Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-26
CONGRESSIONAL.
Voorhees, Fiery Speech in
the Senate.
MCCLELLAN AND HANCOCK.
The House Indulges in More
Talk ON the Tariff
Question.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Mr.. Mitchell offered a resolution,
which was adopted, calling on the
Secretary OF the Treasury for copies of
the reports of Special Agents Beecher
and Tingle as to the alleged SNUG
Cling of opium from British Columbia.
When the consideration of the Pres
ident's message came up, Mr.. Voor-
bees said the position of the Republi-
can party on the tariff question might
be described thus: First. Taxation is
not to be limited by the expenses of
the Government, with view to the
protection of manufacturing monopo-
lies. Second. All protection and all
its profit is to insure the further en-
richm ent Of capitalists, but not dol
lar Of it must go to the laboring
man and woman. Third. That if any
reduction of taxes is to take place, it
must be on alcoholic liquor and to-
bacco, and not on the prime necessa-
ries OF life.
Passing to the charges that the
Democrats in Congress have been hos
tile to Union soldiers in the matter OF
pensions, he contrasted the action OF
both parties in that matter and
claimed the Republicans made
MEAN AND PARsIMoN1oUs
Record compared with the Democrats.
Referring to the attack made in the
Senate upon the memory of McClel-
Ian and Hancock, he said the presid-
ing officer of the Senate, holding the
highest official position now held by a
Republican, had descended to the
floor and attacked the memory OF
American heroes who were sleeping
where flowers and tears annually COM
mingled on Memorial Day, resting
from their glorious lives in the bis-
ouacs OF the dead. The pious task of
making response had been appro-
priately performed by one whose own
conspicuous daring in arms had given
him the generous right of chivalry to
speak in their praise. 1t was true
that not even the eloquent tongue of
Blackburn could reach
MCCLELLAN AND HANCOCK
With assurances of their country's de-
votion and love.
Voorhees, proceeded to draw vivid
picture OF events during the war, be-
ginning with the scenes in Washing
ton on the night of the first battle Of
Bull Run. In that hour of National
extremity Mcclellan had been called
by despairing official authority to per-
form task greater by far than ever
performed by Alexander, Hannibal,
Caesar or Napoleon in the same length
OF time. Then he recalled latter the
second disastrous battle of Manassas)
Mcclellan riding out to meet the re-
treating troops and being greeted with
cheers more thrilling and patriotic
than those which greeted Napoleon
on his return from Eiba. Then came
the battle of Antietam, a
VICTORY UNPARALLELED
In the war, considering all the con
conditions. The immediate peril be-
ing gone and sense of security be-
ing felt, Mcclellan had been again
stricken by partisan malice and had
closed his lofty military career for
ever; and to this day clamorous kites
and crows and other ignoble scaven-
ger birds sought to tear and mutilate
McClellan's august fame. Yes, Nc
Clellan, he said, was Democrat.
When removed from command on the
7th Of November, 1862, he could, with
uplifted hand, have sworn he had
saved the Republic, ,as did Cicero in the
Forum at Rome. Amongst the highest
most fortunate and most distinguished
characters produced by war. Where,
he asked, could name be found
cleaner, purer, ,freer from self-seeking,
or more devoted to the sublime sense
Of duty than that Of Mcclellan.
Voorhees, then changed the scene
to Gettysburg, where, he said, the
last hope of the Southern Confederacy
disappeared forever. What invisible
spirit OF the air, he asked intent upon
evil to the Senator from Kansas,
could have been in attendance upon
him when he stood up and opened his
mouth in the Senate Chamber on the
9th of March. Mcclellan and Han
cock were the heroes of two of the
most consequential battles of the
War
ANTIETAM AND GETTYSBURG,
The loss of either of which would
have brought European recog-
milton to the Confederacy, and
darkness and dismay, if not
final dissolution of the Union.
They had commanded the only battles
fought north of the Potomac, and each
time had met the enemy as an invad-
ing force, strong and confident, and
flushed with recent victories. Antie-
tam and Gettysburg had involved the
possession OF the capital and the per-
petulty of the government, and to Nc
Clellan and Hancock (now stigma
tized as allies of the Confederacy)
had been committed the measureless
and awful trust of defending and pre-
serving them both. If asked here
after who were the greatest leaders OF
the Democratic party during the war
who were the Democratic candidates
OF 1864 for the Presidency and Demo-
cratic candidate of 1880 for the Presi-
dency) the undulating slopes OF An
teitam and the crested heights of Get
tysburg would be pointed to. He
knew them both and he was bowed to
THEIR MIGHTY SHADES.
They were OF loftier mould than
Greek or Roman history supplied,
and yet, he said, such were the
great soldiers, who were Knocked,
scoffed at, and denounced Is belong.
ing to the subservient elements of the
North, and who we're accused of trea-
son by those who were of the breed
of Jobs war-horse, and who like him
ssniffed the battle afar off,"
Leaving that subject Voorhees,
passed to what he called campaign
Of political animosity, declaTad
against the people of the South, q
rights, their security, their good
uouoe Whan the fIIty1vo h;akcr;ou