The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-03-16

feGerate, Ouf at, GOd helplng MIN, he Is
going no further. He is going to resist the
claims Of these organized robbers and plum
derers who have banded together for the
purpose of depicting the Treasury, and
they shall have no single farthing mo'e. |
will tell that Senator and every other
Democratic Senator. whether they like it
or not, what We intend to do. ! viii tell
the Senator from Missouri and the rest of
his associates just where 1t is to stop it
is going to stop when the arrears of pen
sion are paid. when ne Limitation is r,--
moved, and every soldier upon the rolls.
or who hereafter gets on the rolls, is paid
from the day of his disability, or his sur
vivors from the day of his tleatn.aui ~hen
every surviving sodit of tie Union ;.tjI.i..<
is put Oil the rolls for service emily. '"..t
is when it is going to OF. AMI if !"u q"
not like it, make the mot Of it.
Are we at last. says the Senator it,In
Missouri, to have service h;ii?
Nothing, he said, will content the soiit -
and their allies but a servicepension hiI.
and are we to have that? Yes. Mr.. rr i
dent, you are to have that.
Such were his words. We urge every
reader of the CHRONICLE to re read them
and show them to his neighbor. After
reading such expressions of hatred and
malice, uttered by the leader OF EeI, bll
canism, can any self-respecting Sou .crii
man support that partyl We think nnt
But Mr. Ingalls, gall Was not ;tll,we lo
pass unanswered. The South had a ham
pion, ready to meet the Goliath of R;di-
calism. Taking out his smooth stone from
the clear stream, the Southern David dealt
a blow which discounted the giant Ser
ator Blackburn, of Kentucky, great and
brainy man-repied to the speech We
quote from his speech-Get every CHRoN-
ICLE reader cut it out and preserve it,:
Mr. Blackburn Mr. President. am at
a loss to account for the course that the
Senator from Kansas Mr.. ingalls, has seen
lit to adopt IN Juggling me lD'0 The t1raoe
in which he has just ged, for i ail
sure that had never ma lie boast ut id"u-
t;ticatiOn with any military service in 10Y
life. | had never referred to the fact uf
having been a Confederate lbier. Gu
like the Senator from Kansas, thought
my military record was too modes AMI Joo
humble to prove a subject Of irtece>r tc
the galleries that have assembled to list,
to his political harangue.
/ did not need to be told by him that
stood here q representative from a STATE
that had never seeded from he Caon.
did not need to be reminded that Kentucky
hal always been loyal | knew then, as
he should know now, that ! represent a
constituency that are 'ntitleG 20 draw
more pensions than the State 50 ably rep
resented by the Senator who has just pre-
ceded me. The records of this country,
believe, show that the State OF Kentucky
furnished three men to the Union Army
for every one that Kansas furnished; aud
in passing may assure the senator that
it is not without pride that | recall the
fact that of the thirty odd States then in
this Union the one from which came x
the only one that, without the application
of a conscript law, furnished more than
her quota of men to both sides daring that
struggle.
Now, why he should travel our Of his
way to have made an onslaught upon me
do not know. | dc not understand that
| was necessary text for his epeech of
acceptance OF the Presidential nomination
OF which be complained. / shalt not un
dertake to answer for the Senator from
Missouri Mr. Vest The Senator from
Kansas dOubt less knew that illness in his
family had taken him long distance from
this city, and that he is to be absent for
some time on that account.
do not intend to be involved in any
controversy with the Senator from Kan
sas, but DO intend to protest against the
lack of fairness which he employs when
he undertakes to deal after such a fashion
With men who have but simply stated facts
and submitted data fOr the consideration
of the Senate upon bill that Is pending.
| When the Senator from Kansas under
| takes TO speak of the Chief Executive of
| this country in the terms that he has seen
| fit to employ in deliberately prepared
and COINED effort, he surely VAL l0t take
! issue with me if | conclude that il is not
| entitled to response or reply IN this or al J
other decent presence. What cause of
| grievance he has that warrants Inn II
employing language that would not
permissible upon the hustings-1 will not
say it would be dsgraceful even if EN-
ployed by fish women-but when ne un
! dertakes to denounce the Chief Exec ecutvt
of the United States after such a fashion
as to deliberately declare that no man i,
afflicted with antecedents so degraded, ol
ignorance so profound, or obscurty so un
fathomable as to preclude him from be
coming that mans successor, it does seen
to me that the dignity of the Senate Cha n
Der refuses permission for response. an
not here to defend the President from
such unwarranted attacks. | know bu
one sin that he has committed III the eye
Of the Senator from Kansas, and th It ma,
be the objectionable offensc of lot onl,
having defeated his party al the polls bu
having gwen to the American people 70
three years past 50 efficient. 50 honest, -
clean handed an administration aa 10 doom
the last Of that party's aspirations to d.
aSter.
If it BE- possible, the Senator from Kan
sas has gone further and done worse. l.
his intemperate zeal he has not i.esiate
to invade graves. In his frantic effort
to stir prejudice between sections tha
have already been reunited he goes int
the trenches of the soldiery, and not 0
my side but on his side, and drags up fo
abuse and vilitcation before the Am - lea
Senate such men as traced with their OW
unblemished swords in blood the brightes
pages of American history. Mcclellan an
Hancock are to be denounced urO; tn
, floor as allies of ConfederaipS Might
, not have been in better taste, more cred
table, at least, to lie courage ana to I'll
candOr of that Senator, ii he had mac
! that charge be ore both of these men vel
: dead?
9 Mr. Ingalls,. | did often.
8 Mr. Blackburn. Then much the WOr;
= for the Senator from Kansas What wa
t rant or ground had ne for that. exce]
z that they were both different from hin
0 self, at least in political faith, if We ms
/ not hope in many other regardss