Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-10
HOT WORDS.
q n Warm Debate In tho United
6tatas Senate.
90 ssnsser Rren Kaases Replies to the
9soet0r Frosa Eaaiaaa Crowded
Galleries LAst0a e . Very
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crowded vita spectators, principally ladie
<srNvn by the announcement OF . speech by Mr.
Assalls In response - Mr.. Voorhees' invective
81 hast Wedne- Day and ~ the prospect OF . bit
Ger ana eseited psliuesA discussion.
At two o'eiOcs Mr. Ingalls, commenced his
speech Dy recalling the fact that July II. last,
AAScs General Fitz John PORT or, now On the re-
03eSd Hat. wrote q letter IN which he thanked
xAen, although his hand and heart had at one
tfnne worked the beat they knew how against
them. The Senator from Indiana had COM
planned last Wednesday With bitterness that an
attempt hAn been made 70 blackeA the names
sof all the great civil - yell 80 military leaders
in the late war Who retAined their allegiance to
the Democratic party. Fits John Porter had
been one of those military leaders who retained
allegiance to the Democratic party, and he with
in the last four months (aithough he had been
cishonoraby dismissed from the service and
had been restored by the sction OF the Demo
cratic party and its members ~ho had been
members of the Confederscy had written that
s'his heart was always Yith them.
Referring to General AcClellsn Mr. Ingalls,
spoke OF his education ct West Point, OF his
business connection with Beauregard and his
attempt to extend and continue slavery BY the
acquisition of Cubs. He spoke of him Is hay
ing begun his military career BY disobeying the
orders Of General Scott. Is hsving abandoned
Pope at Centervlle. rs having failed to put the
rebels to the sword OF Antietsm, 60 having re-
fused to obey the orders OF the President and
follow the rebels to Winchester and IS having
fatally controlled the destiay OF the army until
the battle of Fredericksburg History had, pro-
snounced its verdict upon him as soldier and
the Senator from Indiana would not be able to
place him in the category with Napoleon, Han
nibal and Caesar. He (Inealls) dealt with him
as politician and said that no one could read
ais letter to President Lincoln after the disas-
trous seven days fight on the peninsula and
fHfore Richmond without coming to the con-
aclusion that Mcclellan was not fully and act
lively in sympathy with the forces, the ideas and
che sentiments which were then controlling the
Amer. can people.
A to General Hancock he also, Mr.. Ingalls,
aaid, was one of the military leaders who were
true to the Democracy. His martial career was
one of the imperishebie heritages of American
glory He marched and triumphed. He filed
She abyss OF tame With names which would be
%teEna, luminous-the Peninsula, Antietam,
Gettysburg Chanceilorsville, Cold Harbor and
Petersburg. Had he been 9 soldier under
Napoleon he would have been Prince and
edarshal of the Empire. He had been well
called Hancock the Superb" But after the
: war closed he, like Mcclellan. had become
tainted with the fstsi virus OF an ambition for
the Presidential nomination.
But notwithstanding his magnificent and I'M
ae2foechGhe career. tae American people
recognized his hostility 70 the reconstruction
aHessures and in the Presidential election of
$3.50 he carried but three Northern States
1GalifoSnia, NevSde and New Jersey-and the
A1Ss too OF them had been stolen by the for
Gle Democratic politicians. He had also re-
AeiSed the 1913 electoral votes OF the solid South
which had been promised him in his speech at
'IAncinnati by the SenStor from South Carolina
4A9e. Hampton.)'
MT. ingalls, spoke of the affected indignation
Ct the Senators from Indiana and Kentucky
Giscreditable TO their intelligence or their can
<ao4. If they did not know that he Ingalls)
mad spoken of these Union Generals, not as
Ooldie -, but Is politicians and as Democratic
candidates for the Presidency. they were dull.
, stupid and ignorant indeed. II they did know
end persisted in their assertions they were
disingenuous and he suspected III such thing
were possible) that they were both. Laugh
NIr. Ingalls,, continuing said: ''Mr. Presi
dent, from the impassoned eulogy, from the
rhapsody OF appreciation that flowed from the
Senator from Indiana at the great military
achievements OF Mcclellan and Hancock I
began to have some doubt who it was that
really put down the rebellion. driven
curiously to inquire what was the attitude of
the Democratic party in the North and OF the
Senator from Indiana as one OF its great
leaders in 1862, when Mcclellan, the ideal
Democrat was fighting the battle OF Antietam !;
in 1868, when Hancock was hurting back
in confusion and dismay the scattered
squndrons of the Confederacy. was
really for the moment, Mr.. President inclined
to believe that the Democratic party of the
North and the Senator from Indiana and those
other great patriots, whom he eulOgiZeS as an
immovable oulwark of liberty, of the Constitu-
ton and the Unlon-Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks
and Mr.. Horatio Seymour and William A
R:chardson-were in full panoply of battle, as
.sisting Mcclellan, assisting Hancock, doing
ayhat they could to make the success of the
armies possible. And, it seems like the very
climax of effron:ery, like the apex of audacity
for these men, whose history is so well known
: who were from the beginning the avowed enc
mics of the cause of the Union at every step Of
its progress and who, like the Senator from In
diana, were avowedly in sympathy with the
South at the outset and were advocates and
apologists for slavery and secession; who gave
aid and comfort to the rebellion in every posi-
BILE way-the copperheads. the butternuts
. naughterl, the Knights OF the Golden Circle,
with all their brutal and degraded lies
appearing here the advocates and
champions of Union soldiers and of
the cause of human liberty. Isupposed, from the
enthusiasm displayed in favor OF the military
achievements of Mcclellan and H lpcock, that
should upon inspection. at least find that
the leaders of the Democracy who had been so
eulogized were in sympathy with the Union
cause and in sympathy with the efforts that
were making to overthrow the Confederacy.
Yet. Mr.. President, at the very time, and during
the very year when Mcclellan was fighting the
battle OF Antietam the Senator from Indiana,
without excepting Mcclellan. and without ex-
cepting Hancock, speaking at Sullivan, Ind, on
the 5th of August, 1863. said in reference to
Union soldiers, that they should go to the
nearest blacksmith shop and have iron collars
made and placed around their necks, inscribed
thereon in large letters: MY dog. A Lincoln; :
and at the same time he referred to
the Union soldiers as Lincoln's dogs
and hirelings, without excepting Nc
CIeilan or Hancock daughter and applausel.
. And during the campaign. Mr. President, that
resulted in the election OF Abraham Lincoln,
the Senator from Indiana who is now so vehe-
rnently favor of the prosecution of the war of
the rebellion, for putting down the South, who
so eulogizes the efforts of Union armies
and the genius of Union commanders, who
poses here as the special friend OF the Union
soldier and denounces and aSperSes n criticism
upon the political character and affiliations of
those who were engaged in that war. made q
speech at Greencastle which was reported in
the Cincinnati Commercial. August 8, 1854, by
Joseph B. McCullagh, now the editor OF the
Globe Democrat in St. Louis"
Mr.. Ingalls, read extracts from the speech
which declared the war failure and spoke Of