The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-09
INGALLS, VERSUS VOORHEES,
= LIVELY BATTLE IN THE SENATE.
The Jayhawker Attacks the HOosier and
Wakes Up the Wrong Individual-He
Gets n Good Warming in Return
Tariff Debate in the House.


at the opening OF to-day's session, being
crowded with spectators-principally ladies'
drawn by the encouragement of a speech at 2
O'Clock by Mr.. ingalls,, in response to Mr.. VoOr-
hces' invective Of last Wednesday, and by the
prospect of bitter and excited political dis
cussion. During the reading of yesterdays
journal the hum of conversation pervaded the
chamber. At the conclusion of the morning
business, Mr.. Stewart proceeded to address the
senate in support of his silver coinage reSolu-
ton. At the conclusion of his address the
resolution was adopted. TWAS now approach
ing the hour OF 2 o'clock and the buzz in the
chamber and galleries became still more
marked. Mr.. ingalls, took his seat where his
desk was decorated with flowers. By this time
a large number of spectators had been admitted
to the floor of the senate.
Mr.. Ingalls, commenced his speech by recall
ing the fact that on the 18th of July last Maj
Gen. Fitz John Porter, now on the retired list,
wrote letter in which he thanked his friends,
and said that his heart was always with them,
although at one time his hand and heart had
worked the best that they knew how against
them The senator from Indiana had CON-
planned last Wednesday with bitterness that an
attempt had been made TO blacken the names
of all the great civil as well as military leaders
in the late war who remained true TO the demo-
cratic party. Fitz John Porter had been one
of those military leaders who maintained their
allegiance to the democratic party; and he,
within the last four months although he had
been dishonorably dismissed from the service
and had been restored by the action of the
democratic party and its members who had
been members of the ConfedeTacy) had written
that his "heart was always with them"
Referring TO Gen. Mcclellan, Mr.. ingalls,
spoke of his education at West Point; of his
business connection with Beauregard, and of
his attempt to extend and continue human
slavery by the acquisition OF Cuba He spoke
OF him as having begun his military career by
disobeying the orders of Gen. Scott; as having
abandoned Pope at Centerville; as having
failed to put the rebels to the sword at Antie
tam; as having refused to obey the orders OF
the president and follow the rebels TO VIM
chester, and as having fatally controlled the
destiny of the army until the battle of Freder-
ickSburg. History had pronounced Its verdict
upon him as a soldier, and the senator from In
diana would not be able TO place him in the
category with Napoleon, Hannibal and Cesar.
He (Ingalls) dealt with him as u politician. and
said that no one could read his letter II Presi-
dent Lincoln after the disastrous seven days
fight on the Peninsula and before Richmond
withOutcoming 10 the conclusion that Mcclellan
was not fully and actively in sympathy with
the forces, the ideas and the sentiments which
were then controlling the American people. As
TO Gen. Hancock he also Mr.. Ingalls, s&id) was
one OF the military leaders who were true to
the democracy. His martial career was one of
The imperiShabe heTitages of American glory.
He marched, and triumphed. He filled the
abyss of fame with names which could be
eternal; luminOus-the Peninsula, Antietam,
Gettysburg, Charlottesville, Cold HarbOr and
Petersburg. Had he been a soldier under
Napoleon he would have been prince and
marshal of the empire. He had been well
called Hancock, 'the superb" But after the
war closed he, like Mcclellan, had become
tainted with the fatal~iru of an ambition for
the presidential nomination. But, nOtwith-
standing his magnificent and unapproachable
career, the American people recognized his
hostility TO the reconstruction measures; and,
In the presidential election of 1850, he carried
but three Northern states-CalifOrnia, Nevada
and New JerSey-and the first two of them had
been stolen by the forgery and fraud or the
MOrey letter issued by democratic politicians.
He bad also received the 13S electoral votes of
the Solid South, which had been promised him
In his speech at Cincinnati by the senator from
South Carolina, Mr.. Hampton.
He spoke of the affected Indignation of the
senators from Indiana and Kentucky as dis
creditable TO their intelligence or their candOr
If they did not know that he Mr.. Ingalls) had
spoken of these union generals not as soldiers
but as politicians, and as democratic candidates
for the presidency, they were dull, stupid and
ignorant indeed. Ii they did know it and per-
sistedin their assertions they were disingenuOus
and he suspected Of such thing were possible)
that they were both [I.aughter.l
MIR. Ingalls, continuing, said "Air President
from the imprisoned eulOgy, from the rhapsody
of appreciation that flowed from the senator
from Indiana at the great military achieve
ments of Mcclellan and Hancock, began to
have some doubt who ii was that really put
down the rebellion. | was driven curiously to
inquire what was the attitude of the democratic
party in the North and of the senator from
Indiana as one of its great leaders in 1862. when
Mcclellan, the ideal democrat, was fighting the
battle OF Antietam; in 1868, when Hancock
was hurting back in confusion and dismay the
scattered squadrOns OF the eonfederacy. / was
really, for the moment, Mr.. President inclined
TO believe that the democratic party OF the
North, and the senator from Indiana, and those
other great patriots, whom he eulogzes as
an immOvable bulwark of liberty of the con-
stitution and the union, Mr.. Thomas Hendricks
and Mr.. HOratio Seymour and William 4. Rich
ardsOn, were in full panOply of battle, assisting
Mcclellan, assisting Hancock, doing what they
could TO make the success OF the armies posi-
bic. And II seems like the very climax of eff
frOntery, like the apex of audacity for these
men, whose history is so well known, who were
from the beginning the avOwed enemies of the
cause OF the union at every step of its progress
and who, like the senator from Indiana, were
avowedly in sympathy with the South at the
outset and were advocates and apOlOgistS for
slavery and secession, who gave aid and COM
fort to the rebellion In every possible way-the
'cOpperheads,' the 'butternuts, [aughterl, the
knights OF the Golden Circle with all their
brutal and degraded disappearing here as
the advocates and champions of union soldiers
and OF the cause of human liberty. j supposed
from the enthusiasm displayed in favor OF the
military achievements of Mcclellan and Han
cock that we should, upon inspection, at least
find that the leaders of the democracy who had
been so eulogized were in sympathy with
the union cause and in sympathy
with the efforts that were making to
overthrow the eOnfederacy. Yet, Mr.. Presi-
dent, at the very time and during the very year
when Mcclellan was fighting the battle of Am
tietan the senator from Indiana, without ex-
cepting Mcclellan and without excepting
Hancock, speaking at Sullivan, Ind, on the 5th
of August 1862, said in reference 70 union
soldiers thot they should go to the nearest
blacksmith shop and have iron collars made and
placed around their necks, inscribed thereon
in large letters: Ny Dog. A. Lincoln and
at the time he referred TO union soldiers
as LineOln's dogs and hirelings, without except
ing Mcclellan or Hancock. Laughter aud APP
plause.j And during the campaign, Mr..
President that resulted in the election of
Abraham Lincoln, the senator from Indiana
who rs now so vehemeltly in favor of the pros
ecution of the war of the rebellion for putting
down the South, who so eulogizes the efforts of
union armies and the genius of union COM
Ioanders, who poses here the special friend
Of the union soldier and denounees and asper-
ses criticism upon the political character and
affiliations of those who were engaged in that
war, made speech at Greencastle which was
reported in the Cincinnati Commercial, Aug
&, 1861, by Joseph Il. McCullagh, now editor of
the Globe Democrat in st. Louis"
Mr.. ingalls, read extracts fron the speech
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