The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-02
ENTHUSIASTICALLY HANDLED
OUR VOORHEES, TAKES HIM TO TASK
The Jawhawter's COwardly Attack ON Decd
Soldiers Receives Due ACCOMMODATIONS
Declares for the Mills Tariff
Bill in Strong Speech.

giving 10 the city OF NfaDO FORKS, OAK,
The right to build two free bridges across
the Red river of the North, was passed
with an amendment.
SIr. Mitchell offered 4 resolution,
which was adopted, calling on the secre-
Gry OF the treasury for copies Of the re-
ports OF Special Agents Becher and
Jingle as to alleged smuggling OF opium
from British Columbia.
The motion TO refer the presidents mes
sage was taken up, and Mr.. Voorhees,
proceeded to address the senate thereon.
He said that an extensive discussion of
the tariff in the senate and house left no
doubt as to the attitude of the republican
party on the question, and it had at last
been forced to throw away masks and
false-faces and to admit that taxation was
not to stop at the revenue line of the gov
eminent, but was to be turned loose,
without limit and without shame, on the
labor of the people, for the sole
purpose of enriching a favored few
"a syndicate OF devouring, insa-
tate monopolists. The republican
party leaders, driven by madness to sui
eide and hari-kari, were going before the
American people, opposing every reduc-
ton of taxes except those paid by tobacco
and alcoholic spirits He did not intend
that that issue should be lodged in the
coming political campaign at least in In
diana. The position of the republican
party might be described thus: % Tax
alton not to be limited by the expenses of
the government, with a view to the pro-
lection of manufacturing monopolists.
~ All the protection given and all its
profits to inure to the further enrichment
OF capitalists, but not dollar of it TO the
labOring men and women. (3) That if
any reduction of taxes was TO take place,
it must be on alcoholic liquor and tobacco
and not on the prime necessaries of life.
Passing to the charges that the dem
ocrats in congress have been hostile to the
Union soldiers in the matter of pensions,
he cOntrasted the records of both parties
in that matter, and claimed that the re-
publicans had made mean and parsimon-
lous record toward the soldiers, and that
rank and bitter injustice had been done
them by provisions OF law under republic
can sway, while the democrats in congress
and the executive Offices had been lib
eral in the EXTREMIST sense.
Referring to the attack made in the SEN
ate upon the memory OF Mcclellan and
Hancock he said the presiding officer of
the senate, holding the highest official po-
sitiOn now held by republican, had de-
scended to the floor and attacked the
memory OF American heroes, who were
sleeping where flowers and tears were an
nually co-mingled on memorial day, rest
ing from their glorious lives in the quiet
bivOuac OF the dead. The piOus task OF
making response had been appropriately
performed by one whose own conspicuous
daring in arms had given him the gener-
Gus right of chivalry to speak in their
praise. 1t was true that not even the ell
Oquent tongue of Blackburn could reach
Mcclellan or Hancock with assurances Of
their country's devotion and love.
Can hOnOr's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or fiattery soOthe the dull, cold ear of death?
No, but the voice OF the senator from
Kentucky, on that occasion, had been an
honor to American manhood and TO
American soldiery. There were sugges-
lions, however, inspired by the wantOn
and astounding assault OF the senator
from Kansas which would speedily pass
from the public mind. That senator, a
recognized leader of his party, had stood
in his place in the senate and denounced
two great Union generals as traitors to
their country, allies OF the COnfederacy,
and no word of dissent or rebuke had
house. Democrats had waited. and some
had wondered. but the silent acquiescence
in the horrible charges remained un-
broken.
Mr. Voorhees, proceed to draw vivid
picture OF events during the war, begin
ming with the scenes in Washington on
the night of the first battle of Bull Run.
when the wearied gallOp of the courier
could be heard as he came over the long
bridge and reached the war department
with dispatches of disaster from the front.
In that hour of national extremity Me
Clellan had been called by a despairing
official authority to perform a task greater
far than was ever performed by Alex
Rnder, Hannibal, Caesar or Napoleon in the
same length Of time. Then he recalled
latter the second disastrous battle of Ma
nassas) Mcclellan riding out to meet the
retreating troops and being greeted with
cheers more thrilling and pathetic than
those which greeted Napoleon on his re-
turn from Eliza. Then came the battle of
AntIetam, victory unparalleled in war,
considering all the conditions The i'm
mediate peril being gone and a sense Of
security being felt, Mcclellan had been
again stricken by partisan malice and had
closed his lofty military career forever.
An eagle towering in his pride OF place.
Was by noilsing owl hawked at and killed.
And to this day clamorous kites and
crows and other ignOble scavenger birds
sought TO tear and mutilate McClellan's
august fame. Yes, Mcclellan, he said.
was democrat and was removed from
command on the 9Th Of November, 1862
He could with uplifted hand have sworn
that he had saved the republic, as did
Cicero in the forum at Rome
Among the highest. the most fortunate
and most distinguished characters pro-
,iuccd by the war where. he asked, could
\ name he found cleaner, purcr, freer
from self-seeking, or more devoted to a
sublime sense Of duty than that of Me
Ciellan? After life's iitiul fever he sleeps
well. not disturbed b. the partisan decla-
m'aiions Of judge advocates, provost mar
shals, or peevisn politicians
Mr. Voorhees, changed the scene 70
act. vsburg, where nc SAID, the last hope
s. the Southern conlederacy disappeared
forever. What invisible spirit OF the air,
nc asked, intent upon evil to the senator
fronI Kansas, could have been III attend
ancc ON him when bestood up and opened
mis- mouth IN the senate chamber on the
9th Of March. Mcclellan and Hancock
were the heroes OF the tive most conse-
quential battles OF the war, Antieten and
Gettysburg, the loss o! either cf which
would have brought European recognition
20 the Confcderacy, and darkness and dis