Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-03
Senator Ingalls, Few Remarks
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WASHINGTON, May 2.-The Senate galleries
presented an unusually animated appearance at
the opening of yesterdays session, being
crowded with spectators, principally ladies,
drawn by the announcement of a,speech by Mr..
Ingalls, in response 10 Mr.. Voorhees, inrective
of last Wedneyday and by the prospecto OF bit
ter and excitedpOlitical discussion.
AT the conclusion OF the morning business Mr..
Stewart addressed the Senate in support OF his
silver coinage resolution At the conclusion of
ms address the resolution was adopted and
bal Ppropriating sl0j.OOD for public building
AT Emporia Kan, was passed.
AT two o'clOog Mr. Ingalls, commenced his
speech by recalling the fact that July II. last,
Major-Generai Eitz John Porie on the re-
tired list, wrote i letter in which he thanked
his friends and Said his heart was always with
them. Though his hand and heart had at one
time worked the best, they knew how against
them. The Senator from Indiana had COM
planned last "Wednesday with bitterness that an
attempt ha9been made 10 blacken the names
OF al the great civil as well rs military leaders
in the late war who retained their allegiance 10
the Democratic party. Fitz John Porter had
been one of those military leaders who retained
allegiance 70 the Democratic party, and he with
in the last four months although he had been
dlshonorably dismissed from the service and
had been restored by the action of the Demo
cratic party and its members who had been
members of The Confederacy) had written that
'his heart was always with them ..
Referring 10 General Mcclellan Mr.. Ingalls,
spoke of his education at West Point, of his
business connection with Beauregard and his
attempt to extend and continue slavery by the
acquisition of Cuba. He spoke OF him as hay
ing begun his MILITARY career by disobeying the
orders of General Scott, having abandoned
Pope at CcnterVIle, as having failed to put the
rchels To the sword AT Anlictam, as having re-
fused 10 obey the orders Of the President and
follow the rebels 10 Winchester. and as having
fatally controlled the destiny OF the army until
the battle OF Fredericksburg. History had, pro-
noUnccd its verdict upon him a soldier and
the SenatOrfr0m Indiana would not be able TO
place him in tho category with Napoleon, Han
nibal and Cacsar He Nngalls) dealt with him
a. a politician and said that no one could read
his letter to'Prcsident Lincoln after the disas-
trons seven days fight on the peninsula and
before Richmond without coming to the con-
illusion that Mcclellan was not fully and act
ively in sympathy with the forces, the ideas and
the sentimehts Which were then controlling the
Amer can people .--.g ..- Us. s-...
As TO General. Hancock he also. Mr.. Ingalls,
said one of the military leaders who were
true TO the Democracy. His martial career was
9ne of the impershable heritages of American
glory. He marched and triumphed. He filed
the abyss of.tame with names which would be
eternal. luIninHIs-the Peninsula Antietam.
Gettysburg. - hance louisville, Cold Harbor and
Petersburg Had he been soldier under
Napoleon he would have been a Prince and
Marshal of the Empire He had been well
jailed Hancock the Superb" But after the
war closed he, like Mcclellan, had become
ainted with the fatal virus of an ambition for
.hc Presidential nomination.
But notwithstanding his magnificent and I'M
BpprOachable career, the American people
'ccogHized his hostility TO the reconstruction
measures and in the Presidential election of
$50 he carried but three Northern States
california, Nevada and New Jersey-and the
irst TWO of them had been stolen by the for
gery and fraud of the MOrey letter, issued by
he Democratic politicians. He had also re-
;rivad the 12S electoral votes Of the solid South
which had been promised him in his speech at
CINCINNATI by the Senator from South Carolina
Mr.. Hampton)
Mr. ingalls, spoke of the affected indignation
If theiSenators from Indiana and Kentucky as
Hscreditable to their intelligence or their can
Tor. II they did not know that he Qngalls)
had spoken of these Union Generals, not as
soldiers, but politicians and as Democratic
candidates for the Presidency they were dull
ytupldsand ignorant indeed. II they did know
and persisted in their assertions they were
lisiBgenuOus and he suspected Of such thing
we're possiblel that they were both. Laugh
teri
Mr.. ingalls,, continuing, said: Mr.. Presi-
DEM, from the impassioned euIogy. from the
rhapsody Of appreciation that flowed from the
Senator from Indiana at the great military
achievements of Mcclellan and Hancock /
began 10 have some doubt who it was that
really put down the rebellion. / was driven
curiousiy 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 1904 when Hancock was hurting back
in confusion and dismay the scattered
squaduons Of the -Cohfederacy. 1 was
really for the moment. Mr. President inclined
10 believe that the Democratic party Of the
North ard the Senator from Indiana and those
Other great patriots, whom he eulogizes as an
iUIluoyaeles bulwark Of liberty, of the Constitu.
lion and The UnIon-Mr. Thomas A Hendricks
and Mr. Horato Seymour and William A.
Richardsqn-were in full panoply of battle, as.
sistiug Mcclellan, assisting Hancock doing
what they could TO make the success Of the
armiesipossihe. And. it seems like the very
climax of effrontery. like the apex Of audacity
for These men. whose history is so well known
who were from the beginning the avowed ene-
mics OF the cause Of the Umon at every step OF
its plOgPesS and who, like the Senator from In.
diana were avowedly in sympathy with the |
South at the outset ana were advocates and |
upologistS for slavery and secession; who gave |
aid and comfort 10 the rebellion in every posi-.
bic way-the coppsrheads. the butternuts |
llaughtePl, the knights OF the Golden Circle |
with AL their brutal. and degraded lies /
appearing here as the advocates AND /
champions of Union soldiers and OF 1
the cause of human liberty. Supposed. from the |
enthusiasm displayed in favor OF the military /
achiGyemeutS Of Mcclellan and Hancock that /
we should. upon inspection. 1T beast find that I
the lenders OF the Democracy who had been so |
eulogiled were in sympathy with the Union /
cause and in sympathy with the efforts that |
were making To overthrow the Confederacy |
Yet. Mr.. President, at the very time and during |
the very year when Mcclellan was lighting the /
battle OF Antietam. the Senator from Indiana /
without excepting Mcclellan. and without ex i
ceptiug, Hancock, speaking at Sullivan, Ind. on /
the 9Th of August. 1862. said. in reference &c
Union soldiers that they should 90 to the /
nearest blacksmith shop and have iron collars /
made and placed around their necks inscribed 4
thereof in large letters: My dog. Lincoln;
aud al the same time he referred to /
The Union soldiers Lincoln's dogs /
and"- hirelings, without . excepting Nc. /
CieIian' or Hancock laughter and applause1 |
And during the campaign, Mr.. President that 1
resulted in the election OF Abraham Lincoln, |
the Senator from Indiana who is now so yehe- |
me.itiyIn FAVOR OF the prosecution of the war of
the rettciifor, for putting down the South who /
so etfioSiztss liIe efoEtS OF Onion armies 4
and The genius, of Union commanders, who |
poses. hepe as the, special .frieRd- or the Union
soldier and denounces and ssperses criticism 1
upon she political character and afhhations of /
those who were engaged in thatwas, MAIDEN
speech at Greencastle which was reported in
The Cincinnati lCqP,YaerciaL August s. 1864, by
.Iossph, Il, Nccuilash, NOV ttheI eaftor, Of Abe
Ig5.o{ssD.ocr0f IN ST. Louis sT.ri7--. -. f7-
MIR .insstis sread extracts from the speech
ssagG re r~rc - 'fsrrrutYaT ~ as@ fsrif 4
whieh~tieelared'th war a failure and spoke of 1
Lincsln Us o monster ana an unhappy felon.
Passing 70 the question OF the Electoral Com L