Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-02

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I tury.
Mr. IEgalis reviewed the speech of Hem
r. Jackson at Macon in the presence of Je
Davis. which lost Ohio to the democrats, an
caused Thurman TO call Jackson tramp an
an old fool, and caused Gen. Gordon to sta
for Ohio in special car to Try and coun,erat
its influence In the south the democrat
had been playing political games with loade
dice. THROWN skies all the time. They hel
stocked cards with revolver in their boot
and bowie in their hands. The South v
infiicfing wrongs daily on hundreds of thou
sands of men, which. if inflicted by foreig
power on the humblest citizen would caus
a declaration of war inside of 80 DAYS
What just occurred in Louisiana was an in
dieatiou OF hat would occur in the nationa
election The democrats at the South ha
( learned the art of making the elections no
only unanimous but of returning a majorit
III excess of the registered vote. Louisiana
majority was still going up and no one kne,
what it would reach by dog days. He re
ceived letters from republican sources, de
failing outrages, cheating 1T Louisiana polls
/ He discussed sn detail the attitude OF the tw,
parties on the pension question, and close,
with perioration contrasting the presen
prosperous condition of the country what
would have been had rebellion prevailed Ii
centuries to come he saw visions of a united
prosperous, happy country, vast homogen
yous domain of freemen, rulers of CONT
Dent from the polar zone to the gulf, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific shore, enioyins
the fruits of liberty and cultivating the arts
of peace the boundaries of which nation
held no more consecrated dust than the ash
es of those who died that the government
might be one of laws not of men; that liber
ty and equality might perish from the earth
lugalls closed at +. NJ, having spoken
two hours.
VOORHEES, rose to reply. He compared In.
gals speech to the mountain to the labor
producing mouse. His allusion to Ingalls,
was incidental. There was no occasion fol-
this assault. The senator had not been alive
politically since the day in March when
Blackburn disposed of him. He had been
walking the streets like an old Indiana polls
friend of his in bad health who once SAID he
had been dead year and was only walking
around to save funeral expenses. The only
criticism of his (Noorhees) speech that he
(Voorhees) had seen i'll the press was that
he had galvanized corpse. He had
not attacked the senator from Kansas, only
the republican party, of which the Kansas
senator was most brilliant and capable
member in the Senate. He proceeded to
compare Ingalls, to the peacock on the barn
yard fence, posing in the morning sun, ad
mring his Owl feathers, and yocalizing the
whole neighborhood with his harsh, unmusi-
cal cry, unmndful of the fact that there
were more useful fowls in the barnyard. In
gals had read 10 the Senate old, stale, pu-
irid and rotten ISLANDERS of years gone by, on
which he (Voorhees) had trampled in forty
political campaigns. Voorhees, proceeded to
the charges of Ingalls, as false
hood SO infamous that the black wall of per-
diton could not duplicate it, ingalls, could
not fish up from the sewer of infamy old
lies and make them respectable,
but he could, by short steps, put himself on
an equality with them. 1t was not in lu-
gals power to state things correctly He
could not now pretend that he only spoke of
Hancock and Mcclellan in their civil capac-
ity. He charged Mcclellan with trying to
make the war a failure. More infamous
conduct could not be attributed to man.
He had a right to call the attention of the
TO the fact that its highest officer, by
republican suffrage, in the country, had
dared to affront the common sense and com
mon decency of the nation in such a manner.
Voorhees, reviewed Ingalls, biography in the
Co gressional Directory. He said that III
the FIRST twelve years of his senatorial career
nothing was said of his war record. He crit
lcised Ingalls, right, in view of his war rec
ord, to criticise Mcclellan and Hancock.
Ingalls, responded acknowledging his lack
of active participation in the war. Whatev
er he had been the Senator from Indiana had
from the outset been a determined, outspok-
en-. positive, aggressive and malignant enc
my of the Union.
voorhees, rose angrily and said: II pro-
nounce that deliberate false accusation. l
voted for every dollar paid the soldier, every
stitch of clothes he wore, every pension bill
that rewarded his services"
Ingalls, proceeded to complain of Voor-
hees personal alusions to him in club as
'cartouche," Judge advocate, peevish paltry
politician, etc, and of his efforts to belittle
him before the American people, whereas he
{ Ingalls, only referred to Voorhees, public
utterances which he had never denied.
Voorhees, declared he did deny it.
Ingalls, replied that Voorhees, could not
lcry the publication he read. 1t was a ver-
bal m report certified to.
Voorhees, asserted that not one word or
sy liable read by the Senator was true or be-
lieved to be true in Indiana. The accusation
bad been trampled under foot. The Senator's
that he (Voorhees) had ever
been member of the political secret society
The knights of Golden Circle-was so
base and UNANIMOUSLY false that he didn't know
how to choose language to denounce it.
This caused sensation in the galleries
and manifestations of appreciation and re-
proval. The sergeant-at-arms was directed
10 place under arrest any person violating
the rules of the Senate.
Ingalls, continuing, said that the senator
had just stated that he had been in favor of
he destruction of slavery and opposed to Sc
cession. Yet in the published volume of his
speeches appeared reprint address in Vir-
gnia, before the war, in which he advocated
both.
voorhees, stated that he had not said that
he favored the destruction of slavery but
.aid he was glad it had taken place, and he
was.
Mr.. Ingalls-The senator from Indiana at
he time he delivered the speech had two
,ditions prepared, one fof circulation in the
North and one for the South. Laughter.
Voorhees-That is not true.
Mr.. Ingalls-They are accessible today
Just as much as the statutes of the United
States.
Mr.. Voorhees-Bring them in. I say it
g not true. | heard that in campaigns be-
fore.
Mr.. Ingalls, then recalled the letter that
Voorhees, wrote before the war, recommend
ng one b. A. Shute, which Shute took to
he South and had it filed with the Confed-
crate war department. The letter said that
Shutes sympathies we're with the South aud
hat his own sentiments were in close har
nony with Shutes. Ingalls, asked if that
vas vile calumny of the opposition press. -
Mr.. Voorhees, said no, but it is one of
those things that the people of Indiana had
passed upon for thirty years.
Senator Ingalls.-The democratic party
passed upon it.
Voorhees-And no colporteure or mission
ary from Michigan can give it any more re-
spectablity than fellows from Indiana.
| have disposed of them. There was no war
Of the Confederacy then.
Ingalls-Within four months from that
time Sumpter had fallen; yet the gentleman
says Il take this occasion to say that his sem
tlments and mine are in close harmony.
continued Ingalls,, the senator re-
garded il as a vile expec,oration of the parti
san press and spat upon it and kicked it
again. When the archives of the confedera
CIV were CAPTURED il had been sent to the war