The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-14
WAR TALK IN CONGRESS.
TRYING TO REVIVE ISSUES THAI
OUGHT TO BE BURIED.

TRYING TO REVIVE ISSUES THAT
OUGHT TO BE BURIED.
A Forensic Conflict Between Senators
ingalls, and Blackburn--The hent"ckian
Sets the Better of the Tilt.
On Tuesday the 9th inst. the United
States Senate had under consideration
the dependent pension bill. After brief
speeches by Senators Berry, Manderson,
Sherman, Teller and Beck, Senator
ingalls,, the presiding officer, having
called Senator Plat to the Chair, pro-
ceeded to address the Senate, the gale
ries being crowded to their full capacity.
He said that considerations of decorum
and propriety (perhaps excessive and
overstrained) had deferred him from
participation thus far in the debates OF
the Senate. He had, therefore, been
surprised, one day last week, on return
ing to the chamber, after brief ab-
sence, to learn that the Senator from
Missouri (Vest) had referred to him II
terms not complimentary IN debate IN
which he had taken no part, intimating
that the people of tee District of Colum-
bia were incapable of oisinterested pa-
triotism and that the veterans Of the Re
public were mob of sordid plunderers.
As to himself, he would say that the
nomination and election of Grover
Cleveland had made the nomination OF
any American citizen to the Presidency
respectable. There was no man SO lgno-
rant or mean that he might not aspire to
nomination to the Presidency by the
: Democratic party. Laughter and ap-
plause. He regretted that the Senator
from Missouri was not In his seat to-day.
He should not initiate that Senator's bad
example, and would confne himself, so
far IS he was concerned, to that Sena-
tors autobiography. That Senator was
born in State that had not seeded, the
State of Kantucky, and had represented
in the Confederate Congress the State OF
Missouri State which had not seeded.
1t would be gratifying to the historian
to find out how he had been admitted to
represent State which had never Sc
ceded. But that was matter for ancient
history. The Senator from Kentucky,
(Blackburn) had also referred sneeringly
to the super-loyalty OF the soldiers OF
the Union. he did not challenge the
honor or courage of these Senstors IN
their devotion to the South and to the
Southern Confederacy. They could not
be suspected of insincerity. They had
gone into the Confederscy because they
wanted to go; because they believed that
slavery was better than freedom, and
secession better than Union. It was
curious that Coufederates from Union
States were little more pronounced,
little more aggressive and little more
violent in their denunciations Of the
North than Confederates from States
that seeded. He did not know where
the Senator from Missouri had got the
figures from when he stated that but
5000 of Lees army had surrendered at
Appomattox. If that Senator had pluck
ed a few of the plumes from the dazzling
tail of his imagination and had stuck
them into the wings of his Judgment, he
would have flown more accurate tight.
Instead of 5000 men with muskets who
were in the final crash and collision OF
the war there had been q, GIL men. The
Senator's mathematics were certainly
giddy. But one parallel was to be found
to the extraordinary inaccuracy OF that
statement, and that was the same Sena-
tors statement that of 100000 soldiers
of the Union army more than one-haf
had applied for pensions. Such speeches
as those of the Senators from Missouri
and Kentucky were intended to catch
the Confederate vote, and they would
catch it. They were s'centre shots,
striking the bull's-eye every time and
'snnging the bell" Applause, Ugor-
ously suppressed by the Chair. He
wanted the Senators on the Democratic
side of the chamber to understand that
their disguise for opposing pension bills
was so exceedingly thin that nobody was
deceived by it. It was not a question OF
cost. The South did not love the Union
army, neither did the Democratic party.
Senator Morgan reminded Senator
ingalls, that the Democratic party had
nominated and sustained a Federal
officer, General Hancock, for the Presl-
dency.
Yes, said Senator ingalls,, it did sup
port General Hancock, and it also sup
ported Horace Greeley, attempting to
fool the North. It also nominated and
supported that other ally of the Con-
federacy, George B. Mcclellan. Such
pretensions are altogether too dlaphan-
Gus. They require to have the drapery
removed for inspection.
In 1856 there was in Atlanta a grand
historical occasion, when g statue to the
memory of an honored Senator was to
be unveiled, a man whom he (bgalls}
honored and respected, and on that oc-
cssion the ex-President of the Conted-
erscy was invited to be present. Men
.docked to that array as they go to E
banquet, as waves come when narles are
stranded, and the city was decorated with
Confederate emblems to make Confed-
crate holiday. He quoted from speech
of Mr.. Grady at the unveiling OF the
Hill statue at Atlanta, in which Mr..
Davis was spoken OF as one whose gray
hairs were crowned with deathless love,
and as one who, ''though an outcast
from the privileges of this great Gov
eminent, Is the uncrowned king Of our
people," BE did not propose to rehearse
the reply of Mr.. Davis except to quote
one sentence, in which he referred to
Senator Hill as having ''nashed the IN
furious Yankee, (meaning, ne supposed,
their friend now in Florence.) He spoke
of the same orator, (Grsdy, having gone
to New York, and New England soon