River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-10


devices IL was rot the first time that they
who had dgged the pit and digged il deep
had fallen into II. iLaughterl II would be re-
memered how Hon. Henry Wettcrson issued
his celebrated prociamat on calling on 1o0,0l9
unaGled Eentuelians 10 visit The city OF
battle OF New Orleans for tie purpose
Of experimenting the Electoral count
Laughterl. lie Gngans had had q
conversation with President Grant short
ly after Tire issuing OF that celebrated
proclaim alton and had asked him IL he
thought q re was going 10 be any trouble.
General Grant paused q moment and. with
his uttelanees, replied; " No. l don't think
there is going 20 be any trouble; but il has been
one rule or ms life to be always ready" And
taddea hr. Ingalls, with sOicmnityl he was
pulse troops, parks OF artillery and mu-
tons Of war had begun 10 come 10 the Cap
ital and the agitation OF the Democratic party
became extreme; because, II there was any
thing that would turn the average Democrat
inside out with Indignation IL was the sigat OF
a Federal sold or in blue uniform. Laugh
ter The one hundred thousand "unarmed
Kcntuckians" had rot made their appearance,
ana the count had proceeded, notwithstandieg
the Indignation o. tic Democrats az the result
Of their own device.
The people we're reFpetually reminded that
the Republican party vas guilty o. an enor-
nous and gigantic fraud in the election and
seating OF Mr. Hayes. Mr.. Cleveland had op-
parcntly d warranty deed for the seat which he
occupied, and yet compared with the title
which Mr.. Hayes had TO his scat, he was IN
possession OF stolen goOds-and the receiver
was as bad rs the thief. In the court Of justice
and fair conscience he had never been elected
CT all. He had been counted into ctiicc BY
partnership between Dick Turpin and Uriah
iiecp, footPads and sacai.-thievcs Cartouche
and PecSsnf; and it was some consolation to
know that in that partnership the apostates
and renegad,s had lost their share Of the swag.
Laughter a. lpplause.l
The country had still against it the Southern
Confederacy. 1t was confronted with 153 votes
Of the Solid South, as il has been al every
election since the election OF Mr.. Hayes The
Solid South was the COnfederacy, and the sue
cess of the Democratic party meant the sue
cess Of the C0nfederacy, which was today as
much an organized, active, aggressive force 10
politics as IN 1861 and in the previous times.
Slavery was dead and secess. on was dead, but
all the ideas, all the impulses, all the purposes
and intentions Of secession remained. He hon.
ored and admired tbut regretted and dsplored)
the consistency OF the South 10 that idea. its 10y
atty and fidelity 10 the leaders under whom il
fought ana its determination 10 rCunite
and reconstruct the history Of is coun-
try SO that 1t would be able to say
TO the generations which are 10 come that
while it was overthrow by overwhelming num-
bers in the field yet within twenty-five years
after the war closed its leaders had been @
stored TO political power. In this connection,
he asked who was Lucus Quintus Curtius La
MARI He never was suspected OF being a law
yer Laughter His bitterest enemy never
accused him Of that He never had been adj
nftted to the bar of the Supreme Court, on
whose bench he was appointed. lie never had
tried reported case IN any tribunal. State or
National for thirty years. Ut was an open Sc
cret that the President at one time peremp-
torily refused to appoint him.
lie asked what necessity there had been for
the President TO afIront the loyal sentiment Of
the country by placing on the bench Of the Su-
premc Court a man who was not lawyer and
never had been, and who had called Abraham
Lincoln a bulfoon. Why OF al men in the South
did il select him and force him on reluctant
President and reluctant people. II was be
cause Mr.. Lamar was hc nearest and dearest
friend and representative OF Jefferson Davis.
There was no other explanation OF IT. II that
was not true then his nomination was q farce
and q burlesque, without excuse or explana-
ton.
Mr.. ingalls, then referred to speech made
in the House Of Il representatives. in 1873 by Mr..
Blackburn declaring it 10 be the purpose aad
intention of the Democratic party to keep on
until il wiped cut from the statute-bCok the
last vesttge Of war legislation. He said that
within the next lew years INC litAA4C NotAA :
would be entirely reconstructed. Two Of the
Associate Justices were already past the re-
firing age; and il that tribunal was 10 pass
hereafter on the war legislation all knew what
the result would be. There could be no ques-
tion about it.
Passing on to the question OF elections IN the
South, he said that She Republican party
would have no right to complain if the South
were kept solid by fair means. But the Dem
ocratic party there had been Praying the politi-
cal game with loaded dice; had been throwing
s;xes al the time; had held stacked cards > ;
played with "cold deck :; had revolver in
its boot and q bOwie-knife down the back OF its
meek There were everyday wrongs inflicted
on thousands and hundreds OF thousands OF
men tn the Southern States which, II inflicted
by = foreign power on single American cit
izen, even the least OF one OF these my little
ones, there would he declaration OF war
within ninety days even with the present Sec
rotary OF State in ONCE. Loud laughteri
They had an illustration OF what was going
to take place in November next by what had
Just taken place in Louisiana. lGuiet laugh
ter on the Democratic side He quoted \
sentence from Mr.. Voorhees, speech to the
effect that the only wonder about the Louisi-
ana election was that the vote was not unan-
imoas: and he sad that ii was more than
unanimous TIE Democratic party in the
South have learned the art not only OF
making elections unanimous, but OF making
them more than unanimous. IL had learned
the art of returning a larger Democratic ma
ioritv Than the registered vote He won
dcred himself Q its moderation in returning
only a majority Of 5000 in Louis ana, but it
had been going Up $ nee the Senator nom IN
diana had SPOKEN, and was now $500 What
Il would amount TO before the dog days nobody
could tell He read letters and statements
from Republican sources detailing acts Of out
rage ard cheating at the Louisiana election,
and declared his belief that fair returns would
have shown Warmoth elected by majority of
5000 or Si.009
In closing, Mr.. ingalls, said:
In the centuries that are to come he saw
the vision OF . united, happy. and prosperous
America vast, homogeneous domain Of
ircemen, rulers of the continent from tac
uolar zone to the Gulf, from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, enjoying the franchises Of liberty,
and perpctuatiIg the arts Of peace The peo-
ple should remember, he said on each rocur-
ring day when they celebrated those who had
died that THIS country held In its fruitful and
tender breast no more priceless treasure than
the consecratcd dust OF those who had died IN
order that this should be Government OF
laws and not OF men; and that liberty AID con
sututional government might not perish for
ever from the face OF the earth.
As Mr.. Ingalls, sat down Mr.. Blackburn asked
him to gave IN the Record the fun and correct
extract from his blackburn 81 speech to which
he had referred and Mr.. Ingalls, promised to
do so.
Mr.. voorhees, arose. aad made bitter. per-
sonal specch, IN which he attacked Mr. lHSdtls'
personal character AID INDUCED IN q great
amount OF unparlamentary language.
Senator ingalls, replied TINT as the Senator
from Indiana had seen al TO invite comparison
between their records ana their relations 10 the
great questions OF the last twenty five years,
Inc felt 1t his duty TO PUT on record what the
Senator's record ana history were.
He should refer only to public matters
In public records. and should venture the
! mi nation that Whatever might have been his
own Ingaus0 relations 70 the war Of the re-
beUioy the Senator from Indiana had been
from the outset the determined. cutspoEen,
positive and malignant enemy OF the Union
cause
81 pronounce that said Senator voorhees,,
rising with anger in his eyes, TO be dellber-
| ate false accusation. IyOted for every dollar
I FOR the soldier for every stitch CT clothes &c
/ wore, and for every pension bill that rewarded
| his service" Senator Irgalls said he had o.lly
| referred 20 the Senator's public utterances-
his speeches, which he had never denied
! Senator voorhees, declared that he did deny
/ il.
/ Senator Ingalls, replied that the Senator
could not deny the publication he had read II
/ was 4 verbatim report and 50 certified 70.
Senator Woo hoes asserted that not one
/ word or syllab ;. "a by The Senator was tr'e'
/ or believed 10 rrue in Indiana. The oena'
/ tors fnsinuation that he voorhees, had ever
I been member of q rol tea secret society
/ the Knights OF the Golden Circie-was so base
| ana UNANIMOUSLY false that be did not kno"
/ how to choose language 10 denounce IL IS such
/ Senator ingalls,, continuing. said the senator
| from Indiana had written letter for Dir. F.
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