The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-07
UNION SOLDIERS
DErsNDED By SENATOR INGALLS,
From the Attacks of D. OorauO Statesmen
A Lively Debate in the United States
senate on the Pension Bill-ssna.
tor Joe BIaskburn Replies.

WARRINGTON, ". W. mhIcn o'-Au
Senate to-day resumed consideration q
the unfinished business, Of the bill grant
irg pensions to ex.soldisra and salon
who are ncapcltatsdf from,the performance
of manual labor and providing for pen
aions to dependent relatives of deceased
soldiers and sailors; the question being OF
the amendment offered by Mr.. Wilson, O
Iowa, to insert the words "from in
frmities."
Mr.. Ingalls,, the presiding officer, having
called Mr.. Plat to the chair proceeded tc
address the Senate, the galleries being
crowded to their full capacity. He said
he had been surprised one day last week
on returning to the chamber after bEIei
absence to learn that the Senator from
Missouri (Vest) had referred to him in
terms not complimentary In q debate, in
which he had taken no part, and had
coupled with tho personal remaks an init
nation that the people Of the District Of
Columbia were incapable Of disinterested
patriotism, and that the veteranB OF the
Republic were Q mob OF Bordid plunderers.
Ae to himself, he would eay that the nomi-
nation and election Of Grover Cleveland
had made the pretensions Of
ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN
to the Presidency respectable. There wss
no man in this country whose ignorance
was 80 profound, whose obscurity so i'm
penetrable, whose anLecedents 60 de-
graded that he had no right to aspire to
the presidential nomination by the DEM
ocrstic party.
he regretted that the Senator from
Missouri Wss not in his seat to-day. He
should not initiate that Senator's bad ex-
ample, and would condne himself, 80 far
Rs he was concerned, to the Senator's
autobiography. Ths! Senator was born
in q State that had not seeded (the State
Of Kentucky, and had represented in the
Confederate Congress the State Iof Mis-
souri,, State which had not seeded 1t
would be gratifying to a historian to find
out how he had been admitted to repre-
sent State which had never seeded.
But that was q matter OF ancient history.
The Senator from Kentucky BLACK
burn) hsd also referred sneeringly to the
super.loyalty Of the soldiers oil the Union.
He did not challenge the honor or Cour-
age OF these Senators on their devotion to
the South and to the Southern confed-
eracy. They could not be suspected Of
insincerity. They had gone into the con-
iederacy because they wanted to 90, be-
cause they believed that slavery was bet
ter than freedom aud secession better
than union. 1t was curious that confed-
crates from Union States were little more
pronounced, and little moro aggressive,
and little more violent in their denun-
Citations North than coniederates from
States that had seeded. He did not
know where the Senator from Missouri
had got the figures from when he stated
that 5000 Of Lse's army had surrendered
at Appotamex.
HOT sHoT.
II that Senator had plucked few Of the
plumes from the dazzling tail OF his imRg-
ination and had stuck them in the wings
Of his judgment, he would have flown q
more accurate flight. Instead OF 5000
men with muskets who were in the final
crash and collision OF the war, there had
been rs OIL men.
He wanted the Senators on the Demo-
cratic side Of the chamber to understand
that their disguise for oppoaing pension
bills was 60 exceedingly thin that nobody
was deceived by it. Itwss not question
OF cost. The Sonth did not love the
Union army. Neither did the Democratic
party.
Mr.. Morgan reminded Mr.. Ingalls, that
the Democratic party had nominated and
sustained federal cfHceT; General Han
cock, for the Presidency.
"YeS," said Mr.. Ingalls," 1t did support
General Hancock and 1t also supported
Horace Greeley" Why was 1t that when
an Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court Of the United States, who by one Of
the strange caprices Of history, now sat in
Judgment upon those great Constitutional
amendments that were adopted against
his protest and ehorts-why was it that
when he arose in the Senate and said be
Wauld resent as personal afront any i'm
putation upon the honor or the integrity
aud patriotism Of Jefferson Davis: when
ne said he had no doubt that Jefferson
Davis would occupy niche in history by
the side Of George Washington-Rhy
was 1t no Senator on the Democratic side
North or south) arose to repudiate and
disayow It? And yet the moment an hon.
orRble Senator on the Republican side, or
any editor Of any Northern paper, or any
ORGAN OF THE GRAND ARMY
talked about Union armies, the grand
eur Of their achievements, the obligations
OF the Nation, they we're tainted with
waving the enssnguined underRarment,
rakinE up the ashes OF sectional strife,
appealing to partisan hatred and malice.
The South should bs thankful that Il
did not have 10 foot the entire pension
bill as France did after the Franco.
PrussiRn war.
The Senator from Missouri had asked, in
q burst OF indignation where this was
going to end. ~ will tell him." said Mr..
Ingalls,, "Whether he likes 1t or not, what
we intend TO do. ] will toll the Senator
from Missouri, and the rest OF his aeHo-
ciates, Just where this thing is going to
stop. II is going to stop when the arrears
OF pensions are paid"
Mr.. Blackburn said he did not need to
be told by the Senator from Kansas thSt
Kentucky had always been loyal. That
the Senator knew that he (Blackburn)
represented constituency which had sent
three men into the Union army for the
one man that Kansas sent. When the
Senator from Kansas undertook to speak
Of the the chief magistrate Of the country
in the terms he had been felt to employ
and which, he took II, were deliberately
prepared and canned he (1ngalls) certain.
ly could not take Issue with him
(Blackburn). Ho concluded that
1t was entitled to respond
or reply in presence so august and die.
tinguiahed as the Senate Of the United
Stases. But when that Senator undertook
to denounee the Chief Executive OF the
United States after such fashion as to
deliberately declare that no man sfaiCted
with Ignorance go profound, with obScur.
ity 60 gross should consider himself as
unfit to become the Presidents successor,
1t did aeem 10 him (Blackburn) that the
dignity Of the Senate chamber would re.
fuse permission to respond.
But the Senator from Kansas had gone
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