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could not reduplicate it, Ard he said to
the senator from Kansas without mean
ing, perhaps, the full extent of what his
words conveyed) that it was not in his
power to fish up from the sewers of infamy
the old campaign lies and make them re-
spectacle in the Senate of the United
States; but it was possible for him, by u
short step, TO put himself on an equality
with them.
Mr.. Voorhees, alluded in q sarcastic and
amusing manner TO Mr.. ingalls, war rec
ord, and said he would stand with the SEN
ator before the soldiers OF Indiana or Kan
sas, and quit the Senate ii he was not ap.
proved by them over Mr.. Ingalls,.
Mr.. Ingalls, replied that as the senator
from Indiana had seen fit TO invite COM
parison between their records and their re.
latlons to the great questions OF the past
twenty-five years, he felt ii his duty to put
on record, from information in his posses
sion, what the senator's record and
history was. He should refer only to
public matters in public record and should
venture the affirmation that whatever
might have been his own (Ingalls' rela-
tons to the great struggle between the
north and south, the senator from Indiana
had been from the outset the determined,
out-spoken, positive, aggressive and ma
lianant enemy of the union cause,
| pronounce that (saij Mr.. Voorhees,
rising with anger in his eyes) to be a de-
liberately false accusation. | voted for
every dollar that paid the soldier, Tor
every stitch Of clothes he wore, and for
every pension bill that rewarded his SER
vices.
Mr.. Ingalls, said: The Senator came
in here today and thanked God
that he had never been fol-
lowed here by committee TO question
his right to his seat; and with much diff
iuseness OF illustration had endeavored to
cast aspersions upon him (Ingalls) and be-
little him and humilitate him in the eyes
OF the American people, when he (Ingalls)
had only referred to the senator's public
utterances his speeches which he had
never denied.
Mr.. Voorhees, declared that he did denyit.
MIR. Ingalls, replied that the senator
could not deny the publication he had
read. II was a verbatim report, and so
certified TO.
Mr.. Voorhees, asserted that not one word
or syllable read by the senator was true, or
believed to be true in Indiana. The accu-
sation had been trampled under foot. Tho
senator's insinuation that he (Noorhees)
had ever been n member of a political So
cret society-the Knights of the Golden
Circle-was so base and UNANIMOUSLY false
that he did not know how 10 choose Ian
guage TO denounce IL as such.
Mr.. ingalls,, continuing, said the senator
from Indiana had written letter for Mr..
L. A. Shute, which that gentleman took
south with him and filed in the Confeder.
ate war department in support Of his APP
plcation for appointment as brigadier-
general IN the Confederate army. The let
ter was dated December II, 1860 and said:
''On the disturbing questions OF the day
his (Shute's) sentiments are entirely with
the south, and one Of his objects Is a prob
able home in that section. | take this &C.
casion TO say that his sentiments and mine
are in close harmony.
DANIEL w. VOORHEES,"
The senator said the charge that he had
called Union soldiers "hirclings and Lin.
coin dogs" and said that they ought to
20 TO blacksmith shop and have an iron
collar put around their nocks with the in
scription, "My dog, Abraham Lincoln,
was a campaign SANDER, and scandal
that had been spit upon. That avcrment
could be substantialed by as creditable a
witness as there was in the city.
Mr.. Voorhees, And even II the senator
said that, II would be absolutely false.
Mr.. Ingalls-Thc senator IL disorderly.
Continuing, Mr.. Ingalls, read from pa
per signed by citizens Of Sullivan county,
who stated that they were present at a
meeting on April 0, 1862, when Mr.. Noor-
hoo a.tI tlat H. -, a.I,If.ra al..,,II ~. a.
the nearest blacksmith shop and have an
iron collar around their necks with the
inscription: "My dog, Abraham Lincoln
This paper was signed by respectable citi-
gems Of Indiana, who were not ashamed OF
their names and residences, which were
attached. Everybody knew what brd-
ness the Democratic party OF Indiana had
been engaged In during the war. Seventy
thousand Of them had been members OF
the knights OF the Golden Circle, and had
been conspiring against the Union. They
had entered into combination (accordiBg
TO Gen. Holt for the purpose OF aiding sol
der TO desert, discourging enlistments,
circulating reasonable publications, Civ
ing intelligence TO the enemy and assassi-
nation and murder, and II was susceptible
Of proof that they did conspire 10 murder
Gov. Morton. This organization, which
the senator said he never belonged 10, bad
n ritual OF which ll2 copies were found In
the senator's Office at the time when Han
cock was at the unbloody angle. In that
same Office was found other correspondence
concerning the objects and purposes OF
that organization. The correspondence OF
&. l.. Vallandingham was in the Office.
The senator in his address 10 his constitu-
ents In 1861 had declared that no would
never vote single dollar, nor asingle man
for the prosecution Of the war and no had
never done 10 ~ long n he was In Con-
grcss. lie had consistently and persistently
voted against every measure for unfolding
the Union cause and reinforcing lis army.
Yet, continued Mr.. ingalls,, the senator,
who think deserves charity more than
any man | know Of ON this floor, and who
has received u nj the hands OF his asso-
ciales, and who can less afford than any
man Of my acquaintance 10 invite the scru.
tiny Of his war record, rises here and with
playiulncs and hilariousness refers 10 the
fact that | served duringthc war as Judge
advocate with the rank Of major and sub
scquently Of Northumberland. However
obscure or inefficient my services may have
been. they were always on the side OF my
coun,ry-not Ne bis have been, always
against II.
Mr.. voorhees, said that II the gentleman
from Kansas would find one single vote
that he east against the payment OF sol.
dicrs. for their supplies, for their bountles,
against the appropriations for their pen.
sions, he would resign his scat In the
Senate. Every word the senalor had
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