The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-11
THE INGALLS, RECORD.
DON PlATT'S ARTISTIC PORTRAIT
OF A SLANDeRER.

The Self Appointed Censor-His Treason
In 1862 and ls64-D. II. Anthony Gives
Him q Certificate OF Characteristic
Brides Judge.
When man assumes the role Of cen
Tor, he makes himself living insult to
all who have the misfortune OF his &C
ouaintance This comes Of the self as
sorted excellence of the superior ferson.
Where SUCH therefore, comes to the
front, there is just and popular demand
for an investigation as to the ground or
authority.
Senator John j. ingalls,, elevated by
his party to the high position of presiding
officer of the senate, is self coat ituted
our great censor If he have any other
persuit or business. it Is unknown to
either public or private information. He
devotes his days to the discovery Of weak
spots in Others and his nights to study
Of epithets which from time TO time he
vacates his presidential chair to utter
upon the floor of the senate chamber.
In response to long felt want We have
devoted more time than the subject war
rants to a study of our great censors
past. We must confess that his personal
appearance did not encourage us in a
hope of successful vindication OF his
past. If the Almighty ever wrote legi.
BILE hand upon human countenance, and
put that countenance in keeping with the
form, Senator Ingalls, is u man men would
suspect and women avoid The cold, ag-
gressve, vulture like face above the slen-
der, snake like body, indicates the evil
qualities this very disagreeable person
seems to pride himself upon. Nature
has given all creatures an instinct by
which they recognize their enemies. But
every creature. however crude and vicious,
has its friends, or at least its associates,
and IL Is rare that one can be found that
lives alone and has to fight all creation
for It's living. Indeed, we doubt whether
One specimen Of such condition can DO
found, II we except our Senator ingalls,.
Snakes live with snakes, tigers with
TIGERS, and even the offensive skunk has
other skunks for associates. ingalls, is
alone, and scientists should seize upon
him at an early day for glass case and
label setting forth the fact that the spoci'
men Is so rare and curious that 1t is the
only one known to the museums
T. We arc struck with the intense patriot
ism OF this modern Cato. Nothing so cx.
cites his wrath and arouses his wordy in.
dignation rs any doubt as To the Loyalty
Of any one when the great republic
trembled through it's vast and ponderous
frame upon the verge of ruin in tho war
Of rebellion. He looks with scorn upon
the southern senator's, late brigadier gen
erals, and oven he fails to find words with
which to express his wrath and disgust OF
the Democrats he denounces as Copper
heads. But yesterday he charged that
Gems. Mcclellan and Hancock were
allies Of tho Confederacy, and IN late
controversy of somewhat personal ma
ture on tho floor of tho chamber came
down from his dignifed position to handy
epithets with Senator Voorhees,.
One hearing these wrathful utterances,
and reading this patriots abuse would
suppose that he at least was free of such
charge. One would conclude that ut the
first roll Of the drum. this noble patriot
had seized musket and hurried to tho
front. The belief prevailed in the APP
plauding galleries that his dead Confeder-
ates made national cemetery. Alas and
alaclI! when the record OF s0ldierly ser
vice Is laid bare as IL was so cruelty by
Senator Blackburn. of Kentucky, it Is
found that this lofty son Of the scream
ing eagle fought for his imperiled gov
eminent from three legged stool Of a
Judge pdvocate, and while amid the roar
of battle, our best blood watered the
earth at the distant front, he did gallant
service In protecting hen roosts from
camp followers of recruiting camps IL
is ldicrous to read those brief biographi
cal notices, mostly written by the sub
jects themselves, that appear from year
TO year in The Congressional Directory,
and note in those devoted to Senator
Ingalls,, Of Kansas, how, rs the war gets
remote, the military services of the sena-
tor grow more and more distinct. 4" "Tis
distance lends enchantment and that is
about the only cnchantment the services
possess.
This, however. is not the worst. This
animated senatorial sneer has IA Eraver
charge of Copperheadism that has gone TO
record without even denial, and that
was prudent, for it is not possible. Now,
bearing in mind the late denunciation of
the dead Mcclellan and Hancock, and the
abuse of the living patriots who did ten
der their lives to an imperiled republic,
let us see how the naked facts blister tho
record Of our corn fed Cato OF Kansas.
On the 18th of September, 1862, the
Republican state convention of Kansas
declared:
IAN persons holding with us the fund
amental doctrine of human liberty, in ia
vor Of vigorous prosecution of tho war,
the use of all the means God has put into
the hands of the nation for the suppress
sion Of the rebellion, a hearty support OF
the government and an honest admins
tration of local affairs are invited to
unite with us in action"
Now note the date 1t was ut the dark
est hour of that death struggle, and the
roar Of the Confederate cannon was throb-
bing along the echoing walls Of our Capt.
toll. Before that convention appeared our
censor-our Cato-as candidate for lieu
tenant governor. The gallant prosecutor
Of chicken thieves in camps remote from
deadly strife did not seem to have inn
pressed his noble services on his fellow
citizens, for they declined by an over
whelming majority to put him in nomi-
nation. A gallant soldier who had been
to the front and won his spurs amid the
dead and dying was too strong for the de.
fender Of memories and melon patches
Now did Ingalls, gracefully yieldH Let
us see. few days later a convention
was held at Lawrence made up Of boiling
Republicans who sought a coalition with
the Democrats. then in deadly antagonism