Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-03-16

South, and when the attempt of the
Republicans TO pension wounded Un'
ion soldiers was alluded TO as being an
attempt to bid for the soldier vote,
the Senators would pardon him for
saying that they knew speeches like
this were intended 10 bid for the
Southern vote. And they would get
it every time. The sentiment was a
centre-shot. Appeals like that struck
the bull's-eye and rang the bell He
had never heard in any quarter Of the
Democratic party, during the fifteen
wears he had been in the Senate, any
reputation of sentiments like those
avowed by the Senator from Missouri
and the Senator from Kentucky.
Why was it that when an associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, who by one of the
strange caprices of history now sat in
judgment upon those great Constitu-
tional amendments that were adopted
against his protest and efforts, arose
in the Senate and said he would re-
sent as a personal affront any imputa-
ton upon the honor or the integrity
or patriotism of Jefferson Davis, when
he said he had no doubt that jefferson
Davis would occupy a niche in histo-
ry by the side of John Hampden and
George Washington, that no Senator
on the Democratic side, North or
South, arose to repudiate and disavow
it?
And yet the moment any honorable
Senator on the Republican side, or
any editor of any Northern paper; or
any organ of the Grand Army, talked
about the Union armies, the grandeur
of their achievements, the obligations
of the nation, they were taunted with
waving the ensanguined undergar-
up the ashes of section
al strife, appealing to partisan hatred
aud malice. 1t was time that the
twenty-four Confederates on that
side of the chamber were informed
that the Northern people were not ill
about the matter.
Senator Morgan asked if the Sena-
tor from Kansas recognized the fact
that he held himself place as Presi-
dent of the Senate in consequence of
the votes of two Confederates?
Mr. Ingalls, said he supposed he did
But he had never heard either of
them defy Jefferson Davis or de
nounce the efforts to pension Union
Nor have you heard me, rejoined
Mr.. Morgan.
Mr.. Ingalls, said he wanted Demo
cratic Senators who were opposing
his bill on the ground that it was an
attempt to dispose of the surplus TO
that the disguise was so
exceedingly thin that nobody was de
,eived by it. The South didn't like
he Union soldiers. 1t never did.
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hey all voted for him.
Mr.. Ingalls, rejoined that they voted
'or General Hancock as they voted
'or Grover Cleveland-by compulsion.
They thought they pleased the North
ern people by voting for Union sol
lier. They had been in illicit inter
course with Democrat elements Of
The North for the last twenty-five
years. Northern people understood
why they voted for General Hancock,
and why they voted for that other
ally of the Confederacy, George b.
who had declared that the
war was failure after he had tried
Tor two years to make it.
These pretenses were altogether too
In 1886 there was in At
ANITA a great historical occasion, when
4 statue TO the memory of ali honored
Senator was to be unveiled, a man
whom he (Mr. Ingalls, honored and
and on that occasion the
aX-President of the Confederacy was
invited to be present. Men flocked TO
that city as they go to a banquet, as
waves come when naviesar stranded,
and the city was decorated with the
emblems TO make a Con
federate holiday. Mr.. Ingalls, com
pared the speech OF Mr.. Henry w.
Grady in welcoming Mr. Davis with
the one delivered at the New England
Society banquet in New York, and
asked at which place did he speak the
sentiments of the Southern people.
Coming back to the opposition of
Southern Senators to pension bills,
he said he did not blame them for it,
He often wondered how he would
have acted if the relations had been
reversed and if the federal govern
ment had been overthrown. He did
not believe he would have felt com
forted in voting pensions TO Confeder-
ate soldiers. He believed he should
have been conspirator against the
Confederacy to the end Of his days
But he should have regarded as the
climax of efTrontery, as the very apex
and summit of hardihood and audacity
(he would not say of pusillanimity
and dishonor)if, after he had accepted
a pardon'a and had had his disabilities
and had taken the oath Of
TO the successful Southern
Confederacy, he had denounced day
after day the efforts which those Con-
federates made to reward their own
soldiers, and if he haggled about the
price which the conquering country
should have seen fit TO hestow on the
men by whose arms 1t had conquered.
He did not think that the North was
at all deluded by the pretensions Of