Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-05
INGALLS, HITS BACK.
MS REPLY TO SEN4T0R VOORHEES,,
SPEEgH LAST WEEK

He Explains That His Reference 10 TN
Heroes. Hancock and McClenan. wa
Purely to Their Political Record-A
Wordy CoIloquy Ensues.
WASHINGTON, May lat the conclusion
OF the morning business Stewart proceeded
to address the Senate in support Of hi
silver coinage resolution. At the conclusion
OF his address the resolution wac adopted
As the hour 2 o'clock drew near the buzz
In the chamber and galleries became
marked. Ingalls, desk was decorated with
flowers. He commenced his speech by re
calling the fact that on the 18th OF July
last, Major General Fitz John Porter, now
ON the retired list, wrote a letter in which
he thanked his friends and said that his
heart was always with them, although at
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
attempt had been made to blacken the
names of all great civil as well as military
leaders in the late war who remained true
TO the Democratic party. Fitz John Por-
ter had been one OF those military leaders
who
MAINTAINED THEIR ALLEGIANCE
to the Democratic party. and he within the
last few months had written that his
heart wal always with them" Referring
Gen. Mcclellan, Ingalls, spoke OF his vo-
cation at West Point, his business connec-
ton with Beauregard, and his attempt to
extend and continue human slavery by tine
acquisition OF Cuba. He spoke of him as
having begun his military career by dis
obeying the orders OF General Scott, as
abandoned Pope at Centreville, as
failed to put rebels to the sword at
Antietam, as having refused to obey the
orders of the President and follow the reb-
els to Winchester, and as having fatally
controlled the destiny OF the army until
the battle of fredericksburg. History had
pronounced it's verdict upon him as q SOL
dier, and the Senator from Indiana would
rot be able t sustain him in the category
with Napoleon, Hannibal and Cesar. He
(Ingalls) dealt with him az a politician and
said hat no one could read his letter to
President Lincoln after the disastrous
SEVEN DAYS FIGHT
On the Peninsula and before Richmond
Rithout coming to the conclusion that Nc
Jlellan was not fully and actively in SYM
oathy with the forces, ideas and sentiments
which were then controlling the American
As to General Hancock, he was also
,ne of the military leaders who were true
70 the Democracy. His martial career was
,ne Of the imperishable heritages OF Ameri-
IAN glory. He marched and triumphed. He
illed the abyss OF fame with names which
would be eternally luminous: The PENN
,ula, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellors-
lille, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. Had he
oeon a soldier under Napoleon he would
rave been a Prince and Marshal of the EN-
)ire. He had been well called Hancock,
,he superb" but when the war closed he
like McClellan) had become tainted with
he fatal virus of ambition for the presi-
lential nomination, but notwithstanding
lis magnificent and
UNAPPRoAGHABLE CAREER,
he American people recognized his hostil-
ty to reconstruction measures and in the
Residential election of 1880, he carried
,ut three Northern States-California, Ne
ada and New Jersey. and the first two OF
hem had been stolen by forgery and the
raud OF the Morey letter issued by Demo-
politicians. He had also re-
eived 1873 electoral votes in the solid
Which had been promised him in his
peech at Cincinnati by the Senator from
south Carolina (Hampton). He spoke OF
he affected Indignation of the Senators
Indiana and Kentucky as discredit-
bile to their intelligence or their candor. |
T they did not know that he (Ingalls) had
poken OF these Union Generals, not as SOL
. l,A -. - a. 4
for the Presidency, they were
ull, stupid and ignorant indeed. II they |
id not know it, and persisted in their as |
they were disengenuous, and he |
(if such a thing were possible) |
hat they were both. [Laughter.] Senator |
INGALLS,, continuing, said: Mr.. President, |
'om
THE MPAssIoNED EULoGY,
ON the rhapsody OF appreciation that
owed from the Senator from Indiana at
ne great military achievements OF Nc
lellan and Hancock, l began to have some
oubt who it was that really put down the
l was driven %curiously to in
lire what las the attitude of the Demo-
attic party in the North and of the Senator
Indiana as one of its great leaders in
"hN OhO ioCol au, i
as fighting in the battle OF Antietam; in
S63, when Hancock was hurting back in
infusion and dismay the scattered squad
ms OF the C~onfederacy. l was really, for
moment, Mr.. President, inclined to be-
ave that the Democratic party of the
n the Senator from Indiana, and |
lose other lgreat patriots whom he eulo-
yes as
An REMOVABLE BULwARK
liberty, OF the Constitution of the Union,
j. Thomas Hendricks and Mr.. Horatio
and Wm. A. Richardson, were in
II panoply of battle, assisting Mcclellan,
Hancock, doing what they could
make the success OF the armies possible,
Id it seems like the very climax oil effront.
Y, like the apex Of audacity for these
en-, whose history is SO sell known, who
sre from the beginning avowed enemies OF |
e cause OF the Union at every step OF it's
and who. like the Senator from
diana, were avowedly in sympathy with |
e South at the outset and were advocates
I'd ~apologists for the cause OF slavery and
c~ession, who gave aid and comfort to re-
lion in every possible way-the copper.
the ''butternuts," [laughter] fthe
nights OF the Golden Circle" with all their /
and degraded lies appearing here as
ADVOCATES N CHAMPIONS |,
the Union soldiers and OF the cause of
IMAM liberty. 1 supposed from the en-
usiasm displayed in favor Of the military
Movements OF Mcclellan and Hancock ,
at we should upon inspection at least
d that the leaders of the Democracy who
We been SO eulogized were in sympathy {
the Union cause and in sympathy :
the efforts that were making to over :
row the Confederacy. Yet, Mr.. Presi- 5
ut. at the very time and during the very 3
ir when Mcclellan was fighting the bat /
OF Antietam, the Senator from Indiana, +
thout excepting Mcclellan and not ex. I
,ting Hancock, speaking at Sullivan, In :
ma, on the fifth Of August, 1862, said in I
erence to Union soldiers that they /
ould go to the nearest blacksmith shop
d have iron collars made and placed
ound their necRs, inscribed thereon in +
&c letters r
my DoG-A. LINCOLN" I
1t the same time be referred to Union t
diers as Lincoln's dogs and hirelings, o
,hout excepting Mcclellan and Hancock, :
! during the campaign, Mr.. President, n
1t resulted in the election of Abraham
lcoln, the Senator from Indiana who ia I
" so vehemently in favor of the prosecu-