Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-02
SENATOR INGALLS,.

party The senator from Indiana, he said. had made the first admission he had ever heard from the Democratic side of the senate that there had ever been or could be such thing as treachery against this government, or that designation as an ally of the Confed- eracy was discreditable or opprobrious
 With somewhat elaborate affluence of die tion, the senator from Indiana had objected to the statements made by him in reference to Democratic leaders who had been Union generals.
 Recurring to the Fitz John Porter letter, Mr. Ingalls, read with emphasis and without comment it's assertion that the writer had always been in sympathy with southern men.
 George B. Mcclellan, Mr. Ingalls said, was the intimate friend and companion of Fitz John Porter.
 Gen. McClellan's record as soldier has been passed upon by history. To him has been attributed by Gen. Hooker the failure of great campaign. He read McClellan's letter to President Lil coin in favor of a humane method of warfare, etc. He would pass to Mcclellan as politician and presi- dent;al candidate He had accepted nomi- nation on a platform declaring the war to be a failure. MT. Ingalls, read extracts from newspapers and hpoks declaring the vote for Mcclellan to have been Confederate and a disloyal vote, and his support disloyal sup port. When Abraham Lincoln was elected he resigned his commission and passed into history.
 Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock was an ideal corps commander we'll named Hancock the Superb affectionately admired and justly be- loved by the American people He was one of band of military leaders whose name
 must live forever, and whose fame was of the highest. He too, however. had in time
 become tainted with the virus of ambition,
 and had coveted political advancement and
 became the candidate of the Democracy His
 order No 40 could not be forgotten. South ern men had found in Hancock man willing to cooperate with then1 and from the time of his celebrated order and letter construing his principles of constitutional law he had for many years, and until his nomination in 1880, been in sympathy with the party which fin ally made him it's candidate.
 Gen. Hancocks famous correspondence
 with Governor Pease could not be approved by those who take the loyal view of the re- suits of the war.
 The American people in 1880 passed upon l the career of Gen. Hancock. Despite his brilliant military record and his great | achievements, the people had to take into | consideration his reconstruction card and that he had received the votes of the solid south, and virtually that alone. MT. Inga Ills said that if the critics of his recent speech l had not understood that he referred to Nc. 1 Clellan and Hancock as politicians rather l than as soldiers, they must be very dull and 1 s.,,,;d, or disingenious. He feared they were l both.
 1 l.l listening to some of the inadequate re- plies to his statements he had heard such l tributes to Mcclellan ard Hancock that he had begun to wonder who it really was that l put down the rebellion. He had been given to understand that it was the apex of pre- sumption for such a man as himself to speak 1 in behalf of the fame of Union generals. l He had inferred it was the mission of Cop
 perheads and Butternuts and Knights of the Golden Cirolc to assume the task of defend.