Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-02
A GREAT FIELD DAY.
INGALLS, AND VOORHEES, SCORE BACH
OTHER IN THE SENATE.
The Gally Kansan Tries 10 Justify His 0,wardly
Assault on the Grsa! Dead Soldiers Scathing
RsjOiDdsr From the Tall Sycamore
Of The Wabash.

days session, being crowded with specta
tors-principally ladies-drawn by tn
announcement of a speech at two o'clock
by Mr.. Ingalls,, in response to Mr.. Voor
hees' invective of last Wednesday, snG
by the prospect of a bitter and excited
political discussion. During the reading
of yesterdays journal the hum Of cOnyer'
sation pervaded the chamber.
Mr.. Ipgalls commenced his speech by
recalling the fact that on the nth Of JAY
last Major General Fitz John Porter, nov
on the retired list, wrote letter, in wlisel
he thanked his friends, and said that hi,
heart was always with them, although al
one time his hand and heart had worked
the best that they knew how against them.
The Senator from Indiana had complained
last Wednesday with bitterness that an at
tempt had been made to blacken the names
of all the great civil, as well as the military,
leaders in the late war who remained true.
As to General Hancock he Mr.. ingalls,
said) was one of the military leaders who
were true to Democracy. His martial ca
reer was one OF the imperishable heritsges
of American glory. He marched and tri-
umphed. He filed the abysses of fame
with names which would be eternally
luminous, the Peninsula, Antietam, Get
tysburg, Charlottesville, Cold Harbor and
Petersburg. Had he been soldier under
Napoleon he would b I'VE been Prince
and Marshall of the Empire. He had been
we'll called Hancock the superb" But
after the war closed he like Nc.
Clellan) had been tainted with
fatal virus for an ambition for
Presidential nomination, but not with
standing his magnificent and unapproacha-
BILE career, the American people recognized
his hostility to the reconstruction measures,
and in the Presidential election of 1880 he
carried but thres Northern States, Cali
fornia, Nevada and New Jersey, and the
first two Of them had been stolen by the
forgery and Iraud of the Morey letters,
Issued by Democratic politicians. He had
also received the 13S electoral votes of the
solid South, which had been promised him
10 his speech at Cincinnati by the Senator
from South Carolina (Mr. Hampton.
He spoke Of the affected indignation OF
the Senators from Indiana and Kentucky
as discreditable to their intelligence or
their candor. If they did not know that
be (Mr, Ingalls) had spoken of those Union
not as soldiers, but as politicians
and as Democratic candidates for the Pres
idency, they were dull, stupid and iguo.
rant. Indeed, if they did know it and
persisted in their assertions, they were dis.
ingenious aud he suspected, if such
thing we.e possible, they we're both
1t was matter Of curiousity TO inquire
what was the attitude of the Democratic
party in the North, and if the Senator from
Indiana rs one Of it's great leaders in 1862,
when Mcclellan, the ideal Democrat, was
ightipg the battle of Antietam in 1863,
when Hancock was hurlipg back in con-
'dsiOn and dismay the scattered squadrons
,f the Confederacy. ] was really for the
Mr.. President, inclined 10 believe
hat the Democratic party of the North snd
he Senator from Indiana and those other
,reat patriots whom he eulogizes were an
honorable bIlwark of liberty of the
Constitution and the Union. Mr.. Thomas
Hendricks and Mr.. Horatio Seymour and
Nm. A. Richardson were in full psnoply
If battle assisting Mcclellan, assisting
Hancock, doing what they could to make
he success OF the arms possible. and it
GEMS like the very climax of elfrontery,
ike the apex of audacity for these men,
whose history Is so well known, who were
rom the beginning the avowed enemies of
he cause of the Union at every step of its
,rogress, and who, like the Senator from
indiana, we're avowedly in sympathy with
he South Mt the outset and were advocates
md apologists for slavery and secession,
Eho gave aid and comfort to
be rebellion in every possible way, the
'Copperheads, the 'Butternuts," laugh
or the knights Of the Golden Circle"
With all their brutal and degraded lies,
ppearing here as the advocates and cham
lions Of Union soldiers, and Of the cause
{ human liberty. Passing to the ques-
ion Of the Electoral Commission of 1876, |
ir. Ingalls, said he was not specially en-
mored Of Mr.. Hayes, laughter ], and yet,
Is the question Of Mr.. Hayes |
tile was brought in controversy by the
party, as one Of the issues of
he approaching campaign, he felt bound |
0 say that the title of Mr.. Hayes TO the |
was the most absolutely irre-
rsgible Of any on the whole list of Ameri-
an Presidents, because ii was the only |
ne that was passed upon by a constitu-
onal tribunai organized for that purpo Q.
Mr.. Voorhees,, arose and remarked that
ne speech which the Senate hsd Just
stened 10, recalled 10 his mind the fable
the mountain in labor Two hours had
assed away after the blare Of trumpets
I'D brought large audience TO the Senate,
I'D what had they heard and what had
ley seen2 A poor small mouse creeping of,
rs illusions last Wednesday TO the Ssna-
II from Kansas had been merely Incl
entail. Why should he asaail that Sana-
IT. Men mistook themselves, and the
,nator from Kansas did 80 more than any
10 he knew. That Senator had
,t been alive politically since the
b of March last, when the Senator
ON Kentucky lBlsckburn) disposed of
tH- LatSuISh duu Nclt VI approval
ON one Of the galleries, He had been
slking the streets and posing before the {
orld like an old friend of his in Indiansp-
is in bad health, who had said to him
at he had been dead for year, and was
lly walking around to save funeral
penses. He Ungslls) had read to ,
g Senate, the old stale, put;id ISLANDERS
years gone by, on which he (yoorheesl
d stamped in forty political cam paigus.
had seemed TO him like the voice of
avined, broken-Winded, hsckneyed 20.
ical campaign liars of the last 25 years, s
ut be ever uttered one word sgainst !
ZION soldiers, or talked of their havirg ,
liars around their necks, was so base :
school, so infamous that the black walls ,
perdition could not bat rspudiate it, q
Mr.. VOORHEES, alluded in sarcastic and
lusing manner of Mr. Ingalls, war record,
d said he would stand with tie Senator
fore the soldiers Of Indiana or Kansas
d quit the Senate if he was not
proved by them over Mr.. Ingalls,.
e Senator said that the charge that he '
called Union soldiers "hirelinps and
ncoln dogs" and said that they ought to q
to blacksmith shop and have an
n collar around their necks with the
criptiop, "My Dog, Abraham Lincoln, e"
g q campaign Islander and scandal that
4 haen snit unon That avernapt c,rld A