The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-07

/ their commentators Of the North than con-
/ federates from States that had seeded He did
4 not know where the Senator from Missouri
had GOT the figures from which he
surrendered at Appomattox If that Senator
had plueked few Of the plunes from the daz-
| cling tail of his imagination and had stuck
them into the winds of hts judgment. he would
have flown more accurate fight Instead of
5000 men with muskets. who were in the final
crash and coiiIsion OF the war, there had been
- I'll men, The Senator'S mathematics were
certainly giddy. But one parallel to be
found to the extraordinary inaccuracy of that
statement, and that was the same Senator'S
statement that of the COO soldiers of the
/ Union army more than one-half had applied for
pensInns Such speeches as those of the Sena-
tors from Missouri AMI Kentucky were intended
10 eaten the confederate vote; and they would
catch it. They were center Shots" striking
the bullseye every time and ringing the bell"
( he wanted the Senators the Democratic side
OF the cbamberto understand that their disguise
| for opposing pension bills exceedingly
! thin that nobody was deceived by it. IL was not
/ question of cost The South did norloye the
Union army; neither did the Democrats party.
| Mr. Morgan reminded Mr. ingalls, thar the
| Democratic party had Rominated and sustained
federal officer, General Hancock, for the
presidency.
| ''Yes." said Mr. Ingalls,. .Ts did support Gen.
Hancock and it also supported Horace Greeley
attempting TO fool the North It also nomna-
| ted and supported that other ally of the Con-
| federaey. George B. Mcclellan. Such preten-
| sons are altogether too diaphanous They
! qulre to have the drapery removed for iusDec
| ton. Why was it that. when an associate
| justice of the Supreme Court of the United
| States, who, By of the strange caDrices of
| history. now sat in judgment upon those great
| constitutional amendments shat were adopted
| against his protest and eforts-why was it that
| when he arose in the Senate and said ne would
| resent az personal affront any imputation upon
| the honor, or the integrity. or patriotism of
| jefferson Davis; when he said he had no doubt
| that Jefferson Davis would occupy a niche Ia
history by the side of George Washington; why
was il that no Senator the Democratic side
North or Sout6-arose TO repudiate and
any honorable Senator on the Re-
publican side, or any editor of any Northern
paper, or any organ of the Grand Army. talked
about the union armies, the grandeur of their
achievements the obligations of the nation,
they we're tainted with waving the ensaneuned
underearment. raking up the ashes of sectional
strife. appealing TO partisan hatred and malice.
Ii was time that the twenty four confederates
on the other side of the chamber were Informed
that the Northern people were not ili-advised
about this matter" In 1886 there was,
in Atlanta. grand historical occas-
ion. when statue to the memory
DRY of an honored Senator was to BIS unveiled, .
man whom he Mr.. Ingallsl honored and
spected and on that occasion the ex-President of
the Confederacy was invited to be present. Men
focked to that city as they GO to banquet as
waves come when navies stranded
The city was decorated with the con-
Mr.. Ingalls, quoted from the speech of Mr..
Grady at the unwilling of the Hill statne at
Atlanta. in which Jefferson Davis was spoken Of
as one whose gray hairs were crowned with
deathless love-" and who. Though
outcast from the privileges of this great govern
ment, is the uncrowre ed king OF our people" He
did not propose to rehearse the reply of Mr.
Davis, except TO quote one sentence in which he
referred 10 Senator Hill having mashed"
the Injurious Yankee, (meaning. he supposed,
our friend now in Florencel He spoke of the
same speaker mir. Grady having gone to New
York and New ENGLAND, soon erwards, and
made speeches there, pouring out his ''treacle.
cold cream and honey, and maple strip all over
the North" When, Mr.. ingalls, asked was that
orator sncerel When did he speak the senti-
fha fna.y and Nhn nf fhn
Southern peoplcl Was il when he delivered
that Grafton in Atlanta, on the 1st of May 1856.
or was it when he spilled oil and wine over all
the American people Of the North!
Coming back TO the opposition OF Southern
Senators to pension bills he said he dld not
blame them for it He often wondered how he
would have acted if the relations had beer
versed. and if the federal governments had been
overthrow He did not believe he would have
felt comforted in voting pensions to confederate
soldiers. He believed he should have been
conspirator against the Confederacy 70 the end
of his days. But he should have regarded as
the climax OF effrontery, as the very apex and
summit of hardihood and auiacity-he would
not say of pusillanmity and dishonor-if, after
he had accepted a pardon and had his diea bill
ties removed. and had taken the oath of al
legiance TO Unsuccessful Southern Confederacy,
he had denounced, day after day, the efforts
which those con4ederstes made to reward their
own soldiers; and if he haeeled about the price
which the conquering country should have
fit to bestow on the men by whose arms it had
conquered. He did not think that the North was
at all deluced by the pretentions of Senators the
other side. 1t little singular that, in all
the years which had elapsed since the war there
never had come from onB of the States that had
been in rebellion, far he knew. Union
soldier as representative in either branch of |
Congress, elected by Democratic voters. The |
Democratic party in those States never had |
Numbered at sending to Congress or electing as |
Governor man who had not served in the |
federate army in some capacity. That had been |
the supreme test Wnen he looked over the |
rolls of the Senate and of the House, and reflect
ed how few of those who had served in the |
TTvnt~w 1rn$Ia 80
Nation, he was not surprised at Witnessing such |
demonstrations were witnessed when pension /
bills we're up for action. The South should be |
thankful that it did not have TO foot the entire |
pension bill France did after the Franco |
Prussian war And yet here said he, we have
the iailers and murderers OF Andersonvlle, I
Belle Isle and Libby prison sitting under the flag
which they attempted to pull down, 1egisatIng /
for the country which they endeavored to de-
tie, and minimize the amounts to
be paid to the mutiaied and disabled
servivors of the army of the Union. The Sena-
tor from Missouri had asked, in a burst OF in
diEnant impatence. where all this going to
end. will tell him, said Mr.. ingalls,. and every
Senator on that side of the chamber-whether
he likes it or not-what we intend To do. | will
tell the Senator from Missouri, and the rest of
bis associates, just where this 1hIng is going to
stop. 1t is going to stop when the arrears of
pensions are paid when the limitation is re-
moved, and every soldier on the rolls, who
gets the rolls. paid from the day of his dis
ability or, in case of survivor, from the date OF
the soldiers death: and when every Surviving
soldier of the Union army 10 put upon tho rolls
for service only That is when it is going to
stop Applause in the gallerlesl and il you do
not like il, make the most of. It.
After euogizing the G.. A. Rs Mr. Ingalls, said
in conclusion: 1--WE propose to pass this bill
Initiating the language which had been used on
the other side of the chamber. hope that it
will pass the other House of Congress; and fiji
does, let the President veto It at his peril"
Very general applause on the floor and in the
Mr. Blackburn said that he did not need to be
told by the Senator from Kansas that Kentucky
had always been loyal. That Senator knew he |
Mr.. Blackburn represented constituency that
had sent three men into the union army for the
one man that Kansas sent, and il was not with
out pride that he recalled the fact that of the
thirty odd States then in the Union, Ke ntucky
was the only State which had, without draft,