South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1888-03-23


nounce the eff,rts to pension U,ion
soldiers.
"Nor have you heard me- reioin
ell Mr.. Morgan.
Nr. Ingalls, said he wanted demo
cratic Senator's who were opposinc
this bill on the ground that it Wal
an attempt TO dispose Of the surplu,
To understand that the disguise We.
so exceedingly thin that nobody ~,
deceived bv it. The Sotth diin'
like the Union soldiers. 1t never did
Mr.. Morgan thought the democrat,
ic party liked General Hancock, al
they all votel for him.
Mr.. Ingalls, rejoined that they 70.
ted for General Hancock as they vo
ted for Grover Clevelard - by com.
pulsion. They thought they pleased
the Northern people by voting for a
Union soldier. They bal been In
illicit intercourse With democratic ell.
emenis Of the North for the last TWEEN
ty-Hve years. Mort bern people On
derstood why they voted for General
Hancock, and why they voted fol
that other ally of tue Confederacy
George b. Mcclellan, Who had de
ciared that the war Was q failure af.
ter he had tried for two years 10
make it.
These pretenses we're altogether
too diaphanous. In 1886 there was
in Atlanta great historic occasion,
when a statue to the memory of an
honored Senator &as to be unveiled,
a man whom lie (Mr. Ingslls) honor
ed and respec,ei, and on that occa-
sion the ex President of the Confed-
racy was invited to be present.
Men 6ocked to that city as they 90
to a banquet, as waves come when
na:ies are stranded, and the city vas
decorated with the Confederate en-
blem to make o Confederate holiday
MIR. Ingalls, compared the speech of
Mr.. Henry w. Grady in welcoming
MIR. Davis with the one delivered at
the New England Society banquet in
New York, and asked at which place
did he speak the sentiments of the
Southern people.
Coming back 10 the opposition OF
Southern Senators To pension bills,
he said he did not blame them for it.
He often wonders, how he would
have acted if the relations had been
reversed and If the federal govern .
ment had been overthrown. He did
not believe he would have folt COM
forted in voting pensions to Confed.
crate soldiers. He believed he
should have been c1napiralor a.
gainst tie Confedcracy TO The end of
bis days. But he should have re
garded "a the climax of effrontery,
rs the very apex and summit or bar.
diaood and audaci,y (he would not
say of pusiIlanimity and dishouor) il,
after he had accepted a pardon and
had had his disabilities removed, ard
had taken the oath Of allegianc. TO
the successful Southern Confedsrscv,
he had denounced day after day the
etf)rts which those Con!eJe; ates made
TO reward their own soldiers, and if he
ha9glod about the price which the
con1uer;ng country should have seen
fit to hestow on The men by whose
arms it bad been conquered. He
did not think that the North vas al
ell Geluded by the pretensions Of
Senators on the other side. CriLici,
sing the statement of Mr.. Vest, that
OF ss30.0O0> 900 paid out in pensions
$4,000 900 had been contributed
by the Southj he declared that such
statement was a 'glistering general
ity.' He doubted whether the South
had actually contributed $500, 900
instead of $2o0.000,000. But even
if the South had paid $500, 900 900,
IL was very lucky that it did not
have TO pay the whole Of the pen
sions. lnsteai Of grumblirg and
complaining that it had paid $500.
100000. 1t ought TO be thankful that
IL did not have 10 foot the entire bill.
As France bad TO do after the Fran,
co-Prussian war. And yet here.
said he, we have the jIilers and muir
derers OF Andersonville, Belle Isle
and Libby Prison sitting under the
flag which they attempted to pull
down, lcgislating for the country
which they endeavored to destroy,
and irving TO pinch aud belittle and
minimize the amounts to be paid 10
the mutilated and disabled survivors
Of the army Of the Union. I will
tell the Senator from Missouri and
the rest Of his associates just where
this thing Is going to stop. IL is GO.
ing 10 stop when the arrears of pen.
sions are paid; when the Limitation
is removed and every soldier on the
rolls, or who gets on TIE rolls, is
paid from tue day Of his disability.
or On case If n SURVIVOR from the
date of the soldiers death, and when
every surviving soldier OF the Union
army is put upon the rolls for serv-
ice only. That is when it is going
TO stop. II you 90 not like it. make
the most of il.
NH. BLACKBURN RELIES.
Mf Blackburn arose to reply, and
sail, after The confusion succeeding
MIR. Ingalls' speech had subsidized,
shat he was at loss TO account for
tue course OF the Senator from Kan
sas in Juggling him into tho TRADE in
which he bad just INDUCED. He
a cnra that ko M DIo,I hs,r,N