The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-14

| OF his days. but ne SnOulC nave Ie
garded as the climax of efIrontery, az
the very apex and summit of hardihooo
and audacity, Che would not say OF pusil
lanimity and dishonor, if after he hso
accepted pardon and had had his dis
abilities removed, and had taken the
oath of allegiance to the successful
Southern Confederacy, be had de-
nounced day after day the efforts which
those Confederates made to reward then
own soldiers, and if he haggled about
the price which the conquering country
should have seen fit to bestow on the
men by whose arms it had conquered.
He did not think that the North was
at ali deluded by the pretensions of the
Senators on the other side. It was q
little singular that in all the years which
had elapsed since the war there never
had come from one Of the States that
had been in rebellion $50 far as he knew
q Union soldier as q representative II
either branch Of Congress elected by
Democratic votes. The Democratic
party in those States never had blum
dered in sending to Congress or electlne
as Governor man who had not served
in the Confederate army in some ca
pacity. That had been the supreme
test. When he looked over the rolls OF
the Senate and of the House and re.
iected how few Of those who had served
in the Union army were found in the
councils of the nation he was not sur
prised ct witnessing such demonstrations
as were witnessed when pension bills
were up for action.
Critic;sing the statement of Senator
Vest, that OF 1888, 100000 paid out in
pensions $3.50, 100000 has been con-
tributed by the South, he declared that
such astatement was a 'sglltterlng gen
erality." He doubted whether the South
had actually contributed 100000 in
stead Of $500, 100000. But even If the
South had paid $3.50, ,000,0 it was very
lucky that it did not have to pay all the
pensions. Instead of grumbIing and
complaining that it had paid $3.50, ,OO0,-
coo it ought to be thankful that it did
rot have to foot the entire bill, as
France had to do after the Franco
Prussisn war.
Senator ingalls, declared that the
movement for pensions was not going to
stop until the arrears of pensions were
paid; until the limitations were removed
and until every pensioner was paid from
the day OF his disabilities, or, in case Of
a survivor, from the day OF the soldiers
death, and until every surviving soldier
of the Union army was placed on the
pension rolls for service only. That
was, he said, when it was going to stop;
and if the other side did not like it, they
might make the most of it. Very gen.
eral applause on the floor and in the
galleries.
SENATOR BLACKBURS's REPLY.
Senator Blackburn rose to reply and
said (after the confusion succeeding
Ingalls's speech had subsided) that he
was at loss to account for the course of
the Senator from Kansas in dragging
him into the trade in which he had just
INDUCED. he was sure that he BLACK
D1rn) had never boasted his identitca-
ton with the military service and had
never referred to the fact Of his having
been g Confederate soldier. Unlike the
Senator from Kansas, he (Blackburn)
thought his military service too modest
and too humble to prove a subject Of
interest to the galleries. He did not
need to be told by that Senator that
Kentucky had always been loyal. That
Senator knew that he (Blackburn) repre-
sented a constituency which had sent
three men into the Union army for one
man that Kansas sent, and it was not
without pride that he recalled the fact
that of thirty odd States then in, the
Union, Kentucky was the only State
which had, without draft, supplied
more than her quota of men to both
sides during the struggle. Why the
Senator from Kansas should have
travelled out of his way to make an on
slaughs upon him he did not know. He
did not know that he (Blackbnrn) was a
necessary connecting link with the Sen
ator's acceptance of the Presidential
nomination. The Senator from Kansas
doubtless did know that illness in the
family OF the Senator from Missouri had
taken him long distance from the city,
and that he was to be absent for some
time on that account. He did not intend
to be involved IN any controversy with
the Senator from Kansas, but he pro
tested against helack of fairness evlnced
by that Senator when he undertook to
deal in such fashion with men who had
simply stated facts and submitted data
for the consideration of the Senate on
the pending bill. What connection, he
asked, had the speech made at Atlanta,
or the speech made at Brooklyn or New
York, BY gentleman who had never
been a member of either house OF Con-
eress, with the pending bill
When the Senator from Kansas under
took to speak Of the Chief Executive Of
the country in the terms he had seen fit
to employ and which, he took it, were
deliberately prepared and conned, he
(Ingalls) certainly could not take issue
with him (Blackburn) if he concluded
that it was not entitled to response or
reply in the presence Of so august and
distinguished body as the Senate of the
United States. What cause of grievance
the Senstor had that warranted him IN
applying language to the Chief Masls.
trate which would not be permissible on
the hustings Che would not say that it
would be disgraceful even to be en-
ployed by a ish-woman) he did not
know. But when that Senator under
took to denounce the Chief Executive OF
the United States after such fashion as
to deliberately declare that no man
afflicted with ignorance SO profound,
with obscurjty SO gross, should consider
himself as unfit to become the Presl-
dents successor, it did seem to him,