New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-09
Senator Ingalls, Shows Up the War
Record Of Voorhees, of
Indiana.
He Accuses the Hoosier of sympa-
thy With Secession and Proves
His Charge.
One Of the Bitterest Attacks Upon
the South Ever Heard in
the Senate.
LAYS OUT VOORHEES,.

a Most Scathing Reply.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, May L.
Ii any one has any doubts as to the position
of Senator Ingalls, with respect TO the Unior
soldiers and the war issues after his notable
speech in the senate to-day, he must, as Mr..
Ingalls, puts it, be either stupid or dislngen-
nous, or both. 1t is the lot of few men in
congress to have such an audience
as Mr.. ingalls, had to-day 1t
was an audience such as none
OF his opponents can command. The tariff
debate was proceeding in the house; but
most OF the afternoon there were present in
the nall OF the house only the chairman of
the committee of the whole and the speaker
who was addressing the chair. The rest of
the representatives were for the most part
present in the senate chamber. Every
vacant bench in the senate chamber was
occupied. In the galleries the diplomatic gall
lery, was SO packed that the stairs We're used
as seats, and all of them were occupied while
IN the other galleries there was not vacant
finch- The seat which is reserved for the
FAMILY OF the president was occu pied by the
wives or two OF the cabinet officers. If
they came to hear what the greatest master
OF sarcasm and vituperaton in the senate
had to say Of the president, they went away
-AAoNPPOtAAsCO, Luz I'LL Ills ulO ilGt16 10 say
OF MIR. Cleveland. He paid his respects to
his aecusers, and gave them something to
think Of
ERR INGALLS, WORDS
Senator Ingalls, said:
On July IL last Mai Gen Fitz John Por-
ter, 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 hand and heart had worked the
best that they knew how against them. The
senator from Indiana had complained last
wednesday that an attempt had been made
TO blacken the names of the military leaders
IN the last war who remained true to the
Democratic party. Fitz John Porter had
been one of these. Mr. Ingalls, spoke of
Gen. McCleuan's education at West Point
with his business connection with Beaure-
gard, and with his attempt to continue and
extend human slavery by the acquisition of
cuba He began his military career by dis
obeylng the orders of Gen. Scott he abandoned
Pope at Centerville, failed to put the rebels
to the sword at Antietam refused to obey
the orders of the president and follow the
rebels to Winchester; and rs fatally con-
Grolled the destiny of the army until the
battle of fredericksburg History has pro-
nounced its verdict upon him as soldier,
and Voorhees, would not be able to place him
on the category with Napoleon, Hannibal
and Caesar. Gen. Hancock also was one of
the military leaders who were true to the
Democracy. His martial career was one of
cue 1nlpGrlSQ2DlG Mortgages or American
glory He marched and triumphed. He
filled the abyss of fame with names which
would be eternal luminous-the peninsula
AntieLam, Gettysburg. charlottesville, Cold
Harbor and Petersburg. Had he been
soldier under Napoleon, he would have
been prince and marshal of the empire
He had been well called Hancock "the SUI
perb" But after the war closed he (like Nc
Clellan) had become tainted with the fatal
virus OF an ambition for the presidential
p,,+, ,itI,o
nifcent and unapproachable career, the
American people recognized his hostility to
the reconstruction measures, and in the
presidential election of 1880 he carried but
three Northern states-California, Nevada
and New Jersey-and the first two of them
had been stolen 10y the forgery and fraud of
the Morey letter issued by Democratic poll
tlcians. He had also received. the 1873 cleo
toral votes of the solid South, which had
been promised him in his speech at Cincin-
natl by the senator from South Carolina (Mr
HampGon). II Voorhees, and Blackburn did
not know that he Qngalls) had spoken of
these Union generals not as soldiers but as
politicians, and as Democratic candidates
for the presidency, they were dull, stupid
and ignorant, indeed. II they did know it,
and persisted in their assertions, they were
disingenuous, and ne suspected that they
were both.
HE Is DOUBTFUL.
I began to have some doubt who it was
driven cur1ously to inquire what was the at
titude of the Democratic party i'll the North
and OF the senator from Indiana as one of it's
great leaders in 1862, when Mcclellan, the
ideal Democrat. was fighting the battle Of
Antletam; in 1868, when Hancock was
creating confusion and disnay among the
scattered squadrons of the Confederacy.
was really, for the moment, inclined to be-
lieVe THAI the Democratic party, and the
senator from, Indiana and those other great
patriots, whom he euiogiZes as imm ovab.e bull
warks of liberty, OF the constitution and nhe
Union, MIR. Thomas Hendricks and Mr.. Ho-
ratio Seymour, and MIR. William A. Richard
son, were in full panoply of battle, assisting
Mcclellan, assisting Hancock, doing what
they could to make the success of the armies
possible. And, it seems like the very climax
of effrontery for these men, whose history is
so we'll known, who We're from the
beginning the avowed enemies of the cause
of the Union at every step of it's progress,
and who, like the senator from Indiana,
were avowedly in sympathy with the South
at the outset and were advocates and apol-
ogists for slavery and secession, who gave
aid and comfort to the rebellion in every
possible way-the acopperheads," the SHUT
ternuts," the @Knights OF the Golden Circle,
with all their brutal, degraded lies, appear
ing here as the advocates and champions Of
the Union cause and of the cause of human
liberty During the very year when McClel-
IAN was fighting the baJte of Antietam, the
senator from Indiana, speaking at Sullivan,
Ind, on Aug. 5, 1862, said, in reference to
Union soldiers, that they should go to the
nearest blacksmith shop and have iron col
lars 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 as
Lincoln's dogs and hirelings, without
excepting Mcclellan or Hancock.
Mr ingalls, read extracts from speech made
by voorhees, Aug. 7, 1861, winch declared
the war failure and spoke of Lincoln as
monster and an unhappy felon. The title of
Mr. Hayes to the presidency, said Mr.. ingalls,,
was the most absolutely Irrefragable of any
IN the whole list of American presidents, be-
cause IL was the only one which was ever
passed upon by constitutional tribunal |
properly organized for that purpose. Hon. |
Henry Watberson issued his celebrated proc
lamation, calling on 100000 aunarmed |
Kentuckians" to visit Washington on the an
niyersary of the battle of New Orleans, for
the purpose of experimenting the electoral
count He llngalls) had had conversation I
with President Grant shortly after the issuing |
of SCAT proclamation, and had asked him