The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-05-03

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JOHN j. INGALLS,
WASHINGTON, May 2-The senate wing
of the capitol was the center of attraction in
Washington Although Senator Ingalls, an
nounced that he would reply to Senator
Voorhees, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, it
was only 10 when the crowds began to as
semble in the senate galleries. and by noon
standing room could scarcely be secured.
The crowds included the families of many
senator's and representatives. When the
senate convened Mr.. Ingalls, was in the
chair, but soon after IL o'clock he called Mr..
Dolph to the chair and left the chamber
Mr.. Spooner introduced the direct tax bill
rs a proposed amendment to the sundry
civil appropriation bill. The Spooner reso-
luton calling for information as to appoint
ments and removals in the New York Gus
tom house, was adopted
Mr.. Stewart then took the floor for sill
yer speech, on a resolution of inquiry as to
treasury purchases of silver bullion. At the
conclusion of Mr.. Stewards speech his reso.
luton was adopted and bill passed grant
ing the use of Castle island to Boston
At 2 o'clock messenger entered the cham
ber and laid bunch Of flowers a copy of
the revised statutes and pile of manuscript
On Mr. Ingalls, desk.
Messrs. Voorhees, and Blackburn had been
in earnest conversation, hut now there was
general lull, and Mr.. Ingalls, came in and
took his seat He pushed the flowers from
his desk to Mr.. Allison's and began to ar
range his manuscript.
When the hour of 2 o'clock was announced
and the chair laid before the senate the peu-
ro-pneumonia bill, Mr.. Palmer asked that it
be laid aside, and Mr.. Ingalls, rose for the
purpose, as he said, of submitting some re-
marks on the presidents message.
''Mr. President" he said, "On the 18th
lay of February, 1885, Maj Gen. Ftz
John Porter wrote letter from which will
read" He read an exTrac5 from letter ex-
pressing gratitude and appreciation of the
expressions of friendship and regard for him
by southern men, and avowing his friend.
ship for southern men,
Mr.. Ingalls, then took up the congressional
record and read from Mr.. Voorhees, speech,
critcising his attacks upon Union generals
who remained members of the Democratic
party. The senator from Indiana, he said,
had made the first admission he had ever
heard from the Democratic side of the senate
that there ever had been or could be such
thing as treason against this government;
that designation as an ally of the confel-
eracy was discredtable or opprobrious
With somewhat elaborate affllencs of die
tion, the senator from Indiana had objected
to the statements made by him in reference
to Democratic leaders, who had been Union
generals.
Recurring to the Fitz John Porter letter.
Mr.. Ingalls, read with emphasis and without
comment, its assertion that the writer had
always been in sympathy with southern
men.
George B. Mcclellan, Mr. Ingalls, said, was
the intimate friend and companion Of Fitz
John Porter George McClelan's record as
a soldier has been passed upon by history,
and the senator from Indiana cannot place
him in the category with Napoleon. and
Hannibal and Caesar. To him has been at
tributed by Gen. Hooker the failure of a
great campaign. He read McClellan's letter
to President Lincoln, in favor of humane
method of warfare, etc.
He would pass to Mcclellan as a politician
and presidential candidate. Ho had accepted
the nomination on platform declaring the
war to be failure Mr. Ingalls, read ex-
tracts from newspapers and books declaring
the vote for Mcclellan to have been a Con-
federate and dsloyal vote, and his support
a diJoyal support. When Abraham Lin
coin was elected, he resigned his commission
and passed into history
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock was an ideal
corps commander, well named Hancock, the
superb, atfectionately admired and Justly
believed by the American people. He was
one of band of military leaders, whose
name shall live forever, and whose fame was
of the highest. He, too, however, had in
time became tainted with the virus of ambi-
tion, and had coveted political advancement
and became the candidate of the Democracy
His order number forty could not be forgot
ten. Southern men had found in Hancock
a man willing to cooperate with them, and
from the time of his celebrated order and
letter, constituting his principles of constitu-
tional law, he had for many years, and until
his nomination in 1880, been in sympathy
with the party which finally made him its
candidate.
Cen Hancock's famous correspondence
with tue Governor Pease could not be an
proved by those who take the loyal view of
the results of the war. The American peo-
pie in 1880 passed upon the career of Gen.
Hancock. Despite his brilliant military
record and his great achievements, the peo-
pie had to take into consideration his recon-
struction record, and he had received the
votes of solid south, and virtually that
alone.
In listening to some Of the indignant re-
plies to his statements, he had held up such |
tributes to Mcclellan and Hancock, that he |
had begun to wonder whe it really was that |
put down the rebellion. He had been given |
to understand that it was the apex of pre- |
sumption for such a man as himself to |
speak in behalf Of the fame of Union gen
erals. |
He had inferred it was the mission Of cop.
perheads and butternuts and Knights of tho
Golden Circle to assume the task of defend.
ing the fair fame and memory of Union
generals and Union soldiers. The senator
from Indiana had assumed this task, yet that
senator in 1852 had advised Union soldiers tn
go to the nearest blacksmith shop and have