The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-26
INGALLS, IS IN IGN0MINY.
SENATOR VOORHEES, HOLDS HIM
UP TO PUBLIC SCORN.


WASHINGTON, April 25.-In the Senate
to-day the motion to refer the Presidents
message, was taken up, and Mr.. Voorhees,
addressed the Senate thereon, reading his
speech from manuscript. Mr.. Voorhees,
said that the issues which the two great
parties would present to the American
people at the ballot box next November
were plainly laid down. On the principle
proclaimed by jefferson that error was not
TO be feared so long as truth was left free to
combat it, the pernicious ideas and danger
Gus policy maintained by the Republican
party might be looked upon without appre-
hension, and, indeed, welcomed to the great
arena of debate. The reason and Instinct
of the people could be trusted, and by the
time that the sober suns of autumn were
over their heads they would behold with
clear unclouded vision, the pathway of
duty, justice and right
WHERE THE REPUBLICANS STAND.
An extensive di 1cusson of tho tariff in
the Senate and House left no doubt as to
the attitude of the Republican party on thai
question, and it had at last been forced to
throw away masks and false faces, and to
admit that taxation was not to stop at the
revenue line of the government, but was to
be turned loose without limit and without
shame, on the labor Of the people for the
sole purpose of enriching the favored few
a asyndicate of devouring, insatiate monopo-
lists.
WORSE THAN THERSITES.
Mr.. VOORHEES,, referring TO the attack
made in the Senate upon the memory of
Gen. Mcclellan and Gen. Hancock, com
pared the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Ingalls,
TO Thersites in the camp of the Greeks be-
fore the walls Of Troy, crying and railing
against the heroes of Achaia Achilles,
Ulysses and Agamemnon, and said that the
objects Of his venomous spleen and rage
were not alive and present TO rebuke and
chastse their insolent defamer. But the pre-
siding officer of the Senate (holding the
highest official position now held by a Re-
publican) had descended to the floor and at
tackled the memory of Anne lean heroes who
were sleeping where flowers and tears were
annually commingled on Memorial Dav,
resting from their glorious lives in the
quiet bivouac of the dead. There were sug
gestions inspired by the wanton and as
founding assault of the Senator from Kan
sas, which would not speedily pass from the
public mind.
INEXPLICABLE SILENCE.
That Senator, a recognized leader of his
party had stood in his place in the Senate
and denounced two great Union Generals as
traitors to their country, allies of the Con-
federacy, and no word of dissent or rebuke
had been uttered by single associate in
either House. The Democrats had waited,
and some had wondered; but the silent ac
quiescence in the horrible charges remained
unbrOken.
Mr.. Voorhees, proceeded to draw a vivid
picture of events during the war, beginning
with the scenes in Washington on the night
of the first battle of Bull Run, when the
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as he came over the long bridge and reached
the War Department with dispatches of
disaster from the front. In that hour of
national extremity Gen. Mcclellan had
been called by de- pairing Official authority
to perform task greater far Than was ever
performed by Alexander Hannibal Caesar
or Napoleon in the same length of time
Then he recalled, after the second disastrous
battle Of Manassas, Gen. Mcclellan r1ding
out to meet the retreating troops and being
greeted with cheers more thrilling and
pathetic than those which greeted Napoleon
on his return from Elba.
VICTORY UNPARALLELED.
Then came the battle of AnGletam, a
victory unparalleled in war, considering
all the conditions. The immediate peril
being gone, and sense of security being
secured Gen. Mcclellan had been again
stricken by partisan malice, and had closed
his lofty military career forever. Mr..
Voorhees, then changed the scene to Gettys-
burg, where, he said, the last hope of the
Southern Confederacy disappeared forever,
What invisible spirit of air, he asked intent
upon evil to the Senator from Kansas,
could have been in attendance on
him when he stood up and opened
his mouth in the Sena chamber
on March g. Gen. Mcclellan and Gen.
Hancock were the heroes of the two most
al haf ff tha 4 Apfi of
and GettysL urg--the loss Of either Of which
would have brought European recognition
10 tho confederacy and darkness and dis
may, if not final dissolution. They had
commanded in the only battles fought
north of the Potomac, and each time had
met the enemy as an invading force. strong,
confident and flushed with recent victories.
THE NATIONS LIFE AT STAKE.
Antietam and Gettysburg had involved
the possession Of the capital and the perpe.
tuity Of the governments; and to Gen
Mcclellan and Gen. Hancock now stigma
tized as allies Of the Confederacy) had been
committed the measureless and awful trust
of defending and preserving them both If
asked hereafter where were the greatest
leaders Of the Democratic party during tho
war where the Democratic candidate Of
1864 for the Pre- idcncy and the Democratic
candidate of 1880 for the Presidency
and the crested heights of
Gettysburg would be pointed TO.
He knew them both. They bowed TO their
mighty shades They were of loftier mould
than Greek or Il man history supplied.
The warrior ranks of Achaia furnished not
their pee S, not the golden-locked Achilles,
not the high-born son Of Laertes, not the
wide ruling king Agamemnon, and yet, he
said, such were the great soldiers who were
mocked, 5cOffed and denounced as belong
ing 10 the subservient clements Of the
North, and who were accused of treason by
those who were Of the breed Of Jobs war
horses, and who, like him, ''snuffed the
battle afar or"
coNTElpTrBLE PERSECUTION.
A determined attempt had been made
during the war, and had been continued
since, 20 blacken the names of the great
civil, as well rs military, leaders who had
remained true TO the Democratic party, but
he asserted that the impartial historian OF
the people would record as a fact that but
for the attitude and influence of Horatio
Seymour, Thomas A. Hendricks, Allen G.
Thurman, VIII liam A. Richardson, and their
political associates and followers, not only
would the union never have been restored,
but the dearest and most sacred rights OF
American citizenship would have been
swept away in binding storm of partisan
wrath which was most frequently mistaken
for patriotic zeal. Those who through good