The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-10
Senator ingalls, Shows Up the War
Re ,Ord of Voorhees, Of
Indiana.
lie Accuses the Hoosier Of Syimpa
thy with Secession and Proves
His Charge:
One of the Bitterest Attacks Upon
the South Ever Heard in
the Senate.
LAYS OUT VOORHEES,.

Most Scathins Reply.
WASHINGTON. Special Telegram. May L.
If any one has any doubts as to the position
of Senator Ingalls, with respect to the Uuion
solliere and the War issues after his notable
speech in the senate to- day, ho must, as Mr.
Ingalls, puts it, be either stupid OF disingen-
uous, or both. It is the lot of few men in
congress to: have such an audience
az MIR: Ingalls, had to-day It
was an audience such rs none
OF his opponents can command The tariff
debate was proceeding in the house; but
most of the afternoon there were present in
the hall of the house only the chairman of
the committee of the whole and the speaker
who was addressing the chair. The rest of
the representatives were for the most part
present in the senate chamber: - Every
vacant bench in the senate chamber was
occupied In the galleries the diplomatic gal
lery was SO packed that the stairs were used
as seats, and all of them were occupied. while
in tho other galleries there was not vacant
Inch The seat which is reserved for the
family OF the president was occupied by the
wives OF two of the cabinet officers II
they came to hear what the greatest master
Of sarcasm and vituperation In the senate
had to say OF the president, they went away
disappointed, for Mr.. ingalls, had little to say
OF Mr.: Cleveland. He paid his respects to
think Of
| Mr. INGALLS, WORDS.
Senator Ingalls, said:
On July l last, Maj Gen. Fits John Por-
ter, now on the retired list, wrote letter in
which he thanked his friens.s, and said that
bis 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 that an attempt had been made
to blacken the names of the military leaders
In the last war who remained true to the
been one of these Mr.. Ingalls, spoke Of
Gen. McCellan's education at West Point,
with his business connection with Beaure-
gard, and with his attempt to continue and
extend human slavery by the acquisition of
Cuba. He began his military career by dis
Pope at Centeryille, failed to put the rebels
to the sword at Antietam, refused to obey
the orders OF the president and follow the
rebels to Winchester; and as fatally con-
battle OF Fredericksburg: History has pro-
nounced its verdict upon him as q soldier,
and Voorhees, would not he able to place him
on the category with Napoleon, Hannibal
and Caesar. Gen. Hancock also was one of
the military leaders who were true to the
I
the imperishable hcritages of American
glory. He marched and triumphed. He
flied the abyss of fame with names which
would be eternal. iuninous-the peninsula.
Antietam. Gettysburg. Charlottesville, Colo
Harbor and Petersburg. Had he been q
soldier under Napoleon, he would have
been prince and marshal of the empire.
He had been well called Hancock "the su-
perb." But after the war closed he Qike Nc
| Clellan) had become tainted with the fatal
| vii 0S fnn tt1 1$;n1
nomination. But Notwithstanding his mag
njficent and unapproachable career, the
American people recognized his hostility to
the reconstruction measures, 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 Morey letter issued by Democratic poll
ticianA He had also received the 1873 elec-
toral votes of the solid South, which had
been promised him in his speech at Cincin-
natl by the senator from South Carolina (Mr.
Hampton). II Voorhees, and Blackburn did
not know that he (Ingalls) had spoken of
these Union generals not az eoldiers, but as
| politicians, and as Democratic candidates
for tho presidency they were dull, Stupid
and persisted in their assertions, they were
disingenuous, and he suspected that they
were both.
| HE Is DOUBTFUL
! I began to have some doubt who it was
that really put down the Rebellion. was
driven curiously to inquire what was the at
! tltude of the Democratic party in the North
| and of the senator from Indiana az one of it's
great leaders in 1862, when Mcclellan, the
ideal Democrat. was fighting the battle Of
Anletam; IN 1868, when Hancock was
creating confusion and dismay among the
! scattered EQuadrons OF the Confederacy. I
was really, tor the moment. inclined to be-
lieve that the Democratic party, and the
senator from Indiana and those other great
patriots, whom he euogizes as immovab!e bull
| warks of liberty, of the constitution and the
Union, Mr.. Thomas Hendricks and Mr.. Ho-
ratio Seymour, and Mr.. William A. Richard
SON. We're in full panoply of battle, assistlng
Mcclellan. assisting Hancock, doing what
possible. And, it seems like the very climax
of effrontery for these men, whose history is
! SO well known, who were from the
beginning the avowed enemies of the cause
of the Union at every step of it's progress,
| and who, like the senator from Indiana,
were avowedly in sympathy with the South
at the outset and were advocates and apol-
ogists for slavery and secession. who gave
aid and comfort to the rebellion in every
possible way-the @copperheads," the ~but-
ternuts, me knights OF the Golden Circle, .
with all their brutal, degraded lies, appear
ing here as the advocates and champions of
tie Union cause and of the cause of human
liberty. During the very year when McC.el-
Ian was fighting the battle Of Antietam, the
senator from Indiana, speaking at Sullivan,
Union soldiers, that they should 70 to the
nearest blacksmith shop and have iron COL
lars made and placed around their necks,
inscribed thereon. in large letters. MY
time, he referred to Union soldiers as
e1cepns Mcclellan saa h'fe5ns' Ha~oocf
Mr. ingalls, read extracts from speech made
by Voorhees, Aug. Y, lou4, winch declared
the war failure and spoke Of Lincoln as a
monster and an unhappy felon The title of
was the most absolutely Irrerr;k ab.o of any
| In the whole list Of American presidents be-
cause it was the only one which was ever
| passed upon by constitutional tribunal
Henry WatIerson issued his celebrated proc
| lamation, calling on loo, 900 @unarmed
Kentuckians" to visit Washington on the an
| adversary Of the battle of New Orleans, for
the purpose of experimenting the electoral
count He 1ngalls) had had a conversation
with President Grant shortly after the issuing
! OF that proclamation, and had asked him
IT he thought there was going to be any
trouble. Gen. Grant had paused a moment
| and. with that deliberate method which
characterized his utterances, replied: mo. /
don't think there is going to BIO any trouble;
but 1t has been one rule Of my life to be
always ready" And he was ready. In
obedience TO some mysterious impulse,
troops, parks Of artillery and munitions OF
war had begun to come to the capital.
! CLEVELAND AND LAMAR
| Mr.: Cleveland had apparently warranty
decd for the seat which he occupied. and
yet compared with the title which Mr. HAYES
had to his seat, he was in possession of
| the thief. In the court of justice and fair
! conscience he had never been elected at all
He had been counted in to Office by part
nership between Dick Turpin and Uriah
Heep, footracs and sneak thieves. Cartoucho
and Pecksnitt; and it was some consolation
to knew that in that partnership, the apos-
tates and renegades had lost their snare Of
the swag. Tho country had still against it
! tho Southern Contedcracy. Who was Lucius
Qutntus Curtius Lamar? He never was sus-
| secret that the president ut one time per
emptortly refused to appoint him. He asked
what necessity there had been for the pres