Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-08
THURSDAY. MARCH 6, 1883.
Innalls-The Coming Contest.

Mr.. SHERMAN had just attempted to
smooth over his celebrated Springfield
speech when Mr.. INGALLS, bounded into
the arena displaying the same bloody
shirt which Mr.. SHERMAN had just en-
desvored to furL SO vile q speech as
that which Mr.. INGALLS, made in the
United States Senate on Tuesday was
never before made in that body, we sup
pose. 1t was in fact, Judging from its
language, the speech of a man suffering
from a drunken debauch. If he was not
drunk, then he has heart more
wicked than that of SHERMAN, or that OF
BLAINE. or that OF BEAST BUTLER, or
that OF any other Politician in the Union.
He ought TO be "reduced to the ranks
ut once. 1t is a shame that man who
hates the people of one third OF the
Union should be the presiding officer OF
the Senate of the Union. 1t Is shame
that such character should hold POSI-
ton in which the President has to
have any sort OF communication
with him. But how much greater the
crime of those southern men who, having
it in their power to silence all these
slanderers OF the southern people, choose
rather to encourage them in the war they
nre making upon the so-called "rebels. -
1t would be hard to find words too Sc
we're to be appropriately applied to Mr..
INGALLS,. Here is his disgraceful refer
ence TO the President of the United
States. Mr.. INGALLS, said:
1.-THE nomination and election OF Gro
yer Cleveland had made the pretensions
of any American citizen to the presiden-
CIV respectable. There was no man In
this country whose ignorance was so
profound, whose obscurity so impenetra-
BILE, whose antecedents so degraded, that
he bad not the right to aspire to the
presidential nomination by the Demo
cratic party.
This is the Republican estimate of the
man who first opened the prison-houses
OF the land and made the southern peO-
pie feel as if they were indeed once
more Gin their fathers house" This
is the Republican mode OF wreaking ven
geance upon Mr.. CLEVELAND because in
stead of filling the national offices IN
the southern States with scalawags and
carpet baggers he turned those offices
over to true men. Virginia has special
reasons for standing by the New Yorker
who was not afraid to appoint to
high office such men as Hon. j. l.. NJ.
CURRY, Hon. A. NJ. KELLEY, Hon. r. L.
WrrHERs, General d. II. MAURY, and
number of other Virginians.
The malignity that rankles in the
breast of Mr.. INGALLS, broke forth again
when he touched the pension question.
Replying to Senator VESTS exclamation
as to where all this pension business was
going to end, Mr.. INGALLS, said:
at is going to stop when the arrears
Of pensions are paid when the limita-
ton is removed and every soldier on the
rolls. or who gets on the rolls, is paid
from the day of his disability, or, in
case Of survivor, from the date of the
soldiers death and when every sur
yiving soldier of the Union army is put
upon the rolls for service only. That is
when it is going to stop. And if you do
not like it make the most of It,
What a prospect An absenteeism
like that which has impoverished and
ruined Ireland would be one of the prac-
teal results of such a pension system,
and would ruin the South. She would
be taxed annually millions upon millions
OF dollars, and would receive back no
thing. Ali of her money would be
drained from her pockets and transferred
to the North. The sunny South would
in the course OF time become like "the
fair land of Poland"
Mr.. BLACKBURN made an admirable re-
ply 10 Mr.. ISGALLs's brutal speech.
Perhaps nobody could have made more
successful attack upon the Kansas Sena-
tor; but il there is anybody who could
have done so, Senator VEST is the man.
He is, We suppose, the finest debater in
the Senate-not TO say the best speaker
in the United States. We shall await
with impotence the excoriation which
we expect him TO administer to the Kan
sas demagogue.
INGALLS, made his speech in order to
fire the northern heart. He presumed
upon the partisan feelings of his southern
Republican allies No candidate for
President OF the United States would
ever dare to make such speech as be
did IL the southern white Republicans
would do their duty MALONE and his
henchmen ought TO be reminded upon
every stump Of their guilty silence in the
presence OF the enemies of the southern
people. MALONE and his henchmen
dare 10 ask southern men to vote for
their bitterest enemies.
Turkey TO Alexander.
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