Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-07

| g grand historical occasion when sta ne
/ TO the m, mory of an honorsd SsDatur WAS
10 be urveiled, whom he (tugslls) hon
ored and respected, aud Oh hist occasion
the ex-Presioent OF the CUnfederacy was
invited to be present. Men went to that
city as they go to banquet, IS waves
oOms when nevies are stranded. The
city was decorated wi b Confscer-
a.e emblems TO make Confederate
holiday. Mr. loyal quoted from the
speech Ct Mr.. Crazy at The unvei log OF
tae Hill STATUE, Atlanta, IN winch Jeher-
son Davis was spoken of as one whose
"Grsy hairs were crowned with deathless
lGYs" and as one who Though
an outcast from the privileges OF this
great government is the III crowned King
OF our people" He did Lot propose to
rehe arse The reply Ct Mr.. Davis, except
to quote one sentence in which he re-
ferred to Senator Il Il as having mashed"
the Injurious Yankee, and meaning, he
supposed our friend now in Florence.
He spoKe Of the same orator Grady
having gone 10 New L gland soon after
ward and made speeches there pourlog
ont his "Cold cream and honey and maple
syTups all over the NORTH" When (he
Askec) WAS that orator sincere? When
DIG he speak the sentiments, feelings and
conscience Of southern people? Was II
when he delivered that Grafton Ia Atltuts
on the lst Of May, 1886, or was it wien
he spilled the oil and wine over all the
American people Of the north? Coming
back to the opposition of the southern
Senators to the pension bills, he said he
did not blame hem for it. He often
wondered how he would have acted II the
relations hsd been rtVersed, and II the
Federal government had been oVerthroWn.
He did not believe he would have
felt comforted in voting pensions
To Confederate soldiers. He believed
he should have been q corspirstor against
the COME dorsey to the end OF his days.
But he should h.T5 regarded IL as 8
climax of II ,ontry-as tie very apex sud
summit of bardihood and audacily, (ae
would not say OF pusillamiulty and ais
bonoI) il, sf.er he had accepted pardon
and had mad his disabilities removed and
had taken the oath Of allegiance
to the successful Southern lfedeIacy
de mad denounced day after Gay the Ct
forts which those CoDf5dtrates made TO
reward their own soldiers and II ne bag
gled about the price which the conqueFing
country should have seen it TO bestoW Oh
the men by whose arms il had conquered.
he did not think that the north was at all
deluded by the pretensioDs of the Senators
on the other side. IL WAS 3 little singular
thst ia all the years that mad elapsed
since the war there never came from one
of lha states that had been in the rebellion
$50 far as he kueW) union soldier Us .
representative in either branch Of Con-
gress elected by Democratic votes. The
Democratic party in those states never
mad bluudered at sending to Congress o.
eiecting as Governor man who bad not
served In the Confederate army In
some cspscity. That had been the SUI
preme test When he, looked over tn,
rrIls of the Senate and of the House and
rejected how few of those who had selTed
in the UniOn army were found in the
councils CT the nstion he wss not surprls
ed at Witnessing such monstrations az
were witnessed when pension bills
were up for sGtion. The south should be
thankful thss It did Tot have to foot the
|, entire pension bills, as France did after
the Franco-PrussiGn war, and yet here,
said he, we have the jIilers ana murder.
ers Of Andersonville, Belle Isle aud
, Libby prison sitting under the fee
which they attempted 10 pull down,
, legisl6ting for TIE country which they en-
. desvored to destroy, and tryisg to pinch
! snd belittle and minimize the amounts &c
bs pad 70 the mul iVudes Of disabled sur
vivors of the army of the union. The
Senator from MIssio al asked in burst
, OF Indignant impotence where 81 this
was going to end. will tell him [ssit
Mr.. Ingalls, and every Senator on thai
eide OF the chsmo (Thether he likes Il
, or no,) what we intend to do. I will tel
, the Senator from Missouri and the Q t q
his associates lust where this thipe
! is going to stop. 1t Is, going to STOP
when the arrears Of pensions are paid
D when the Limitation Is removed and every
) soldier on the rolls, or who gets on the
I rolls, Is psid from the day
of his disability, or In case d
, the survivor from the date Of the soldiers
t death, and when every surviving suIeiel
4 of the Union army is put upon the roll:
/ for service only. That IL wnere 1t is 60
: ing to stop. Applause in the galleries
3 And II you do not like 1t make the mos
O OF It. After ulogizng the Grand Arm!
D OF the Republic Mr.. Ingalls, said II
? conclusion: We propose to pass this bill
i Initiating the language which had beer
used on the other side Of the Chamber
= nope LHhE IL Will pass tuo Osuet II 'usS
5 of Congress. II it6oes. let the President
4 veto 1t e. his peril. Very general sp
S plsuse on the floor snu 10 the galleries
/ Mr.. Blackburn said that he did need Il
g be told by the Senator from Kansas ths,
D Kentucky had always been loyal; that tx
. Senator knew he (BieckburD) represent
ed constituency that hao sent three
: men into the Union army for on
: man that Kscsas sent, and 1t wa
r not without pride that he recslled th,
= fact that of the thirty odd states then il
Y the Uoion, Kentucky WAS the only stat
J which had without draft supplied
more than her quota of men Il
both sides during the struggle. Why tn
t Senator from Kansas should have travel
ed cut of his WY to make sn onslaugh
: on him he did not know. He did NO
know that he (8lsckburr) WAS 8 neces
: sarY connecting link with the Senator
= acceptance Of the presidential nomination
j What connection, he asked, had speecl
= made st Atlanta or q speech made at New
;, York by 9 gentleman, who had Dtve
s been member Of either House Of Con
] gress to do with the pepding blur Whel
c the Senator from Kansas undertook I,
. speak Of the chief executive Of the coun
e try in the terms he had seen tlt to emplo,
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