fighting the battle OF An
tietsm. the Senator from Indiana, without ex-
ceptng Mcclellan and without excepting Han
cock, speaking at Sullivan. Ind, on the 9Th Of
August, lS62, said, in reference to Union sol.
diers. that they should 60 10 the nearest black
smith shop and have iron collars made and
placed around their necks, inscribed thereon in
large letters. My dog. A. Lincoln" and at the
same time. he referred TO Union soldiers az
Lincon's dogs and hirelings, without excepting
Mcclellan or Hancock daughter and applause;
and during the campaign Mr.. President, that
resulted in the election Of Abraham Lincoln.
| the Senator from Indians, who 10 now 90 vehe.
meuty in favor of the prosecution of the war OF
the rebellion, for putting down the South-who
so sulogizes the efforts OF Union armies and the
genius Of Union commanders; who poses here
as the special friend OF the Union soldier and
| denounces and asperses o criticism upon the
| political character and affiliations OF those who
| were engaged In that war. made speech at
| Greencastle. which was reported in the Cincin-
| matt Commercial, Aug. y. 1861 oy Joseph b.
MeCullaeh. now editor OF the Glooe-Democrat,
| In St. Louis"
Mr.. INGALLS, read extracts from the speech.
| which declared the war failure and spoke OF
Lincoln as q monster and an unhappy felon.
| Passing to the question OF the Electoral Com
| mission Of 1876, Mr. INGALLS, saic he was not
specially enamored Of Mr.. Hayes flaughterl.
| and Yet, inasmuoh as the question OF MIR.
Hayes's title was brought IN controversy by the
Democratic party rs one Of the Issues OF the
approaching campaign. he felt bound 70 say that
| the title OF Mr.. Hayes 10 the presidency was
the most absolutely irrefragable OF any in the
whole list of American Presidents. because IL
aas the only one which was ever passed upon
by constitutional tribunal properly organized