Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-03
INGALL&VOORHEES.
The Kansas Statesman Replies to Voor
bees OF Indisna-An Utter Disre-
gard for Living or Dead.
He Resorts to War Records aud Mud
Throwing and is Taken TO Task By
The Indiana Statesman.

WASHINGTON, May SENATOR Ingalls,
replied to- day to the speech Of Senator
Voorhees, delivered last Wednesday. SEN
stor Ingalls, commenced his speech by
recalling the fact that on the 18th OF July
last Msjor-Genersl Fltz John Porter, now
on the retired list, wrote letter in which
he thar ksd his friends and said his heart
was always with them, although at one
time his hand and heart had worked best
(shey knew howl gainst them. The
Senator from Indiana had complained
last Wednesday with bitterness that an
attempt had been made to blscken the
names of all the great military leaders
during the civil war who remained true
to the Democratic party. Fi'z John Por-
ter had been one of these military lead
ers in the late wsr who remained true to
the Democratic party. Fitz John Porter
had been one of those military leaders
who maintained their allegiance to the
Democratic party and had within the last
four months (although ne had been dis
honorably dismissed from the service and
been restored by the action of the Demo.
cratic party and It's members who had
been members of the Confederacy) had
mentioned inst his heart was with them.
AS to General Mcclellan, Mr.. Ingslls
spoke of his education at West Point, OF
his business connection with Beeure-
gard and his attempt to extend and
continue human slavery by the acqui
sition of Cuba. He spoke OF MIN
as having begun mis- military career by
oisObeyirg the orders OF General Scott,
as having abandoned General Pope at
Celtreville, az hsvipg failed to put rebels
to sword at Antieman, as having refused
to obey the orders of the President, and
follow the rebels to Winchester, ard as
having fatally controlled the destiny OF
the army until the bsttle of Fredericks-
burg. History had pronounced its ver-
dict upon him as soldier, and the Sens
tor from Indiana would not be able to
place him in the category with Napoleon,
Hannibal and Caesar. He Ingalls) dealt
with him ss politician, and said that no
one would read his letter to President
Lincoln after the disastrous consequences
of the fight on the peninsular and before
Richmond without coming to the conclu-
sion that Mcclellan was not fully and
actively in sympathy with forces, ideas
and sentiments which were then con-
trolling the American people. AS to
NClC1dI 14h4SOSht LIZ \luSoiiEI oioo
said he was9one of the greatest mil
itary leaders, and was true to the
Democrats. His marital career was
an imperishsble heritage of American
glory. He marched and triumphed. He
filed the shoes of fame with names which
would be eternslly luminous, the PENN
suls, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellors-
vile, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. Had
he been a soldier under Napoleon he
would have been prince and marshal OF
the empire. He had been well called
"Hsncock the superb" but after the war
closed he (like McClellsp) had become
tainted win the fatal virus of an ambi-
ton for the Presidential nomination, but
Notwithstanding his magnificent and un-
epproachsble career the American people
recognized his hostility to the reconstruc-
tion measures, and in the Presidential
election of 1880 be carried but three
states-Californis, Nevada and New Jer-
sey-snd the first two of them had been
stolen by the forgery and fraud OF the
Morey letter, issued by Demo-
cratic politicians. He also received
1873 electoral votes of the solid
south, which had been promised to
him in his speech at Cincinnati by the
Senator from South Carolina (Hampton) {.
He spoke OF the affected Indignation Of
the Senator's from Indisna and Kentucky
as discreditable to their intelligence or
their candor. II they did not know that
he Qngalls) had spoken Of these Union
generals, not as soldiers, but as politi-
clans, and as Democratic candidates for
the Presidency, they were dull, stupid and
ignorant indeed. They knew it and per-
sisted in their assertions. They were disin
genuous, and he suspected OF such
thing were possible) that they were both.
Laughter. Senator ingalls, continuing,
ssid: Mr.. President, from the impas-
stoned eulogY, from the rhapsody Of sp-
probation that flowed from the Senator
from Indiana at the great military
achievements of Mcclellan and Han
cock, l begin to have some doubt
who it vas that really put
down the rebellion. 1 was inclined
curiously to inquire what WAS the attitude
of the Democratic party in the north and
of the Senator from Indiana IS one Of its
great leaders in 1862, wnen Mcclellan,
the ideal Democrat, wss fighting the bat
tie of Antietam in 1868, when Hancock
was hurting back in confusion and dis
may the scattered squadrens of the Con-
federacy. l was really for the moment,
Mr. HreSlQent, Inclined tO OelleVe tuat Tue
Democratic party Of the north and the
Senator from Indiana and those other
great patriots, whom he euloglzes as aid
ing the noble work of liberty, of the con-
stitution and the Union, Thomas Hen
bricks and Horatio Seymour and William
A. Richardson, were in full panoply Of
battle, assisting Mcclellan and aiding
Hancock in doing what they could to
make the success of the armies possible;
and 1t seems like the very climax Of
effeontery, like the apex Of audacity. for
these men whose histories are so well
known, who were from the beginning the
evowed enemies of the cause fthe Union
and at every step Of its progress; who,
like the Senstor from Indiana, wereevow
eddy in sympathy with the south at the
outset, and we're advocates and spologists
for slavery and secession, and who gave
aid to the rebellion in every possible way;
the copperhesds and the butternuts
[laughter1; the Knights OF the Golden
Circle, WIN ell their brutal and degraded
lies, appearing here as advocates and
champions Of the Unions soldiers and of
the course of human liberty. supposed
from the enthusiasm displayed in favor Of