The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-09

neeks was so base falsehood, so infamous,
that the black walls of perditlon could not re-
| duplicate il. And he said to the senator from
1 Kansas without meaning, perhaps, the full ex-
| tent of what his words cOnveyed) that 1t 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 the United States;
| but il was possible for him, by short step. to
| put himself on an equality with them.
Mr.. Voorhees, alluded, IN a sarcastic and
| amusing manner, TO Mr. ingalls, war record,
and said he would stand with the senator be-
fore the soldiers of Indiana or Kansas and quit
the senate if he was not approved by them over
! Mr.. ingalls,.
Mr. ingalls, replied that as the senator from
| Indiana had seen fit to invite comparison be-
tween their records and their relations TO the
| great questions OF the past twenty-five years,
| he felt it his duty TO put on record, from IN
formation in his possession, what the senator's
record and history was He should refer only
10 public matters in public records, and should
venture the affirmation that whatever might
| have been his own UngallS) relations TO the
great struggle between the North and South,
the senator from Indiana had been from the
! outset the determined, outspoSen, positive, ag-
| gressive and malignant enemy OF the union
| cause.
81 pronounce that" said Mr.. VOORHEES,, rising
! with anger in his eyes, ito be a deliberately
! false accusation. | voted for every dollar that
paid the soldier, for every stitch OF clothes he
wore and for every pension bill that rewarded
! his services"
! Mr.. Ingalls, said the senator came in here to-
day and thanked God that he had never been
| followed here by committee to question his
/ right to his seat; and with much ditfuseness of
! illustration endeavored to east asperSiOns upon
! him Qngalls) and belittle him and humiliate
| him in the eyes OF the American people, when
1 he Ingalls) had only referred To the senator's
public utterances, his speeches, which he had
never denied.
Mr.. VOORHEES, declared that he did deny it.
Mr.. Ingalls, replied that the senator could not
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verbatim report, and so certified to. Mr. VoOr-
| hees asserted that not one word or syllable read
| by the senator was true or believed 10 be true
in Indiana. The accusation had been trampled
| under foot. The senator's insinuatiOn that he
| (Voorhees) had ever been a member of politi-
| cal secret sOeiety-the Knights of the Golden
| Circle-was so base and UNANIMOUSLY false that
| he did not know how to choose language to de-
nOunce ii as such.
Mr.. ingalls,, continuing, said the senator from
| Indiana had written a letter for Mr.. +. \.
| Shute which that gentleman took South with
| him and filed in the Confederate war depart
ment in support OF his application for appoint
ment of brigadier general In the Confederate
/ army. The letter was dated Dee. II, 1860, and
said: son the disturbing question OF the day,
/ his (Shute's) sentiments are entirely with the
/ South and one OF his objections is probable
| home in that section | take this occasion to
say that his sentiments and mine are in close
| harmony" Ii was signed Daniel w. NOOr-
/ heeS." The senator said that the charge that
/ he had called Union soldiers "hirelings and
| Lincoln dogs" and said that they ought TO go
to a blacksmithShOp and have an iron collar
around their necks with the inscription My
/ DOg-Abraham Lincoln" was alcampaign slam
der and scandal that had been spit upon. That
averment could be subStantiated by as credita-
! BILE q witness there was in the city.
| Mr.. NOOThees-"And even ii the senator said
/ it, it would be absolutely false and a palpable
/ lie"
| Mr. ingalls, - "The senator is disorderly."
| Continuing, Mr.. ingalls, read from paper
| signed by citizens of Sullivan county who
! stated that they were present at meeting April
| o. 1862, when Mr.. VOORHEES, SAID that union sol
! diers should 90 to the nearest blacksmith shop
! and have an iron collar around their necks with
| the inscription, ''My DOg-Abraham Lincoln"
| This paper was signed by respectable citizens
of Indiana, who were not ashamed OF their
! names and residences which were attached.
| Everybody knew what business. the democratic
| party of Indiana had been engaged In during
| the war Seventy thousand of them had
| been members of the Knights of the Golden
! Circle and had been cOnspiring against the
union. They had entered into combination,
| according to Gen. Holt for the purpose of
aiding soldiers to desert, discOuraging enlist
ments circulating reasonable publications,
| giving intelligence to the enemy and assassina-
| ton and murder, and it was susceptible ofproOf
| that they did cOnspire TO murder Gov. Morton
| This organization, which the senator said he
| never belonged TO, had a ritual of which 112
/ copies were found in in the senator's office at
| the time when Hancock was at the Bloody
/ Angle" In that same office was found other
| correspondence concerning the objects and
] purposes of that organization. The cores
! pondenee of c. Vallandigham was in the office.
/ The senator in his address to his cOnstitu-
| ents in 1861 had declared that he would
never vote a single dollar nor n single man for
/ the prosecution of the war; and he had never
done so as long as he was in congress. He had
! consistently and persistently voted against
/ every measure for uphOlding the union cause
| and reinforcing its army. Yet" continued
| Mr.. Ingalls,, ''the senator, who think deserves
/ charity more than any man know OF on this
/ floor and who has received it at the hands of
his associates, and who can less afford than any
man of my acquaintance to invite the scrutiny
| of his war record, rises here and with playful
ness and hilariOusnesS, refers TO the fact that j
served during the war as judge advocate with
/ the rank of major, and subsequently of a lieu
/ tenant colonel. However obscure or inefficient
my services may have been, they were always
on the side OF my country-not, as his have
/ been-always against IT,"
! Sir. Voorhees, said that if the gentleman from
Kansas would find one single vote that he had
! cast against the payment of soldiers, for their
/ supplies, for their bounties, against the appro
| priatiOns for their pensions he would resign his
| seat in the senate. Every word the senator had
| stated on that subject was absolutely false by
| the record-abSOlutely false. lie measured his
words. The senator said that he Voorhees,
was an object of his charity. The senator was
I
| that he (Voorhees) had issued q proclamation
! in 1861 that he would not vote for money
men, That was false. lie never did anything
| of the kind, never in the world. He had
! fought for free speech and free press, but
! the soldiers of Indiana knew that he had
voted for every dollar that had ever
| fed them or clothed them and the
| man who said otherwise was falsiier and
| slanderer, and he branded him rs such. The
/ senator from Kansas said he (NOorheeS) had
announced that he had quit praeticing law.
! That was not true. There was not a word of
| truth in it. He had gone from one Office to
/ another. Some papers were left In one office,
and others, to put up a job on him, were put
| there and found there, and published as having
/ been sifound there. lie hoped his Maker
| would take cOgnzance of him at this moment
! and never let him leave this chamber if he had
| ever been a member of secret political society
| in his life. When he was abused by man
who said that Hancock fought two years to
| make the war a failure, and was an ally of the
| eonfedeTaey, and that Mcclellan belonged to
| the degraded element of the North, he
\ felt that abuse as an actual compliment,
! and he thanked the senator for his aspersions
] and responded to him accordingly. So far as
| the old stuff about his denouncing the soldiers
| was concerned, the soldiers would take care of
] that Only a miserable set OF people, not
! soldiers, but suffers or suffers clerks or bum
mers ever alluded to anything of that kind.
/ He did not want to say anything offensive, but
/ he did not care much whether he did or not He
] could only say as he said TO the people whose