The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-03-16

in the Senate on Tuesday, March q. In
Reply to the Indecent Attack on the
President. General Hancock. General
Mcclellan and Horace Greely, by John
J. Ingalls,, OF Kansas.
Mr.. Blackburn said be did not know
that he (Mr. Blackburnl was necessa-
" connecting link with the Senator's
acceptance OF the Presidential nomina-
tlon. The Senator from Kansas doubt
less did knoE that illness in tie family
OF the Senator from Missouri had taken
him a long distance from the city, and
that lac was to be Ihsent for some time
on that account. He pro:e 5.ed against
the lack of fairness evinced by the Kan
sas Senator when he undertook TO deal
in such q fashion with men who ha0
simply stated facts aud submitted data
for the consideration OF the Senate Oh
the pending bill.
What cause of grievance the S-nator
had that warranted him in applying
language to the Chief Magistrate which
would not be permissible on the Hastings
(he would not say that il would be dis
graceful even 10 be employed by fish
women) he did not know. But when
that Senator undertook to denOunce the
Chief Eexecutive OF the United Sta es
after such a fashion as to deliberately
declare that no man afflicted with igno-
rance so profound. with obscurity so
gross, should consider himself ss unfit
to become the Presidents successor, it
did seem to him (Blackb buIn( that the
dignity of the Senate Chamber refused
permission TO respond. He was Eot
here to defend the President from such
unwsrranied attacks. He knew but one
sin which the President had committed
in the eyes OF the Senator from Kansas.
That might be the unpaTdonable sin.
II was that, having defeated tho Sena-
tors party at the polls, he had given to
past so efficient, 80 honest, SO clean
handed an administration as TO doom
the last OF Republican aspirations TO
disaster. Applause on the Democrat
ic side and in the galleries.
But the Senator from Kansas had
even gone farther aLd done worse in
his Incorporate zeal. He had not
spared the sanctity OF the grave. In
his frantic efforts TO stir up pI-ju1icss
between sections already reunited he h had
dragged up for abuse ani viliifi- ion
before The American S,nate such m
as had furnished with their unblr mish-
ed swords the brightest pages OF A neIi.
can history. Mcclellan and H!.cock
were 10 be denounced in the Senate
Chamber as allies OF the ConfedeI9tCs.
Would IL not have been In better taste,
at iess, more crsditAb!e 10 the courage
AMI ccndor OF the Senator, If be had
made such charge before both OF these
msu were buried :
ingalls, from bis seat II did often.
Mr.. B'ackburn-Then, so much the
worse for tht gentleman from Kansas.
What warrant or ground had he for
that, except that they were both differ
ent from himseif-at least in political
faith, II (may we not hope a;so) in maDy
other regards Hancock an ally OF
Confederates Was he so regarded
and believed when. weltering in his
blood on Cemetery Heights. he refused
TO be removed from the field and per-
sisted 70 giving the orders which check
ed the last advance Of Longslreet' 8
irresistible battaliobs Was il this
man who was honored by the American
people, whether Republicans or Demo
Gratis, up 70 the very date when be had
accepted the nomination OF he Demo-
cratic party, who WAS TO be spoken Of
as an ally OF the COnfederates
The Senator from Kansas complains
Of the Senator from Missouri and saws
tha tbs res.s his complaint upon that SEN
tors Congressional autobiography. be
lieve it is generally assumed that a gentle
man writes that bit OF interesting his
tory for himself. In looking over the
short but conspicuously brilliant auto
biography of the Senator from Kansas,
l find that he was not IN the army in
lS6l. lie certainly was not in the army
in 1862, because he says be was in the
Safe senate OF Kansas in that year.
But he was in the army from 1868 to
lS6J-and in what capacity He Was
Judge Advocate of the Kansas vo!uu.
teers-(laughteT)-w Gen. Back,
the Commissioner OF Pensions, wai
bleeding on The Kansas frontier: while
Mcclellan was commanding tbs army
AZ Pe'ersb1rg while Hancock vas
weltering In hi. blood at Cemetery
Heights, at Gettysburg, the Senator
from Kansas, always behind the rear OF
the army, was prosecuting Kansas isy.
ha~kers for robbing henIoosts. Loud
laughter and appIause.)
Now what are We TO think of the
arguments of Senator who will leay,
his seat as presiding officer and come tC
the fiOor in the illustration of partisan
zeal which am glad to saw 1 have
never seen eQual!ed, attacking all de
cent people, from :he President Of the
| United States down (civilians as we'll a:
military men), and letting no objec
escape the venom OF his tongue
| One would say that he was a cynic, de
/ spising mankind-perhaps because h
has suspicion that mankind is no
enamored Of him. But neither Presi.
! dent nor soldier, living or dead. Confed
crate or Federal, except he accor d
with him in political convictions. j
! safe from his uoJus. and unfounded at
tacks- i do not want to be put in tn
position of an opponenent or enemy o
pensioning Of honest Federal soldier.
L have never opposed pensioning mel
who have served in the Uuion arm
and who were :ncapaciIated from sup
porting themselves either by disease O
wounds. AID do not know the Con
federate who has done so.
Party man as 1 am, partisan as
confess myself TO be, l do sincerel
trust that / may never flnd nv teUm O
pubic service prolonged TO that da,
noI my life extended 10 that ho1r. whe
without warrant. with out facts TO sup
port II, without truth at my back,
viii turn deliberately to traduce ant
ahuse the dead who, while living. wei
houored by all honorable men," Uou
applause, which the presiding office
again checked.
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