The National tribune., 1888-03-15
The computation of the Senator from Mis-
souri, must certainly have

The computation Of the Senator from Mis-
souri, must certainly have
BEEN MADE WITH his FANCY.
| 1t dizzies the arithmetic of the imagination to
| understand upon what volume of statistics he
/ founded his amazing and incredible statement
! that there were but 5000 survivors OF the Con-
/ federate armies at the surrender at Appomattox.
| If that Senator would pluck few Of the plumes
| from the dazzling tail of his Imagination and
| stick them into the wings of his Judgment, he
would fly bolder more direct, and accurate
! fight.
The official reports show that from the 29th
day of March, 1868, to April of that year there
were captured of Gen. Lees army 49,f85 men
in arms and that on that fatal day for the Con-
! federacy, when GOD failed to bless their cause,
| as the Senator from Missouri said he hoped lie
/ would have done. there were taken in addition
to those who had been previously captured and
| parOled, q, 4i6 men in arms, making total,
/ instead of 5000 men with muskets who were
l in the final crash and collision between the
avenging aud triumphant forces of the North
and The broken and shattered remnants OF the
COnfederacy, of 1871 men in arms. Yet the
Senator from Missouri, in his eagerness his
| avidity to belittle, undignify, and Illuminate
| the North, and TO extOl and praise and eXag-
| gerate the achievements and the numbers of
the South, diminishes that number OF 1891 to
less than 5000. His mathematics are certainly
giddy.
There is but one parallel to the extraordinary
| inaccuacy of this statement, and that Is the
other allegation in his speech that out of the
/ 100000 Union soldiers more than one-half
! had applied for pensions, statement that
| would have been refuted by the simplest IN
specton OF the latest return of the Commits
sioner of Pensions.
IS ! said, Mr. President do not attempt,
nor do l intend to cast the slightest personal
aspersion, the slightest imputatiou by the re-
hottest inference upon the honor and patriotism
OF either the Senator from Kentucky or the
Senator from Missouri who does not honor US
/ with his presence. l mention these things for
the purpose of saying that l have no doubt
they fully and thoroughly represent the con-
victions, the feelings, the purposes, and the IN
tentlouS Of their constituencies. They know
what sentiments viii awaken an answering re-
sponse IN the South. They know what 1t is
popular to say at home.
| When the Senator from Missouri alludes to
the efforts which are being made by the Re-
publicans in this body to afford pensions TO the
dependent INDECENT, and suffering survivors
Of the Union armies now enrolled in the Grand
Army Of the Republic as an attempt by candi-
dates for the Presidency to bid for the soldier
vote, the Senator from Kentucky viii pardon
me when l say that l have no doubt speeches
like those which he made, and which the Sena-
Tor from Missouri repeated, were intended to
bid for the Confederate vote; aud they viii get
it every time. 1t Is center shot Appeals
like that strike the buils-eye and ring the bell
Laughter and applause in the galleries.
The Presiding Officer. The Senator from
Kansas viii suspend one moment. The rules
Of the Senate require that order shall be pre-
served IN the galleries, and the Chair viii see
that those rules are enforced.
Senator ingalls,. / have never heard Dir
President, during the Is years that have been
/ in this body. any Reputation of sentiments
] from nc
souri, and the Senator from Kentucky from any
quarter in the Democratic party. Time and
time again have heard those same sentiments
reiterated and repeated here. If they We're Oh
nOxioas to any sentiment Of the Southern
States, why should we not have heard some
: disavowal Of them? Why are they repeated
here GersHa iterHnq8e, ad aaUSeam until the
heart Of the patriotic North rises in indignation
and never word OF protest spoken by any
Democratic Senator North or South. No, Mr.
President, they know the sentiments, they
know the convictions, they know the emotions
, OF the people behind them and that IS the rea
son for their utterances.
WHY WAS IT
that when the last appointed Associate justice
: Of the Supreme Court Of the United States, wis
by one OF the strange caprices of history nov
sits in judgment upon those great constitn
tional amendments that were adopted anI
agreed 10 against his protest and his efforts
rose in this Chamber and said that he WUgl,
resent as a personal slfront any imputatioi
: upon the honor, the integrity, or the patriot
ism Of Jefferson Davis as a personal insult Il
, himself-Why vas it that when he said lac haC
= no doubt Jefferson Davis would occupy niche
in history By the side Of John Hampden anl
George Washington Democratic Senator
North or South, rose to repudiate and disavoW
it2 Yet the moment that any Republican Sen
/ ator or any editor Of any Northern newspape
! or any organ of the Grand Army Of the Repub
! lic talks about the Union army, the grandeu
! Of its achievements, the obligations and dutie
Of the Nation toward It's members, we ar
charged with waving tie ensanguined under
garment raking up the ashes Of sectional strife
and appealing to partisan hatred aud wronl
, and malice. 1t is time that the twenty -fou
! Conlederates whocOnstitute twenty four thirty
: segenihs OF the Democratic members Of the Sen
ate should understand bow the people Of tn
North feel about these matters.
! They did, as they are going to vote for again
. Grover Cleveland under compulsion. The,
: thought they could fool the Northern peopl
l by voting for Union soldier, but they did not
: We understand very well what the voting 70
: Gen. Hancock meant 1t was just the same a
voting for Horace Greeley. You have been en-
gagged in illicit intercourse with all the degrad
Z ed elements Of the North for the last % years
Horace Greeley, The Democratic party al
tempting 10 delnde the North by nominatin
!, and voting for Horace Greeley to show tina
they were reconstructed, that they would fa
I Gil their bellies with the husks that the swim
= did eat, and they could not; aud then the Sen
: ator from Alabama rises and assures US with
: suiusiOn Of patriotic loyalty that they vote
= for Hancock. Why, Mr. President, we under
I stand why they voted for Hancock. We knol
: why Hancock was nominated. We know VIII
: that other ally of the Confederacy George ]
= Mcclellan, was nominated, who had just dC
/, cared that the war was q failure after he ha
: been trying for two years TO make it so. n,
= blr. President, these pretensions are altOgethe
= too diaphanous. They require to have th
= drspery removed Cor instant.
But / am not quite through with this aspeC
: Of the question yet Ia 1856, on the first da
: Of May OF that year, less than two years ag
:. there was in the city Of Atlanta, III Georgia,
r GREAT HISTORIC OCCASION.
rs statue to one of our former associates in tn
E. body was 10 be unyailed, man whom hoi
y ored, and whom we all respected. Upon thi
J. occasion the venerable Ex-President Of til
n COnfederacy was invited to be present. It W;
ir g day that viii never be forgotten in the anna
y Of the South. They focked to that city az me
It 90 to a banquet or as doves flock TO their wiz
dows. They
le Came as she winds come when
D. Forests are rended
O. Came a. the waves come, when
! AaNles stranded.