The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-03

| uoItlii anu Jue StudlOr from luulduh, anu
those other great patriots wnom he eulo-
gises as aiding the noble work of the
liberty of the constitution and the union,
Thomas Hendricks, and Horatio Seymour,
and William A. Richardson, were in
the full p'noply of battle a sistirg
Mcclellan, aiding Hancock, doing what
they could TO make the success of the
armies possible. 1t seems like the very
climax of effrontery, like the apex of au-
dacity for these men, whose history is so
we'll known, who we're, from the beginning,
avowed enemies of the cause of the union
at every step of its progress and who, like
the senator from Indiana, we're avow
eddy in sympathy with the south
at the outset, and were advocates
and apologlsts for slavery and secession,
who gave aid and comfort to the rebellion
and in every possible way to the copper
heads, laughter the knights of the
golden circle-with all their brutal and
degraded disappearing here as ad-
vocates end champions of union soldiers,
and, of course, uman bsrty. supposed
from the enthusiasm displayed in favor of
the mil itary achievements of Mcclellan and
Hancock that we should, upon inspection
at least, find the leaders of the democracy
who had been so eulogized, were in sym
pathy with the union cause, and in SYM
pathy with the efforts that we're making
TO overthrow the confederacy. Yet, Mr..
President, at the very time and during
the very year when Mcclellan was fighting
the battle of Antietam, the senator from
Indiana, without excepting Mcclellan,
and without excepting Hancock, was
speaking at Sullivan, Ind, on the 9th of
August 1862, a 4, said in rt ference to un on
soldiers that they should go to the near
est blacks mith shop and have iron
collars made and placed around
their necks, inscribed thereon in
large letters, "My dog. A. Lincoln" And
at the same time, he referred to union
soldiers as Lincoln's dogs and hirelings-
without excepting Mcclellan or Hancock;
laughter and applause and during the
campaign, Mr.. Pres dent, that resulted in
the election of A. Lincoln, the senator
from Iudiana, who is now in favor of the
prosecution of the war of the rebellion for
putting down the south; who so eulOgizes
the officers of the union arms and the
genius of union commanders; who poses
here as the special friend of union
soldiers and denounces and asperses any
criticism upon the political character and
utilization of those who were engaged in
that war, made speech at Green Castle,
which was reported in the Cincinnati
Commercial August 8, 1864, by Joseph B.
McCuloch, now editor of the Globe-Demo-
crat, in s.. Louis. Mr.. ingalls, read ex-
tracts from the speech, which declared the
war a failure, and spoke of Lincoln as a
monster and unhappy felon. Passing to
the question of the electoral commission
of 1876, Mr.. Ingalls, said he was not
especially enamOred of Mr.. Hayes,
laughter and yet, inasmuch as the ques-
ton of Mr.. Hayes title brought out in
controversy by the democratic party as
one OF the issues Of the approa aching cam
paign, he felt bound to say that the title
of Mr.. Hayes to the presidency was the
most absolutely irrefragible of any in the
! whole list of American presidents, because
it was the only one which ever was passed
upon by a constitutional tribunal
properly organized for that pur-
pose. Tie democratic party should
not forget that the electoral
commission was one of its own devices.
1t was not the first time that they, who
had digged the pit and digged it deep,
had fallen into it. Laughter. 1t would
be remembe cred Henry Watterson issued
his celebrated proclamation calling on
100000 unarmed Kentuckians to visit the
city of Washington on the anniversary of
the battle of New Orleans, for the purpose
of experimenting the electoral count
Laughter. He (Ingalls) had had con-
versation With President Grant shortly
after the issuing of that celebrated proc
lamation, and had asked him if he thought
there was going to be any trouble. Gen
teral Grant paused moment and with
that deliberate method, which charac-
terized his utterances, replied: "NO; | do
not think there Is going to be any trouble,
but there has always been q rule of mine
to always be ready" and added Mr.. In
gals with solemnity, che was ready
Ia obedience to some mysterious
impulse, troops, parts of artillery
: and munitions of war had begun to come
to the capital, and the attention of the
democratic party became extreme, be-
: cause if there was anything that would
,, turn the average democrat inside out with
indignation it was the sight of a soldier
in blue uniform. Laughter. The 1OO,'
900 unarmed Kentuckians had not made
their appearance, and the count pro-
ceeded notwithstanding the indignation
of the democrats at the result of their own
devices.
Senator Voorhees, arose, and in low
measured resonant tones, remarked thai
the speech which the senate had just
. listened to recalled to his mind the fable
of the mountain in labor. Two hours hao
passed away after the fare of trumpets hao
! brought large audience to the senate
and what had they heard anC
. what had they seen-a poor small mouse
creeping off. His allusion last WedneE
!, day to the senator from Kansas had beer
. merely incidental. Why should he assai
> that senator? Men mistook themselves
= and the senator fro Kansas did so more
:, than any one he knew. That senator
! had not been alive POLITICAL!
. since March g. last, when thu
. senator from Kentucky blackburn dis
q posed of him. Laughter, and yell
! of approval from one of the galleries
. He had been walking the streets and pos
. ing before the world like an old friend o
= his in Indiana politics in bad health, witt
;, had said to him that he had been dead
= year and was only walking around to saw
% funeral expenses, the only criticism
. his (Voorhees) 81 ssch which he had seei
:. in press, was that he had galvanized
n corpse.
Remarks we're made by other senators