Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-03

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political secret society, the Knights Of the
Golden Circle, was so absolutely and in
fsmously false that he did not know how
to choose language to denou1ce 1t es
such.
Ingalls,, continuing, said the SEN
| ator from Indiana had written letter
for F. A. Scnut, which that gentleman
| took south with him and used in the
Confederate War Department in support
of his application for appointment as
General in the Confederate srmys
The letter was dated December II, 1869
and said: "On the disturbing question
of the day his (Schutt's) sentiments are
entirely with the south, and one of his
objects Is . probable home in that sec
ton. take this occasion to say that
his sentiments and mine ere in close
harmony. DANIEL W. VOORHEES,"
| The Senator said that the charge that
he cslled Union soldiers "hirelings and
dogs" and said that they ought to go to a
blacksmith and have an iron collar around
their necks with the inscription, "My
dog, Abraham Lincoln" was campaign
SANDER and scandal that had been spit
upon; that statement could be sub
stsntiated by as creditable q witness as
there WAS in the city.
| Voerhees-And even if the Senator said
it 1t would be absolutely false and pal
pable lie.
Ingalls-The Senator is disorderly
Continuing, Ingalls, resd from paper
signed by citizens OF Sullivan county,
who stated that they were present at the
meeting on April 6, 1862, when VOORHEES,
said that Union soldiers should go to the
nearest blacks ith shop snd have an iron
collar around their necks with the in
scriptiop, "My dog, Abraham Lin
coin" This paper WAS signed by
fifty respectable citazans of,Iadiana who
were not ashamed Of their names and res
licences which were attached. Every
body knew what business the Democratic
party of Indiana had been engaged in
during the war. Seventy thousand OF
them had been members Of the Knights
of the Golden Circle and had conspired
against the Union. They had entered
into q combination according to Gen
eral Hol) for the purpose OF aiding sold
iers to desert, discouraglng enlistment,
circulating reasonable publications, CIV
ing intelligence to the enemy and assssst-
BILE of proof that they even did conspire to
murder Governor Morton. This organi-
z3tion which the Senator said he never
belonged to had ritual Of which 1l2
copies were found in the Senator's office
at the time when Hancock was at the
bloody angle. In that same office was
found other correspondence concerning
the objects ana purposes of that orgsni-
zstion. The correspondence Of G. l..
Vallsndingham was in the Office. The
Senator in his address to his constituents
in 1851 hsd declared that he would never
vote q single dollar, nor single man for
the prosecution of war and ne had never
done so IS long as he WAS in Congress.
He hsd consistently and persistently voted
against every measure for UNFOLDING the
Union cause and reinforcing its army.
Yet, continued Ingalls,, the Senator
who think deserves charity more than
any man 1 know of on this floor and who
has received it at the hands of his associ-
ates and who can less afford than any man
of my acquaintance to invite the inecru.
tiny of his war record, rises here and with
playfulness and hilariousness refers to the
fact that served during the wsr IS judge
advote with the rank Of msjor, and subse-
quently of lieutenant-colonel. However
obscure or inefficient my services may
have been, they were always on the side
of my country, not as his have been
always against il.
Mr.. voorhees, said thai if the gen.
tleman from Kansas would find
one single vote he had cast
! against the payment of soldiers for their
supplies, for their bounties or against ap.
| - 30 hafr ~ hn Il
resign his seat in the nste. Every
absolutely false, by the record
words. The Senator said that he (voor-
hees) WAS an object OF his charity, the
Senator was an uuject of his contempt.
The Senator said tnat he (Voorhees) had
issued a proclamation in 1861 that he
would not vote for money or men. That
was fslse; he never did anything Of the
kind, never in the world. He had fought
for free speech and free press, but the
soldiers of Indiana knew he had voted for
every dollar that had ever fed them or
clothed them, and the man who said
otherwise was fslsifier and slanderer,
and be branded him as SUCH. The Senator
from Kansas said that he (Voorhees) I'D
announced that he quit practicing law.
! That was not true: there was not 8
word of truth in it. He bad gone
from one ofice to another. Some papers
were left In the Office in order to put up
job on him. They were put there and
found there and published as having been
found there. He hoped his Maker would
take cognlzance Of him at this moment
and never let him leave this chamber II
he had ever been member of secret
political society in his life. When he wes
abused by man who said that Hancock
fought two years to make t1e war fail
ure aud was not an enemy Of the Confed-'
eracy, and that Mcclellan belonged to the
degraded element of the north, he felt
that abuse as an actual com pliment, and
he thanked the Senator for his aspersions
and responded to him accordingly. So
far as the old stuff about his denounciug
soldiers was concerned, the soldiers
would take care of that. Oaly q misera-
BILE set Of people, not soldiers, but suit
lers or suffers clerks or bummers, ever
alluded to anything Of that kind. He did
not want to say anything ffsnsive, but he
did not care much whether he did or not.
he could only say as he said TO the peo-
pie whose names were on the paper from