, 1888-05-02
TWENTY FIRST YEAR.

spectlon at least, ma tnat the leaders
who have been so culogized were in sym
pathy with the Union cause and in sym
pathy with the efforts that were making
TO the overthrow of the c~onfederacy. Yet,
Mr.. President. at every time and during
the very year when Mcclellan was fighting
the battle OF Antietam the senator from
Indiana, without excepting Mcclellan and
without excepting Hancock, speaking at
Sullivan, Ind, on the 9Th of August,
1862, said in reference to the Union sold
lers that they should go to the nearest
blacksmith shop and have iron collars
made and placed around their necks, in
scrlbed thereon in large letters My dogs,
a. Lincoln, and at the same time he re-
ferred to Union soldiers as Lincoln's dogs
and hlrellngs without excepting Mcclellan
or Hancock.
And during the campaign. Mr.. Presi-
dent, that resulted IN the Election of
Abraham Lincoln, the senator from In
diana, who is now so vehemently in favor
of the prosecution of the war of the re-
belllon, for putting down the South, who
eulogizes the efforts of the Union armies
and the genius OF Union commanders,
who poses here IS the special friend of the
Union soldier and ~denounces and asperses
the criticism upon the political character
and projections of those who were en-.
gagged in that war, made a speech at Green
castle which was reported in the Cincin-
natl Commercial Aug. s, 1864.
ingalls, read extracts from the speech
which declared the war a failure and
spoke of Lincoln as u Monster and I'M
happy felon. Passing to the question of
the electoral commission of 1876, ingalls,
said he WAS not specially enamorcd of MI.
Hayes Q%aughter), and yet, inasmuch as
the question of Hayes title was brought
into the controversy by the Democratic
party as n of the issues of the APP
preaching campaign, he felt bound to say
that the title OF Hayes to the presidency
was the most absolutely ~irretragable of
any in the whole list of American presi-
dents, because it was the only one which
was ever passed upon by a constitutional
tribunal properly organized for that pur-
pose.
The Democratic party should not forget
that the electoral commission was one of
its devices. 1t was not the first time they
who had dlgged a pit, and diggcd it deep,
had fallen into it. Laughter. 1t would
be remembered how Hon. Henry Waiter
son issued his celebrated procl .mation
calling on 100, 200 "unarmcd Kentuck-
ians'' to visit the city of Washington on
the anniversary of the battle of New Or
leans for the purpose OF experimenting
the electoral count Laughter. He
Qngalls) had had a conversation with
President Grant shortly after the issuing
of that celebrated proclamation and had
asked him if he thought there was going
to be any trouble. Gen. Grant had
paused a moment and with that deliberate
method which characterized his utter
ances replied: mo; [ don't think there
Is going to be any trouble, but it has been
one of the rules of my life to be always
ready" and, added Ingalls, with solemn
ty, he was ready.
Cleveland, apparently, had a warranty
deed for the scat which he occupied, and
yet compared with the title which Mr..
Hayes had to his seat he was in possession
of stolen goods, and the receiver was t 3
bad as the thief. In a court of Justice
and a fair conscience he had never been
elected at all. He had been counted into
the Office by partnership between Dick
Turpin and Uriah Heep, foot pads and
sneak thieves, Cartouche and Pecksnif,
and it was some consolation to know that
in that partnership the apostates and rene
gades had lost their share of the swag.
The country had still against it the
Southern coEfederacy. 1t was confronted
with 1873 votes of the solid South, as it
had been at every election since the cleo
ton of Hayes. The solid South was the
confederacy, and the success of the Dem
ocratic party meant the success of the
confedCracY, which was to day as much an
organized, active and aggressive force in
politics as in 1861 and at previous times.
He honored and admired (but regretted
and deplored) the cODstancy of the South
to those ideas and to that loyalty and fl
deity to the leaders under whom it
fought and its determination to rcunite
and reconstruct the history of its country
so that itwon't be able to say to the gene
ration that is to come hat while it was
overthrow by overwhelming numbers in
the field, yet In twenty-five years after the
war closed its leaders had been restored to
political power.
In this connection. he asked, who was
kucius Quintus Curtius Lamar He
never was suspected OF being a lawyer.
Lis bitterest enemy never accused him of
that. He never had been admitted to the
bar OF the supreme court on whose bench
he was appointed. He never had
tried to report a case in any tribunal
or state for thirty years. lie asked what
necessity there had been for the president to
affront the loyal sentiment of the country
by placing on the bench of the supreme
court a man who was not a lawyer and
never had been, and who called Abraham
Lincoln a buifoon. Why, of all men in
the South, did it select him and force him
on a reluctant president and a reluctant
people? 1t was because Mr.. Lamar was
the nearest and dearest friend and repre-.
sentative of Jefferson Davis. There was
no other explanation OF it.
Ingalls, then referred to the speech
made in the house in 1879 by Blackburn,
declaring it to be the purpose and inten-
ton of the Democratic party to keep on
until it wiped out from the statute book
the last vestige of war legislation. He
said that within the next few years the
supreme court would be entirely recon-
structcd, and if that tribunal was to pass
hereafter on war legislation, all knew
what the result would be.
When Ingalls, sat down Blackburn
asked him to give In the record of the full
and correct extract from his (Blackburn's 81
speech to which he referred, and ingalls,
promised In do an