The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-14
A Remarkable Speech Delivered in the
United States senate by
Mr.. ingalls,.
Grover Cleveland and Senator's Vest
and Blackburn Hauled
Over the Goals.

to their full capacity. he said he mad been
surprised one day Last week. on returning to the
chamber after n brief absence, 70 find that the
Senator from Missouri Vest had referred to
him In terms not compiimentary. In n debate
In which he had taken no part. and had
coupled wNh the personal remarks an intima-
ton that tho people of the District OF Columbia
were incapable of disinterested patriotism, anu
sordid plunderers. As to himself he would say
that tho nomination and election OF Grover
Cleveland had made the pretensions Of any
American citizen to the Presidency respect
able. There was no man in this country whose
Ignorance was so profound. whose security 30
impenetrable, whose antecodents so degraded
that lac had not the right to aspire to the
Presidential nomination by the Democratic
party.
He regretted that the Senator from Missouri
was not in mis- seat to-day, he should initiate
that Senator'S bad example and would confine
himself 30 fur a. he was concerned, to that SEN
ator's auto biography. That Senator was born
in a State that had not seceded-the State OF
Kentucky-and had represented the Confederate
Congress in the state of Missouri a State which
had not seeded. IL would be gratifying to n
historian to find that he had been admitted TO
represent n state which had never seeded.
But that was n matter OF ancient history
The senator from Kentucky lBIackburn) had
also referred speeringly to the supor-loyalty OF
the soldiers OF the Union. He did not challenge
the honor or courage OF these Senators in their
devotion to the south and 10 tho Southern Con-
federacy. They could not be suspected OF in
sincerity. They hat gone into the Confederacy
because they wanted to go because they DO
lieved that slavery was better than freedom,
and secession better than union
IL was curious that Confederates from Union
States were n little more pronounced, and
little more aggressive. and little more violent
in thor denunciations OF the North than from
States that had seeded He did not know
where the Senator from Missouri had got the
figures from when he stated that but 5000 OF
Lees arms had surrendered at Appomatox
II the senat had pIucked a few plumes
from the dazzling tail OF his imagination and
had stuck them into the wings OF his Judgment,
he would have flown n more accurate tight.
Instead Of 1900 men with muskets who were
in the final crash and collision OF the war; there
had Deen 1921 mon The Senator'S mathe-
matics were certainly giddy. But one parallel
was to be found to tue extraordinary inaccu-
racy OF that statement. and that was that
same Senator's statement that, OF the 1891. 900
soldiers OF the Union army, more than one
half had applied for pensions. Such speeches
as those OF the Senators from Missouri AMI
Kentucky were intended to catch the Confed-
crate vote and they would catch IL. They were
center shots' striking the bulls-eye every
time and ringing the bell" He wanted the
Senators ON he Democratic side OF the cham
Der to understand that their disguise for OPP
posing pension bills was so exceedingly thin that
nobody was deceived by IL. il was not IA uues-
tion OF cost. The South did not love tao Union
army, neither did the Domocrntic party
MIR. Morgan reminded Mr. Ingalls, that the
Democratic party had nominated nd sustained
Federal otncer, General Hancock. for the
yes. said Mr.. Ingalls,, 1T did support Con-
eral Hancock, ind IL also sapporteI Horace
Greoey-attempting to TOOL the Ntrsh 1t also
nominated and supported that other ally of the
Confederacy, George b. Mcclellan. Such pre-
tensions are alt0'ether too diaphanous. They
require TO have the drapery removed for in
spection.
Why was IL that when an Associate Jus tice
of the Supreme Court OF the United States, who
by one of the strange caprices Of history now
sat in judgment upc. those great Constitutional
amendments that adopted against his
protest and efforts why was II when he arose
In the Senate and said he would resent n
personal affront any imputation upon the hon
or or the integrity or patriotism OF Jefferson
Davis, when he said he had no doubt that JEFF
ferson Davis would occupy a niche in history
by the side Of George Washington, why was II
that no Senator on the Democratic side,
North or South, TO repudiate and
disavow itp And yet the moment any honor
able Senator on the Republican side, any
editor Of any Northern paper, or any organ OF
the Grand Army talked about the Union armies,
the grandeur Of their achievements, the obliga-
lions of the Nation, they were tainted with
waving the ensanguined undergarment- raking
up sectional strife. appealing to partisan hatred
and malice. 1t was time that the twenty-four
Confederates ON the other side OF the chambe
were informed that the Northern people were
not i'll advised about this matter.
In 1885 there was in Atlanta. Ga, grand his
torical occasion when n statue to the memory
of an honored Senator TO be unveiled, u
man whom he tIngallsl honored and respected.
and on that occasion the ex-President OF the
Confederacy was invited to be present. men
focked to that city as they 60 to banquet
waves come when navies are stranded.
The city was decorated with the Confederate
emblems TO make u Confederate holiday. Mr..
Ingalls, quoted from the speech OF Mr.. Grady
at tho unwilling of the Hill statue at Atlanta
in which Jefferson Davis was spoken OF as one
whose gray hairs were crowned with death
less love-, and as one who, though an
outcast from tho privileges OF this great
Government, is the uncrowned king OF our
people" He did not propose to rehearse the
reply Of Mr.. Davis, except to quote one SEN
tence in which he referred TO Senator Hill as
having mashed the injurious Yankee (mean-
fr.rr he nm a..l any IN lA
spoke of tho same orator, Mr.. Grady, having
gone TO Now York and New England soon after
ward and made speeches there. pouring out
his -treacle, cold cream, and honey, and maple
syrup all over the North" When (he asked
was that orator sincere? When did he speak
the sentimental. the feelings. and the con-
science OF the Southern people? Was IL when
he delivered that Grafton In Atlanta on the
lat of May, 1856. or whom he spilled oil aud
wine over all the American people OF the
North2
Coming back to the opposition OF Soul ern
Senators to pension bills he said he did not
blame them for it. He often wondered how he
would have acted IL the relation had been re-
versed and the Federal Coy eminent had boon
overthrown. He did not believe no would have
felt comforted In voting pensions to Confederate
soldiers. He believed should have been q
conspirator against the Confederecy to the end
of his days. but he should have regarded rs
sse climax OF eii,ontsry, as the very apex and
not say Of pusiIanimity and dishonorl IL, alter
he had accepted pardon and had had
his disabilities removed ana nal taken the
oath OF allegiance TO the successful Southern
Confederacy he had denounced day after day
the efforts which those Confederates made 10
reward their own soldiers, and IL be haggled
about the price which the conquering country
should have seen at TO bestow on the men whose
arms it had conquered. He did not think that
of Senators on the other side. 1t was little
singular that in all the years which had
elapsed since the war there had never come
from any state that had been in rebel
lion 40 tar as he knew unNf
soldier as q representative I'm either branch 81
Congress-, elected by Democratic votes The
Democratic party in those States never had
biundered at sending to Congress, or election al
Governor, n man who had not served in thu
Confederate army In some capacity. That had
been the supreme test. When he looked owe,
the rolls of the senate and reflected how few Of
those who had served In the onion army were
found in the councils OF the nation, he was mo-
surprised nc witnessing such demonstraticn s a.
were witnessed whom pension bills were up fol
The The south should be thankful that II did not
have TO foot the enfre pension blu. az Francs
did after the Fradco Prussian war. And yc
here said he, we have the iailers and murder
ers OF Andefsonville. Belle Isle. and Libb]
Prison. sitting unper the flag which they at
tempted to pull dofn. legis1ating for the coun
frv which they enddavored to deetroy, and try
ING to pinch and bolittle, aud minimize thu
amounts TO be pail to tho mutilated and dis
abled survivorrof the army OF the Union.
The senator frout Missouri had asked, I'm
burst of indignant Illtiorce, where oil this wa
eoing TO end Il WIFI tell him." said Mr.. In