The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-03-15

OF his days. But he should have re-
garded as the climax of efrontery, as
the very apex and summit of hardihood
and audacity, Che would not say of pusil-
lanimity and dishonor,) if after no had
accepted pardon and had had his dis
abilities removed, and had taken the
oath of allegiance to tho successful
Southern Confederacy, he had de-
nounced (day after day. the efforts which
those Confederates made to reward their
own soldiers, and if he haggled about
the price which the conquering country
should have seen fit to bestow on the
men 10y whose arms it had conquered.
Ho did not think that the North was
at all deluded by the pretensions of the
Senators on tho other side It was
little singular that in all the years which
had elapsed since the war there never
had como from one of tho States that
had beon in rebellion $50 far as he knew
q Union soldier as o representative in
either branch of Congress elected by
Democratic votes The Democratic
party in those States never had blum
dered in sending to Congress or electing
as Governor man who had not served
Ill tho Confederate army in some ca
pacity. That had been the supreme
test. When he looked over the rolls of
the Senate and Of tho House and re-
ilected how few of those who had served
III tho Union army were found in the
councils Of the nation he was not sur
prlsed at witnessing such demonstrations
as were witnessed when pension bills
wero up for action.
Crltlclsing the statement Of Senator
Vest, that Of 1888, 900, 900 paid out in
pensions $500, 100000 has been con-
trlbuted by the South, he declared that
such statement was "ghttering gen
erallty." He doubted whether the South
had actually contributed $290,OOO in
stead of $3.50, ,O00,O0 But even if tho
South had paid $3.50, 900, 900, it was very
lucky that it did not have to pay all the
pensions. Instead of grumbling and
complaining that it had paid $3.50, ,OOO,-
600 it ought to be thankful that it did
not have to foot the entire bill, as
Franco had to do after the Franco
Prussian war.
Senator Ingalls, declared that the
movement for pensions was not going to
stop until the arrears Of pensions were
| paid; until the limitations were removed
and until every pensioner was paid froln
the day of his disabilities, or, in case Of
a survivor, from the day Of tho soldiers
death, and until every surviving soldier
of the Union army was placed on tho
| pension rolls for service only. That
was, he said, when it was going to stop;
and if the other side did not like it, they
might make the most of it, Very gen
eral applause on the floor and in the
| galleries.
| SENATOR BLACKBURN'S REPLY.
| Senator Blackburn rose to reply and
said (after the confusion succeeding
lngalls's speech had subsided) that he
was at loss to account for the course of
the Senator from Kansas in dragging
him into the TRADE i'll which he had Just
indulgcd. He was sure that he (Black-
burn) had never boasted his identifica-
ton with the military service and had
never referred to the fact of his having
been Confederate soldier. Unlike tho
Senator from Kansas, he (Blackburn)
thought his military service too modest
and too humble to prove q subject of
interest to the galleries. He did not
need 10 be told by that Senator that
Kentucky had always been loyal. That
Senator knew that he (Blackburn) repre-
scntcd constituency which had sent
three men into the Union army for one
man that Kansas sent, and it was not
without pride that he recalled tho fact
that OF thirty odd States then in the
Union, kentucky was the only State
which had, without a draft, supplied
more than her quota of men to both
sides during the struggle. Why the
Senator from Kansas should have
travelled out of his way 70 make an on
slaught upon him he did not know. He
did not know that he (Blackbnrn) was q
necessary connecting link with the Sen
ator's acceptance Of the Presidential
nomination. The Senator from Kansas
doubtless did know that illness in the
family Of the Senator from Missouri had
taken him a long distan CO from the city,
and that he was to be absent for some
time on that account. He did not intend
to be involved in any controversy with
the Senator from Kansas, but he pro-
tested against tho lack of fairness evinced
by that Senator whom no undertook to
deal in such fashion with men who had
simply stated facts and submitted data
for tho consideration Of tho Senate on
the pending bill. What connection, he
asked, had the speech made at Atlanta,
or the speech made at Brooklyn or New
York, by gentleman who had never
been member Of either house of Con-
gross, with the pending bill?
When the Senator from Kansas under
tho country in the terms he had seen fit
to employ and wI.ch, he took it, wore
deliberately prepared and conned, he
(Lngalls) certainly could not take issue
with him Blackburn) if he concluded
that it was not entitled to response or
reply in the presence of 80 august and
distinguished body as tho oSenato of the
United States. What cause of grievance
the Senator had that warranted him in
applying language to tho Chief Magis
trate which would not be permissible on
the hustings (ho would not say that il
E would bo disgracoful even to be en-
plOyed by a tish-woman) he did not
know. But when that Senator under
took to dcnounco tho Chief Executive OF
} the United Statos after such fashion az
to deliberately declare that no man
afflicted with Ignorance so profound,
with obscurity so gross, should consider
himself as unfit to become tho Presi.
dont's successor, it did seem to him,
Blackburn, that the dignity Of the Sen
/ ato Chamber refused permission to re,
Q spOnd. lie was not here to defend tho
t President from such unwarrantcd at.
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