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

States then in the Union Kentucky
was The only State which had with.
out u draft. supplied moro than her
quota of men to both si.ies during
that struggle. Why the Senator
from Kansas should have Travelled
out OF his way to mako an. onslaugh 1t
upon him he did no. know. He did
not know that he (Mr. blackburn,
was necessary connecting link
With the Senator'S accept ance of tie
presidential nomination.
When thu Senator from Kansas
| undertook To speak of the Chief Tx.
ecutive OF the country in the .erms
be had seen 6t to employ. and which
(he took i') were deliberately pre-.
pared and conued, he tMr. In2alIs)
certainly could not take Issue with
him (Mr. Blackburn il he coac' uded
that IL was not entitled to re.
sponse or reply ia = presence 60 au
gust and distinguished az the Senate
Of the United States. What cause
Of grievance the Senator had which
Warranted him in applying language
TO the Chief Magistrate which would
not be pc nlssible on tue hus'in
The would not say that it would be
disgraceful even 20 be employ ed nv
fish-women) he did not know. But
when that Senator undertook TO de.
nounce the Chief Executive Of the
United States after such fashion
as 10 deliberately declare that no
man afflicted with ignorance 50 pro.
found. with obscurily SO gross, should
consider himself as unfi. to become
the Presidents succe ssor, it cid
seem 10 him Mr.. Blackbu:b) that
the dignity OF The Senate chamber
refused permission to respond. He
vas not here TO defend the Presi.
deaf from such I'm warranted attacks.
lie knew but one sin which the Pres.
ident had committed In tho eyes of
tue Senator from Kansas. That
might he the undardonab'e sin. It
was that, having defeate the Seua.
tors party at the polls, he had given
10 tue American people for three
years past 80 efficient, SO honest, so
clean handed an administration as
tG doom Tue last Of republican aspi-
rations to disaster. Car plause on
The democratic side and 10 tie GAL
leries. But the Senator from Kan.
sas has even gone further and done
worse in his intempera.e zeal. He
has not spared tue sanctity Of the
grave. In Ills frantic efforts to etir
up prejudices between sections al.
ready reunited, he has dragged up
for abuse and villification before the
American Senate such men as had
furnished with their unblemished
swords the brig htsst pages of Amer
lean history. Mcclellan and Han.
cock were to be denounced In the
Senate chamber as allies of the Con,
federates. Would it not have been
In better taste (at least more credit.
able to the courage and candor OIL
Senator) il he bad made such a
charge before both OF these men were
burieu?
Nj. Ingsll, (from his sea,) l did
often. Mufmurs Of applause and
laughter.
Mr.. Blackburn Then so much
the worse for the Senator from Kan
sas. What warrant o; ground had
he Tor that, except that they were
both different from himself-at least
in political faith, il (may we not
hope also) in many other regards2
Hancock an ally Of Confed.ra,es?
Was he not regarded and believed.
when welterirg in his blood on Gem.
etcry Heights he r.fIs, d 10 he re-
moved from the Fl Ill and persisted
in giving the orders which checked
the last advance Of Longs,reers ir.
resistible battalionsp Was it this
man, who was honored by tie A
merlcaD people. whether republicans
or democrats. up TO the very date
when lie accepted the Domin atiJn OF
the democratic party, who was To- be
spoken Of as an ally Of the Confede-
rates? In looking over the short bat
conspicuously brilliant autobiogra,
ply of the Senator from Kansas, l
find that he was not in the army in
1861. He certainly was not in the
Ni"y III LOVE- DCSHuoo Bc SuJH ue
was In the State Senate of Kansas In
that year. But he was in the army
from 1868 TO lS65-and in what ca
pacity3 lie was judge.advocate of
tho Kansas volunteers. daughter. I
While Gen Black, the com ID l 8 sioner
of pensions, was bleeding on The
Kansas frontier; while Mcclellan
was commanding the army at Pc.
iersburg; while Hancock was vel.
tering in his blood at Cemetery
Heights, st Gettysburg. the Senator
from Kansas, always behind the rear
OF he army, WAS prosecuting Kan
sas jtybawkers for riaing ben.roos:s.
[ Loud laughter and applause.
Now what are we TO think OF the
arguments OF Senator who will leave
bis seat SIS presiding officer and come
to tue floor in the illustration OF a
partisan zeal which II an glad TO say
| havo never seen equaled, attacking
all decent people, from the President
OF the United States down, (civilians
as we'll as military men, and letting
no object escape the venom OF his
tongue ? One would say hat be was
q cynic, despising mankind, perhaps
because he has suspicion that man
kind 10 not enamored Of him. But
neither President nor soldier, living