The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-02

votes from Kentucky and two votes from New
Jersey, and when Mr. Lincoln was elected, re-
signed his commission and passed into history.
MAI. GEN. HANcoCK's GLORY.
Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock was also
| born in Pennsylvania and educated at West
| Point. He also was one of the military leaders
who were true to the Democracy, and his mar
| tial career is one of the imperishabe heritages
of American glory He marched and he
triumphed He filled the abyss Of fame with
name that will be eternally lumi
nous-the Peninsula, Antietam Gettysburg
Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor and Petersburg.
| HAD he been soldier under Napoleon he would
| have been Prince, and Marshal under the
empire. Undaunted in battle, resoute, and
| with an indomta6le passion for glory, he was
| an ideal corps commander, and was well named
| Hancock, the Superb. When the war closed
| he enjoyed TO degree almost unknown to our
| history the affectionate admiration of the
American people.
| HIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
But he, too, became tainted with the vicious
ness of an ambition for a nomination to the
presidency by the Democratic party They
filled it for him in 1880 not as the man who de-
| feated and overwhelmed and destroyed them at
Charlottesville and Gettysburg and other great
| engagements in which be participated but as
! the author of Order No 30, aud the determined
enemy of the reconstruction policy of Congress,
| and of the efforts that were being made to en-
force justice liberty and order in Louisiana and
| Texas.
Mr. Ingalls, here sketched from his point
Order No 40" and announced his intea-
tlon to publish as part of his speech the
| correspondence between Gen. Hancock md
Gov. Pease, of Texas, in 1866, of which that
order was part.
( BEATEN AT THE POLLS.
He then proceeded as follows:
| Mr.. President, the people Of the United States
also passed upon the political affiliations of Gen.
| Hancock and notwithstanding his magnificent
| mil
ing him as they did in his relation to the recon-
| struction policy of Congress and the acts and
| statutes made hereunder III 1880, he carried of
| tne Northern states, California, with D votes,
! Nevada with votes, New Jersey with votes,
| and the 13S votes of the solid South, which had
been promised him in his speech at Cincinnatti.
| by the Senator from South Carolina; and of the
votes of the Northern States that he
| received, those of California and Nevada were
| stolen by forgery, and the fraud of the Morey
| letter issued by Democratic politicians upon the
very eve of the election, when it was impossible
! that denial should follow before the votes were
| cast.
DECLARED DIsCREDITABLE.
Mr. President the affected Indignation of the
| Senators from Indiana and Kentucky at my
alleged assault upon those union generals are
| diScreditable, either to their intelli-
gence or to their candor. If they
| did not know that in speaking of them in that
debate in which was not an intruder, was
speaking of them, not as soldiers, but as politi-
| clans and as Democratic candidates for the
| ignorant
indeed. If they did know it. and persist in their
assertions, they are disingenuous, and believe,
| Mr. President, if such a thing possible
that they are both. tLaughter
Mr.. Ingalls, then turned his attention to
| Mr.. Voorhees,, and quoted some of his
speeches during the progress of the war,
| and some of toe utterances attributed to
| Mr.. Voorhees, in reference to Abraham Lin
coin Mr.. Voorhees,, speaking at Sullivan,
| in Indiana Aug. 5, 1862 said in reference
| to the Union soldiers that they should go to
the nearest blacksmith shop aud have iron
collars made and placed around their necks
| inscribed thereon in large letters, MY dog,
| A. Lincoln, and. at the same time he re-
| ferred to the Union soldiers as Lincoln's dogs
and hirelings, without excepting Gen. Nc
| Clellan o. Gen. Hancock Laughter and
applauseJ
HIS GREEN CASTLE SPEECH.
He also quoted from Mr.. Voorhees,
| speech at Green Castle, Ind, which was re-
| printed in the Cincinnati Commercial,
Aug. s, 1864, by joseph B. McCulloch, now
editor of the Globe democrat, IN ST. Louis
| why" he said, this campaign of Grant
upon the Rapidan and at Petersburg land
| Hancock was there was of such a nature
| that you almost hear the bones of your
brave sons and brothers crush, like eggs,
clear to Washington city. The SICK
came up with the fumes Of
blood on our very breakfast table at Wash
ington that morning. Yet Pre- ident Lin
| coin says L will peg away for four years
more In Gods name have you not hai
| enough of it! Let US try some other plan
| This one has signally failed. Five hundred
| thousand more men, and that is all
| Mr.. ingalls, referred to a speech made in
! the HOUSE of Representatives i'll 1879 by
Mr.. Blackburn, declaring it to be the pur-
pose and intention of the Democratic party
to keep on until it wiped out from the
statute book the last vestige of war legisla-
| ton. He said that within the next few
years the Supreme Court would be entirely
| reconstructed. Two of the associate Justices
were already past the retiring age; and if
| that tribunal was to pass hereafter on war
! legislation, all knew what the result would
be. There could be no question about it.
TAKING UP THE POLITICS OF TODAY.
| Mr. Ingalls, devoted considerable space to
| discussion of the electoral commission, the
| Lou siaua elections of 1876 and 1888; said
| the country was now on the very verge of
the most important contest Of this century
"a contest the result of which would de-
te mine the destiny of the country for the
next twenty-five years, touched upon the
appointment of Secretary Lamar to the
! Supreme Bench, who, he said, had been
| forced upon the President because he was
| the nearest and dearest friend OF Jefferson
! Davis; said the country still had against it
the Southern Confederacy; reviewed the
speech of Henry K. jackson at Macon, and
closed with peroration picturing
what would have been the
miserable fate of the country
if rebellion had prevailed, and contrasting
that picture with the present and future
prosperity of the United States. In the
centuries that are to come, he saw vision
of a united, happy and prosperous America,
a vast homogeneous domain Of free men,
rulers of the continent from the polar zone
TO the gulf, from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
enjoying the franchises of liberty and per-
petuating the arts of peace. he closed as
| follows
People should remember, on each recurring
! day when they celebrated those who had died,
that this country held in its fruitful and tender
! breast no more priceless treasure than the con
| secrated dust of those who had died in order
| that this should be- q government Of laws and
not of men; and that liberty and constitutional
government might not perish forever from the
! face of the earth
Mr.. Ingalls, closed his speech at o'clock,
having spoken two hours.
MR. VOORHEES, REPLIES.
Mr. VOORHEES, arose, and in slow, meas
ured, resonant tones, remarked that the
speech which the Senate had just listened
| TO recalled to his mind the fable Of the
| mountain in labor Two hours had paSsed