, 1888-05-03

OF Mr.. Hayes Qanghter) and yes in-as smuch
as Hayes title was brought in controversy
| by the democratic party as one OF the issues
of the approaching campaign he felt bound
to say the title of Hayes to the presidency
was the most absolutely irrelragable of
any In the whole list of American presi.
dents because 1t was the only one which
was ever passed upon by u constitutional
tribunal properly organized for that pur-
pose. The democratic party should not
forget that the electoral com mission was
one of its devices. Ii was not the first
time
THEY WHO HAD DIeeEp a PIT,
and digged it deep, had fallen into It,
| [Laughterl. 1t would be remembered how
the Hon. Henry Watterson issued his cele-
brated proclamation calling on 100000 "un-.
armed kentuckians" To visit the CITY or
| Washington on the anniversary of the
battle OF New Orleans for the purpose of
suIerintending the electoral count.
[Laughterl. He, Cngalls) had mad con-
versation with President Grant shortly after
| the issuing of that celebrated proclamation
and had asked him II he thought there was
! going to be any trouble. General Grant
| lad paused momeht, and with that de-
liberate method which characterized his
differences, replied; No, / don't think
there is going to be any troubles; but 1t has
ready" 'and, added ingalls, with solem-
nifty, he was ready" In obedience to some
mysterious impulse troops, parks OF artil-
lery and munitions OF war began to arrive
at the capital, and the agitation of the
democratic party became extreme; be.
cause, II there was anything that would
turn the average democi at inside aut, with
Indignation it was the sigh Of federal sol
diers In blue uniforms. Laughterl.
Cleveland apparently had warranty deal
for the seat which he occupied, and yet,
compared with the title which Mr.. Hayes
md IN, hia ha w In t,oagassinn nf
stolen goods and the receiver was as bad
as the thief in court of justice, and ii,
fair conscience he had never been elected
at all. He had been counted into Office by
partnership between
DICK TURPIH, AND URIAH HEAP,
foot pads and sneak thieves, Cartouche and
| Pecksnitf, and II was some consolation to
know that In that partnership the apostates
and renegades had lost their share of the
swag. daughter and applause). The
country had still against It the southern
confederacy. it was confronted with the
1853 votes OF the solid south as 1t had been
at every election since the election of
Hayes. The solid south was the confeder-
acy and the success Of the democratic party
meant the success of the confederacy,
which was to-day as much an organized
active, aggressive force in politics as in '6l
and previous times. He honored and ad-
mired (but regretted and depored) the
loyalty and tdelity to the leaders under
whom it fought and Its determination to
reunite and to reconstruct the history of
its country so IL would be able to say to
generations which are to come that while
II was overthrown by overwhelming num-
beis in the field, yet
WITHIN 25 YEARS AFTER THE WAR
closed, its leaders had been restored to po-
litical power.
In this connection he asked, who was
Lucius Quiltus Curtius Lamar? He never
was suspected of being lawyer, Qaughter)
his bitterest enemy never accused Of that.
He had never been admitted to the bar of
the supreme court on whose bench he was
appointed. He never had tried reported
| case in any tribunal, state or national for
80 years. He asked what necessity there
had been for the President to affront the
loyal sentiment of the country by placing
on the bench Of the supreme court q man
who was not lawyer, and never had been
and who called
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A BUFRooN
why, of all men of the south did he select
| him and force him on reluctant people?
1t was because Mr.. Lamar was the nearest
and dearest friend and representative OF
Jefferson DAVIS. There was no other ex-
planation OF it. ingalls, then referred to the
speech made in the house in 10 by Black
burn declaring 1t to be the purpose and in
| echtioh VI tuc NcinOCThtlC party W Keep on
until 1t wiped out from the statute book
the last vestige OF the.war legislation. He
said that within the iext few years the su.
| preme court would be entirely reconstruct
, ed and hereafter ON war legislation, all
knew what the result would be. Passing
on to the question of elections i'm the
south he said the republican party would
| have no right to complain ifthe south were
kept solid by fair means, but there were
every day wrongs inflicted on hundreds of
thousands of men in the southern states
which, II inflicted by foreign power on a
single American citizen, there would be
! DECLARATION OF WAR WITHIN NINETY DAYS
even with the present secretary of state in
| Office. Loud laughter] The democratic
pnrty In the south have learned the art not
only OF making elections unanimous, but
Of making them more than unanimous.
He read letters and statements from re-
publican sources detailing acts of outrage
and cheating at the recent Louisiana
election, and declared his belief that fair
returns would have shown Yarmouth
elected by majority Of $4,000 or $4,000.
In closing Ingalls, saidS In centuries that
are to come he saw q vision of united and
homogeneous domain of freemen, rulers of
the continent from the Polar zone to the
Gulf from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Of
fering franchises of liberty and perpetuating
the arts of peace. People should remem-
Der. he said, on each recurring day when
they celebrated, that this country held in
its fruitful aud tender BREAST no more
priceless treasure than
THE CoNsEcRATED DUST
of those who died In order that this should
be government of laws, and not OF mem
and that liberty and constitutional govern
ment might not perish forever from the face
nf rfh Al Inua1la eat Il h,,s
asked him to give in the record full correct
extracts from his BLACK burns> speech to
which he had referred, and Ingalls, said he
would do SO.
VOORHEES, arose and remarked that the
speech which the senate had just listened to
recalled TO his mind the fable OF the
MOUNTAIN IN LABOR.