The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-21
The Junior Missouri SeRator Comes
IN Contact with the Senior
Kansas Senator.
The Result Anything but Satisfactory 10
The Ex-ConfedeTate and Ills
Friends.
The Southern Brigadisrs in Particular
and the Democratic Party in Gen.
eral Soundly Roasted.
Full Text OF Senator Ingalls, Great
Speech on the Dependent Pen.
sion Bill.
From the Congressional Record.

From the Congressional Record.
Mr.. President. considerations OF decorum
and propriety, excessive, perhaps, and some
timos overstrained, have deferred me from
participation in ebate thus far this session OF
the Senate. my impression being that perhaps
order could be more impartially maintained
and the rules OF the Senate better enforced by
abstinence on the part OF the presiding officer
from the controversies of the floor.
was surprised. therefore, one day last week,
upon returning to the chamber after u brief alb
sence. to learn that the Senator from Missouri
lMr. Vest had taken occasion when l was not
present TO allude to me IN terms the reverse.
to say the least, OF complimentary in discus
sion in which had taken no part, and includ-
ing in his combined and concentrated and
coagulated cynicism not me only, but the In
habtants of the District of Columbia also and
all the comrades of the Grand Army of the Re-
public: intimating that those were incapable
Of disinterested patriotism. and that the sur
viving veterans of the Union armies were a
mob Of sordid mercenaries organized for plum
der and for sale to the highest political bidder
Personal illusions to myself will pass by
with but one single observation, and that is, that
the nomination and election OF Grover Cleye-
land have made the protensions OF any Amerf-
can citizen to the Presidency respectable. There
10 no man in this country whose Ignorance is so
profound, whose obscurity IL so impenetrable
and whose antecedents are so degraded that he
may NOT justihabiy aspire to Presidential
nomination--by the Democratic party. APP
piause and laughter in the galleries.
regret, Mr.. President, that the senator from
Missouri is not present to-day. He is a courte-
GUS and courageous antagonist. have waited
for his return. The day following this debate
the discussion turned rather upon the in1rini-
ties OF the tariff than upon the innrmities OF
age. Thereafter the Senate ndlourne over, ard
this is the first convenient opportunity that
have had TO address myself to the bill under
consideration.
TO whate yer degree the Senator from Missouri
saw ft TO criticise with indgnity and TO asperse
with personal allusion a colleague upon the
floor who was not present. shall not initiate
that bad example, but contine myself, as far
he is concerned, TO what has been disclosed in
his autobiography
The Senator from Missouri born in
State that did not secede from the Union--the
State of Kentucky. His autobiography shows
that he represented in the Confederate House
OF Representatives for two years. and in the
Senate OF the Confederate States for one year,
the State of Missouri. The State OF Missouri
uid not secede, Mr.. President and while have
no doubt that the Confederate House Of Repre-
sentatives and the Confederate Senate were the
judges of the election, the qualifications, and
the returns OF their own members, it would be
a special qualification TO the historian TO know
upon what conditions and by what methods n
member OF the Confederate House of Repre-
sentatiyes or of the Confederate Senate could
have been admitted from the State of Missouri
that never seeded from the Union / do not
propose. however, TO push my investigation into
the subject or his right 20 represent that state
III the Confederate Senate so far IA To move TO
refer his credentials to the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections. 1t is a matter Of ancient
history.
Nor, sir: do allude TO this matter in any dis
paragement to the Senator from Missouri any
more than do TO the same fact in the history
OF the Senator from kentucky Mr.. Blackburn
who aits now before me, and who with great
deal of profusion OF speech rose aud denounced
the -superloyalty" of the Grand Army OF the
Republic, criticising them az a horde OF beg
gars thrusting their demands into the Senate.
do not speak in derogation either of the honor
or the courage or the integrity OF that senator.
l aiiude to it as matter of history only, and
for the purpose OF showing, 80 far as L may,
that in their devotion TO the South and TO the
Southern Copfedoracy tho Senator from Ken
lucky and the Senator from Missouri can not
" Su9DeCtal lQsiQcoritV
allegiance summoned them to cast their for
tunes with the South No phantom OF state
sovereignty allured thom, as IL did 80 many
others, into that terrible catastrophe. No, sir !;
they went because they wanted TO 60. They
went because they believed that slavery
better than liberty because they believed that
secession was better tnan union because they
believed the stars and bars were more worthy
of u patriots allegiance than the stars and
stripes: because they believed that Jefferson
Davis was more entitled TO respect and CONT
dence than Abraham Lincoln. They went
South, they allied their fortunes with the Con-
foderacy because they preferred TO do so, and
their sincerity can not be suspected.
II is a little singular however, that for some
subtle and incomprehensible reason the Con-
federates from Union states n little more
pronounced, little more aggressive, and
little more violent in their denunciations Of the
North, of the Union armies, of the veterans of
the Grand Army Of the Republic. than those
who had the excuse to which l have referred.
of following their States into the vortex of Sc
cession. So IL 10 that upon every occasion when
debate affords the opportunity the Senator from
Missouri, born in Union State, a citizen OF a
Union State by adoption, rises here and eulo-
gizes the exploits of the Confederate armies,
extols their achievements, and by irresistible
inference degrades, belittles and sneers at the
Union armies and their friends and allies
60, in the debate on Wednesday last the Sem
ator from Missouri rises ard says:
when General Lee surrendered at Apponat-
tax there were but oght thousand muskets--"
IL the Senator had been there there would
have beer eight thousand and one. Laughter ]
when General Lee surrendered at Appomat-
Thousand kat Ia
left of that splendid army which had fought
the world in arms and had been battered and
beaten back by overwhelming numbers for four
long years. out OF companies that went into
that terrible strife OF one hundred ami twenty
five and one hundred aud eighty men bat ten
or twelve returned back TO their kindred and
homes. The South to-day is filled with manned
and crippled soldiers, who, amid shot and shell
and saber-stroke, fought for their honest convic-
tons as men have seldom fought before. They
AJAX no pensions"
sneeringly said the Senator from Missouri
The Federal soldiers are asking for pensions
but the gallant survivors OF the Confederate ar
mics have asked for no pensionsi
God be thanked
Said the Senator from Missouri, growing de-
vout-
God be thanked, they would not take them
They are not in almshouses, and no man has
ever zen one OF them begging for bread
The computation of the Senator from Missouri
must certainly have been made with hts fancy
IL dizzies the arithmetic OF tho imagination to
understand upon what volume of statistics he
founded his amazing and incredible statement
that there were put 1900 survivors of the Con-
federate armies at the surrender at Appomat-
tox II that Senator would pluck few OF the
plumes from the dazzling tail OF his imagina-
ton and stick them into the wings OF his iudg-
ment, he would fly holder, more direct, and
accurate flight
The official reports show that from the 10Th
day OF March, 1885, TO April y OF that year there
were captured OF General Lees army 4l.455
men In arms. and that on that fatal day for the
Confederacy. when God failed to bless their
cause, as tho Senator from Missouri said no
hoped He would have done, there were taken,
In addition 10 those who had been previously
captured and paroled, n, 4i6 men In arms, MAX
ing total. instead OF 5000 men with muskets
who were I'm the final crash and collision be-
tween the avenging and triumphant forces OF
the North and the broken and shattered rem
nants Of the Confederacy. OF 1901 men in
arms. Yet the Senator from Missouri, I'm his
eaqerness, hts avidity TO belittle, undignify,
and humiliate the North, and to extoi and
praise and ,exargerate. the achievements and
tho numbers of the South diminishes that
number of 1871 20 loss than 5000. His mathe-
matcs are certainly giddy
There h but one parallel to the extraordinary
inaccuracy OF this statement and that ~ the
otber allegation i'm his speech that out of the
2,3,O.OO0 Union soldiers more than one-h half
had applied for pepsons-a statement that
would have beon refuted by the simplest In
eioner of Pensions.
Az said. Mr. President. DO not attempt