Huntsville gazette., 1888-05-05

to every petty position he had held, but 1t
was only about two years ago that he re-
membered that he was a major, lieutenant
colonel ana judge advocate Of volunteers"
He was not a man OF that military record
that justified him in attacking Union gen
erals.
Mr.. Ingalls, saved the hardest knocks for
his second speech. He reserved his docu-
ments till he could draw from Voorhees, de-
mails of certain statements Although the
ndianian had most positively denied certain
stories, Ingalls, was bound to get his docu-
ments in. He read an affidavit signed by
about dozen people said to be residents Of
Indiana, one Of them woman to the effect
that voorhees, had made the assertion about
Lincoln dogs Lincoln hirelings,n ETC., as
charged. ingalls, read these from newspaper
clippings, which We're conveniently pasted
on white sheets Of paper He ntimated that
voorhees, had been a member of the Knights
OF the Golden Circle, which charge Voor-
hees immediately denounced as false.
Nh Ingalls, went through a mass of papers,
having collected all the information about
the Old story that when Mr.. VOORHEES, va
Gated his law Office in Indiana lot of trea-
5Onable documents wele found in it, includ-
ing l2D copies Of the ritual of the Knights
o. the Golden Circle, reasonable commu-
nications from Nallandigham, Jacob Thomp-
son and others; letters pertaining to the
purchase Of arms for the Confederates, docu-
nents about 100 600 men who were 10 be sena
from Indiana in aid of the rebellion, etc,
These papers were there taken charge Of by
Gen. Darlington.
ingalls, said further that Voorhees,, in aa
address to his constituents in 1861 said he
would not vote for dollar or man for the
war, 'and added the Kansas senator, "he
never did His, Ingalls,, military record
bad been obscure, but he at least was always
OIL the side of his country, while the senator
from Indiana vas against it.
Mr.. VOORHEES, declared that ne had voted
for every dollar in the war and for every
stitch OF clothing the Union soldiers wore.
He had never issued such an address as the
senator from Kansas alluded to. 1.-The man
who says otherwise" he continued, lis
falsifier and slanderer, and brand him as
such.n
The discussion was now appro Schilg a eli
max and was of the running description
VOORHEES, defended his record during the
war, and said he had been repeatedly i'll
dorsed by the people Of Indiana, who had
refGted and exploded the old slanders which
he'd been brought up ingalls, said he bad
been indorsed only by the Democrats of IN.
diana, and then alluded to the affidavit
about what Voorhees, should have said in his
speech at Sullivan, and said be was informed
that those who made the affidavit were pSo-
pie Of veTactity, and in an insinuating way
be seemed to Insist that they had spoken tES
truth.
Voorhees, arose from his seat and de-
nGunced them as liars, and" he added,
1.-THE senator is g.eat liar when he re-
peats what they say, and l pass it back to
the sccGndrel behind you who instgated the
lie"
The man who was behind Ingalls, was Req
resentative Johnson, Of Terre Haute, Ind, ],
who had come over from the honse to see cue
circus
The serge mt alarms was instructed tc
arrest anyone making roise, but still the
crowd which filed every seEt, crowded the
aisles and lined Ihe walls of the gallery ap
plauded, hisseI and laughed uproarously.