The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-02
INGALLS,
Wakes IT UNCOMFORTABLE
FOR DAN VOORHEES,,
Ry Reading His War Record from
the Papers Of that Day.
NeClellan and Hancock BraTOly
Fighting for Their Country
While Their SeIECOnstituted
Champion was Engaged in
Dououncing Them as "LincOln'S
Dogs and Hirelings."
, Scathfng Arraignment of
lIypocriticaI DemOeF~ts ',',
Who Profess Great Love for the
Soldiers Of the Union.
Dpuouncing Them as "LincOln'S
Dogs and HireIings."
. Scathing Arraignment of
IIypocriticaI DemOeP~ts 'D'
Who Profess Great Love for the
Soldiers of the Union.
An Exciting Scene at the Close of
the Speech.


W,.uryGrox, D. c., May 4.-The Sem
o,c galleries presented IN unusually ami
mated appearance at the opening OF to-
Jay's session. being crowded with spec
ntors-principalIy ladies-drawn by the
announcement of II speech at . O'Clock
by Mr.. ingalls,, in response to Mr.. Voor.
hce,' inycctiyc Of last Wednesday and
by the prospect Of bitter aud excited
political discussion. During the reading
Of Yesterdays journal the hum OF con-
yersation prevailed the chamber.
Atthc conclusion OF the morning busi-
ness Mr.. Stewart proceeded to address
the Senate in support of his silver coin
ace resolution. At the conclusion OF his
address the resolution was adopted.
A bill apDropriating 100000 for a pub
lie building at Emporia, Kas., was pass
ed, II was now approaching the hour
of9 o'clock and the buzz in the chamber
and galleries became still more marked.
MR.. INGALLS,.
Mr.. ingalls, took his seat, where his
desk was decorated with flowers. By
this time Il large number Of spectators
had been admitted to the floor OF the
Senate.
Mr.. ingalls, commenced his speech by
recalling the fact that OH the 1lth OF
July last Major General Fitz John Por-
ter, now on the retired list, wrote letter
in which he thanked his friends; and
said that his heart was always with
them, although at one time his hand and
heart worked the best they knew how
against them. The Senator from Indiana
had complained last Wednesday with
bitterness that an attempt has been made
10 blacken the names OF all the great
civil, as well rs military leaders in the
late war who remained true. AS to Gen
erl Hancock he also, Mr.. ingalls, said,
was one OF the military leaders who were
true to Democracy. His martial career
was one Of the imperishable heritages OF
American glory. He marched and
ttumphcd. He filled the abyss OF fame
with names which would be eternally
luminOus-the Peninsula, Antietam,
Gettysburg, Charlottesville, Cold llar-
bor and Petersburg.
nANCoCK's GREATNESS AS A SOLDIER.
Had he been soldierunder Napoleon
he would have been Prince and Mar
shal OF the Empire. He had been well
called Hancock, the superb"
But after the war closed he, like Nc
Clellan, had become tainted with the
fatal virus Of an ambition for the Presi-
dental nomination. But notwithstand-
ing his magnificent and unapproachable
career the American people recognized
his hostility to the reconstruction meas.
urcs, and, in the Presidential election OF
1850 he carried but three Northern
States, California, Nevada and New
jersey, and the first two OF them had
been stolen by forgery and fraud-the
Morey letter, issued by Democratic pol
iticians. He had also received the lSS
electoral votes OF the Solid South, which
had beeh promised him in his speech at
Cincinnati by the Senator from South
Carolina, Mr.. Hampton.
HANCOCK AND MCCLELLAN AS POLITICIANS.
lie spoke of the affected indignation
Of the Senators from Indiana and Ken
lucky as discreditablc TO their intelli-
gence or their candor. II they did not
know that he (Mr. Ingalls, hnd spoken
Of those Union Generals, not Us soldiers,
but as politicians and rs Democratic can
didates for the Presidency, they were
dull, stupid and ignorant indeed. II
they did know it and persisted on their
assertions they were disingenuous and
he suspected III such thing were pos
sl6lel that they were both. laughter.
Mr.. ingalls, continuing said:
Mr.. President, from the impassioned
rulogy, FROM the rhapsody OF approba-
tion thai flowed from the Senator fro IL
Indiana at the great military achieve
ments Of Mcclellan and Hancock, / be-
gin to have some doubt who it was that
really put down the Rebellion. l was
driven curiously to inquire what was
the attitude OF the Democratic party in
the North, and Of the Senator from In
diana as one Of the great leaders in 1852,
when Mcclellan, the ideal Democrat,
was fighting the battle OF Antietam in
1863, when Hancock was hurting back
in confusion and dismay the scattered
squadrons oi the Confederacy.
VOORHEES, RECORD.
81 was really for the moment, Mr..
President, inclined to believe that the
Democratic party of the North, and the
Senator from Indiana, and those other
great patriots whom he eulogiZes rs
invulncnble bulYarks OF liberty, OF
the Constitution, and the Union,
Mr.. Thomas Hendricks and Mr..
HoratiO Seymour and William A. Rich
ardson, were in full panoply OF battle,
assisting Mcclellan, assisting Hancock,
doing what they could to make the sue,
cess Of the arms possible, and 1t seems
like the very, climax OF etlrontery, Ike
the apex Of audacity, for these men,
whose history Ia so well, who were from
the beginning the aYowed enemies oi
the cause Of the Union at every step oi
It's progress, and who like the Senator
from Indiana were avowedly in sympa,
thy with the South at the outset and
were advocates and apologists for slavery
and secession, who gave aid and com
Tort in the rebellion in every possible
way, the "Copperleads," the "Butter
nuts langhlerl the "Knights OF thu
Golden Circle" with all their brutal ant
degraded lies, appearing here as the ad
vocates and champions OF Union soldier
and Of the cause Of human liberty.
VOORHEES, ABUSED THE SOLDIERS.
81 supposed from the enthusiasm dis
played in favor Of the military achieve
ments Of Mcclellan snd Hancock, tina
We should, upon inspection, at least fin