The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-03
The Kansas Statesman Makes Re-
ply to the Recent Speech of
Voorhees,, of Indiana.
He Explains About His ASP az
sions of Mcclellan and
Hancock.
FIFTIErH CONGRESS.
SENATE.

sion, being crowded with spectators,
principally ladies, drawn by the announce
ment of speech at 2 o'clock by Senator
Ingalls, in response to Senator Voorhees,
invective of last Wednesday, and by the
prospect of bitter and excited political
| discussion.
| Senator Call introduced a bill appropri-
ating $4,000 for the prevention and ex-
tirpation of yellow fever in the United
States. Referred.
A resolution offered yesterday by Sen
ator Stewart, was then taken up, call
ing on the secretary of the treas
ury for statement of the amount of
silver bullion offered to the government
since the passage eff the silver coinage act
of 1887, by whom and at what prices.
Also the prices of the silver
bullion purchased monthly by
the government, by whom and
at what prices. Also whether the quota
tions of India consol bills in London
entt rs, to any extent, into the determine
ton of the market price of silver in the
United States.
After an address by Senator Stewart it
was adopted.
Senator Ingalls, took his seat where his
desk was decorated with flowers. By this
time large number of spectators had
been admitted to the floor of the senate.
Senator Ingalls, commenced his speech
by recalling the fact that on July II last
Major-general Fitz John Porter, now on
the retire list. wrote letter in which he
thanked his friends and said his heart was
always with them, although at one time
his hand and heart had worked best they
| ba
ator from Indiana (Voorhees)
had complained last Wednesday
with bitterness that an attempt had been
made to blacken II the names of all
great men of the civil war, as well as mill
tary leaders during the civil war who re-
maiued true to the democratic party.
Fitz John Porter had been one of these
military leaders in the late civil war who
remained true to the democratic party.
FItz John Porter had been one of these
military leaders who maintained their
allegiance TO the democratic party, and had
within the last four months (although he
had been dishonorably dismissed from
the service, and been restored by the &C.
tion of the democratic party, and its mem
bers who had been members of the con.
federacy) mentioned that his heart
was with them. Is to General Mcclellan,
Mr.. ingalls, spoke Z bis education at West
Point of his bus less connection with
Beauregard and bis attempts to ex-
tend and continue human slavery
by the acquisition of Cuba,
He spoke of him as having
begun his military career by disobeylng
the orders of General Scott; as having
abandoned Pope at Centreville; as hav-
ing failed to put the rebels to the sword
at Antietam; as having refused to obey
the orders of the president and follow the
rebels to Winchester, and as having fairly
controlled the destiny of the army until
the battle of Fredericksburg. His
tory had pronounced its verdict
upon him as a soldier, and the senator
from Indiana would not be able to place
him in the category with Napoleon, Han
nibal and Caesar. He (Ingalls) dealt with
him as politician, and said that no one
would read his letter to President Lincoln
after the disastrous consequences of the
fight on the PENN a. md before Rich.
mond without coming to the conclu'
sion that General Mcclellan was
not fully and actively in sympathy with
the forces, ideas and sentiments which
we're then controlling the army proper
AS to General Hancock, he (Ingalls) also
said he was one of the greatest military
leaders and was true to the democracy
His martial career was one of imperish
able heritage to army glory. He marched
and triumphed. He filled the niche
of fame with names which
would be eternaly luminous-the pen
insula AntIetam, Gettysburg, Chancel
| TaIl Dokn
Had he been soldier undel
Napoleon he would have been {
prince and marshal of the empire
He had been we'll called "Han
cock, the Superb" But after the wa,
closed he (like McClellan) had becom,
, tainted with the fatal virus of an ambi-
ton for the presidential nomination
But, not withstanding his magnificent anC
= unapproachable career, the American
people recognized his hostilit.
to the reconstruction measures
aud in the presidential election
: of 1880 he carried but three northern st tie
' California, Nevada and New Jersey
: (the first two of them had been stolen b,
q forgery and fraud of the Marcy lette
issued by democrat politician.) He hal
4 also received 1873 electoral votes of tn
solid south, which had been promised t.
e him in his speech at Cincinnati by tn
= senator from South Carolina, Champion.
y He spoke the affected Indignation of tn
/ senators from Indiana and Kentucky a
!, discreditable to their Intelligence or thei
}. candor. If they did not know that h
Ingalls,, had spoken OF these union generals
1t not as soldiers, but as politicians, and a
10 democratic candidates for the presidenc
a they we're dull, stupid and ignorant il
vt deed. They knew it and persisted il
le their assertions. They were disingeniou
: From the impassioned eulogy an
le from the rhapsody of approbatiO
N that flowed from the senator froI
Indiana at the great military achievement
of Mcclellan and Hancock, 1 began I
have some doubt who it was that reall
a put down the rebellion. I was incline
t. curiously to inquire what was the attitut
ne of the democratic party in the mort
al and of the Senator from Indian
hit as one of IFS great leader
,b In 1862, when Mcclellan, the ideal dem
tie crat, was fighting the battle of Antietan
1863. when Hancock was hurling back