Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-10
Blackburn In Reply Shows Up His
Military Record.

Of last week, had read a paragraph i
which he (Sherman) had been severed
| criticised for hia rnnnaction with silver de
nonetization. He would not have regarde,
it worthy OF notice because the Senate
from Kentucky had been under some o.
element, but that he had used the wor,
secrecy" that 1t was done under cover
that he (Sherman) was responsible. H
proceeded to show how the principle of la,
had been reported in the bill three year
before it went into effect; how it had bee
discussed, etc. He wanted to know VIII,
such a matter had been lugged INTO a de
bate with which it had nothing to do.
Mr.. Beck asserted he would to-morro,
prove all his statements.
Mr.. Ingalls, having called Mr.. Platt to tn
chair, proceeded to address the Senate, tn
galleries beingcrowded to theirful capacity
He had been surprised one day last week OF
returning to the chamber after a brief alb
sence to learn that the Senator from Mis-
souri, (Vsst) had referred to him in term
not complimentary. and had supplied will
personal remarks an intimation that tn
people Of the District OF Columbia were in
capable OF disinterested patriotism, ant
that the veterans of the republic were
mob OF sordid p%lunderers. As to himself, b,
would say that the nomination anC
| election of Grover Cleveland had mad,
| the pretensions Of any American either
to the Presidency respectable. There wal
no man in this country whose ignorance
was SO profound, whose obscurity so im
penetrable, whose a~ntecedents were so de
graded that he had not the right to aspire
to the Presidential nomination by The
Democratic party. He regretted that the
Senator from Missouri was not in his seat
Il 4 - I1- 1@,,1l s-.sAax Al-x
bad example and would confine himself, 80
far as he was concerned. to that Senator'S
autobiography. That Senator was born in
a State that had not seeded (Kentucky)
and had represented in the Confederate
Congress q State which had not seeded
(Missouri). The Senator from Kentucky
(Blackburn) had also referred sneeringly to
the super-loyalty OF the soldiers OF the
Union. 1t was curious that the Confeder.
ates from Union States were a little more
pronounced, a little more aggressive
and a little more violent in their denuncia.
ton of the North than Confederates from
the States athad seeded. He did notknow
where the Senator from Missouri got the
figures from which he stated that 5000 of
Lees army had surrendered at Appomat-
tox; but one parallel was to be found to
the extraordinary inaccuracy OF that
SUdLeIueHU, anu UnAU was lne same SeDa.
tors assertion that of the two million three
hundred thousand soldiers OF the Union
Army, more than half had applied for
pensions. Such speeches as these OF the
Senators of Mis- Ouri and Kentucky we're
intended to catch the Confederate vote and
they would catch it. He wantei Senators
on the Democratic side to understand that
the disguise for opposing pension bills was
thin; that nobody was de-
ceived by it. The South did not love the
Union Army, neither did the Democratic
Mr.. Morgan reminded Mr.. Ingalls, that
the Democratic party had nominated and
sustained a Federal officer, General Han.
cock, for the presidency.
"fes," said Ingalls,, lit did support Han.
and it also supported Horace Greeley
to fool the North. 1t also
and supported that other aIIy
Of the confederacy, George B. Mcclellan.
Such pretensions are altogether too dia. |
.ohanous. Why was it that when an Asso-
,iate Justice of the Supreme Court of the |
United States who by one of the strange |
OF history now sat in Judgment |
lpon those great constitutional amend
nents adopted against his protest and
'fforts-why was it when he arose in the
senate and said he would resent as
personal affront any imputation upon
he integrity or patriotism of Jefferson
Davis, when he said he had no doubt that
.efferson Davis wodld occupy a niche in
by the side OF George WASHINGTON,
Thy was it no Senator on the Democratic
ide, North or South, arose to repudiate
disavow it? and yet the moment any
on thesRepublican side, or any edi-
or OF any Northern paper talked about
he Union army, they were taunted with
aving the ensanguined under garment.
aking up the ashes OF sectional strife, ap.
ealing to partisan hatred and malice. It
as time the twenty-four Confederates on I
le other side OF the chamber were informed
le Northern people were not ill-advised
bout this matter. Ingalls, referred
the unwilling OF Hills statue in
eorgia in 1886, and the speeches
Grady and Jefferson Davis thereat.
9 spoke OF the same orators having
ne to New York and New England soon
ter making speeches there pouring out his t
old cream and honey and maple syrup all /
'er the North,' when he asked was that :,
ator sincere? Coming back to the oppo. Il
ion OF Southern Senators to pension bills II
said he did not blame them for it. If the o
deral Government had been overthrow e
did not believe he would have felt COM !
ted in voting pensions to Confederate u,
|diels, but he would have regarded it a.. CT
3 climax OF ~effrontery if, after he had &C. v
ted a pardon and had his disabilities re- cl
and had taken the oath OF allegiance NJ
the successful Southern Confederacy, he -,
d denounced day after day efforts which "
ne Confederates made to reward their Il
n soldiers, and il he had lied about the ~
&c which the conquering country should 81
We seen fit to bestow on the men by whose ga
rs it bad conquered. He did not think nj
North was at all deluded by the pre- 81
slonso OF the Senators ON the other side. ca
vas a little singular in all the Years oeE
lch had elapsed since the war there had W
.er come from any OF the States that vi
been In rebellion, SO far as he knew. ihI
mon soldier as representative in either ne
neh OF Congress, elected by Democratic 81
es. When he looked over the rolls Of OH
Senate and reflected how few who had oa
red IN the Union army were found in an
councils OF the nation. he was not e'
prised at witnessing such d~euonstra.
Is as we're witnessed when pension
were up Tor action. Said he: 1--WE have
laliers and murderers OF Andersonville,
e Isle and Libby Prison sitting under the On
which they attempted to pull down, leo.
ting for the country they %endeavored to
roy and trying to pinch aud belittle and 7
lmize the amounts to be paid the mutt H.
and disabled soldiers oil the army Of iun
Union. The Senator from Missouri had wit
ID in a burst of indignation where all fla
was going to end. I will tell him." said raj
ills, land every Senator on that side of on,
chamber, whether he likes it or not. wv
t we intend to do. 1t is going are
stop when the arrears of pensions gra
laid: When limitation is removed and the
y soldier on the rolls or who gets on ma,
oils, is paid from the day Of bis dis ond
ty, or in case OF a survivor from the a..
OF that soldiers death, and when aut
? surviving soldier OF the army is put OF
ne rolls for service only. That is when den
going to stop, and if you don't like it lum
the most OF it," After eulogizing the OF Il
ID Army Ingalls, said in conclusions: was
propose to pass this bill, initiating
anguage used on the other side OF the /,
der: l hope it will pass the other III u
'e OF Congress, and il it does, let the men
dent veto it at his peril" Very sen. IRON