Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-07
SENATOR INGALLS, TRADE.

Senator James Ingalls, came down from his seat as presiding officer of the Unite' States Senate yesterday, threw off the dignity of his office as vice president of the United States and member of the senate and poured out his bitter wrath upon the dead and living. He maligned Hancock and Mcclellan, and referred to the presi- dent in language unbecoming a senator and gentleman. Senator Ingalls, is un doubtedly the most bitter partisan in tht senate. He worships only one god anG that god is the republican party. With him there is no virtue in democrat, north or south, and no vice in republican wher- ever found. His tirade yesterday was di- rected upon democrats in general, and par ticularly those who served in the late wal for or against the union. An attack on the military character and integrity of Hancock and Mcclellan, or any other union general does not come with good grace from sena- tor Ingalls,, man whose bravery and valor kept him at home during that long strug gle, endeavoring to gratify his political as pirations.
 Senator Joseph c. s. Blackburn of Ken lucky is no slouch when he gets worked up, and at the conclusion of Senator Ing alls' political speech he made bold to re- ply. A man who fought with valor for ''the lost cause" throughout the war while Ingalls, was at home and whose reputation is ulsullied was especially fitted to reply to the senator from Kansas, and it did not take him long to expose the hypocrisy and equivocation of @ considerable portion o1 his tirade. To MT Ingalls, statement that he could not recall single unionist elected as governor or representative of a disloyal state in congress since the war he men toned Govsrnor Hancock of Texas, Gov ernor Walker of Virginia, ex-Senator Walker of Arkansas, ex-Representative Wolford of Kentucky as Union soldiers who had been sent to congress by Demo- cratic votes. Said Senator Blackburn i'll answer to. Senator Ingalls, attack on the president:
 But when that senator undertook to denounce the chief executive of the United States after such fashion as to deliberately declare that no man alIcted With ignorance so profound, with Ob- scurity so gross, should consider himself as unfit to become the presidents successor it did seem to him Blackburn) that the dignity of the senate chamber refused permission to respond. He was not here to defend the president from such un- warranted attacks. He knew but one sin which the president had committed in the eyes of the senator from Kansas. That might be the unpar- donable sin. It that having defeated the senator's party at the polls, he had given to the American people for three years past, so efficient so honest, so clean handed an administration as to doom the last of republican aspirations to dis aster."
 Hancock an ally of the confederation, y exclaimed Senator Blackburn. "Was he so regarded and believed when, weltering in his blood on Cemetery Heights he re- fused to be removed from the field, and persisted in giving orders which checked the last advance of Longstreet's irresist- able battalionss" It is gratifying to know that there are democrats in congress to nail republican lies and expose the traducers of union generals, and it is especially grati- flying that it is not infrequently done by the generals who opposed them on the battlefield