Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-02
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on war legislation, all knew what that
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Il that tribunal was to pass hereafte
on war legislation, all knew what tina
result would be.
Pass'n ng on to the question OF elect
| ions in the South, he said the Repub-
lican party would have no right to
complain If the South were kept solid
| by fair means; but there were every
| day wrongs inflicted on thousands
and hundreds Of thousands of men in
| the Southern States, which if inflicted
by a foreign power on single Ameri-
can citizen there would be declaration
of war within ninety days, even with
| the present Secretary OF State in office
(loud laughter). The Democratic
par in the South has defined the
art, not only of making elections un-
animous, but Of making them more
than unanimous. He read letters and
statements from Republican sources,
detailing acts OF outrage and cheating
| at the recent Louisiana election, and
| declared his belief that fair returns
would have shown Yarmouth elected
Iby majority OF eighty-three or
eight-four thousand.
In closing ingalls, said in the cen
turtles that are to come lie saw vision
of united and prosperous and happy
Americans--a vast homogeneous do
main of free men, rulers OF the conti-
nent from the Polar zone to the Gulf,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, offer
ing the franchises of liberty and
perpetuating the arts Of peace. The
people should remember, he said,
on each recurring day, when
they celebrated those who had died !,
that the country held in its fruitful
aud tender breast, no more priceless
treasures than the consecrated dust of
those who had died in order that this
should be government of laws and
not OF men, and that liberty and the
Constitutional government might not
perish forever from the face of the
earth.
AS Ingalls, sat down Blackburn
asked him to give in the record full
and correct extracts from his (Black-
burn's) speech. to which he had re-
ferred, and Ingalls, promised to do So.
Voorhees, arose and remarked that
the speech which the Senate
had Just listened to recalled
| to his mind the fable of the mountain
| in labor. Two hours had passed
away after blast of trumpets had
brought large audience to the SEN
ate, and what had they heard and
what had they seen? A poor small
mouse creeping off. His allusion
last Wednesday to the Senator from
II Lo1 ,,,aro1xv sx,os1ax-
tai; the Senator had not been
alive politically since the 9th
of March last, when the Senator from
Kentucky (Blackburn) disposed of
him. He had made no attack upon
Ingalls,, but upon the Republican
party. He proceeded to compare In
gals to peacock on barnyard
| fence, posing Of a summer morning,
looking at his own feathers as they
glazed in the sun and vocalizing
the whole neighborhood with his
harsh, unmusical and unmeaning cry.
unmindful of the fact that there were
more useful fowls in the barnyard.
How useless it had been for the Sem
ator to arraign him. He (Ingalls)
had read to the Senate the old, stale.
putrid, rotten ISLANDERS of years gone
by on which he (Voorhees) had tram
pied in the by-gone political cam
paigns. That he ever uttered one
word against the Union soldiers or
talked OF their having collars around
their necks, was base falsehood.,
Voorhees, alluded in sarcastic and
amusing manner to Ingalls, war
record, and said he would stand with
the Senator before the soldiers of In
diana or. Kansas, and quit the Senate
ii he was not approved by them over
Ingalls,.
Ingalls, replied that as the Senator
from Indiana had seen fit to invite a
comparison between their records and
their relations to questions OF the past
twenty-five years, he felt it his duty to
put on record, from information in
his possession what the Senator s
record and history was. He should
refer only to public matters in public
public records, and would venture
the affirmation that whatever
might have been his own I'm.
galls') relations in the great struggle
between the North and the South. the
Senator from Indiana had been from
the outset determined, outspoken,
positive and malignant enemy
OF the Union cause. ~ pronounce
that" said Voorhees,, rising with
anger in his eyes, ito be a deliberate
false accusation. I voted for every
dollar that the soldier got, for every
stitch of clothes he wore and for every
pension bill that rewarded his ser
vices"