, 1888-05-02
INGALLS, STILL HOWLS.
His Opinion Of Hancock and
Mcclellan Changed.
He Considers Them as Politi-
clans, Not as Soldiers.
A Crowded Gallery Listens to
His Two Hours Speech.

opening OF to-day 5 session, DelnS crOWueu
with spectators, principally ladies, drawn
by the announcement of the speech at 2
O'Clock 10y Ingalls, in response to Voor-
hees' invective of Wednesday last. As
the hour of . o'clock drew near the buzz
marked. Ingalls, desk was decorated
with flowers. He commenced his speech
by recalling the fact that on the 18th of
July last Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter,
now on the retired list, wrote a letter in
which he thanked his friends and said
that his heart was with them, although at
one time his hand and heart had worked
the best hat they knew how against
them. The senator from Indiana had
complained last Wednesday with bitter
ness that an attempt had been made to
blacken the names of all the great civil
as well as military leaders in the late war
who remained true to the Democratic
party. Fitz John Porter had been one
of those military leaders who maintained
their allegiance to the Democratic party,
and he had within the last four months
written that his heart was always with
them"
Referring to Gen. Mcclellan, ingalls,
spoke of his education at West Point, his
business connection with Beauregard and
his attempt to extend and continue hui
man slavery By the acquisition of Cuba.
lie spoke of him as having begun his
military career by disobeying the orders Of
Gen. Scott; as having abandoned Pope at
Centrevilic; as having failed to put the
rebels to the sword at Antietam; as having
refused to obey the orders OF the presi-
dent and follow the rebel, to Winchester;
aud as having fatally controlled the dcs.
tiny of the army until the battle of Fred
cricksburg. History had pronounced its
verdict upon him as a soldier, and the
senator from Indiana would not be able to
place him in the category with Napoleon,
Hannibal and Caesar.
He Qngalls) dealt with him as a politi-
clan and said that no one could read his
letter to President Lincoln after the dis
astrOus seven days fight on the peninsula
and before Richmond without coming to
the conclusion that Mcclellan was not
fully and actively in sympathy with the
forces, ideas and sentiments which were
then controlling the American people.
AS TO Gen. Hancock, he was also one
efthe military leaders who were true to
the Democracy. His martial career was
one of the unpcrishable heriiages of
American glory. He marched, and tri
unphed. He Tiled the abyss of fame
with names which would be eternal and
luminous the peninsula, Antietam, Get
tysburv. Chancellorville, Cold IIarbor,
and ?, tershurg. Had he been a soldier
under Napoleon he would have been a
prince and marshal of the empire. He
mad hecn well called Hancock The Su-
perb."
But after the war closed, he Gike Nc.
ClelIan) had become tainted with the
fatal virus Of an ambition for the presi-
dental nomination. But n~otwithstand-
ing his magnificent and unapproachable
career the American people recognized
his hostility to reconstruction measures,
and in the presidential election of 1880
he carried but three northern states, Cali
fUruia, Nevada and New jersey. and the
first two of them had been stolen by for
gerry and frauds of the Morcy lettes is
sued by Democratlc politicians. lie had
also received 1873 electoral votes of the
solid Sorth, which had been promised
him in his speech at Cincinnati by the
senator from South Carolina (Hampton).
Ingalls, spoke of the affected Indignation
of the senators from Indiana and Ken
lucky as discreditable to their intelligence
or their candor. If they did not know
that he Qngalls) had spoken of these
ollOh EtItihl0 " a. GOlhlNio bhb 40 pun
t%,cinns, and as Democratic candidates for
the presidency, they were dull. stupid and
ignorant indeed. IF they did know it and
o rsisted in their assertions. they were
d~isingenuOus, and he suspected IF such
thing wer0 possibly that they were both.
Laughter.
Ingalls, continuing, said: Mr.. Presi
dent From the impassioned eulogy,
from the rhapsody of appreciation that
flowed from the senator from Indiana at
the great military achievements of Nc
Clellan and Hancock, | began to have
some doubt who 1t was that really put
down the rebellion. | was driven ouri-
ously 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 bat
tie OF Antietam; in 1868, when
Hancock was hurting back in
confusion and dismay the scat.
tered squadrons of the c~onfederacy.
was really for a 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 eulogized as an immovable bull.
wark of liberty, of the constitution and the
Union, that Mr.. Thomas Hendricks and
Mr.. Horatio Seymour and VIM. A. Rich.
ardson, were in the full %panoply of the
battle assisting Mcclellan, and assisting
Hancock in doing what they could to make
the success of arms possible, and it seems
like . very climax Of effrontery, like an
apex of audacity, tor those men whose
history is so well known, WHO were from
the beginning the ayowed enemies of the
cause OF the Union at every step of its
progress, and who. like the senator from
Indiana, were avowedly 10 sympathy with
the South at the outset and we're the ad.
vocates and apologists for slavery and
secession, who gave aid and comfort to
the rebellion in every possible way,
the ''copperheads," the "butternuts'
Qaughter), TIE knights of the golden
circle with all their brutal and degraded
lies, appearing here as advocates and
champions of the Union soldier and OF
the cause of human liberty. | supposed
from the enthusiasm displayed in favor O
the military achievements of Mcclellan