Western appeal., 1888-03-10

">I":<r#::#:f&2Si% and election of Grover
SENATOR INGALLS,. G eveIand had made
the pre- ensions of any American citizen TO
the Presidency respectable. There was no
man in this country whose ignorance
was so profound, whose obscurity SO
1mpenetrable, Whose antecadents so
degraded that he had not the rigat
to aspire to the Pres Dental nomina-
tion by the Democratic party He re-
GREETED that the Senator from Missouri
was not in his seat to-day. He should i'm
1tate thai Senator's bad example and would
contlne himself far as he was con-
cerned, to that Senator's autobiography
Tnat Senator was born in Kentucky, State
that had not seeded, and had represented
in the Confederate Congress the State of
Missouri which had not seeded. II would
be gr tify ng 20 historian TO find that he
n a been admitted to represent State
WhIch had never rseceded But that was q
m tier of ancient history. Senator Black
burn had also referred sneeringly to the
superloy lty Of The soldiers OF the Union
He did not challenge the honor or
courtga of these Senators in their
devotion to the South and to Southern
Confederacy. They could not be sus-
p ed OF in5ncer,y They had gone into
Confederacy because they believed that
avery was better than freedom and seces-
sion better han Union He did not know
where Senator Vest had got his figures
when he stated that but eight thousand of
Lees army had surrendered at Appomatox.
Ii The Senator had plucked a few plumes
from the dazz ing tail of his maginat on
and had stuck them into the wings of Las
Judgment he would have flown Il more ac-
curate fl ght Instead of 8, 900 men with
musk9ts WHO were in the final crash and
co. .is.on of the war, there had been 73, Oil
men. The Senator's mathematics We're
c'rtlnIy giddy. But one parallel was TO be
found to the eXtraord nary inaccuracy of
Jhtt statement, and that was that same
Senator'S statement that of the 900, 600
soldiers OF the Union army more than one
half had app! ed for pensions. Such speeches
as those OF the Senators from Missouri and
Kentucky were intended to catch the Con-
fe crate vote; and they would catch it.
Mr.. Morgan reminded Mr. Ingalls, tn t the
Democratic party ha nominated and sus-
ta.ned a Fe leral officer, General Hancock,
for the Presidency.
Yes" said Mr. Ingalls,, cit did support
General Hancock, and it also supported
Horace Greeley-attempting to fool the
NorLh. IL also nominated and supper ed
that other ally Of the COME eracy, George
B. Mcclellan. Such pretensions are alto
geUher 90 diaphanous An Associate JUS
tice OF The Supreme Court OF the Uni ed
States, who now sat in judgm en- upon those
consul utional amen Iments that We're
adopted against his protest and efforts, had
once arisen in the Senate and said he
Wonld resent as personal atfron5 any impu-
tatlon upon the honor or patriotism OF JET
ferson Davis, and said he had no doubt
that Jefferson Davis would occupy
niche in history by the side of George
Washington Why was it that no Senator
on the Democraic side arose to repudi-
ate and d!savow it? And yet the moine Mt
any Republican Senator or editor talked
about the Union urm:es and the obligations
OF the Nation, they were taunted with Wav-
Ing the ensanguiued under -garmenc--ralz-
ing up thu sles of sectional strife appeal
Ing TO partisan hatred and malice 1t was
time that the tWenLy-four Coufederates on
the other side of the chamber were in
formed that the Northern people were not
i'll lI-advsed about this matter
IL 1856, said Mr.. Ingalls,, there was in
Atluntl, Ca, Il grand historical occasion,
W en- statue to the memory OF an honored
SanatOr was to be unyailed man whom
Mr. lngalls honoreu and respected, and on
tuaG oCc son j, ff3rson DAVIS was invited to
b. present. Men t1ocked 10 that city as
waves come when nuvies are stranded
Iha city was decorated with Confederate
embtems to make a Confederate hOi day
Mr.. Ingalls, quoted from the speech OF Mr..
Grady at the unva ng Of the II Ill statue at
Atlanta, in VIII ca Jefferson Davis was spoken
or as one whose " gr. y HAIRS were crowned
with dealhess love" and as one who.
though an outcas6 from the privileg Of
this great Government, is the uncrowned
king OF our eople."
Coh,ing back to opposition of Southern
Senators to pension Lilis Mr. Ingalls, said
he did nos blame them for it, II The Fed
er@l GOV rnmenG had been overthrown he
did not believe he would have felt COM
forted n Volng pensions to Confederates
But ne OHId have regarded as the climax
or etfrOntery, / the very summit OF hardi-
hoou-he would not say Of pusillanimiuy
and dIshonor-if, after he had accepted
pardon and had had his disa bilities re-
moved, he denounced the efforts which
those Conf2derates made to reward heir
own sold ers and hag9led about the price
which should be bestowed on the men who
had conquered. 1t WIS little singular that
IN all The years since the war there had
never come from any State that had been
in rebellion, as far rs he knew, Union SOL
qter is representative in either branch of
Congress ecded by Dem ocratic votes The
Democratic party in those States nevar had
blundered by sending to Congress or elect
Ing as Governor 4 man who had not served
IN the Confederate army in some G paciiy
That had been the supreme test When we
looked over the rolls OF the Senate and re-
Hected how few of those who had served in
phC OIi Ol "Slc IOuuIt LII uuc COuuCllS
OF the Nation, he was not surprised at wit
Messing such demonstrations as were seen
Wnen pension bills were up for action
The South should be thankful that it did
not have to foot up the entire pension bill
as France dii after the FIR nco- -Prussan war.
Yet here, he S id, we have the jailors and
murderers of Andersonville and Libby pr son
legis'atng for the country which they en-
deavored to destroy, and irving to pinch
anil belittle the amounts to be paid to the
mutilated and disabled survivors of the
army of the Union Senator Vest had asked.
in burst of indiguat on where all this was
going to end. 81 will tell him." said Mr.
Ingalls,, and every Senator on that side of
the chamber what we intend to do It is
gong to stop when the arrears of pensions
ere paid; when the limi at on IS removed
and every soldier on the rolls, OF who gets
on the rolls. is paid from the day of his
disability, or, in case OF q survivor, from
the date of the soldiers death, and when
every sollier of the Union army is put
upon the rolls for service only. That is
when 1t is gong to stop applause in the
ga ertes1-and if you do not Like it make the
mosa Of it y
After eu'oTiz,ng the Grand Army Of the
Ranubhc, Mr. ingalls, 8 id in conclusions:
We propose to pass this bill, initiating the
language which has been used on the other
sid of the chamber, hope that it will
pass thu other House of Congress; and if. If
does let the President veto 1t at his peril y
lApplauss on the floor and in the gal
haTtesJ