The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-03-15
WAR TALK IN CONGRESS.
TRYING TO REVIVE ISSUES THAT
OUGHT TO BE BURIED.

Ipgalls and Blackburn--The Kentuokian
&, Gets the Better of the Tilt.
On Tuesday the 9th inst. the United
the dependent pension bill. After brief
speeches by Senators Berry, Manderson,
Sherman, Teller and Beck, Senator
ingalls,, the presiding officer, having
called Senator Platt to the Chair, pro-
ceeded to address the Senate, the gale
ries being crowded to their full capacity.
He said that considerations of decorum
and propriety (perhaps excessive and
overstrained) had detorred him from
participation thus far in the debates of
the Senate. He had, therefore, been
surprised, one day last week, on return
ing to the chamber, after brief ab-
sence, to learn that tho Senator from
Missouri (Vest) had referred to him in
terms not complimentary in o debate in
which he had taken no part, intimating
that the people Of the District of Colum-
bia were incapable of disinterested pa
triotism and that the veterans of the Re
public were mob of sordid plunderers.
AS to himself, he would say that the
nomination and election of Grover
any American citizen to the Presidency
respectable. There was no man so igno-
rant or mean that he might not aspire to
nomination to the Presidency by the
Democratic party. Laughter and ap-
plause.] He regretted that tho Senator
9 IRON Missouri was not in his seat to day.
lie should not initiate that Senator's bad
example, and would contine himself, 80
lar as he was concerned, to that Sena-
tors autobiography. That Senator was
born in State that had not seeded, the
state of Kantucky, and had represented
In the Confederate Congress the State of
Mlssouri-a State which had not seeded.
1t would be gratifying to tho historian
to find out how he had been admitted to
represent State which had never Sc
ceded. But that was matter for ancient
history. The Senator from kentucky,
CBlackburn) had also referred sneeringIy
to the super-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 to the
Southern Confederacy. They could not
be suspected of insincerity. They had
gone into the Confederacy because they
wanted to go; because they believed that
slavery was better than freedom, and
secession better than union. 1t was
curious that Confederates from Union
States were little more pronounced,
little more aggressive and q little moro
violent in their depunciations of the
North than Confederates from States
that seeded. He did not know where
the Senator from Missouri had got the
figures from when he stated that but
5000 of Lees army had surrendered at
AppomattoX. If that Senator had pluck
ed few of the plumes from the dazzling
tail of his imagination and had stuck
tbem into the wings of his Judgment, he
would have flown O moro accurate flight.
Instead of 5000 men with muskets who
were in the final crash and collision Of
the war there had been 73, OIL men. The
Senator's mathematics were certainly
giddy. But one parallel was to be found
to the extraordinary ;naccuracy of that
statement, and that was the same Sena-
tors statement that of 100000 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 Confederate vote, and they would
catch it. They were "centre shots, +"
striking the bull's-eye every time and
"rlnging the bell" Applause, vigor-
ously suppressed by the Chair. He
side of the chamber to understand that
their disguise for opposing pension bills
was so exceedingly thin that nobody was
deceived by it. 1t was not question of
cost. The South did not love the Union
army, neither did the Democratic party.
Senator Morgan reminded Senator
Ingalls, that tho Democratic party had
nominated and sustained a Federal
officer, General Hancock, for the Presi-
denoy.
Yes, said Senator Ingalls,, it did sup
port General Hancock, and it also sup
ported Horace Greeley, attempting to
fool the North. 1t also nominated and
supported that other ally of tho Con-
federacy, George B. Mcclellan. Such
pretensions are altogether too diaphan-
ous They require to have tho drapery
removed for inspection.
In 1886 there was in Atlanta grand
historical occasion, when statue to the
memory of an honored Senator was to
be unveiled, o man whom he 0ngalls)
honored and respected, and. on that oc-
casiOn the ex-President of tho COnfed-
eracy was invited to be present. Mon
aocked to that array as they 60 to q
banquet, as waves como when navies are
stranded, and the city was decorated with
Confederate emblems to make Confed.
crate holiday. He quoted from speech
of Mr.. Grady at the unveiling Of the
Hill statue at Atlanta, in which Mr..
LAWS was spoken of as one whose "gray
hairs were crowned with dcathIcss love,
and as one who, "though an outcast
from the privileges of this great Coy,
ernment Is the uncrowned king of oul
people," He did not propose to rohearst
the reply of Mr.. Davis except to quote
one sentence, in which he rofoTed tc
Senator Hill as having "mashed the in
furious Yankee, (meaning, he supposed
their friend now in Floronce.) Eo spoke
of the same orator, Grady having gone
to New York, and Now England soo1
afterwards, and made speeches there
pouring out his "treacle, cold cream anC
honey and maple syrup all over thu
North" When, he asked, was tina
orator sincere? When did ho speak the
sentiments, feelings and conscience 0
the Southern people? Was it when h
delivered that Grafton in Atlanta on Ma,
l, 1886, or was it when ho spilled oil anC
wine over all the AmoricRn people of tn
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