River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-15

the Presidency respectable There was no
man in this country whose igncrance
was so profound, whose obscurIty so
impenetrabIe, whose antocedents so
degraded that he had nor the right
to aspire to the Presidential nominal
ton by the Democratic party He re-
GREETED that the Senator from Missouri
was not in his seat to day He should i'm
tate that Senator's BAD example and woIld
confine himself, so far as he was con-
cerned. TO that Senator's autobiography.
That Senator was born in Kentucky, State
that had not seeded, and had represented
in the Confederate Congress the State OF
Missouri. which had not seeded II would
BE- gratifying TO a historian TO find that he
had been admitted TO represent q State
which had never seeded But that was
matter of ancient history. Senator Black
burn had also referred sneerngly TO the
superloyalty of the soldiers OF the Union.
He did not challenge the honor or
courage OF these Senators in their
/ devotion to the South and to southern
Confederacy They could not be sus-
p c ed of insincerity They had gone INTO
Confederacy because they believed that
slavery was better than freedom and seces-
sion better than Union He did not know
where Senator Vest had got his figures
when he stated that but eight thousand of
Lees army had surrendered at AppOmatox
II the Senator had plucked few piumes
from the dazzling tail of his Imagination
and had stuck them into the wings of his
Judgment he would have flown more ac-
curate II ght Instead of 5000 men with
muskets who were in the final crash and
collision of the war, there had been 20, OIL
men. The Senator's mathematics were
certainly giddy. But one parallel was to be
found to the extraordinary inaccuracy of
that tat anI thar that
Senator's statement that of the 1900, 900
soldiers OF the Union army more than one
half had applied for pensions. Such speeches
as those of the Senators from Missouri and
kentucky were intended TO catch the Con-
fe lerate vote; and they would catch it
Mr. Morgan reminded Mr. Ingalls, tn L the
Democratic party hal nominated and sue
tanned a Federal officer. General Hancock,
for the Presidency.
Yes said Mr. ingalls,, sit did support
General Hancock, and it also supported
Horace Greeley-attem9ung TO fool the
North II also nominated and supported
that other ally of the Confederacy, George
i. Mcclellan Such pretensions are alto
gether TOO diaphanous An Associate us
tice of the Supreme Coart OF the United
States, who now satin Judgment upon those
constitutional amendments that were
adopted against his protest and efforts, had
once arisen IN the senate ana S1iu uS
would resent as a personal affrOut any impu-
tation upon the honor or patriotism of JEFF
fersOn Davis, and : all he had no doubt
that Jefferson DAVIS would occupy
a niche in history by the side of George
Washington Why was il that no Senator
on the Democratic side arose to repudi-
ate and savow il? Ard vel the moment
any Republican Senator or editor talked
aboUt tL5 Union armies and the obligations
,aFf he ra1 NE.ff n
ing the ensanguined under-garment-ral1-
ing up the ashes of sectional strife, appeal
ing TO par San hatred and malice II was
time that the twenty-foyr Confederates on
the other side of the chamber were in
formed that he Northern people were not
ili-advisad about this matter.
In 1856 said ar ingalls,, there was in
Atlanta Ga, grand historical occasion,
" en- a statue to the memory of an honored
Senator was to be unvaled a man whom
Mr. ingalls, honOred and respected, and ON
that occasion J tt1ersOn DAVIS was invited to
be present Men fiocked 10 that city as
waves come when navies are stranded
The city was decorated with Confederate
emblems to make a Confederate holiday.
Mr.. Ingalls, quoted from the speech of Mr..
Grady at the unvailng of the Hill statue at
Atlantis, in VIII ca Jefferson Davis was spoken
of as one whose gray hairs were crowned
with deathless love" and as one who.
though an outcast from the privileges Of
this great Government, is the uncrOwned
king of our people"
Coming back to opposition of Southern
Senators to pension bills Mr. Ingalls, said
he did not blame them for IT, II the Fed
eral Government had been Overthrown he
did not believe he would have felt COM
fOrted IN voting pensions to Confederates
But he should have regarded as the climax
OF effTOntery. as the very summit OF hardl-
hOOd-he would not say of pusillanimity
and dishonor- after he had accepted
-ff-.V. a hsnra haH HFaa
moved he denounced the efforts which
those COnfederates made to reward their
own soldiers and baggled about the price
which should be bestowed on the men who
had conquered Ii was little singular that
in all the years since the war there bad
never come from any State that had been
in rebellion. as TAR as he knew, a Union sol
der IS n representative in either branch OF
Congress .ected by Democratic votes Tho
Democratic party in those States never had
Numbered by sending to Congress or elect
ing as Governor man " 10 had not served
in the Confederate army in som, opacity
That had been the supreme test When we
looked over the rolls OF the Senate and re-
fiected how few of those who had served in
the Union army were found IN the councils
of the Nation. lie was not surprised at wit
Messing such demonstrations as we're seen
when pension Hills were up for action
The South should be thankful that ii did
not have TO foot up the entire pension bill
as France did after the Franco Prussian war.
murderers Of Andersonviile and LIBBY prison
legsat.ng for the country which they en-
deavored to destroy and trying to pinch
and belittle the amounts 10 be paid 70 the
lnufilated and disabled survivors Of the
army Of the Union. Senator Vest had asked.
in burst of indignat on where all this was
going to end q Will tell him. said M
Ingalls, and every Senator on that side OF
the chamber what We intend to do It ~
going to stop when the arrears of pensions
are paid; when the limi;at on - removed.
and every soldier on the rolls or who gets
on the rolls is paid from the day Of his
disability. or. in case OF survivor, from
the date of the soldiers death. and when
every soldier OF the Union army is put
upon the rolls for service only That Is
when IL is going to stop-iapplause in the
galleries land if Won do not Ike it make the
most Of II
After eu'okiz NJ tie Grand Army Of the
RapubliC. Mr. ingalls, ssid in conclusion:
= We t-npOse to pass this bill, initiating the
language which has been used on the other
sid uf m, chamber, ! hope that II Will
pass the Other House Of Congress; and if 10
does let the President veto it al his pert -
TApplause on the floor and in the gal
leries
A Village Sacked and Number Of Peo-
pie Killed Near MatamOras.
GALVESTON. Tex. March IA dispatch
fro-a Mat1moras, Mex, says that on Febru-
ary IS IN attack was made on Lleva
de Canares and the P-coche ranch
by a banI OF twenty men from Escan-
don. led by B-OuliO Cervantes Juan
ssTczez. the alclide Of Leva. aud