New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02

The country was the very Threshold OF the
important Of this countrya contest whose
result would determine the destiny Of the country for the
next twenty-five The country had still against IL
confederacy. and the Of the Demo
cratic party meant the success Of the Confederacy
which to-day much an organised 40
tive, aggressive force in politics ~ IN 1851
Mr. ingalls, here read an extract from the report
Of speech made by Mr.. Lamar in Richmond In June,
1861. in which he is represented as speaking OF Mr..
Lincoln as a buffoon and he asked what necessity
there had been for the President to affront the loyal
sentiment OF the country by placing the bench Of
the Supreme Court a with such record. II
was because Mr. Lamar was the dearest friend and
representative Of Jefferson Davis. There was no
other explanation of It. He said that the Republican
party would have right TO complain IL the South
were kept solid by fair They had illustra
| ton Of what going TO take place in November
| next by what had just taken place In Louisiana.
The Democratic party in the South had learned tho
art not only of making elections unanimous, but
had learned the art OF returning larger Democratic
peroraton picturing what would have been this
| miserable fate OF the country IL the Rebellion had
prevailed, and contrasting that picture with the pres
ent and future prosperity of the United States.
Mr. VOORHEES, RISES IN REPLY.
Then Mr.. Voorhees, arose and remarked that HIS al
fusion last Wednesday to the Senator from Kansas
had been merely Incidental He had made no attack
upon him but upon the Republican party. How use
less it had been for that Senator 10 arragn him.
He QDgsllsi had read to the Senate the old. stale,
putrd, rotten. ISLANDERS ~ gone ty, on which
he Voorheesl had trampled In forty political cam
Union soldiers talked Of their having collars around
their necks base a falsehood that the black
senator did not state things correctly and could
do 1t too late FOR the senator to plead that
he had only spoken Of Mcclellan and Hancock as allies
OF the Confedcracy in their civil capacity He had
charged Mcclellan with endeavorng to mase the war
failure No greater charge could be brought against
He spoke Of Mr.. Insalis's biography in tho Com
that for the rst twelve years Of his Senatorial life
R afd n ss9 tn 91o he 10
other public positions which he had filled those OF
% SSsns from 1888 to 1885,
As to the Upon , the OF 5hs %ar one
and and his defeat defeat ''' ''' ''A ~ w
LIVELY COMPARISON OF WAR RECORDS.
Mr. ingalls, responded to the speech Of Mr.. voor-
bees and said that no conscious than he
OF the duty which he owed to his country. AS the
Senator from Indiana had fit to invite comparison
between their records and their relations to the great
questions of the past twenty-five years, he felt 1t his
duty put record from information in bis posses
sion what the Senator's record and history were He
should refer only to public matters in public records
and should venture the affirmation that whatever
might have been his relations TO tho great srug-
Indiana had been from the outset the determined out
spoken positive aggressive ana enemy OF
from indiana had come into the chamber with pile
Of manHs-ilt as big as the TalmgdmsweItered yeno.
iberae, premedltated preparation of malignant, un-
WtS Se Senator had Always been pleasant and
the c ' o his o Whsh the
referred in saying that he ingalls,, had been white,
sympathy with him. Yet the senator came in here to-
day and endeavored to cast aspersons upon him and
belttle him and humilliate him in the eyes OF tho
American people, when he Qngalls had only referred
to the Senator'S public Which ba
he did deny it. Mr.. ingalls, replied that the publ
cation verbatim report and so certified to-
THE WABASH SYCAMORE AND THE GOLDEN
CIRCLE.
Mr.. voorhees, asserted that not one word or syDa-
Die read by the Senator was true or believed to be
true in Indiana. The Senator's insinuatlon that no
Voorhees) had been member of a political Sc
cret society-the Knights of the Golden Circlewas
and UNANIMOUSLY false that he did not know how to
choose language to denounce 1t as such.
Mr.. ingalls, continuing said that the Senator had
Just had been in favor Of the destruction OF
slavery and opposed to secession Yet in published
ess made h By R@ 7s Just the
IA which he advocated both
in favor Of the destruction Of slavery but ne had said
he was glad It had taken place, and he was. 49,.
when he delivered that speech had two editions pro
pared, one for circulation In the North and one iGr
Ingalls, after the is' senator from south Carolina had
lions for war were rife all the south, the Senator
from Indiana had written letter for E. A shuteI
in the Confederate War Department in support Of his
application for appointment as brigadier gcpcra IN the
iS 1860 The letter says On the disturbing 9ues
tqn Of the day hi, (shatss sentiments are entirely
home in that section I take this occasion to say
5 4 and nuf ss in Mr. nsa
that the gentleman says thai is campaign SANDER
h one Of those ngs that Rs
diana have passed upon for nearly thirty year;
for as small an offence And yet the Senator ven
tured to asperse his Mr Ingas military record and
4S soa sad that es charge and that nsG had dos
and said oD and hey have a 9uf fon collar arOuEga
their HecGs With the Inscription my dog, A6Taham
Lincoln was campaign SANDER and sesnaat thS'
tated by as cIedItable witness as there was In the
city: o.,, {. =.
would be absolutely false and palpable lie.
Mr. Ingalls-The Senator is dtsOrderly.
o M 1 cga5 Te1 Wbo V bs hy re
present at a meeting April 8, 1862, when Mr. Voor-
blac EsHith shop. This statement signed by re-
spectacle citizens of Indiana who were not ashamed
OF their names and residences which were attached
A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE CIRCLE
lie reminded the gentleman that he had been in
dorsed only by the Democratic party Of Indiana
Everybody knew what business the Democratic party
Of Indiana had been engaged In during the war.
seventy and Of them had been members OF the
knights Of the Golden Circle and had been conspring
against tho Union. They had entered into combination
accordng to General Holt for the urppose Of aiding
soldiers 10 desert, dlscouragng enlistment circulating
reasonable publications, giving intelligence to tho
enemy and assassination and murder; and 1t was
cepthle proof that they did conspre TO murder Gov
eruor Morton. This organization, which the Senator
said he never belonged TO- had ritual of which liz
copies were found in the Senator's Office at the time
when Hancock the Bloody Angle. In that same
office found spOndence between the senator
and senator from NewJersey for tho purpose Of fur
nshlng stand of arms-not to the National Gov
ernme1t because the Senator was not In sympathy
with the National Government not 10 the state Gov
eminent OF Indiana, because that Government was In
loya hands for the purpose OF carrying out the
objects and purposes Of that organization ho was
that tho senator stated that though those papers
were found In his office It not kept by him The
senator afeTard stated that there had been an un-
warrantabIe search Of his private papers: General