Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-10
KANSAS SCORCHER.
Senator Ingalls, Shows Up the War
Record of Voorhees, of
Indiana.
He Accuses the Hoosier of Sympa-
thy With Secession and Proves
His Charge.
One of the Bitterest Attacks Upon
the South Ever Heard in
the Senate.
Lays OUT VOORHEES,.

LAYS OUT VOORHEES,.
The Recent Speech of the Indiana
Senator Receives From Mr.. Ingalls,
a Most Scathing Reply.
WASHINGTON. Special Telegram. May IL
II any one has any doubts as to the position
of Senator Ingalls, with respect to the Union
soldiers and the war issues after his notable
speech in the senate to-day, be must, as Mr.
Ingalls, puts II, be either stupid or diangen-
nous, or both II is the lot of few men in
congress TO have such an audience
as Mr. Ingalls, had to-day 1t
was an audience such as none
of his opponents can command The tariff
debate was proceeding in the house; but
most of the afternoon there were present In
the hall OF the house only the chairman of
the committee of the whole and the speaker
who was addressing the chair. The rest Of
the representatives were for the most part
present in the senate chamber Every
vacant bench in the senate chamber was
occupied In the galleries the diplomatic gal
Iery was so packed that the stairs were used
as seats, and all of them were occupied, while
In the other galleries there was not a vacant
inch. The seat which is reserved for the
family OF the president was occupied by the
wives OF two of the cabinet officers. II
they came to hear what the greatest master
Of sarcasm and vituperation in the senate
had to say OF the president, they went away
disappointed, for Mr. Ingalls, had little 10 say
of Mr. Cleveland Hepaid his respects TO
his accusers, and give them something TO
think of.
MR. INGALLS, WORDS
Senator Ingalls, said:
On July IL last, Mai Gen. Fitz John Por-
ter, now on the retired list, wrote a letter in
which he thanked his friends, and said that
his heart was always with them, although at
one time his hand and heart had worked the
best that they knew how against them. The
senator from Indiana had complained last
Wednesday that an attempt had been made
to blacken the names of the military leaders
in the last war who remained true to the
Democratic party. FIiz John Porter had
beerrone of these. Mr.. Ingalls, spoke of
Gen. McClellan's education al West Point,
with his business connection with Beaure-
gard, and with his attempt to continue and
extend human SLAVERY by the acquisition of
Cuba He began his military career by dis
obeying the orders OF Gen. Scott. he abandoned
Pope at Centervllle, failed TO put the rebels
to the sword at Antietam, refused to obey
the orders of the president and follow the
rebels to Winchester: and as fatally con-
troled the destiny of the army until the
battle of Fredericksburg. History has pro-
nounced its verdict upon him as a soldier,
and Voorhees, would not be able to place him
on the category with Napoleon, Hannibal
and Caesar. Gen. Hancock also was one of
the military leaders who were true TO the
Democracy His martial career was one of
the imperishable heritages OF American
glory. He marched and triumphed. He
filed the abyss of fame with names which
would be eternal, luminous--the peninsula
AntieLam Gettysburg. Chancellorsyiltc, Cod
Harbor and Petersburg. Had ne been
soldier under .NaroieO., he would have
been a primo ana marshal OF the empire.
He had been well called Hancock ~the SUI
perb." But after the war closed he like Nc
CIellan) bad become tainted with the fatal
virus OF an ambition for the presidential
nomination. But Notwithstanding his mag
nifieent and unapproachable career, the
American people recognized his hostility to
the reconstruction measures, and in the
presidential election of 1880 he carried but
three Northern states-California, Nevada
and New Jersey-and the first two OF them
had been stolen by the forgery and fraud Of
the Morey letter issued by ocratic poll
ticans He had also received the 1873 cleo
toral votes of the solid South. which had
been promised him in hia speech at Cincin-
natl by the senator from South Carolina Mr..
Hampton), II Voorhees, and Blackburn did
not know that he Qngalls) had spoken of
these Union generals not as soldiers, but as
politicians, and as Democratic candidates
for the presidency. they were dull, stupid
and ignorant indeed. II they did know IT.
and persisted In their assertions. they were
disingenuous. and he suspected that they
were both.
BE Is DOUBTFUL
/ began to have some doubt who il was
that really put down the Rebellion / was
driven curiously to inquire what was the at
titude of the Democratic party in the North
and of the senator from Indiana as one of it's
great leaders In 1862, when Mcclellan, the
ideal Democrat. was fighting the battle Of
AnIetam; in 1858, when Hancock was
creating confusion and dismaysmong the
scattered sauadrons of the Confectionery. l
was really, for the moment, inclined to be-
lieve that the Democratic party, and the
senator from Indiana and those other great
PATRIOTS whom he euogizes as mmovabe bull
warks OF liberty, of the constitution and the
Union, Mr.. Thomas Hendricks and Mr.. Ho-
ratio Seymour, and Mr. William A. Richard
son, were in full panoply OF battle, assisting
Mcclellan, assisting Hancock, doing what
they could 70 m AXE the success Of the armies
possible And, IL seems like the very climax
of effrontery for these men, whose history is
so well known, who were from the
beginning the avowed enemies of the cause
of the Union at every step or its progress,
and who. like the senator from Indiana,
were avowedly in sympathy with the South
at the outset and were advocates and apol-
ogtsts for slavery and secession, who gave
aid and comfort to the rebellion in every
possible way-the Scopperheads," the @but-
ternuts, the knights of the Golden Circle,
with all their brutal degraded lies, appear
ing here as the advocates and champions Of
the Union cause and of the cause Il human
liberty. During the very year when McCiel-
Ian was fighting the battle of Antietam, the
senator from Indiana, speaking at Sullivan,
Ind. on Aug 8, 1852. said, in reference to
Union soldiers, that they should 90 to the
nearest blacksmith shUp and have iron col
lars made and placed around their necks,
inscribed thereon in large letters, Ny
dog A Lincoln And, at the same
time. he referred to Union soldiers as
lincoln's dogs aud hirelings. without
excepting Mcclellan OF Hancock"
Mr.. ingalls, read extracts from speech made
by voorhees, Aug. Z, Iooi, y ELeH .-eU-..Ud
the war a failure and spoke of Lincoln as a
monster and an unhappy felon The title of
Mr. Hayes to the presidency, said Mr.. Ingalls,
was the most absolutely irrefragabte of any
in the whole list of American presidents, be-
canse it was the only one which was ever
passed upon bv constitutional tribunal
properly organized for that purpose Hon.
Henry WatJerson issued his celebrated proc
lamation, calling on 100000 suns rmed
KenJuckians" to visit Washington on tho an
niversary of the battle of New Orleans. for
the purpose of experimenting the electoral
count He ungalls) had had conversation
with President Grant shortly after the issuing
of that proclamation, and had asked him
If he thought there was going to be any
trouble. Gen. Grant had paused a moment
and. with that deliberate method which
characterized his utterances, replied: mo.
don't think there is going 10 be any trouble;
bat IL has been one rule of my life to be
always ready" And he was ready. In
obedience 10 some mysterious impulse,
troops parks of artillery and munitions of
war had begun to come to the capital
CLEVELAND AND LAMAR
Mr.. Cleveland had apparently warranty
deed for the seat which he occupied and
yet compared with the title which Mr.. Hayes
had to his seat, he was in possession of
stolen goods, and the receiver was az bad ne
the thief. In the court of Justice aud fair
conscience he had never been elected at all
He had been counted in TO office by part
nership between Dick Turpin and Uriah
Heep, footr acs and sneak thieves. Cartouche
and Pecksniff; and it was some consolation
to know that in that partnership, the apos-
tates and renegades had lost their snare of
the swag Inc country had still against IL
the Southern Contedcracy. Who was Lucius
Quintus Curtius lamar He never was sus-
pected OF being lawyer. 1t was an open
secret that the president at one time per-
emptorily refused to appoint him. He asked
what necessity there had been for the pres
ident to affront Ihe loyal sentiment of
the country by placing on the bench
OF the supreme court man who
was not q lawyer and never had been. and
who had called Abraham Lincoln n buffoon
1t was because Mr.. Lamar was the nearest
and dearest friend and representative of JEFF
ferson Davis. There was no other explana-
ton of it II that was not true, then bis
nomination was farce and burlesaue,
without excuse aud without explanation
Mr.. Ingalls, then referred TO n speech made
in the house Of representatives In 1870 by
Mr. Blackburn. declaring it to be Tho pur-