, 1888-05-03
CONGRESSIONAL.


WAsHINaron, May lat the conclusion
proceeded to address the senate In support
OF his silver coinage resolutions.
At the conclusion of his address, the res
olution was adopted.
As the hour of two o'clock drew near, the
buzz in the chamber and galleries became
ated with flowers.
HE COMMENCED HIS SPEECH
by recalling the fact that on the l1th Of July
last, Major General Fitz John Porter, now
on the retired list, wrote letter in which
he thanked his friends, and said that
his heart was always with them, although
At one time his heart and hand had worked
the best9hat they knew how against them.
The senator from Indiana had complained
last Wednesday with bitterness that an at
tempt had been made to blacken the names
Of all the great civil, as well as military
leaders, IN the late war who remained true
20 the democratic party. Fitz John Porter
had been one Of those military leaders who
maintained their allegiance to the demo-
cratic party, and he within the last four
months had written that his "heart was al
ways with them"
REFERRING TO GEN. MCCLELLAN
Ingalls, spoke of his education at West
Point his business connection with Beau
regard and his attempt to extend and con.
Cuba. He spoke OF him as having begun
his military career by dlsobeying the
orders OF General Scott, as having aband-
dond Pope at Centerville, rs having failed
to put rebels to the sword at Antietam. as
having refused to obey 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
tnru haA rsrn nd xyardirt m him
as soldier and the senator from Indiana
would not be able to place him in the cate
CORY with Napoleon, Hannibal and Caesar.
He ,Ingalls) dealt with him as politician
and said that no one could read his letter
TO President Lincoln after the disastrous
seven days fight on the peninsula and be-
fore Richmond without corning to the con
clusion that Mcclellan was not fully and
actively in sympathy with the forces, ideas
and sentiments which were theE controll-
ing the American people.
AS TO GENERAL HANCOCK.
he was another military leader who was
true to democracy. His martial career
was enc of the unperishable heritages Of
umphed. lie filled the abyss of fame with
names which would be eternally luminous;
the Peninsula, Antietam, Gettysburg,
Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor and Peters
burg. Had he been soldier under Napo-
leon be would have been prince and q
marshal of tie empire. He had been well
called
HANCOCK 'THE SUPERB"
But after the war closed, he like McClel-
LAM bad become tainted with the fatal virus
Of ambition for the presidential nomna-
ton. But Notwithstanding his magnificent
and unapproachable career the American
people recognized his hostility the recon-
struction measures, and in the presidential
oloofinn nf1 ha m isA b.rf tbraa h.
eru states, California, Nevada, and New
jersey, and the first two Of them were sto-
len by forgery and tho fraud of the Morey
letter issued by the democratic politicians.
He had also received 13S electoral votes Of
the solid south, which had been promised
him In his spsech at Gin cinnau by the
SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
(Hampton). He spoke Of the affected in.
aignation of the senators from Indiana and
gence or their candor- II they did not
know that he Qngalls) had spoken of these
union generals, not as soldiers, but as poll
ticians. and as democratic candidates for
the presidency they were dull stupid, and
ignorant, indeed, If they did know it and
persisted In their assertions they were dis
engenuous, and he suspected, Gf such a
thing were possible), that they were both.
IIAughter.]
Ingalls,, continuing said Mr.. President
--"irom the impassioned eulogy, from
the rhapsody of appreciation that flowed
from the senator from Indiana at the great
military achievements of Mcclellan and
Hancock, began to have some doubt who
II was that really put down the frebellion.
| was driven curiously to inquire what was
- ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
in the north and of the senator from In
Atapa m nf ifQ lQa1ars in lStiL
when Mcclellan. the ideal democrat was
fighting the battle Of Antietani. in 1858,
when Hancock was hurling back in con-
fusion and dismay the scattered squathrons
of the confederacy, i was really for mo-
nient, Mr.. President, inclined TO believe
that the democratic party of the north and
the senator from Indiana and those other
great patriots whom he eulogizes as an i'm
movable bulwark of liberty OF the consti-
tuition and union" MIR. Thomas Hen
bricks and Mr.. Horatio Seymour and VIM.
A. Richardson were in full panoply of bat
and doing what they could to make the
success of our armies possible, and 1t seems
like the very climax Of etirontery, like
THE APEX or AuDAcIrY
for the men whose history Is so well known,
who were from the beginning avowed enc
mics OF the cause IF the union at every
step of its progress. and who, like the sena-
tor from Indianna, were av0wedly in sym.
pathy with the south at the outset and were
advocates and apolieists for slavery, and
secession, who gave aid and comfort to re.
bellion in every possible way, the Copper
heads, the "Butternuts," Qaughter) 5the
knights of the Golden Circle, with all
their brutal and degraded Lies, appearing
here as advocates and champions of the
union soldiers and of the cause of human
liberty. suppose from the enthusiasm,
displayed in favor Of the military achieve
ments of Mcclellan and Hancock that we
should, upon inspection. at least, find that
the leaders Of the democracy. who have
been so eulogized. we're in sympathy with
the confedracy. Yet Mr.. President, at the
very time, and during the very year, when
Mcclellan was fighting the battle Of An
tietsm, the senator from Indiana, without
excepting Mcclellan aIid not excepting Han