Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-05-09
Senator's Voorhees,, Of INDIANA, and ingalls,,
of kansas.

HARD HITS AND STRONG DKNUNCIATIoNs.
We publish on the fourth page condens-
ID report of the speech of Senator Voorhees,
April 25th in which he replied to
The speech of Ingalls, in which he charged
Gems. Hancock and Mcclellan with being
allies of the South.
On the LIST of May Senator Ingalls, replied
to the speech of Senator Voorhees,, when
Mr.. Voorhees, rejoined as follows:-
''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
away, after the blare of trumpets had
brought large audience to the Senate, and
what had they heard and what had they
seen? A poor, small mouse creeping off.
His allusion last Wednesday to the Senator
Why should he assail that Senator? Men
mistook themselves, and the Senator from
Kansas did so more than any one he knew.
That Senator had not been alive, political
ly, since the 9th of March last, when the
Senator from Kentucky (Blackburn) dis
posed of him. Laughter and yell of ap-
proval from one of the galleries. He had
been walking the streets and posing before
the world like an old friend of his in
Indianapolis in bad health, who had said
to him that he had been dead for year
and was only walking around to save funer-
al expenses. The only criticism of his
(Voorhees's) speech which he had seen in
the press was. that he had galvanized a
corpse. He disclaimed any purpose of that
kind. He had made no attack upon him,
but upon the Republican party. He re-
garded the Senator from Kansas as the
most brilliant and capable man en- his side
of the chamber, and as such elevated to it's
highest position. Consequently, when he
listened to his astounding, amazing, and
extraordinary speech of the 9th of March
he had passed him by, but he had arraign.
ed the party of which he had been made
leader, because no member of it in either
house had disclaimed his terrible assaults
on the most brilliant names in American
history. He proceeded to compare Mr.
Ingalls, to peacock on barn-yard fence,
posing of summer morning, looking at
his own feathers as they glared in the sun,
and vecalizing the whole neighborhood
with his harsh, unmusical, and umeaning
cry, unmindful of the fact that there were
more useful fowls in the barn-yard. How
useless it had been for that Senator to ar
raign him. He Qngalls) had read to the
Senate old, stale, putrid, rotten ISLANDERS of
years gone by, on which he (Voorhees)
had trampled in forty political campaigns.
1t had seemed to him like the voices of
spawned, broken-w inded, hackneyed polit-
ical- campaign liars Of the last twenty-five
years That he ever uttered one word
against Union soldiers or talked of their
having collars around their necks was SO
base falsehood, so infamous that the black
walls of perdition could not reduplicate it.
1t was too late for the Senator to plead
that he had only spoken of Mcclellan and
Hancock as allies of the Confederacy in
their civil capacity. He had charged Nc.
Clellan with endeavoring to make the war
failure. No greater charge could be
brought against Benedict Arnold than the
charge against Mcclellan, Baser, worse,
more infamous conduct could not be attrib-
uted to man on earth than he who wore
the epaulettes and uniform, belted his
sword, and took the honors of his country
and went to the field with false heart, de.
string to make that war failure; and that
was with what the Senator from Kansas
triot. Referring to the attacks upon the
ator from Kansas might war on such peo
and his defeat. Applause.
Mr.. Ingalls, responded to the speech oi
MIR. Voorhees, and said that no one wa;
more conscious than he of the duty which
he owed to his country and of his unpaid
obligations of gratitude to those who had
done what he, under other circumstances
might have done. AS the Senator from
| Indiana had seen fit to invite comparison
between their records and their relations to
the great questions of the past twenty five
years, he felt it his duty to put on RECORD
| from information in his possession what the
Senator's record and history was. He
should refer only to public matters in pub
lie records and should venture the affirma-
ton that whatever might have been his
own 0ngalls's) relations to the great strug
gle between the North and South, the Sen
ator from Indiana had been from tho outset
determined, outspoken, positive, aggres
sive, and malignant enemy Of the Unior
cause.
l pronounce that said Mr.. Voorhees,
(rising, with anger in his eyel, to be de-
liberately false accusation. 1 voted fol
every dollar that paid the soldier, for every
stitch Of clothes he wore, and for e7erJ
pension bill that rewarded his services.
Mr.. Ingalls, referred again to the quota
tions he had made from Mr.. Voorhees,
speeches.
Mr.. Voorhees, asserted that not one word
or syllable read by the Senator was true OIL
believed to be true in Indiana. The accu.
sation had been trampled under foot. The
Senator's insnuation that he Voorhees,
had ever been member of the political Sc.
cre5 society-the Knights of the Golden
Circle-was so base and UNANIMOUSLY false
that he did not know how to choose Ian
guage to dsnounce it as such.
This caused a sensation in the galleries
and manifestations of appreciation and APP.
prevail, and the Sergeant-at Arms was di-
rected to place under arrest auy person
thereafter violating the rules of the Senate.
Mr.. ingalls, referred to speech made by
Mr.. Voorhees, in Virginia just before the
war, in which he said Mr.. Voorhees, advo.
Gated both slavery and secession,
MIR. voorhees, stated that he had not said
he was in favor of the destruction of slav-
cry, but he said he was glad it had taken
place, aud he was.
Mr.. Ingalls,: The Senator from Indiana
at Jne GiiDo NDeL Ue UoUFCfcu tudV SpoeCD
had two editions prepared-one for eircula-
ton in the North and one for circulation in
the South. [Laughter.l
Mr.. Voorhees,: That is not true
Mr.. Ingalls,: They are accessible to-day
just as much as the Statutes of the United
Statas.
Mr.. Voorhees,; Bring them in. l say il
IL not true. have heard that in campaigns
before.
Mr.. Ingalls, reiterated his charge that
Mr.. Voorhees, had been member of the
Knights of the Golden Circle, and charged
that Captain Shute had been given an ap.
pointment as brigadier-gener of the armies
Of the Confederacy upon a letter of recon-
mendation from Mr.. Voorhees,, and asked
'Did not the soldiers of Indiana threaten
to hang the Senator with a bell-rope on a
train after he made that Lincoln dog
speech?"
Mr.. Voorhees,: The Senator is a great lial
when he intimates such thing-a great
liar and dirty dog. 1t never occurred
never in the world. That is all the answer
| have, and PASS it back to the scoundrel
behind the Senator who is instigating these
lies. This remark was made in reference
to Representative Johnston, of Indiana,
who was seated at desk directly in the
rear of Ingalls,.
Mr.. Ingalls, referred to the certificate
which he had read signed by citizens Of