Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-02


 words conveyed) that it was not in his power to fish up from the sewers of infamy the old campaign lies and make them respectable in the Senate of the United States, but it was possible for him by a short step to put him. self on a1 equality with them. It was too late for the Senator to plead that he had only spoken of Mcclellan and Hancock as allies of the csnfederacy in their civil capaci- ty. He had charged Mcclellan with endeav- bring to make the war n failure. No greater charge could be brought against Benedict Arnold than that charge against Mcclellan. Worse, more infamous conduct could not be attributed to man on earth than that he wore the epaulettes and uniform, belted his sword and took thu honors of his country and went to the field with a false heart desiring to make the war failure. And thas was what the Senator from Kansas charged on McClel- Ian, the gentleman and patriot. Was he (Voorhees) not justified in calling the atten- tion of the country to the fact that the high est officer now in the government by Repub- Ecan suffrage dared to afront the common sense and common dscency of the nation in such manner? He spoke of Mir. Ingalls, biography in the Congressional directory and commented upon the fact that for the first twelve years of his senatorial life nothing had been said in that biography of his military career, while in the later biographies he add ed to the other public positions which he had
  judge advocate of the Kansas volunteers from 1863 to 1865. If the Senator could find any adjutant generals report in the State of Kan sas where his name ever appeared as war rior, even in the diluted and debilitated form of a judge advocate, he (Voorhees) would sort of let up on him. Laughter. Some- body else than the Senator, he thought, with more claim to military experience should un- dertake to be censor to Mcclellan and Han cock.
 MT. Ingalls, said as the Senator from Indi- ana had seen fit to invite comparison between their records and their relations to the great questions of the past he felt it his duty to put on record from information in his posses sion what the Senator's record and history was He should refer only to public matters in public records and should venture the af- frmation that, whatever might have been his own Qngalls0 relations to the great struggle between the North and South, the Senator from Indiana had been from the outset the outspoken, positive, aggressive and malignant enemy of the Union cause.
 stI pronounce that" said Mr. Voorhees, rising with anger in his eye, ''to be deliber ately false accusation. l voted for every dollar shat paid the soldier, for every stitch of clothes he wore, and for every pension bill that rewarded his services. @ MT. Voorhees asserted that not one word or syllable read by the Senator was true or believed to be true in Indiana. The accusation had been under foot. The Senator's insinua- tion that he had ever been member of political secret soeiety-the Knights of the Golden Cirele-was so base and infamously false that he did not know how to frame lan guage to denounce it as such.
 This caused 8 sensation in the galleries and of appreciation and Teproval and the sergeant-at- arms was directed to place under arrest any person violating the rules of the Senate.
 In 1860, continued MT. Ingalls,, after the Senator from South Carolina had withdrawn from the chamber, when preparations for war were rife all over the South, and when every body knew that secession was to be so far as the South was concerned an accomplished fact, the Senator had written aletter for MT. F.A. Shute which that gentleman took South and filed in the Confederate War department in support of his application for appointment as brigadier general in the Confederate army. The letter was dated December 12, 1860, and was one introducing Mr.Shute as gentleman visiting the South with his sister on account of her health. The letter continues:
 On the disturbing question of the day his (shutes) sentiments are with the South and one of his ob- jects is a probable home in that section I take this occasion to say that his sentiments and mine are in close harmony.-Daniel w. Voorhees,
 suppose, was Mir. Ing alls' comment, that the gentleman says that is campaign sian der, the vile calumny of an opposition press.
 MT. Vosrhees-This is not campaign islander, but it is one of those things that the people of Indiana have passed upon for nearly thirty years.
 MT. Ingalls-The Democratic party has passed upon it.
 And continued MT. Voorhees, no colpor- teur or missionary from Kansas can give it any more responsibility than the fellows in Indiana. have disposed of them. There was no war of confederacy then.
 he that time Sumpter had fallen and the gentle man says: efI take this occasion to say his sentiments and mine are in close harmony" That paper had had very important infiu ence in securing Captain Shute an appoint ment as brigadier general in the Confederate army. When the archives ot the Confedera- cy were captured it had been sent to theWar department and the original was on file to- day. J. w. Bright had been expelled from the Senate for as small an offense. And the Senator ventured to asperse his (Mr. Ingalls1 military record and question his right to speak about the relations of Mcclellan and Hancock to the Democratic party. had called Union soldiers "hirelings and Lincoln dogs" and said they ought to go to a blacksmith's shop and have an iron collar around their necks with inscription, "My dog-Abraham Lincoln," was 8 campaign islander and a scandal that had been spit up- on. That averment could be substantiated by as creditable a witness as there was in the city.
 Mr. Voorhees-Aud even if the Senator said it it would be absolutely false and pal pablo lie. The charges of my connection with the Knights of the Golden Circle or othsr disloyal organizations and of my at tacks upon Lincoln are wholly untrue.
 Mr. Ingalls, said he had some of the records at hand. He had the testimony in support of these charpes It was true it had been passed upon by the Democracy of Indiana. The fact that they had often been repeated and that the Democracy of Indiana had con doned them was TO disproof. MT. Ingalls, read some of the letters and documents in reference to the seizure of papers in MT. Voorhees, office indicating his disloyalty. MT. Ingalls, said that the Senator deserved charity more than any other man on the floor of the chamber and received it more hberally There was no man who could so poorly bear an ex- animation of his record. In April, 1861, the senator had declared that he would nev- CT vote a dollar or a man toward the sup pression of the war and he had kept that promise. He had never cast such 6 vote. He had resisted the constitutional amend ments and had voted "non on the vote to de- clare their validity.
 Mir. Voorhees, said he was not @ subject for the charity of the Kansas Senator. That senator was the object of his contempt. The
 
 litical campagins and in the House and had been fully met and disproved. The men who made the charge and the Senator who repeated them told what was untrue. As to the insults of the Senator he welcomed them from such a souRce as complimentary. The soldiers of Indiana had passed upon the charges.
 MT. Ingalls, asked whether the soldiers of Indiana had threatened to lynch Mr. Voor- hses from railroad train.
 MT. Voorhees replied vehemently: "The Senator is great liar when he intimates such 8 thing-a great liar and dirty dog. It never occurred, never in the world. That is all the answer have, and pass it back to the scoundrel behind the Senator who is in- stigating these lies."
 (This remark was made in reference to Johnston of Indiana, who was seated at desk directly in the rear of MT. Ingalls.)
 MT. Ingalls, said that his information was confirmed by reputable and distinguished citizen of Indiana.
 'sThe man who whispers to you is liar and seoundrel" rejoined MT. Voorhees, amid scene of general excitement.