The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-03

Mcclellan and Hancock that we should
upon inspection at least find that the
leaders of the democracy who had been
so eulogized were in sympathy with
the union cause and in sympathy with
the efforts that they were making to
overthrow the confederacy.
Yet. Mr.. President, at the very time
and during the very year when Nc
Ciellan was fighting the battle of
Antietam, the senator from Indiana.
without excepting Mcclellan and
without excepting Hancock, speak
ing at Sullivan: Indiana, on
the 5th day of August, 1862,
said in reference to union soldiers
that they should go to the nearest
blacksmith 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 sol
diers as Lincoln dogs and hirelings and
without excepting Mcclellan and Han
cock daughter and applausel, and dur
ing the campaign, Mr.. President, that
resulted in the election of A. Lincoln,
the senator from Indiana who is now
SO vehemently in favor of the prosecu-
ton of the war of the rebellion
for pulling down the south
who so eulogizes the efforts of the
union armies and of union COM
manders, who poses here as the
special friend of the union soldier and
asperseS criticism upon The political
character and affiliatiOn of those who
were engaged in war, made a speech
at GreencaStle which was reported in
the Cincinnati Commercial, August s.,
1884, by Joseph B. Mccullough, now
the editor of the Globe-DemOcrat. in
st. Louis. Ingalls, read extracts from
his speech which declared the war
failure and spoke of Lincoln as d
monster and unhappy man.
Passing to the question of the cleo
toral commission of 1875, ingalls, said
he was not specially enamored of Mr..
Hayes, [laughterl and yet inasmuch as
controversy by the democratic
party as one of the issues of the coming
campaign he felt bound to say
that the title of Mr.. Hayes to the pres
idency was the most absolutely IRE
fragible of anyone of the whole
list of American presidents, be
cause it was the only one which
was ever passed upon by d constitution
al tribunal properly organized for that
purpose, and the Democratic party
should not forget that the electoral
commission was one of its own devices.
1t was not the first time that they who
had digged the pit and digging it deep.
had fallen into it. (Laughs.l 1t would
be remembered how the Hon. Henry
Watterson issued his celebrated procla-
nation calling on 100000 unarmed
Kentuckians to visit the City of Wash
ington on the anniversary OF the bat
tie of New Orleans for the purpose OF SUI
perintendingt the electoral commission.
He ungalls) had conversation with
President Grant shortly after the issu-
ing of that celebrated proclamation
and had asked if he thought there was
going to be any trouble. General
Grant paused a moment, and with that
deliberate method which characterized
his utterances, replied: mo, l do not
think there is going to be any trouble,
but it has been one rule OF my life to
be always ready" and, added Mr..
Ingalls, with sOlemnity), he was ready.
In obedience to some mysterious i'm
pulse, troops, artillery and mu-
milton of war had begun to
come to the capital and the agitation of
| the democratic party became extreme
because if there was any thing that
| would turn the average democrat IN
side out with Indignation, it was the
sight of federal soldiers in blue uni
| form. [Laughter.l The 100000 un,
armed Kentuckians had not made
their appearance and the count hao
4
dignation of the democrats a
the results of their own device
and the people were perpetuallN
reminded that the republican:
party was guilty of mOnstrous and
gigantic fraud in the election and sit
ting of Mr.. Hayes, and MI. Cleveland
had apparently warranty deed fol
the seat which he occupied. and ye
compared with the title which Mr.
Hayes had to his, he was in possession
of stolen goods, and the receiver was a
bad as the thief, in a court of justici
and fair conscience. He had neve
been elected at all, he had been count
ed into office by partnership between
D. Turpin and Uriah Hep, foOtpads
and sneak thieves, CartOuche ant
Pecksniff, and it was some consolation
to know in that partnership thes
apostles and renegades had lost thei
share of the swag. daughter and ap
plause). The country had still agains
it the southeren confederacy. 1t wa
confided with 153 votes of the soil
south as it had been at every electio
since the election of Mr.. Hayes. Th
solid south was the cOnfederacy AM
. the success of the democratic part
meant the success of the confederacy
which was to-day as niue
! an organized active aggreSsiV
1 DO1lJIIo do III 1COls eNAN Ia VA
previous times. Slavery was deaC
and secession was dead, but all tn
: ideas, all the impulses, all the purpose
: and intentions of secession remained
lie. honored and admired, but regrette
: and deplored the conStancy of tn
south to that idea its loyalty an
= fidelity to the leaders under whom
+ fought, and its determination to II
: unite and reconstruct the history of il
| country so that it would be able to sa
; to the generations that are to com
: that while it was overthrOwn by ovel
whelming numbers in the field, ye
i within twenty-five years after the wa
I closed it's leaders had been restored i
: its connection. He asked who wa
! Lucius Quintus Curtius Lamar. II
T never was suspected of being a lawYe
-ITLaughter. His bitterest enemy neye
accused him of that; he never ha
r been admitted to the bar of the 81
> preme court. on whose bench he Wa
appointed, He never tried a reporte
| case in any tribunal. state or nation;
3 for thirty years. 1t was an open secrt
that the president at one time pereml
4 tOrily refused to approve him; he aSke
| what necessitV there had been for ii
q president to affront the loyal sentimel
! of the country by placing on the benz
I of the supreme court man who ws
> not a lawyer and never mad been al
v who called a. Lincoln "a buffoo
y Why of all men in the south d
: it select him and force hi
. upon reluctant people.
n was because Mr.. Lamar WI
It his nearest and dearest friend and
n representative of Jefferson Davi
Ie There was no other explanation of
Ie If that was not true, then the nOmin
a ton was farce and burlesque, wit
n out excuse and without explanation.
IS Mr.. Ingalls, then referred to spec
4. made in the house of Representative
IN in 1879 by Mr.. Blackburn, declaring
/ to be the purpose and intention of t
" democratic party to keep on un
It it wiped out from the statu
n books the last vestige
Ie war legislation. He said tn
err within the next few years the SUPPER
nj court would be reconstructed. Two
ne the associate justices were already pa
7. the retiring age, and if that tribuI
10 was to pass hereafter oyer the war IL
q, islatiOn all knew what the result Won