St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-07

had made such a charge before both of
these men were buried?
MT. ingalls, 0rOm his seat)-I did.
often. lMurmurS Of applause and laugh
! ter
Mr. Blackburn-Then so much the
worse for the senator from Kansas.
What warrant or ground had he for
that, except that they were both differ
ent from himSelf-at least in political
faith-(may we not hope also in many
other regards?) Hancock an ally of
ConfederateS. Was he so regarded and
believed when,
WELTERING IN HIS BLOOD
Oh Cemetery Heights. he refused to be
removed from the field and persisted in
giving orders which checked the last
advance of LongStreet'S irresistible
battaliOns-WaS it this man, who was
hOnOred by the American people, both
by Republicans and Democrats, up to
the very date when he had accepted the
nomination of the Democratic party,
who was to be spoken of as an ally of
the ConfederateS. The senator was in
the army from 1868 to 1S65-and in what
capacity? One who had sat and listened
to the senator might suppose that he
was controlling the great army Operat-
Ing in the West, if not that operating at
the East also. | saw the bronZed and
weather-beatcn commander of the
American army (alluding to Gen. Sheri-
dan, WHO had occupied a seat Oh the
floor during Mr.. Ingalls, speech) sit
here i'll this chamber and blush
i'll mOdesty at the humble part
which he found he had played
in the war of the Rebellion, in cOmpar-
lson with that of the senator from Kan
SaS. What was that senator's occupa-
ton in a military capacity? He was
judge advocate of the Kansas volun-
teers. Laughter.l While Gen. Black,
the commissioner of pensions, was
bleeding on the Kansas frontier, while
Mcclellan was commanding the army,
while Hancock was weltering in his
blood on Cemetery Heights, at GettyS-
burg, the senator from Kansas, always
behind the rear of the army, was prose-
cutting Kansas jayhaWkers
FOR RIFLING HENROOSTS.
Loud laughter and applause.
Now, what are you to think Of the
arguments OF the senator who will leave
his seat as presiding officer and come to
the floor in the Illustration of partisan
zeal which, | am glad to say, | have
never been equaled; attacking all de-
cent people, from the president Of the
United States down, civilians as well as
the military men, and letting no object
escape the venom of his tongue? One
would say that he was cynic, despis-
ing mankind-perhapS because he had a
suspicion that mankind is not enamored
Of him. But neither president nor
soldier, living or dead, Confederate or
federal, except he accOrdS with him in
political convictions, is safe from his I'M
just and unfOunded attacks. [ have
never opposed pensioning disabled
Union soldiers, and l do not know the
Confederate who has done so. The SEN
atOr tells us that no Democratic cOnStit-
uency in the South has ever elected
Union soldier to either house of con-
greSS. There is not an atom of fOunda-
ton in fact for the statement. The
state of Texas sent to congress, term
after term,
A DISTINGUISHED UNION SOLDIER
in the person of Gov. Hancock. The
state OF Arkansas sent in recent years,
from Democratic constituency,
Union soldier to represent her in the
other house Of congress. | would like
to know it the late Gov. Walker was not
a Union soldier and an hOnored repre-
sentative in the other branch of con-
gresS from an overwhelmingly Demo
cratic district in the Old Dominion. Did
not the senator from Kansas remember
that for years the state of Kentucky
kept continuously in the other house of
congress a distinguished federal general
during the war (alluding to Mr..
WolfOrd), who was shot out of his sad
die more than half dozen times, and
who always came there as a candidate
of the Democratic party, elected in
Democratic district? | do not care to
follow the senator time forbids it,
through all the inaccuracies of his utter
anceS. Party man as am, partisan as
L confess myself to be, do sincerely
trust that may never find my term of
public service prolonged to that day,no
my life extended to that hour when,
without warrant, without fact to sup
port it, without truth at my back, will
turn deliberately to traduce and abuse
the dead who, while living, were hon
ored by all honorable men. Loud APP
plause, which the presiding officer
again checked.] 1t was agreed to take
up the pension bill again tomorrow,
and the senate adjourned.