The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-03-16
VOL. XVIII.

address at the unVelllNg or monument
TO John Brown. He sent a copy of his
speech - every member of Congress. 1t
was without doubt an address of literary
excellence. When Congress reassembled,
he thought of his address.
j think, was the response. ''that il
contained some Of the meanest things l
ever read"
20, well," said Ingalls, lyon know that
We have 70 make our wares suit our Gus
TONER'S"
No matter what is right and just, if his
constituents want Mr. ingalls, to abuse
the South and vilify The President, Mr..
Ingalls, viii do it. I'VE have to make
our wares suit our customers" is his motto.
1t is the motto of all men who prefer
power to principle.
The CHRONICLE believes that extracts
from his speech ought to be read by every
Southern man. We make the following
extracts, which are the gist Of the speech:
Nor. sir, do | allude to this matter rep
res ntation in the Confederate Senate IN
any diSparagement TO the Senator from
Missouri any more than do to the same
fact in the history of the senator from
Kentucky Mr.. Blackburn who sits now be
fore me. and who with great deal of
profusiOn of speech rose and denounced
the ,.superloyalty' of the Grand Army of
the Republic, criticising them as Il horde
of beggars thrusting their demands into
the Senate. | do not speak in derogatlon
either Of the honor or the courage or the
integrity of that Senator. L allUde TO 1t
ss a matter Of history only, and for the
purpose of showing, so tar As | may, that
in their devotion to the Southern Confed-
eracy the Senator from Kentucky and the
Senator from Missouri can not be suspected
of insincerity. No flag Of State allegiance
summoned them to cast their fortunes
with the South. No phantom of State
sovereignty alured them, as 1t did so
many others. into that terrible catastrophe.
No, sir: they Went because they wanted
to 90. They went because they believed
that slavery was better than liberty;
because they believed that secession
was better than union; because they be
| lieyed the stars and bars We're more worthy
! of a patriot alleg lance than the Stars ana
| Stripes: because they believed that JetIer-
| son Davis was more entitled to respect
and confidence that Abraham Lincoln
| Ther went South, they allied their tor
! tunes with the Confederacy because they
! preferred to do 50, and their sincerity can
1 not be suspected.
/ When the Senrtor from Missouri alludes
| TO the efforts which are being made by the
| Republicans III this body 10 afford pensions
| 10 the dependent INDECENT, and suffering
| survivors of the mon armies now enroll
| ed in the Grand Army of the Republic as
i an attempt by candidates Tor the Hresl-
/ dency 10 bid for the soldier vote, the Sen
ator from kentucky will pardon me when
| say that | have no doubt speeches like
those which he made, and which the SEN
/ ator from Missouri repeated, were intended
/ 10 bid for the Confederate vote; and they
Will get it every time. It is a center shot.
Appeals like that strike the bulfs-eye and
ring the bell.
have never heard. Mr.. President, dur
inc the fifteen years that | have been IN
this body, any repudiatiOn of sentiments
like those avowed by the Senator from
| Missouri and the Senator from Kentucky
from any quarter in the Democratic party.
Time and time again have | heard those
/ same sentiments reiterated ana repeated
here If they were obnoxious TO any
sentiment of the Southern States, why
| should we not have heard some disavowal
of them! Why are they repeated here
iterum iterumque, ad nauseam, until the
heart of the patriotic North rises in indig
nation. and never word of protest spoken
by any Democratic Senator North OF
South. No, Mr. President, they know the
sentiments, they know the convictions
they know the emotions OF the people be
hind them, and that is the reason for then
utteIanceS.
why was it that when the last appoint
ed associate justice of the Supreme Cour
Of the United States, who by one OF the
strange caprices of history now sits il
Judgment upon those great constitutional
amendments that were adopted and agreed
to against his protest and his efforts, ROSE
in this Chamber and said that he wOulC
resent as a personal affront any lmputa
ton upon the honor, the integrity, or tn
patriotism of jefferson Davis as persona
insult to bimself-why was 1t that "he1
he said he had no doubt Jefferson Davi
would occupy niche in history by tn
; side of John Hampden and George Wash
ington, no Democratic Senator, North 0
South. rose to repudlate and dlsavoW 1t
Yet tie moment that any Republican Sen
ator or any editOr OF any Northern news
paper or any organ OF the Grand Army 0
The Republic talks about the Union Army
, the grandeur of It's achievements, the obi
cations and duties of the nation towar'
its members, we are charged with wavln
the ensanguined undergarment, raklng u
the ashes of sectional strife, and appeaIin
; to partisan hatred and wrong and malice
Il IS time that the tWenty-four COnted
crates who constitute twenty-four thirty
seyenths Of the Democratic members c
: the Senate should understand how tn
f people Of the North feel about these MAJ
| ter5. -
Z The South do not like tie Union soldier!
G The Democratic party do not like then
g they never did. So it is now, after th
Y animo,ties Of the war should have die
i away, and upon every conceivable occ;
sion uhen we attempt to enlarge the pei
Z SION system or liberalize its provision
i Senators rise here one after the other an
peevishly complain that it is going to Coz
too much.
8 Mr.. Morgan. If the Senator will allo
{ me inst moment will say that the Den
. ocratic party liked General Hancock Vel
well. and voted for him.
Mr.. Ingalls, They did, as they are g
1 ing to vote for again, Grover Clevelan
n under compulsion. They thought The
, could fool the Northern people by vot1f
for a Union soldier, but they did not. "
understand very well what the voting f
'o Gaueral Hancock meant. 1t was just Il
t same as voting for Horace Greedy. Il
,e have been engaged in illicit intercour
- with all the degraded elements OF Il
~ North for the last twenty-five years.