St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-02
ANOTHER DISGRACE.
The Kansas Senator Makes an
Alleged Answer to Senator
Voorhees,,
But in Reality a Personal At
tack Upon the Indiana
Senator.
Voorhees, Calls Him Down in
No Very Gentle Manner
Of Speech.
A Hot and Lengthy Discus
sion Between the Two
Irate Statesmen.

WASHINGTON, May lin the senate
to-day Mr.. ingalls, spoke in answer to
Mr.. Voorhees, recent speech. Mr.. In
gals commenced by recalling the fact
that on the 18th of July last Maj. Gen.
FitZ-John Porter, now on the retired
list, wrote a letter in which he thanked
his friends, and said that his heart was
always with them, although at one time
his hand and heart had worked the best
that they knew how against them. The
senator from Indiana had complained
last Wednesday that an attempt had
been made to blacken the names of the
military leaders in the last war who re-
manned true to the Democratic party.
FitZ-John Porter had been one of those
military leaders who maintained their
allegiance to the Democratic party and
he, within the last four months; (al-
though he had been dishonorably dis
missed from the service, and had been
restored by the action of the Democratic
party and its members who had been
members of the Confederacy) had writ
ten that Ibis heart was always with
them" Referring to Gen. Mcclellan,
Mr.. ingalls, spoke of his education at
West Point, of his business connec-
ton with Beauregard, and of his at
tempt to continue and extend human
slavery by the acquisition of Cuba. He
spoke of him as having begun his mill
tary career by disObeying the orders of
Gen. Scott, as having abandoned Pope
at Centerville, as having failed to put
fhn rahnlS n tho SyvnrA of nj
having refused to obey the orders of the
president and follow the rebels to Win
chester, and as having fatally controlled
the destiny of the army until the battle
of Fredericksburg. History has
PRONOUNCED ITS VERDICT
upon him as a soldier, and the senator
from Indiana would not be able to
place him Oh the category with
Napoleon, Hannibal and Caesar. He
QngallS) dealt with him as politician,
and said that no one could read his
letter to President Lincoln after the
disastrous seven days fight on the
peninsula, and before Richmond,
without coming to the conclusion that
Mcclellan was not fully and actively in
sympathy with the forces, the causes
and the sentiments which were then
controlling the American people. AS to
Gen. Hancock, he also (Ir. ingalls,
said was one of the military leaders
who were true to the Democracy. His
martial career was one of the imperish-
able heritages of American glory. He
marched and triumphed. He filled the
abyss of fame with names which would
be eternal, luminOus-the Peninsula,
Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellors-
vile, Cold Harbor and Petersburg.
Had he been a soldier under Napoleon
he would have been prince and
marshal of the empire. Mr.. ingalls,
continuing, said: "Nlr. President, from
the imprisoned eulogy, from the
rhapsody of appreciation that flowed
from the senator from Indiana at the
great military achievements of Nc
Clelian and Hancock, | began to have
some doubt who it was that really put
down the rebellion. l was driven
curiouSly to inquire what was the atti-
tude of the Democratic party in 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 bombs
and cOnfuSiOngand diSmay into the scat
tered sQuadrOns of the Confederacy, [
was really. for 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
bulwark of liberty, of the constitution
and the Union, Mr.. Thomas Hendricks
and Mr.. Horatio Seymour and w. A.
Richardson. were in full panOply of bat
tie, assisting Mcclellan, assisting Han
cock, doing what they could to make the
success of the armies possible. And it
seems like the very climax of effrOntery,
like the apex of audacity, for these men,
whose history is so well known, who
were from the beginning the avoWed
enemies of the cause of the Union at
every step of its progress, and who, like
the senator from Indiana, were avowedly
in sympathy with the South at the out
set and were advocates and apOlogists
for slavery and secession; who gave aid
and comfort to the rebellion in every
possible way-the ''copperheads," the
"butternuts," [laughterl the knights
of the Golden Circle" with all their
brutal, degraded lies, appearing here as
the advocates and champions of the
Union cause and of the cause of human
liberty. | suppose fran the enthusiasm
displayed in favor of the military
achievements of Mcclellan and Han
cock that we should upon it at least find
that the leaders of the Democracy who
had been so eulOgiZed were in sympathy
with the Union cause and in sympathy
with the efforts that were making to
overthrow the COufederacy. Yet, Mr..
President, at the very time, and during
the very year when Mcclellan was fight
ing the battle of Antietam, the senator
from Indiana, without excepting Nc
Clellan, and without excepting Han
cock, speaking at Sullivan, Indiana. on
the 9Th of August, 1862, said, in
REFERENCE TO UNION SOLDIERS,
that they should go to the nearest black
smith shop and have iron collars made
and placed around their necks, inscribed
thereon in large letters: ''My dog, A.
Lincoln.' And, at the same time. he
referred to Union soldiers as Lincoln's
dogs and hirelings, without excepting
Mcclellan or Hancock; and during the
campaign, Mr.. President, that resulted
in the election of Abraham Lincoln, the
senator from Indiana, who is now so
vehemently in favor of the prosecution
of the war of the Rebellion for putting
down the South, who SO eulogizes the
efforts of Union armies and the genius
of the Union commander; who poses as
the special friend of the Union soldier
and denounceS and aSperSeS a criticism
upon the political character and affilia-
tons of those who were engaged in that
war, made speech at Green Castle.
which was reported in the Cincinnati
Commercial, Aug. 8, 1864, by Joseph B.
McCulloch, now the editor of the Globe
Democrat, in st. Louis. The people
were perpetually reminded that the Re
publican party was guilty of an enor
nous and gigantic fraud in the election
and seating of Mr.. Hayes. Mr.. Cleve-
land had apparently warranty deed
for the seat which he occupied, and vet
compared with the title which MI. HAYES
had to his seat he was in possession of
stolen goods and the RECEIVER 1uaS aS