The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-16

far as he was concerned, to that Senator's
autobiography. That Senator was born in
q State that had not seceded-the State of
kentucky-and had represented in the
Confederate Congress the State Of Mis-
souri,, State which had not seeded. 1t
would be gratifying to historian to find
out how he had been admitted TO represent
State which had never seeded. But
that was matter of ancient history. The
Senator from Kentucky (Blackburn)
also referred sneeringly to the su-
per-loyalty Of the soldiers OF the
Union. He did not challenge the
honor or courage of these Senators IN
their devotion TO the South and to the
Southern Confederacy. They could not be
suspected OF insincerity. They had gone
into the Corfederacy because they wanted
TO go. because they believed that slavery
was better than freedom and secession
better than union. 1t was curious that
Confederates from Union States were a
little more pronounced and little more
aggressive and little more violent in the
denunciations of the North than Confeder-
ates that had seeded.
ut is time" the speaker continued, shat
the twenty-four Confederates on the other
side of the chamber were informed that the
Northern people were not i'll advised about
this matter. In 1856 there was in Atlanta
grand historical occasion, when a statue
to the memory Of an honored Senator was
to be unvailed- man whom he Ungalls)
honored and respected. and on that occa-
sion the ex-President OF the Confederacy
was invited to be present. Men fiocked to
that city as they 60 to banquet, as waves
come when navies are stranded. The city
was decorate ed with the Confederate EN-
blems to make Confederate holiday.
Mr.. Ingalls, quoted from the speech Of
Mr.. Grady at the unvailing Of the Hill
statue at Atlanta, in which Jefferson Davis
was spoken of as one whose ',gray hairs
were crowned with deathless love" aud as
one who, though an outcast from the
privileges of this great Government, is the
uucrowned king of our people" He did
not propose to rehearse the reply of Mr..
Davis, except TO quote one sentence in
which he referred to Senator Hill as hav-
ing ''mashed the injurious Yankee" (mcan
ing, he supposed, ''our friend now in Flor
ence''). He spoke Of the same orator, Mr..
Grady, having gone to New York and New
England soon afterward and made speeches
there pouring out his ''treacle. cold cream
and honey and maple strip all over the
North" and asked when that orator was
sincere, when ne spoke the sentiments, the
feelings and the conscience of the Southern
people-whether it was when he delivered
that Grafton IN Atlanta on May 1, 1856, or
when he spilled oil and wine over all the
American people Of the North.
Mr.. Ingalls, said that he did not know
where the Senator from Missouri had got
the figure from which he stated that but
Y of had
Appomattox. II that Senator had pIacked
q 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 fight Instead OF
5000 men, with muskets, who were in the
final crash and collision Of the war, there
had been 1911 men. The Senator's
mathematics were certainly giddy. But one
parallel was to be found to the extraordi-
nary inaccuracy Of that statement and
that was the same Senator's statement
that, of the . 3oo, 900 soldiers of the Cnion
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
''center shots" strung the bull's-eye every
time and ''r.nging the hell" He wanted
the Senators on the Democratic side of the
chamber to understand that their disguise
for opposing pension bills was so exceed
ingly thin that nobody was deceived by it.
II was not a question of cost The South
did not love the Union army; neither did
the Democratic party.
Mr.. Morgan reminded Mr.. ingalls, that
the Democratic party had nominated and
sustained q Federal officer, General Han
cock. for the Presidency.
Yes" said Mr.. ingalls,, SIT did support
General Hancock, and it also supported
Horace Greeley-attemptlng to fool the
North. 1t also nominated and supported
that other ally OF the Confederacy, George
B. Mcclellan. Such pretensions are alto
ge:her too diaphanous. They require to
have the drapery removed for inspection.
Why was it that when an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court Of the United States.
who, by one OF the strange caprices of
history, now sat in judgment upon
those great Constitutional amendments
that were adopted against his protest
and effor:s-why was 1t that when |
he arose IN the Senate and said he
would resent as personal affair any impu- |
tation upon the honor or the integrity or
patriotism OF Jefferson Davis, when ne said |
be had no doubt that Jefferson Davis would |
occupy a niche in history by the side of |
George Washington, why was it that no |
Senator On the Democratic sice-North or |
South-arose to repudiate and disavow i'll |
And ye; the moment any honorable Senator |
on the Republican side or any editor of any |
Northern paper or any organ OF the G. A |
r talked about the Union armies, the |
grandeur of the ach evements, the obIiga- |
tons Of the Nation, they were haunted with |
warviDg the ensanguined undergarment,
raking up the ashes Of sectional strife, ap- /
pealing to partisan hatred and malices
1t was little singular, the speaker con-
tinDed- that in all the years which hao |
elapsed since the war there had never come |
from one Of the States that had been in re-
beihon $50 far as he knew Union soldier
Is representative in either branch Of Con-
gress, elected by Democratic votes. The
Democratic party in those States never
had blundered at sending to Congress or
electing as Governor, = man who had not
serv7d m the Confederate army in some
capacity. That had been the supreme test.
" hen ne looked over the rolls Of the Sem
Gte and Of the House and reflected how few
'f those who had served in the Union army
Eei found IN the councils Of the Nation,
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