The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-09

| galls) had had q conversation with President
| Grant shortly after the issuing OF that cele-
| brated proclamation and had asked him if he
thought there was going to be any trouble.
| zen. Grant had paused a moment and, with
| that deliberative method which characterized
his utterances, replied: "NO, do not think
there Is going 10 be any trouble, but it has been
| one rule OF my life TO be always ready" And,
added Mr.. Ingalls,, with solemnity, he was
ready. In obedience TO some mysterious i'm
| pulse, troops, parks of artillery and munitions
| or war had begun 10 come 10 the capital; and
| the agitation of the democratic party had be-
come extreme; because, if there was anything
| that would turn the average democrat inside
| out with indignation, il was the sight of n fed
eral soldier in blue uniform. lLaughter.l The
| 100000 "unarmed kentuekiansp had not made
| their appearance and the count had proceeded,
| notwithstanding the indignation OF the demo-
| Gratis at the result of their own device.
The people were perpetuaIiy reminded that
| the republican party was guilty OF an enormous
| OF Mr.. Hayes. Mr.. Cleveland had apparently a
/ warranty deed for the seat which he occupied,
and yet, compared with the title which Mr..
| Hayes had 10 his seat he was in possession of
| stolen goods, and the receiver was as bad rs
the thief; in the court of Justice and fair con-
| science he had never been elected at all. He
| had been counted into Office by a partnerhip
between Dick Turpin and CTidh Heep, foot
| pads and ak-theves-C9TtOuche and Peek
! S7tiF; and it was some consolation TO know that
| gades had lost their share of the swag. Laugh
| ter and applause.
The country had still against it the Southern
| COnfederacy. 1t was confronted with 153 votes
of the solid South, as it had been at every cleo
! ton since the time of Mr.. Hayes. The solid
/ South was the eonfederacy, and the success of
! the democratic party meant the success of the
| confederacy, which was to-day as much an
organized, active, aggressive force in politics
in 1861, and in the previous times. Slavery
vro Hpsl1 10
/ ideas, all the impulses, all the intentions of
secession remained-a burlesque without excuse
and without explanation.
He honcred and admired, but regretted and
deplored, the constancy of the South TO that
idea; its loyalty and fidelity to the headers I'M
der whom it fought, and its determination to
reunite and reconstruct the history OF Its cOun-
try that it would be able to say TO the gener-
atoms which are to come that while it was
OyerthrOwn by overwhelming numbers in the
field, yet within twenty-five years after the war
closed its leaders had been restored to political
power. a1E
In this connection he asked who was Iucius
Quntus CurtiuS Lamar? lie never was sus-
pected of being a lawyer. Laughter.l His
bittereSt enemy never accused him of that. He
never had been admitted to the bar of the SUI
preme court. on whose bench he was appointed.
He never had tried a reported case in any
tribunal. state or national for thirty years. 1t
was an open secret that the president at one
time peremptOrily refused to appoint him. lie
asked what necessity there had been for the
president to aflront the loyal sentiment of the
country by placing on the bench OF the SUI
preme court man who was not lawyer and
never had been, and who had called Abraham
Lincoln buttOOn. Why, OF all men in the
South did it select him and force him on q re-
luctant president and reluctant people? TWAS
because Mr.. Lamar was the nearest and dearest
friend and representative of Jefferson Davis.
There was no other explanation of it. III that
was not true, then his nomination was a farce
and buTlesque without excuse and without ex-
PLANTATION.
Mr. ingalls, then referred to a speech made
in the house of Representatives In 1879 by Mr..
Blackburn, declaring it To be the purpose anG
intention of the democratic party to keep on
until il wiped out from the statute books the
last vestige of war legislation. He said that
within the next few years the supreme court
would be entirely reconstructed. Two OF the
associate justices were already past the retiring
age, and ii that tribunal was to pass hereafter
on the war legislation, all knew what the result
would be. There could be no question about
it. He passed on to the speech of Henry Il.
Jackson at Macon, Ga, i'll the presence of
Jefferson Davis. speech which had the effect,
he said, of defeating the democratic party of
Ohio by an immense majority. Its influence
was so palpable that Judge Thurman de-
nOunced Jackson as an old tramp and an old
fool and Gen. Gordon of Georgia Immediately
set ont for Cincinnati in his special ear. 10 try
TO cOunteract it, and in order to show that there
was no bloody chasm between the North and
South, and that a thoroughly fraternal feeling
prevailed, when he met Gen. Morgan of Ohio
on public platform he kissed him in the
mouth, as reported in the papers at that time,
and entering his special ear went back to GeOr-
gia. Laughter.
Passing on to the question of elections in the
South, he said that the republican party would
have no right to complain if the South were
kept solid by fair means. But the democratic
party there had been playing the political
game with loaded dice; had been throwing
skies" all the time; had held stacked cards; :"
played with a cold deck" had revolver in
It's boot and bowie knife down the back of Ms
neck. There were, every day, wrongs inflicted
on thousands and hundreds of thousands of
men in the Southern states, which, if inflicted
by a foreign power on a single American citi-
zen, even the least of these, my little ones
there would be a declaration of war within
ninety days-even with the present secretary
OF state in Office. Loud laughter.l They had
illustration of what was going TO take place in
November next by what had just taken place
in Louisiana. lQuiet laughter on democratic
side. He quoted q sentence from Mr.. NoOr-
hees' speech 10 the effect that the only wonder
about the Louisiana election was that the vote
was not unanimous; and he said that it was
more than unanimous. The democratic party
in the South have learned the art not only
OF making elections unanimous, but of making
them more than unanimous. 1t had learned
the art OF returning q larger democratic
majority than the registered vote. He wondered
himself at its moderation in returning only
majority Of $1,000 in Louisiana, but il had been
going up since the senator from Indiana had
spoken and was now $1,000. What it would
amount to before the dog days nobody could
tell
lie read letters and statements from repub-
Hcan sOuIces detailing accounts of Outrages and
cheating at the Louisiana election and de-
clared his belief that fair returns would have
shown Yarmouth elected by majority of
$1,000 or $1,000.
In closing Mr.. Ingalls, said: "In the centuries
that are to come L see the vision of a united,
prosperous and happy America, vast, homo
genOus domain OF fTeemen, rulers of the con-
unent from the polar zone to the gulf, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, enjoying the franchises
OF liberty and perpetuating the arts of peace.
The people should remember, on each recurring
day when they celebrate the deeds of the dead,
that this country held in its fruitful breast no
more priceless treasure than the cOnsecrated
should be a gOvernm ent of the laws and not of
men, and that liberty and constitutional gov
eminent might not perish forever from off the
face of the earth"
AsMr. Ingalls, sat down, Mr. Blackburn asked
him to give in the Record a full and correct ex-
tract from his (Blackburns speech, to which he
had referred, and Mr.. ingalls, promised to do so.
Mr.. Voorhees, Replies.
Mr.. Voorhees, arose, and in slow, measured,
resonant tones remarked that the speech which
the senate had just listened to recalled TO his
mind the fable Of the mountain in labor. Two
hours had passed away after trumpets had