Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-03-22

so profound, or obscurity 30 unfAth
enable as to preclude him from be-
coming that mans successor, it does
seem to me that the dignity Of the
Senate Chamber refuses permission for
response. / am not here to defend
the President from such unwarranted
attacks. | know but one sin that he
has committed in the eyes of the Sem
ator from Kansas, and that may be
the objectionable otfense Of not only
having defeated bis party at the polls
but having given to the American
people for three years past so efficient,
so honest, so llean-handed an admin
istration as to doom the last of that
party's aspirations to disaster.
If it be possible, the Senator from
Kansas has gone further and done
worse. 10 his Incorporate zeal he
has not hesitated to invade graves.
10 his frantic efforts to stir prejudice
between sections that have already
been reunited he goes into the sren-
ches of the soldierY, and not on my
side but on his side, and drags up for
abuse and vilifcatiCn before the Amer
lean Senate such men as traced with
| their own unblemished swords In
blood the brightest pages Of American
history. Mcclellan and Hancock are
to be denounced upon this floor as
allies Of Confederates Might it not
not have been il better taste, more
/ credItable, at least, to the courage
and candor Of that Senator if he had
made that charge before both these
men were dead?
Mr.. INGALLS,. ! did, often.
Mr.. BLACKBURN. Then so much
the worse for the Senator from Kan
sas. What warrant or ground had he
for that, except that they were both
different from himself, at least in po-
litical faith, if we may not hope in
many tther regards?
Hancock an ally OF the Confeder.
ates Was he SO regarded and be-
lieved when, weltering in his blood
upon Cemetery Heights, he refused to
be taken from the field, and yet per-
sisted in giving orders to check the
last advance OF Longstreet's irresisti-
BILE veterans? Was it this man who
was honored up to the very day that
he accepted the nomination at the
hands of the democratic party, hon
ored alike by the American people
whether they were Republicans or
Democrats?
He travels on 10 berate the Com
missioner Of Pensions, and he speaks
in terms certainly as little compile
mentary, Il he does not, as il the
other two cases, impeach his loyalty.
Mr.. President, that crippled and
manned Commissioner of Pensions,
himself general in the FEDERAL Ar.
my from 1861 10 1868, would hesitate
to have the contrast or comparison,
as he may term it, drawn between
himself and the Senator from Kansas.
Whilst he was earning has military
reputation when the flag was flying
upon the borders of the Senator own
State, and bleeding upon every bat
tle-feld upon which he went, what
great service was the Senator from
Kansas rendering?
He complains of the Senator from
Missouri, and says that he rests his
complaints upon that Senator'S auto.
biography. | believe that it is gen.
orally assumed that a gentleman
writes that bit OF interesting history
for himself. Now, in looking over
the short but conspicuOusly brilliant
autobiography Of the Senator from
Kansas, l find that he was not in the
Army in 1861.
He surely was not in the army in
1862, because he says that he was in
the State Senate of Kansas, "a MEN,
Der of the State Senate OF Kansas
from Atchison County in 1862" But
he would have us believe that he was
in the army from 1868 to 1865. It's
not true. He never was in the Fed
eral Army. Why, to have sat and
listened to the Senator one would
have imagined that he was controlling
the great armies that We're operating
in the West at least, if not in the
East.
saw the bronzed and weather
beaten commander of the American
Armies sit there in that chair and
blush in modesty at the humble part
that he found that he had played in
the war OF the rebellion; and what
was tine Senator from Kansas doing
whilst be was earning his reputation ?
What was his occupation in a militia
~ capacity? He tells you himself
that he was "a Judge advocate to x III
sas militia volunteers. Whilst
Black was bleeding on Kansas soil,
whilst Mcclellan was command
ing the armies Of the Potomac,
whilst Hancock was weltering in
his blood upon Cemetery Heights at
Gettysburgh, the Senator from Kan
sas, away behind in the rear of the
Army, was prosecuting Kansas jay
hawkers for robbing hen roosts |
Great laughter
Mr.. President, what are we to think
OF the reck!essness of Senator who
will leave that place now occupied by
yourself an3 come to the floor in the
illustration OF partisan Yea! that
am glad to say have never seen
equaIed, to attack everybody, all
decent people, from the President Of
the United States down, civilians AID
military men, living and dead. No
object can be found that escapes the
venom of his tongue--a cynic, one