The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-05-12
THE TALL SYCAMORE.

Vigorous and Pointed Reply to a TIrade
Hurled Against Him by ingalls,, the |
Kanfas Jeyhawkor-A Clever Character
ization OF Congressman Johnston, OF In
diana.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-Senator ingalls, |
yesterday delivered his we'll advertised IT, |
rade against Senator Voorhees,. The gal |
lerics Of the Senate Chamber were crowd |
ed to their utmost capacity by Democratic |
and Republican politicians.
Mr.. Ingalls, partially apologized for his
recent attack Of General Hancock and then
entered into bloody shirt harangue Of the
ordinary Republican stump variety, clos.
ing with personal reference to Senator
Voorhees, who, few days ago, told some
wholesome truths about the Kansas dema-
goguc and jayhawker.
Mr.. Voorhees, arose and In slow, meas
ured, resonant tones remarked that the
speech which the Senate had just listened
to recalled to his mind tho fable of the
mountain in labor. Two hours had passed
away after the blare of trumpets had
brought a large audience to the Senate.
And what had they heard and what had
they scent A poor, small mouse creeping
off. His allusion last Wednesday to the
Senator from Kansas had been merely in
cidental Why should he assail that Sen
Senator from Kansas did so more than any
one he knew. That Senator had net been
alive politically since the 9Th of March last,
when the Senator from Kentucky (Black-
burn) disposed of him. Laughter and a yell
Of approval from the galleries.. He had
been walking the streets and posing before
the world like an old friend of his in In
dianapolis in bad health, who had said to
him that he had been dead n year and was
only walking around to save funeral ex-
penscs. The only criticism of his (Voor-
heeso speech which he had seen in the
press was that he had galvanized corpse.
He disclaimed any purpose of that kind.
He had made no attack upon him, but upon
the Republican party. He proceeded to
compare Mr.. ingalls, to peacock on
barnyard fence, posing of summer morn
ing, looking at his own feathers as they
glanced in tho sun and vocalizing the whole
neighborhood with his harsh, ,unmusical and
unmeaning cry, unmindful OF the fact that
there were more useful fowls in the barn
yard. How useless it had been for
that Senator to arraign him. He
Qngalls) had read to the Senate the old,
stale, putrid, rotten ISLANDERS Of years gone
by, on which he (Voorhees) had trampled
in forty POLITICAL campaigns. 1t had seemed
to him like the voices Of spawned, broken
winded, hackneyed, political campaign
liars OF the last twenty-five years. That
he ever uttered one word against Union
soldiers or talked Of their having collars
around their necks was so base falsehood,
so infamous, that the black walls Of perdi-
tion could not reduplicate it. And he said
to the Senator from Kansas (without mean
| ing, perhaps, the full extent of what his
words conveyed) that it was not in his
powers to fish up from the sewers of in
| fanny the old campaign lies and make them
| respectable in the Senate of the United
States; but it was possible for him, by a
| short step, to put himself on an equality
| with them.
| Mr.. Voorhees, alluded in q sarcastic and
amusing manner to Mr.. Ingalls, war re-
| cord, and said he would stand with the
| Senator before the soldiers of Indiana or
Kansas and quit the Senate if he was not
| approved by them over Mr.. Ingalls,.
| Mr.. ingalls, replied that as the Senator
| from Indiana had seen fit to invite COM
| parison between their records and their re-
lations to tho great questions of the last
twenty-five years, he felt it his duty to
| put on record from information in his pos
| session what the Senator's record and his
| tory were. He should refer only to public
matters in public records, and should
| venture the affirmation that whatever
might have been his own QngallsD rela-
tons to the great struggle between the
North and South, the Senator from In
diana had been from the outset the deter
mined, outspoken, positive, aggressive ant
| malignant enemy of the Union cause.
"Ipronounce that" said Mr.. Voorhees,
rising, with anger in his eyes, " to be de-
liberate false accusation. voted for every
dollar paid the soldier, for every stitch oi
clothes he wore and for every pension bill
rewarded his services"
Mr.. Ingalls, said: "The Senator came II
nero to-day and thanked God that he had
never been followed here by a committee
to question his right to his seat; and with
| much diffuseness of illustration had en-
deavored to cast aspersions upon him Nn
galls), and belittle him, and humiliate him
in the eyes Of the American people when
he Qngalls) had only referred to the Sena
tors public utterances-his speeches
which he had never denied.
Mr.. Voorhees, declared that he did deny it
Mr.. Ingalls, replied that the Senator coult
not deny the publication he had read. L
was verbatim report and so certified to.
Mr.. Voorhees, asserted that not one wore
Or syllable said by the Senator was true Of
believed to be true in Indiana. The accusa
tion had been trampled under foot. Tht
Senator's insinuation that he (VoOrhees
had ever been member of u political sccre
society--the Knights of the Golden Circle
was so base and UNANIMOUSLY false that HI
did not know how to choose language to de
nounce it as such
Mr.. Ingalls,, continuing, said the Senato
from Indiana had written a letter for Mr.
f. A. Shute, which that gentleman tool
South with him, and filed in the Confederat,
War Department in support of his applica
tion for appointment as Brigadier-Genera
in the Confederate army. The letter wa
dated December 12, 1850, and said:
On the disturbing question of the dny hi
(Shute's) sentiments are entirely with tn
South, nnd one of his objects is probable
home in that section. take this occasion Il
harmony. DANIEL w. VOORHEES,.
The Senator said that the charge chat h
had called Union soldiers "hirelings" ant
"Lincoln dogs" and said thnt they ought t,
go to blacksmith-shop and have an irol
collar around their necks with the inscrip
ton, "My dog-Abraham Lincoln" was
compaign slander and a scandal that hat
been spit upon. That averment could b.
substantiated by as credible a witness u
there was in the city.
Mr.. Voorhees, said that II the gentleman
from Kansas would find one single vot'
that he had cast against the payment o
soldiers, for their supplies, for their boun
ties, against the appropriations for thei
pensions, he would resign his seat in thu
Senate. Every word the Senator hat
stated on that subject was absolutely falls
by the record, absolutely false. He meas
ured his words. The Senator said that h
(Voorhees) was an object of his charity