The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-02
INGALLS, AND VOORHEES,
A1IvELY EXCHANGE OF HOT SHOT
IN THE SENATE.


stes His Charges Against Gen.
Mcclellan Gen. Hancock Let Off
LIGHTER Senator Voorhees, Likens
ris Opponent to a Peacock on a
Parnyard Fence.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The Senate gal
leries presented an unusually animated ap-
q pearance at the opening of to-day's session,
II being crowded with spectators, principally
n ladies. drawn by the announcement of
sneech at o'clock this afternoon by Mr.
& INGALLS,. in response to Mr.. Voorhees,
n invective of last Wednesday, and by the
prospect of a bitter and excited political
discussion. During the reading of yester-
n davis journal hum of conversation per-
Al yaded the chamber. Mr. Stewart, of
Nevada, spoke at some length upon the reso-
luton of inquiry concerning the amount of
silver bullion offered the government since
1878 At various times during Mr.. Stew
arts speech, the presiding officer was COM
pelled to lecture the spectators in the gallery
a Tor the noisy hum of conversation coming
from them and which occasionally rend-
cred the words of the speaker inaudible to
the official reporters. As the hour of 2
o'clock approached the buzz in the chamber
81 Mr.. Ingalls, took his seat, where his desk
was decorated with flowers. By this time
large number of spectators had been ad-
mitted to the floor of the Senate.
INGALLS, RECOGNIZED.
At 2 o'clock the regular order was laid
al before the Senate, being the animal indus
try bill, but was Immediately laid aside
81 temporarily, and the resolution to refer the
# Presidents message to the Finance Commit
*X Anly ATg l.. =
81 recognized by the Chair. He said:
# Mr. PREs1DENr-On the 18th day of January
M 1888, little less than four months ago, Maj. Gen
|# Fitz John Porter, now on the retired list wrote
W o letter, from which l read the following ex-
tract: And now TO you, one of the thousands
IA of kind, generous friends whose hearts have
W felt, whose forms l have never seen, nor warm
hands touched, beg to express my heartfelt
M appreciation of your kind act in my behalf, and
to assure you, all of you North and South, that
NAH my heart is and always has been with you
though at one time my hand and my head
worked the best they knew against you and
81 your cause, believing, as | do, it was for the
& best"
MR.. VOORHEES, CHARGE.
Mr.. President, the Senator from Indiana in
the course of his observations last Wednesday,
complained with some bitterness that deter
mind attempt was made during the war of the
s rebellion, and he added that it has been contin-
ued since, to blacken the names Of great civil as
well as military leaders who remained true to
M the Democratic party, as at enmity with the
cause of the Union and in an alliance of senti-
ment at least, with the Confederacy
He also added, Mr.. President, what
never has been conceded hitherto, so far as
am advised, by any Democratic orator, that
there is such a thing as treason against this
government, and that to be an,ally of the Con-
tederacy was to be traitor. In his complaint
Of the accusations that have been made, the
Irresistible inference made is: First that thest.
accusations against the civil and military
leaders of the Democratic party we're not true
and next, that if they were true they were dis
credtable and diShonorable.
ATTACKING PoRTER's LETTER.
Fftz John Porter, Mr. President, was a leader
In the war for the union who maintained his
allegiance to the Democratic party, and vet
within the past four months. although he had
been dshonorably dismissed and had been
restored by the action of the Democratic party
and its members who had been members of the
Confederacy, he writes that his heart was
always with them, although at one time his
head and his hand were against them; that
even the time when his head and his hand were
lending their succor to that commander
whom the SENATOR from Indiana characterizes
with somewhat redundant and elaborate aff1u
fnce OF dlctlon as vain, pretentious, specious,
boasting, and a vain-glorious pretender-that
even then when his head and his hands were
engaged in that task, his heart was, it had
always been, and has ever since been, with them
MCCLELLAN AND BEAUREGARD.
Mr.. President. Maj. Gen. George B. Mcclellan
was born III pennsylvania, educated at West
Point and went Immediately to New Orleans
POLITICAL friend of Beauregard ard allied him
Self actively with schemes for the extension and
erpetuatlon OF human slavery by the acquis-
tlon OF Cuba; and his associates in tnat enter
Prise were Albert Sidney Johnston, GustaVuS
" smith, Mansfield Lowell and J. K. Duncan
lie began his military career by disobeying the
ofuers OF Gen. Scott, he abandoned hope to the
hefcles OF his foes at Centreville, he failed to
put the rebels to the sword at Antietam; he re-
used TO obey the orders of the President of the
mted States to follow them to Winchester; be
ataly controlled the destiny of the army till
NE battle of fredericksburg, and he was an in
innate friend, associate and companion of Maj
Yen fltl John Porter. History has pronounced
rs verdict upon him as a soldier. / deal with
llm as politician.
HIS LETTERS TO LINCOLN.
say that no man can read the letter that he
wrote 10 President Lincoln after the disastrous
eVen Gays fight upon the peninsula and be-
Iore Richmond, without coming to the con.
fusion that he was not fully and actively in
smpathy with the forces and ideas and sent-
gehts that were then controlling the American
5st SopIe' Will quote few lines from
IaI t letter: July Z, 1862, written
Eiler 10000 men Of the most thorough
Fl EQUIPPED and Incompatible army that ever
'lt any capital, had been left in the swamps of
w Ohlckahominy; he sits himself down aud ad-
.Ssss a letter 10 the President Of the United
ates from which quote): Toe war should
conducted on the highest principles known
+ JIurIstlan civ llzati9., Ii should not be a war
Eotn Eo9lus tothe subjugatiou of the people of any
royer,, III any event neither conhscation Of
Dl a
AZ M VI sdhllatlon of States, nor forcible abolition
N,a'ery should be contemplated for q mo-
E5iI EglL Unless the principles governing the
le "uie conduct Of our struggle shall be made
EU"u ana approved the effort to obtain the
iIlslte forces will be almost hopeless. A
ioraI IA aIlon OF radical views, especially upon
srrGay VIII rapidly disintegrate our present
THE PLATFORM or 1864.
MI, t5r, resident, | am now dealing with Gen
rsn0dT;iialah as a Democratic politician and as q
ten,aIaJe nulIaJe for the Pres dency In 1854 he ac-
srr,1eu the Presidential nomination from that
Sag u uupon platform that expressly declared
lory. A"uio' ~ 10 ah0iohO MS
IT 1r' ingalls, here read from the Chicago
adIl9fm d 5fm OF 1864, declaring the war failure
oL u ug,ihsndlng that immediate efforts be
a1 "a1o Ior the cessation of hostilities, and
aen preceded:
nd,, rHe nomination of George b. Mcclellan as
NJ +,,aee ne. Tor the Presidency, was received by
nsr' Spapers of the Confederacy with enthii-
~" a. ne Richmond Enquirer, of Sept. g.
~ livery defeat Of Lincoln's forces inures
tLo Lbo yehelt OF Gen Mcclellan. The influence
siIoo oouth, more powerful in the shock of
,.I I.l.a .nan when throwing her minority vote in
rn SSlctS9rlal college, win be cast in favor Of
elns iS SOielan by this untried, yet efficacious
6Tfa1 And upon the following day in the
sclaraeJ' ate Congress, Mr.. Foote, Of Tennessee,
boI y say have friends
Jls true M f,t..