The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-05-02
INGALLS, REPLIES TO VOORHEES,.
Union Generals Referred to as Poll
tIcians, Not as Soldiers.


Union Generals Referred to as Poll
tIcians, Not as Soldiers.
scathing Review of the Record Of
the Indiana Senator,
perate Language.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-Senator ingalls,
began his speech in the Senate at o'clock
/ this afternoon. He commenced by recalling
the fact that on the 11th Of July last, Maj.
Gen. Fitz John Porter, now on the retired
list, wrote a letter in which he thanked his
| friends and said his heart was always with
them, although at one time hand and heart
worked the best they knew how against
them. The Senator from Indiana COM
planned last Wednesday with bitterness that
an attempt had been made to blacken the
names of all the past civil, as well as militia
ry leaders in the late war, who remained
true to the Democratic party. Fitz John
Porter had been one of those military leaders
who maintained allegiance to the Democrat
ic party He, within the last four months,
although dishonorably dismissed from SER
vice and restored by the action OF the Demo-
cratic party and its members, who had been
members of the Confederacy, had written
that his ''heart was always with them"
Referring to General Mcclellan. Senator
ingalls, spoke of his education at West Point
and his business connection with Beaure
gard in an attempt to extend ana continue
human slavary by the acquisition of Cuba.
He said he began his military career by dis
obeying the orders of General Scott, he
abandoned Pope at Centeryille and failed to
put the
REBELS TO THE SWORD
at Antietam. He refused to obey the orders
of the President and follow the rebels to
Winchester and fatally controlled the des-
tiny of the army until the battle of Freder-
icksburg. History had pronounced its ver-
dict upon him as soldier and the Senator
from Indiana would not be able t. place him
in the category with Napolean, Hannibal
and Caesar. The speaker dealt with him
as politician and said no one could read his
letter to President Lincoln after the disas-
trous seven days's fight on the Peninsular
conclusion that Mcclellan was not fully and
actively in sympathy with the forces, IDEAS
and sentiments controlling the American
people.
AS to General Hancock, he, also, was one
OF the military leaders true to the Democra-
cy and his martial career was one of the im-
perlshable heritages Of American glory. he
marched and triumphed. He filed the abyss
of fame with names which would be eternal
ly luminous, the Peninsular, Antietam, Get
tysburg, Charlottesville, Cold Harb0r,
and Petersburg. Had he been
SOLDIER UNDER NAPOLEON,
he would have been prince and a marshal
of the empire. He had been well called
Hancock the Superb" but after the war
closed. he, like Mcclellan, became tainted
with the fatal virus of ambition for the Pres
idential nomination. Notwithstanding his
magnificent and unappr0achable career, the
American people recognized his hostility to
the reconstruction measure and, In the Pres
idential nomination of 1880, he carried but
three Northern States, California, Nevada
and New Jersey, the first two States being
carried by the forgery and fraud Of the
Morey letter issued by Democratic politi-
votes of the Solid South, promised him, in
his speech at Cincinnati, by the Senator
from South Carolina, (Hampton.)
Senator ingalls, spoke of the affected indig-
nation OF the senators from Indiana and
Kentucky as discreditable to their intelli-
gence or candor. II they did not know that
he (Mr. Ingalls, had spoken Of these Union
generals, not as soldiers, but as politicians
ana 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
disingenuous, and he suspected, If such
thing were possible, that they were both.
[Laughter.l He inferred from Senator Voor-
hees's remarks that it was the mission of
copperheads, butternuts and knights Of the
golden circle to defend Union generals. SEN
ator Voorhees,, who assumed this task, had,
in 1862, ordered the Unic1 soldiers to go to
the nearest blacksmith shop and have iron
collars made for their neckS, inscribed Lin
coins dogs" He had denounced all Union
men as Lincoln's dogs, not excepting Han
cock and Mcclellan. He had denounced
Lincoln as most unhappy felon, reeking
with the gore of hundreds of thousands of
slain soldiers. In 1864 he had declared the
war failure.
Regarding President Hayess title, which
had been aSsailed, Senator ingalls, said his
title was the most lrrefragable ever held by
an occupant of the White House. 1t had
been passed upon by constitutional tribu-
nal, and the electoral commission, which was
Democratic device. 1t was one Of those
mysterious cases where he who diggeth
pit for his brother falleth into it himself.
As compared with Mr.. Hayes's title, Mr..
Cleveland's title was secured by robbery,
and his election was the outcome of a deal
between Dick Turpin and Uriah Heap,
Pecksniff and CartOuche. The only satisfac-
tory result was that the sneaks, traitors,
apOStateS and hypOcrites failed to secure
their share of the swag. The
CoNFEDERATES ARE RETURNING TO POWER,
securing control of the supreme court. Why
was Lamar appointed? Nobody ever sus-
pected him of being lawyer. He had not
tried case for 40 years. This denouncer of
In bod al, ,ofo
President and people because it was neces-
sary to place upon the supreme bench the
strongest and ablest living representative of
the Confederacy, and the most intimate as
sociate of Jefferson Davis. The Democrats
had frankly declared their purpose to erase
from the statute books every yestige OF recon-
struction legislation. AS the supreme court
justices reach the age of retirement the court
is being turned over to men of such purposes.
The effects of Democratic ascendancy are
manifest The country is entering upon a
campaign which will decide the nations fate
for the next quarter of century.
Senator ingalls, reviewed the speech of
Henry r. jackson, at Macon, in the presence
of Jefferson Davis, which lost Ohio to the
Democrats andi caused Thurman to call
Jackson a tramp and old fool, and caused
Governor Gordon to start for Ohio in spec
ial car to try and counteract its effect. Said
he, I'm the South the Democrats have been
playing golitical game with loaded dice,
throwing SKIES all the time. They held
stacked cards with revolvers in their boots.
The South was inflicting wrongs daily
upon hundreds of thousands of men, which,
if inflicted by foreign power upon the
humbest citizen, would cause declaration
WAR INSIDE OF NINETY DAYS.
What had just occurred in Louisiana was an
indication of what would occur at the ma
tional election. The Democrats of the South
had learned the art of making elections not
only unanimous, but of returning majority
in excess of the registered vote. The Louisi-
ana majority was still going up, and nobody
could tell what it would reach by dog days.
He read letters and statements from Repub-
lican sources, detailing 0utrages and cheating
at the Louisiana election, and discussed in
detail the attitude of the two parties on the
pension question.
Senator Ingalls, closed with peroration,
contrasting the present prosperous condition
of the country with what would have been
had the rebellion prevailed. In centuries to
| come, he saw a vision of united, prosperous
| and happy country, vast homogeneous
| domain Of freemen. the rulers Of the conti-
nent from the polar zone to the Gulf, from
| the Atlantic to the Pacific shore, enjoying
| the fruits of liberty and cultivating the arts
| of peace The boundaries Of the nation
| held no more consecrated dust than the ashes
| of 4boca xuhn died that the pnvprnmanf