Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-05-02
ingalls, ana Voorhees,.

la the Senate yesterday a scene occurred
that has scarcely had parallel in the an
nails of that once highly respectable body.
AS stated in the GAZETTE, Mr.. Ingalls,
replied to recent speech of Mr. Voorhees,,
and the debate soon took such q turn that n
personal encounter would not have been sur
prising.
Mr.. Ingalls, repeated his allegations charg-
ing Gen. Mcclellan with want Of fidelity 10
the Union with more emphasis than when
be first made them, and also as TO Hancock,
except that he admitted Hancock mad
fought CALAMITY during the war. He de-
cared that Justice Lamar was no lawyer,
and that he had been forced upon reluct-
ant President because he was the per
sonal friend and representative OF Jefferson
Dsvis.
MIR. Ingalls, quoted from speech OF MIR.
Voorhees, during the war, in which ne
charged the latter said in reference 10 Union
soldiers that they should go to the nearest
blacksmith shop and have iron cellars made
and placed around their necks inscribed
thereon in large letters, MY dog, A. l. n
coln.n And at rhe same time he referred TO
Uaion soldiers as Lincoln dogs and birellng5
without excepting Mcclellan or Hancock.
Passing to the question of the electoral
commission, MIR. Ingalls, said MIR. Hayea's
title 10 the presidency was the most abso-
Jutely irrefragible of any in the whole list
of American Presidents. because it was the
only one which was ever passed upon by q
constitutional tribunal properly organized
for the purpose. "Mr. Cleveland" said Mr..
ingalls,, "had apparently warranty deed
ioh ha cd nd ypf
compared with the title which Mr.. Hayes
had 10 his seat, he was in possession OF slol
en- goods and the receiver was as bad as the
Thief In the court of justice and fair con-
science he had never been elected at ell.
He had been counted into Office by part
neiship between Dick Turpin and Uriah
Heep, footpGds and sneak-lhieyes, Cartouche
and Pecksni1, and it was soma consolation
to know that In that partnership the apps.
tate and renegades had lost their share OF
the swag."
Abiding to the approaching presidential
contest, Mr. ingalls, said the country still
had against it the Southern Coniederacy.
The soIid South WAS the Confederacy, and
the succt 50 of the democratic party Was the
SUCCESS Of the Copfederacy. Justice Lamar,
he declared, was never suspected of being
a lawyer" and quoted from a speech made
by Mr.. Lamar during the war, In which ne
refer ed 10 Mr.. Lincoln as a bunoon. He
said Mr.. Cleveland had atlronted tbe loyal
sentiment Of the country By placing Lamar
on the bench.
Mr.. Voorhees,, in reply, said that ingalls,
had read to the Senate the old, stale, putrid,
rotten ISLANDERS OF years gone Dy, on which
be MR. Voorhees, had trampled in forty
political campaigns 1t had seemed to him
like the voices of spawned, brokenwinded,
hackneyed political campaign liars ofthe last
twenty-five years. That he ever uttered one
word against Union soldiers or talked OF
their having col ars around their necks was
80 base a ialsehood-so infamous-that the
black walls Of perdtion could not reduplieaLe
it. And he said 10 the Senator from Kansas
that it was not in his power to fish up from
the sewers Of infamy the old campaign lies
and make them respectable in the Senate of
by snort step to put himself on an equality
with them.
Ia monarchical countries the Kiag or En-
peror was the fountain of bonor" from
which officers received their military titles
Here the "ionntsin ofhonor" was the Exc
cu;ive and the Senate; but the Senator from
Kansas had been his own fountain Of hon.
or" and had promoted himself lin the di
recioTy) to major, lieutenantcolOnel and
iudge-advocate of the Kansas volunteers.
If the Senator could fnd any adjutant gen.
erals report in the State of Kansas where
his name ever appeared as II warrior, even
in the diluted and debilitated form ola judge.
advocate, he (Mr. Voorhees, would sort Of
let up on him." Referring to the attacks
upon the people OF the South, he said ths t
the Senator from Kansas might war on such
a people, but the end would be their triumph
and his defeat.
Mr. Ingalls, responded. He said as the
Senator from Indiana had seen fit TO invite
comparison between their records and their
relations to the great questions Of the past
% 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 re.
cords, and should venture the affirmation
that, whatever might have been his own
(Mr. Ingalso relations to the great struggle
between the North and South, the Senator
from Indiana had been, from the outset, the
determined, outspoken, positive, aggressive
and malignant enemy of the Union cause.
II pronounce that" said Mr.. Voorhees,,
rising, with anger in his eye, ITO be delib-
erately false accusation. voted Tor every
dollar that paid the soldier, tor every stitch
of clothes he wore, and for every pension
bill that rewarded his services"
MIR. Ingalls, said the Senator Mr.. Noor
hees) had endeavored to cast aspersions up
OH him and belttle him and humiliate him
in the eyes of the American people, when he
Mr.. Ingalls) had only referred to the Sena-
tors public utterances- speeches, which
he had never denied.
Mr.. VOORHEES, declared that he did deny it,
Mr.. Ingalls, replied that the Senator could
not deny the publication he had read. 1t
was a verbatim report and so certified to-
Mr.. Voorhees, asserted that not one word
or syllable read by the Senator was true or
believed to be true in Indiana. The accu.
sation had been trampled under foot. The
Senator's insinuation that he Mr. Voork ees)
had ever been member Of n political Sc
cret society-Knigbts of the Golden Circle
was so base and UNANIMOUSLY false that he