St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-26
Hancock and Mcclellan, the
Two Great Heroes OF the
Rebellion.
Discussion Of the Tariff Bill
Occupies the Time in
the House.
Macdonald, Wilson and Lind
Preparing Speeches on
the Tariff.


addressed the senate to-day OH the pres
dents message. He. said that an exten-
sive discussion of the tariff in the senate
and house left no doubt as to the attl-
tude of the Republican party on that
question, and it had at last been forced
to throw away masks and false faces
and admit that taxation was not to stop at
the revenue line of the government, but
was to he turned loose, without limit and
without shame, on the labor of the peo-
pie, for the sole purpose of enriching a
favored few-a syndicate of devouring,
insatiate monopolists. The Republican
party leaders. driven by madness to
suicide and hari kari, were going before
the American people opposing every re-
ductiOn of taxes except those paid by
tobacco and alcoholic spirits. He did
not intend that that issue should be
lodged in the coming political cam
paign, at least in Indiana. The position
of the Republican party might be de-
Scribed thus: FirSt-TaXation not to be
limited by the expenses of the govern
ment, with view to the protection of
the manufacturing monopolies. Second
All the protection given and all its
profits to enure to the further enrich
ment of capitalists, but not dollar, of
it to the laboring man and woman.
Third-That if any reduction OF taxes
was to take place, it must be on alcO-
holic liquor and tobacco. and not on the
prime necessaries of life. Passing to
the charges that the Democrats in con-
gresS have been hostile to the Union
soldiers in the matter of pensions, he
contrasted the action of both parties in
that matter, and claimed that the Re-
publicaDs had made a
MEAN AND PARSIMONIOUS RECORD
toward the soldiers, and that rank and
bitter injustice had been done them by
provisions of law under Republican
sway, while the Democrats in congress
and in the executive offices had been
liberal in the EXTREMIST sense. Refer
ring to the attack made in the senate
upon the memory of McClelland and
Hancock, he said the presiding officer
of the senate, holding the highest
official position now held by Republi-
can, had descended to the floor and
attacked the memory of American
heroes who we're sleeping where flowers
dIllt UcttlS NC1C Ol
Memorial day, resting from their glori-
Gus lives in the quiet bivouac of the dead.
The piouS task of making response had
been appropriately performed by one
whose own conspicuous daring in arms
had given him the generous right of
chivalry to speak in their praise. 1t
was true that not even the eloquent
tongue of Blackburn could reach Nc
CleIlan or Hancock with assurances of
their country's devotion and love. Can
honOr'S voice provoke the silent dust.
or flattery solve the dull, cold ear of
death?' No, but the voice of the sena-
tor from Kentucky on that occasion had
been an honor to American manhood
and to American soldiery. There we're
suggestions, however, inspired by the
wanton and astounding assault OF the
senator fromnKansas, which would not
speedily pass from the public mind.
That senator, recognized leader OF his
party, had stood in his place in the
senate and denounced two great Union
generals as traitors to their country,
allies of the Confederacy and
NO WORD OF DISSENT
or rebuke had been uttered by single
associate in either house. Democrats
had waited and some had wondered, but
the silent acouiescence in the horrible
charges remained unbroken. MIR. Voor-
hees proceeded to draw vivid picture
of events during the war, beginning
with the scenes in Washington ON the
night of the first battle of Bull Run.
The wearied galloping OF the courier
could be heard as he came over Long
bridge and reached the war depart
ment with dispatches of disaster from
the front. In that hour of national eX-
tremity Mcclellan had been called by
despairing official authority to perform
a task later far greater than was ever
performed by Alexander, Hannibal.
Caesar or Napoleon in the same length
of time. Then he recalled (after the
second disastrous battle of Manassas)
Mcclellan riding out to meet the re-
treating troops and being greeted with
cheers more thrilling and pathetic than
those which greeted Napoleon on his
return from Elba. Then came the battle
of Antietam, a victory unparalleled in
war, considering all the conditions. The
immediate peril being gone and sense
of security being felt, Mcclellan had
been again stricken by partisan malice
and had closed his lofty military career
forever. "An eagle, towering in his
pride of place, was by mousing owl
hawked at and killed." and to this day
clamorous kites and crows and other
ignOble scavenger birds sought to tear
and mutilate McClellan'S august fame.
Yes, Mcclellan, he said, was Demo-
crat, and when removed from command
on the 7th of November, 1862, he could
with uplifted hand have sworn ttha
HE HAD SAVED THE REPUBLIC,
as did Cicero in the forum at Rome.
Among the highest, the most fortunate
and most distinguished characters pro-
duced by the war, where, he asked,
could man be found cleaner, purer,
freer of self-seeking, or more devoted
to sublime sense of duty than
Mcclellan? ssAfter life's fitful fever he
sleeps wcll"-not disturbed by the
partisan defamation of judge advo-
Gates, provost marshals OF peeyish
politicians. Mr.. voorhees, then changed
the scene to Gettysburg. where, he said,
the last hope of the Southern Con-
invisible spirit of the air, he asked.
intent upon evil to the senator from
Kansas, could have been In attendance
on him when he stood up and opened
his mouth in the senate chamber on the
9th of March. Mcclellan and Hancock
were the heroes of the two most con-
sequential battles of the war, Antietam
and gettysburg, the loss of which
would have brought European recogni-
ton to the Confederacy and darkness
and dismay, if not final dissolution.
They had commanded in the only bat
ties fought north Of the Potomac, and
each time had met the enemy as an in
vading force, strong, confident and
flushed with recent victories. Autietam
and Gettysburg had involved the posses