The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-05-09
SET. PA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9. 1888.

gals was prepared % deliver crushing
blox to either blackburn, Vest or soor-
lees, not knowing which one would at
tempt To answer him. The discussion Is
not ye. ended. hoxevfr. and II Is proba-
DE thz; bath Vest and Blackburn viii
hase something 10 ssy, bot after the ter
rife drubbing administered TO voorhees,
tiev viii be very wary indeed how they
fool with the Senator'S from Kansas
sc4gHISG sFEEcu.
Mr. ingalls, commenced his speech by
/ recalling the fact that On the llta OF July
lAst Major General Fitz John Porter. now
on the retired list, wnote aietteri in wlsich
he thanked his friends and said that his
heart was always ~-ith them, although AZ
one time his hand snd heart had worked
the best tina; they knew how against
! them. The Senator freIa Indiana had
complained Iasi Wednesday with bitter
ness that an attempt had been nlade 70
+ biseken the names Of al the great civil
as well as military leaders in the late
/ war whe remained trsse 10 the Democratic
Tsrty. Fitz John Porter bad been me Of
these military leaders Who maintained
{ their allegiance to the Den0craIic party (;
and he, within the last feGr months. al
though he had been disl.oaorNtly dis
misse.l from the service and had been re-
stored By the action Of the Democratic
party. and is members, who had been
members Of the ConfesieEacy. had writ
ten TIA: his heart vas always with
them
Referring to General Mcclellan. Mr..
ingalls, spoke Of his education at west
Point q his business connection with
BeaureyaFd, and of his attempt 70 extend
and eontinne human slavery by the ac-
QUESTION Of Caha- He spoke Of him as
having begun his military career by iiso-
bcyiEg the orders OK General scott; as
having abandoned Pope at Centeryilie !.
ss having failed to put the rebels 70 the
sword at Aniie;sm; as having refused to
obey the orders Of the President and fol-
low the rebels 10 Winchester; as having
fstaIly controlled the destiny Of thearnny
until the hattie Of FredericksburE. His
tory had VTonouneei its verdict upon him
as q soldier, and the Senator from Inii-
ana EoaId not be able 10 place him in
the category With Napoleon, Hannibal
and Cesar. He Ingalls, dealt with hiIn
as politician, and said that NJ one
could rsad his letter to President Lirr0ia
after the disastrous seven days 6gat on
the Peninsula and before Richmond
without coming 70 theieonclasion that
Mcclellan was lot fully aad actively in
sympathy with the forces, the ideas ard
the sentiments which were then contron-
ing the American people
- 70 GES TlAScocK.
A. 70 General Hancock, he also. Mr.
ingalls, said. was one OF the military
leaders who were trne 70 the Democracy
His martial career was one Of the iinper-
ishable heri.aces Of American glorv. He
marched and triun.Ihed. He filed the
abyss Of fame with names which would
be eiernal; luminoEs-ihe Peninsula,
Antietazi. Gettysburg, CliancellorsyiIIe.
Cold Harhor and Petersburg. Had he
been a soldier under Napoleon he woald
have been Prince and Marshal Of the
empire. lie had been vel called Han
cock. the spperbr But afler the war clos
eI he Ike NcClellanl had bec0ne taint-
Ell with the fatal virus Of an ambition for
the Presidential nomination. Bet not
Eifhstandins his magnificent and uBap-
Tr0achable career, the American people
recognizeS his hostility 70 the recons;r1c-
ton measures and, in the Presidential
s-lection Of IsS0. he carried but three
Northern States, California. Nevada and
New Jersey and the f'st iwo Of them
had been stolen by the forgery and frsislii
Of the Morey letter issaei By Denocratic
politicians. lie had also received the l3s
electoral votes Of the solid Sogth. which
had been promised bin in his speech at
Cincinnati by the Senator from South
Carolina. Mr. Hampton He spoke Of the
affected Indignation Of the Senators from
Inlizna and Kentucky as discre.litabie
70 their intelligence OF their eaRdo-- If
shey did no. knoE that he Mr. Ingalls,
had spoken Of these Union Generals, lot
Or so.iiers. BAT a. politicians, and as Deia-
ocrasie candidates for the Presidency,
they were duh, stupid and ignorant. in
deed. If they did know j, and persisted
in their assertions they were disiReena-
oGs. and be suspected II such thing
were .Possib.ej that they we're both
lLaughierl
M. President, from the impassioned
eulogy. from the Rhapsody Of aPpToia-
ton that aowed from the Senator from
Indiana, at the great military achieve
meats of Mcclellan snd Hancock. I be-
gan to have some doab. who It was that
really pat down the rebeilioa.
DEMOCRATS DTRISe TIE ~AE-
Iwas driven eurioasly 10 inquire What