Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-02
THE NATIONS CAPITOL
Ingalls, Keeps Good His Word.
A Very Comprehensive and a
Most Vigorous Reply to
Voorhees,.
Mcclellan, a DiSObedient Officer and Han
cock, Gallant General but
Ambitious Politician.
Cleveland, Lamar and Many Other Men,
berS Of the Democratic Party Very
Carefully Remembered.
Voorhees, Answers His Antagonist and
Attempts to Refute Ingalls, State
ments and to Define His and
His Partys Position.
WASHINGTON, May |
Senate.

/ WASHINGTON, May /.
Senate.
Mr.. Morrill, introduced a bill to establish
an educational fund and to provide for a
more complete endowment of colleges for
scientific and industrial education. He asked
that it be laid on the table, as he desired to
make soor some brief remarks.
Mr.. Cali introduced bill apprOprlating
100000 for the prevention and extirpatiou
of yellow fever i'll the United States. twas
referred to the committee on epidemic dis
| eases
A resolution was offered yesterday by Mr.
Stewart, calling on the secretary of the treas
ury for a statement of the amount of silver
bullion offered the, government each month
since the passage of the silver coinage act of
1878, by whom and at what prices; also Of
the amount of silver bullion purchased
monthly by the government, from whom and
at what prices; also whether the quotations
of the India council bills in London enter to
any extent into the determination of the mar
ket price of silver bullion in the United
States. 1t was adopted.
| On Motion of Mr.. Hoar the House resolu-
ton authorizing the use and improvement of
Castle Island in Boston harbor, was taken
from the calendar and explained by Mr.
Hoar and passed
At2 o'clock Mr.. ingalls, commenced his
speech by recalling the fact that on the llth
of July last Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter,
row on the retired list, wrote letter in
" hich he thanked his friends and said thai
his heart was always with them, although at
one time his hand and heart worked the best
they knew how against them Mr.. Ingalls,
said that the Senator from Indiana complain
ed last Wednesday, with bitterness, that an
attempt had been made to blacken the names
of all the great civil as well as military lead
ers in the late war who remained true to the
democratic party. Gen. Fitz John Porter
was one of those military lead
ers who maintained allegiance to
the democratic party. He, within the
last four months, although dishonorably dis
missed from service and restored by the ac-
ton of the democratic party and its members
" ho had been members of the confederac,,
had written that his heart was always with
them" Referring to Gen. Mcclellan, Mr..
Ingalls, spoke of his education at West Point,
his business connection with Beauregard, his
attempt to extend and continue human slay
cry by the acquisition of Cuba Mr.. ingalls,
said that he begun his military career by dis
obeying the orders of Gen. Scott that he
abandoned Pope at Centrevlle and
failed to put the rebels to the sword
at Antietam, that he refused to obey the or.
ders of the President and follow the rebels
to Winchester, and fatally controlled the
destiny of the army until the battle of Fred
erck sburg. History had pronounced such a
verdict upon him as soldier, that the Sena-
tor from Indiana had not been able to place
him in the category with Napoleon, llanEl-
bal and Caesar. The speaker then dealt with
him as a politician and said that no one could
read his letter to LIncoln after the disas-
trous seven days fight on the peninsula and
before Richmond. without coming to the con-
clusion that Mcclellan was not fully and ac-
lively in sympathy with the forces, ideas and
sentlm, us controlling the American people.
As to Gen. Hancock he was one of the mih-
tary leaders true to democracy. His martial
career was one of imperishable heritage and
of American glory. He mai ched, he tri-
umphed and he filled the abyss of fame with
names which would be eternally luminous,
the Peninsula. Antietam, Gettysburg, Chan
cellorsvile. Cold Iiarbor, Petersburg Had
he been soldier under Napoleon he would
have been prince and marshal of the En-
pire He had been well called Hancock 1.-The
superb But after the war closed he, like
Gen. Mcclellan became tainted with
fatal virus on account of his am
bition for the presidential nomination.
Notwithstanding his magnificent and unap-
proachable career the American people rec
oguized his hostility to the reconstruction
measures and in the presidential election of
1850 he carried but three Northern States,
California. Nevada and New Jersey, the first
two stolen by forgery and the fraud of the
Morey letter, issued by democratic politi-
clans. He also received the 1873 elec;o oral
votes of the solid South promised him in his
speech at Cincinnati by the Senator from
South Carolina, (Hampton.) Mr.. ingalls,
spoke of the affected Indignation of the SEN
ators from Indiana and Kentucky as dis
creditable to their intelligence or candor. If
they didn't know that he (Mr. Ingalls,
had spoken of these Union generals not as
soldiers but as politicians and as democratic
candidates for the presidency, they were
dull, stupid and ignorant indeed, If they
did know it and persisted in their assertions
they were disingenuous, and he suspected,
if such thing were possible, that they were
both. daughter
He inferred from Voorhees, remarks that
it was the mission of copperhcads, butter
nuts, and Knights of the Golden Circle to
defend Union generals. Voorhees,, who as
sumed this task had in 1862 ordered the Tn
ion soldiers to go to the nearest blacksmith
shop and have iron collars made for their
n.cks inscribed ''Lincoln's dog" He de-
nounced all Union men as Lincoln's dogs,
not excepting Hancock and Mcclellan, de-
nounced Lincoln a monster. an unhappy
felon, reeking with the gore of hundreds of
thousands of slain soldiers. In the 1864 he
declared the war failure. Re-
garding President Hayes title which
had been assailed, Ingalls, said his
title was the most irrefragable ever held by
an occupant of the White House which had
been passed upon by constitutional tribu-
nal. The electoral commission was of DEM
oeratic device and was one of those mysteri-
ous cases where he who diggeth pit for his
brother falleth into it himself. As compared
with Hayes title Cleveland's title was Sc
cured by robbery. and his election was the
outcome of a deal between Dick Turpin and
Uriah Heap, Pecksniff and Cartouche. The
only satisfactory result was with the sneaks,
traitors, apoststes and hypocrites who failed
to secure their share of the swag. The con-
! fetlerates are returning to power and Sc
curing control of the Supreme court. Why was
Lamar appointed. Nobody ever suspected
him of being lawyer. He had not tried a
| case for forty years. This denouncer of
Lincoln has been forced upon the reluctant
! President and the people because it was nee
essary to place upon the supreme bench the
strongest and ablest living representative of
the confederacy aid most intimate associ-
ate of jefferson Davis. The democrats had
frankly declared their purpose TO erase from
the statute books every vestige of reconstruc-
ton legislation. As the supreme court JUS
tices reach the age of retirement the court is
being turned over to men of such
purposes. The effects of democratic ascend
! ancy were manifest. The country is enter