The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-03
Senator Voorhees, Violently Stirred
up by His Caustic Remarks.
The Records of Democracy Tainted
Federal Soldiers Dissected.
Military Glory Trampled in the Dust
of Presidential Ambition.
Fitz John POrter's Treachery Re-
warded by the Nations DestrOyers.
The Bill for Emporla's Government
Building Passes the Senate.


galleries presented an unusually animat-
ed appearance at the opening of to-
days session, being crowded with spec
tators principally ladies drawn by the
announcement of a speech at o'clock
by Mr.. Ingalls, in response to Mr..
voorhees, invictor of last Wednesday
and by the prospect of bitter and ex-
cited political discussion. During the
reading of yesterdays journal the hum
of conversation pervaded the chamber.
at the conclusion of the morning
business Mr.. Stewart proceeded to ad-
dress the senate in support of his silver
coinage resolution. At the conclusion
of his address the resolution was
adopted. A bill appropriating S1OO, 900
for public building at Emporia, Kan
sas, was passed. 1t was now APP
preaching the hour of two O'Clock and
the buzz in the chamber and galleries
became still more marked. Mr.. In
gals took his seat where his desk was
decorated with flowers. By this time
large number of spectators had been
admitted to the floor of the senate.
Mr.. ingalls, commenced his speech
by recalling the fact that on the 18th
of July last Major General FitZ John
Porter, now on the retired list, wrote
letter in which he thanked his friends,
and said his heart was always with
them, although his hand and heart had
at one time worked the best they knew
how against them. The senator from
Indiana had complained last Wednes-
day, with bitterness, 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 mil
itary leaders who retained their ale
glance to the democratic party; and he
had, within the last four months. (al-
though he had been dishOnOrably dis
missed from the service, and had been
restored by the action of the demo
cratic party and it's members who had
been members of the confederacyl had
written that ''his heart was always
with them"
Referring to General Mcclellan. Mr.
Ingalls, spoke of his education at West
Point; of his business connection with
Beauregard and his attempt to eX-
tend and continue human slavery by
the acquisition of Cuba. He spoke of
him as having begun his military ca
reer by disobeying the orders OF
General Scott; as having abandoned
Pope at Centreville; as having failed
to put the rebels to the sword at
Antietam; as having refused to obey
the orders of the president and follow
the rebels to Winchester; and as
having fatally controlled thu destiny
of the army until the battle of Fred
ericksburg. History had pronounced
its verdict upon him as a soldier, and
the senator from Indiana would not be
able to place him in the category with
Hannibal and He
(Ingalls) dealt with him as a pOliti-
clan and said that no one could read
his letter to President Lincoln after
the disastrous seven days fight on the
peninsula and before Richmond with
out coming to the conclusion that
Mcclellan was not fully and actively
| in sympathy with the forces, the ideas
and the sentiments which were theI
controlling the American people.
AS to General Hancock, he also Mr.
Ingalls, said)WaS one of the military
leaders who were true to the demOcra
cy. His martial career was one OF the
| imperishable heritageS of the American
| glory. He marched and triumphed
| He filled the abyss of fame with name;
which would be eternal; luminous-thI
| peninsula: Antietam: Gettysburg
| charlottesville; Cold Harbor, and Pc
| tersburg. Had he been soldie
under Napoleon he would have been ;
prince and marshal of the empire. HI
had been we'll called Hancock, ''th'
superb But after the war closed he
| like Mcclellan, had become taintet
with the fatal virus of an ambition TO
the presidential nomination. But, not
| Withstanding his magnificent and I'm
apprOachable career, the American PEG
pie recognized his hostility to the re
construction measures and the presi
Dental election of 1880 he carried bu
three northern stateS-California Ne
yada and New Jersey-and the frs
two of them had been stolen b,
the forgery and fraud of the MOrey let
ter, issued by democratic politicians
He had also received the 1876 electora
votes of the solid south, which ha
been promised him in his speech a
Cincinnati by the senator from SOut
Carolina (Mr. Hampton). He spoke @
the affected indignation of the sens
tors from Indiana and Kentucky as dis
creditable to their intelligence or thei
candor. If they didn't know that h
(IngallSl had spoken of the union gen
erals, not as soldiers but as politicians
and as democratic candidates for tn
presidency, they were dull, stupid
and ignorant indeed; if they di
know it, and persisted in their ASSET
tions, they were disingeniOuS; and h
suspected tif such a thing were pOSS
BILE that they were both. Laughter
Mr.. ingalls, continuing said: IN
President, from the impasSioned eulOe
from the rhapsody of approbatiO
that flowed from the senator from II
, diana at great military achievement
, of Mcclellan and Hancock. I bega
to have some doubt who 1t was tn;
really put down the rebellion. 1t W;
l " f0 innIIiT,o hot ~
attitude of the democratic party in IL
north and of the senator from IndiaT
as one of its great leaders in 1862, whe
Mcclellan, the ideal democrat W;
fighting the battle of Antietam in 1856
2 when Hancock was hurting back
1 confusion and dismay scattered squa
rons of the confederacy. was real
for the moment, Mr.. Presidel
inclined to believe that the Der
ocratic party of the north and Il
9 senator from Indiana and those 9th
= great patriots whom he eulOgiZed as
t immovable bulwark of liberty, of Il
= constitution and the union, n
e Thomas Hendricks and Mr.. HoFat
Seymour and William a. RichardSo
were in full panoply of battle assistil
Mcclellan, and assisting Hancock
Is doing what they could to make the ST
q cess of the armies possible. And
r seems like the very climax of effrC
try, like the apex of audacity for the
le men whose history is well known. v
III were from the beginning the avow
s. enemies of the cause of the union
every step of its progress, and WI
like the senator from Indiana, We
IN ayoWedly in sympathy with the sou
q at the outset and were advocates a
- apologists for slavery and secessiG
al who gave aid and comfort to the rel
OF Hon in every possible way the &c
d. perheads, !" the ''butternuts," tlau,
teri the knights of the golden circl
with all their brutal and degraC
:, lies, appearing here as the a6fVoca
n and champions of union soldiers and
p the cause of human liberty. / 8
Ill posed from the enthusiasm displayed
flavor Of the military achievements