Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-10

ana recognizing MN IN his relation &
/ The reconstruction policy Of Congress.
LINCOLN A. VIEWED BY TIE INDIANS
SENATOR.
At the very time when Mcclellan wa.
fighting the battle of Antietam. the Sen
ator from Indiana, without excepting
Mcclellan and Hancock, speaking al
sullivan. Indiana, August ), 1862, saiC
that the Union soldiers should go to The
nearest blacksmith shop and have iroI
collars made and placed around theil
necks inscribed thereon in large letters
MY dog. A. Lincoln"
MI ingalls, then referred to the speecI
Voorhees, delivered during the Lincoln
campaign at Green Castle, which wa:
reported in The CiHciaautj Commercial
August 3. 1861. In the course OF thi,
speech. Voorhees, said:
..it seems to me that I can hear the
spirits of the hundreds of thousands OF
lives that have been uselessly sacrificed
in this war, pleading against the reelec.
tion of this man. Bloody, CORY. reek-
ing. let him go out into his hateful ob-
Scuritv. there to stand the residue Of his
DAYS vi h the accusations of the mur-
dered dead jibbering around the unhap-
py felon.'
Passing to the question Of the Eiec-
toral Commission of 1876. Mr.. ingalls,
felt bound TO say that the title of Mr
Hayes to the PRESIDENCY was the most
irrefragible of all in the whole list OF
American Presidents. because Il was the
! ar1,- npa ,--Ni. oh ,r-ac avor ,,oCco od r,1ar1 hv
a constitutional tribunal properly organ
lied for that purpose. The Democratic
party should not forget that the Elector-
al Commission was one Of its own de-
vices. He said:
The country was now on the very
/ threshold Of the most important contest
of this country-a contest whose result
would determine the destiny of the coun-
! try for the next twenty-five years. The
country had still against it the Southern
Confederacy, and the success of the
Democratic party meant the success Of
/ the Confederacy, which was to-day as
much an organized, active, aggressive
force in politics as in 1861
! Mr.. Ingalls, here read an extract from
the report of a speech made by Mr.. La
mar in Richmond in June, 1851, in
which he is represented as speaking of
Mr. Lincoln as buffoon: and he asked
what necessity there had been for the
President to affront the loyal sentiment
of the country by placing on the bench
of the Supreme Court man with such
a record. 1t was because Mr. Lamar
was the dearest friend and representa-
tive of jefferson Davis. There was no
other explanation of it. He said that
the Republican party would have no
right to complain if the South were kept
solid by fair means. They had an illus
tration OF what was going to take place
in November next by what had just
taken place in Louisiana. The Demo-
cratic party in the South had learned
the art not only of making elections
unanimous, but it had learned the art
of returning a Larger Democrat. major
ity than the registered vote. He closed
with perOration picturing what would
have been the miserable fate of the
country if the Rebellion had prevailed,
and contrasting that picture with the
present and future prosperity of the
United States.
MR.. VOORHEES, RISES IN REPLY.
Then Mr.. Voorhees, arose and remark
ed that his allusion last Wednesday to
the Senator from Kansas had been mere
ly incidental. He had made no attack
upon him but upon the Republican par
ty. How useless it had been for that
Senator to arraign him. He QngallS)
had read to the Senate the old, stale, pu-
trid, rotten ISLANDERS of years gone by,
on which he (VOorhees) had trampied in
forty political campaigns. That he ev-
er uttered one word against Union sol
diers or talked of their having collars
around their necks was so base false
hood that the black walls of perdition
could not reduplicate it. The Senator
did not state things correctly, and could
not do SO. 1t was too late for the Senator
to plead that he had only spoken of Nc
Clellan and Hancock as allies of the
Confederacy in the civil capacity. He
had charged Mcclellan with endeavor-
ing to make the war failure. No
greater charge could be brought against
Benedict Arnold than that charge against
Mcclellan.
He spoke of Mr.. ingalls, biography in
the Congressional Directory, and COM
mented upon the fact that for the first
twelve years of his Senatorial life moth !
ing had been said in that biography OF !
his military career; while in the later BIZ !
ographies he added to the other public
positions which he had filed those Of
Major, Lieutenant, Colonel and Judge |
Advocate in the Kansas Volunteers from |
1863 to 1865. As to the attacks upon |
the people of the South, ne said that the
Senator from Kansas might war on such
people, bat the end would be their tri- |
umph and his defeat.
A LIVELY COMPARISON OF WAR RECORDS.
Mr. ingalls, responded to the speech of
Mr.. VoOhees and said that no one was |
more conscious than he Of the duty |
which he owed to his country. As the |
Senator from Indiana had seen fit to in
vite comparison between their records |
and their relations to the great questions
of the past twenty-years, he felt it his |
duty to put on record from information
in his possession what the Senator's
iCCOIu dilu llloOOlN NGlC- LIZ SItOulSA
refer only to public matters in public
records and should venture the affirma-
ton that, whatever might have been his
own relations to the great struggle be-
tween the North and South, the Senator
from Indiana had been from the outset
the determined, outspoken, positive, ag-
gresSive and malignant enemy of the
Union cause. Mr.. ingalls, said that the
Senator from Indiana had come into the
with pile Of manuscript as
big as the Talmud- -sweltered venom
He could excuse. unprecedented as
Saults. The deliberate, premeditated
Of malignant, unfounded
assaults was, to his mind, something
entirely incompatible with a noble ma
5ure. His relations with the Senator
lad always been pleasant and cordial,
md thev had agreed on many questions,