Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-10
A TERRIBLE SCORING.
Voorhees, VIRTUES Under the Lash o.
Senator ingalls,.
Scathing Review of the Political Rec
Ords of Number of Union Generals.
One of the Most Notable Speeches Ever
Delivered in the Senate.

| GU lung before Two o CLOCK Dy people VINO
wished to hear Mr.. Ingalls, reply to the
attacks made upon him by the Democrat.
| ic Senators. The floor of the Senate was
also crowded. Mr.. ingalls, spoke stand
ing near his desk, which was covered with
flowers. He began with recalling the
fact that Major General Fitz-J ohm Porter
now on the retired list, wrote a letter in
which he thanked his friends, and said
that his heart was always with them, al
though at one time his hand and heart
had worked the best they knew how
against them. The Senator from Indiana
complained, last Wednesday with bitter
ness, that an attempt had been made to
blacken the names of all the great civil
as we'll as military leaders in the late war
who remained true to the Democratic
Party. Fitz-John Porter has been one of
those military leaders who maintained
their allegiance 10 the Democratic Party.
Mr.. In ais then criticised General Nc
Ciellan's military record and said the
Senator from Indiana would not be able
to place him in the category with Napo-
leon, Hannibal and Cesar. He Qngalls)
dealt with him as a politician, and said
that no one could read his letter to Presi-
dent Lincoln after the disastrous seven
days fight on the Peninsula and before
Richmond, without coming to the conclu-
sion that Mcclellan was not fully and
actively in sympathy with the forces, the
ideas and the sentiments which were
then controlling the American people.
General Hancock was also, be said, one
of the military leaders true to the Demo-
cratic Party. His martial career was one
of the i'm perishable heritages of American
glory. He marched and triumphed. He
file the abyss of fame with names which
would be eternally luminous-the PENN
sula. AntietaR, Gettysburg, Chancellor
vile, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. Had
he been soldier under Napoleon he would
have been prince and marshal of the
empire. He had heea we'll called Hancock
"the sgperb." But after the war closed,
he Qike Mcclellan had become tainted
with the fatal virus OF an ambition for the
Presidential Nomination.
Mr.. Ingalls, spoke of the affected indig-
nation of the Senators from Indiana and
Kentucky as discreditable to their inteIli-
gence or their candor. If they did not
know that he Mr.. lngalls) had spoken of
these Union Generals, not as soldiers, but
as politicians, and as Democratic candi-
da es for the Presidency, they were dull,
stupid and Ignorant indeed. If they did
know it, and persisted in their assertions,
they were disipgenuous, and he suspected
(if such thing were possible) that they
were both. Laug hter.
CLIMAX OF EFFoNTERY.
Mr.. Ingalls,, continuing, said: sMr.
President, from the questioned eulogy,
from the rhapsody of appreciation that
flowed from the Senator from Indiana at
the great military achievements Of Nc
Gillian aud Hancock lbeganssto have some
doubt who it WAS who really put down the
rebellion. l was driven curiously to en-
quire what Was the attitude of the Demo
cratic Party ia the North and of the
Senator from Indiana, as one of its great
leaders in 1862, when Mcclellan, the
ideal Democrat, was fighting the battle
of Antietam; in 1868, when Hancock was
hurting back in confusion and dismay the
scattered souadrons of the Confederacy. I
was really, for the moment, Mr.. President,
inclined to believe that the Democratic
Party of the North and the Senator from
Indiana and those other great patriots,
whom he eulogizes as an immovable bull
wark OF liberty, of the Constitution and the
Union, Mr.. Thomas Hendricks and Mr..
Horatie Seymour and William A. Richard.
son, were in full panoply of battle, assist
ing Mcclellan, assisting Hancock, doing
what they could to make the success of the
armies possible. And, it seems like Che
very climax Of effrontery, like the apex of
audacity for these men, whose history is
well known, who were from the beginning
the ayoWed enemies of the cause of the
Union at every step Of its progress, and
who, like the Senator from Inaiane, were
OF 4 In = a.
the outset and were advocates and apollo
gists for slavery and secession, who gave
aid and comfort to the Rebellion in
every way-the "Copperheads, the
"Butternut," Qaughter), the 'Kn1 ghts of
the Golden Circle" with ali their bestial
and degraded LESS appearing as the
advocates and cham pions Of Union
soldiers and of the cause of human
liberty.
81 suppose from the enthusiasm dis
played In favor of the military achieve
ments of Mcclellan and Hancock, that we
should upon ms pection at least find that
the leaders of the Democracy who had
been go eulogized were in sympathy with
the Union cause, and in sympathy with
the efforts that were maxim, to overtime
the Confederacy. Yet, Mr.. President, at
the very time, and during tho very year
when Mcclellan was fighting the battle of
Antietam, the Senator from Indiana, with
out excepting McCIellan, and without ex-
cepting Hancock, speaking sc Sullivan,
Indiana, on the 5th of August, 1862 said
II reference to Union soldiers that they
should go to the nearest blacksmith shop
and have iron collars made and placed
around their necks, and have inscribed
thereon in large letters: My Dog. A
Lincoln"
"And ct the same time he referred to
Union soldiers as Lincoln'5 dogs and
hirelings. without excepting Mcclellan
or Hancock laughte and applause |, and
during the cam paigp, Mr.. President, that
resulted in the election of Abraham Lin
coin, the Senator from Indiana, who is
now vekement'y III favor of the prosecu-
ton of the war of the rebellion, for put
ting do|n the South, who so eulogizes the
efforts of Union armies and the genius of
Union commanders, who poses here as
the special friend of the Union soldier
and denounces and asperses a criticism
upon the political character and affilia-
tions of those who were engaged in the
war, made speech at Greencastle, which
was reported in the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, August s, 1854, by Joseph B. McCul-
Tough, now the editor of the Globe-Demo-
crat, in st. Louis."
Mr.. Ingalls, read extracts from the
speech which declared the war a failure
| and spoke of Lincoln as a monster and
unhappy felon.
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION.
Passing to the question of the Electoral
! Commission of 1876, Mr.. Ingalls, said he
was not especially enemored of Mr.. Hayes
Laughter And yet, inasmuch as the