River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-10


SENATOR INGALLS,.
the next President be "a Democrat, before
his term of Office expires majority Of the
Supreme Judges win be Democrats. With
Lamar already on the benc5, every body
appreciates the force Of Ingalls, warning
Senator Ingalls, opened his speech by
saying that the Senator from Indiana com
planned that an attempt had been made to
blacken the names Of all the great civil as
well as military leaders in the late war who
remained true to the Democratic party
Fitz john Porter had been one Of those
military leaders who had maintained their
allegiance to the Democratic party, and he,
within the last four months, although he
had been dishouorably dismissed from the
service and had been restored by the ac-
ton of the Democratic party and its mem
bers who had been members of the Confcd-
cracy, had written that his 9 heart was al
WAYS with them"
Tie denied emphatically having falsi-
fed the acts Of General Mcclellan in
his former address. What he said
was that he had begun his military
career by disobeyiug the orders Of
General Scott years ago: that IL the late
"
vile, failed 20 put the rebels to the
sword at Antietam. refused to obey the
orders Of President Lincoln and follow the
rebels to Winchester, and had fatally con
trolled the destiny Of the army until the
/ battle OF Fredericksburg. History had
pronounced it's verdict upon General Nc
Clellan as a soldier, and the Sen
htor from Indiana would not be
eble to place him in the category
with Napoleon, Hannibal and Cesar. lie
! Qngalls) dealt with him as a politician,
and no one could read his letter
to President Lincoln after the disastrous
sevcn days fight on the peninsula and
before Richmond without coming TO the
conclusion that Mcclellan was not fully
end actively in sympathy with the forces,
tine ideas and the sentiments which
were then controlling the American
| people As 10 General Hancock
he also was one Of the military leaders who
were true to Che Democracy. His martial
/ career was one OF the perishable heritages
Of American glory. He marched and tri-
umphed He filled the abyss of fame with
names which would be eternal, luminous;
the peninsula, Antietam, Gettysburg
Charlottesville, Cold Harbor and Peters
burg Had he been a soldier under Napo-
leon he would have been Prince and
Marshal OF the Empire. lie had been wcll
called Hancock the superb But
after the war closed he dixie Ne
| Clellan) had become. tainted with the
fatal virus Of an ambition Tor the
Presidential nomination. But notwith-
standing his magnificent and unapproach-
aSle career. the American people recognized
his hostility to the reconstruction meas
ures and, in the Presidential election OF
/ 1880, he carried but three Northern
States California, Nevada and New
Jersey, and the first two Of them had
been stolen by the forgery and fraud Of the
Mercy letter, issued by Democratic politi-
clans. He had also received the 1873 cleo
/ toral votes Of the solid South, which had
/ been promised him in his speech at Cincin-
natl by the Senator from South Carolina
| Senator Hamptonl.
Senator Ingalls, continuing said
MIR. President, from the impassioned GU
/ iogv, from the rhapsody Of appreciation that
flowed from the Senator from Indiana at tie
I great military achievements OF Mcclellan
and Hancock, I began to have some
doubt who it was that really put down
I the rebellion. was driven curously TO in
qure what was the attitude OF the Demo
cratic party In the North and Of the senator
srom Indiana as one Of its great leaders in 30,
[ when Mcclellan, the ideal Democrat, was Fight
/ ing the battle Of AnGetaIai III 1865, when Han
I cock was hurting back in confusion ana dis
/ may tae scattered squad Ons Of the CcLfod
/ eraey. was really, for tue moment, Mr.. Pres
ident, inclined 80 believe that the Democratic
party OF the Moth, and the Senator from
Indiana, and those ether great patriots, whom
/ he eulocizcs IS an immOYable bulwark o. M
\ erty, OF the constitution and the Union, Thorn
/ as Hendricks and IOTatiJ Seymour and
/ William A. Richardson we're IN full
\ panoply OF battle, assisting Mcclellan
/ assisting Hancoels, doing what they
/ could to IN he the success OF the armies
possible. And IL seems ike the climax OF ef-
/ from terry, like the apex Of audae Is, for these
men whose history Is SO well known, who were
\ from the beginning the avowod enemies OF the
cause OF the Union at every step OF its prog
/ ress, and who like the Senator FROM Indiana.
/ were ayowedly in sympathy with the
/ epolcCist for slavery aud sccessioni who gave
I aid and comfort to the rebellion in every pos
! sible way; the 'Coppsrheads the Butternuts
/ laughterl the knights OF the GoiUen Circle
/ with all their brutal and degraded lies, appear
1 ing here as the advocates and champions
/ Of Uaion soldiers and Of the cause OF human
! liberty. ! supposed from the enthusiasm ais
/ played IN favor OF the military achievements OF
/ Mcclellan and Hancock that We should, upon
I insgection at least find that the leaders OF the
| Democracy who had been 50 eUlogized we're
in sympathy with the Union cause and
in sympathy with th9 efforts that
we-e be ng made 20 overthrow the Conied-
4 erdCN. ell. NAT. EltslNeiAts ~ Aib t-tA+I 49,
during the year when Mcclellan was fgating
tAs battle OF AGtietam the Senator from
( Indiana, without excepting Mcclellan and
/ without excepting Hancock, speaking
1 at sullivan, Ind, ths 5ta Of August
I 1852, said IN reference TO Union
soldiers that they should go to the nearest
| blacksmith shop and have iron collars MADE
aud placed around their necks, Inscribed there
/ on 10 large letters. Ny dog, =. Lincoln AID
at the same sine he referred e
1 Union soldiers as Lincoln's dogs ard
[ hrelinrs without excepting Mcclellan
or Hanecci Iau-Ater and apPlausel, and during
tic camoa'Su, Mr. President. that resulted IN
the election Of Abraham Lincoln the Senator
4 from Indiana who IS now so yehemeutly IN favoi
I O. the prosecution OF the War Of the Rebellion
I for putting down the south. who so euloglzes
I tho efforts Of Union armies and tha genius o.
/ Union commanders, who poses here as th'
special friend Of the Jn.on soldier ana ue
/ hounces and asperses q criticism upon Inc
! political character and Affiliations o. tnoss
1 wlc were engaged in that war, maze
/ specch at Greenr1stIe tn which ne oe
| nouuced lincoln as "a monster, IN uahappl
Eelon, rec king with the gore OF hunuress
I thousands OF soldiers ncedlessly and Wantonl!
{ sacrificed He had denounced Lincoln in THESE
( awful terms. he had urged that az the close o.
| his first term tue great President shoulo o.
allowed to retire 70 his dishonest ooscurity
He passed on 20 the speech Of Henry r. Jack
n
| DAVIS. a speech which had the effect, he said
Of defeating the Democratic party in OHIO b.
I a. Immense majority. It's influence was s.
/ valuable that Judge Thurman denounced SacA
son us an old tramp and an old fool, ana Gen
hrai Gordon, Of Georgia, immediately set on
for c ncinnati in his special Car 70 try TO eoul
teract ii. and in order TO show that there wa
10 bloody chasm between the North ana IN
south, and that thoroughly fraternai ieelln
prevailed when he met General Morgan
Ohio. on public platform he kissed him u U
Z mouth. as reported in the papers az that um'
and entering his special car went BACK
I Georgia tLaughter.l
Passing 70 the question Of the Electoral con
Il ssion q 1876 Senator Ingalls said thai q
was rot especially euamored q NJ. Haye
AMI yet, inGsmuch as the question
ifr Hayes title was brought In eontroyers
c. the Democratic party as one q ~
issues OF the approaching csmpa5gn, I
selL hound TO ssy tAat the ttlc o. hr. HAYES 7
~ Prsssasney Was the nost absolutely TT