The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-14


already reunited. He had dragged VI
for abuse and vlifcasion before the
American Senate such men as had bur
nished with their unblemished swords
the brightest pages Of American history
Mcclellan and Hancock were to be de-
nounced in the Senate Chamber as allies
of the Confederates. Would it not have
been in better taste Cat least more credl
table to the courage and candor of the
Senator) if he had made such charge
before both of these men were buried
! Ingalls, (from his seat:) II did, often.
TNIurmurs of applause and laughter
Blackburn: "Then, SO much the worse
for the Senator from Kansas. What
warrant or ground had he for that, ex.
cept that they were both different from
himself-at least in political faith, il
may We not hope also) in many Other
regards? Hancock an ally Of the Con.
federates Was he so regarded and
believed when, weltering in his blood On
Cemetery Heights, he refused to be re-
moved from the field, and persisted in
giving orders which checked the lest
advance of Longstreet's irresistible bat
taGons? Was it this man, who was hon
ored by the American people, whether
Republicans or Democrats, up to the
very date when he had accepted the
nomination of the Democratic party,
who was to be spoken of as an ally of
the Confederates? The Senator from
Kansas complains of the Senator from
Missouri, and says that he rests his COM
plant upon that Senator's autobiogra-
ply. 1 believe it is generally assumed
that the gentleman writes that bit of
interesting history for himself. In look
ing over the short but conspicuously
brilliant autobiography Of the Senator
from Kansas, I find that he was not in
the army in 1861. He certainly was not
in the army in 1862, because he said he
was in the State Senate of Kansas in that
year. But he was in the army from 1868
to 1865, and in what capacity? One who
had sat and listened to the Senator
might suppose that he was controlling a
great army operating in the West, if rot
in the East also. saw the bronzed and
weather beaten commander of the Amer
lean army [alluding to Gen. Sheridan,
who had occupied a seat on the floor
during Ingalls's speech, sit here in this
Chamber and blush in modesty at the
humble part which he found he had
played in the "war Of the Rebellion" in
comparison with that of the Senator
from Kansas. What was that Senator'S
occupation in military capacity? He
was Judge advocate of the Kansas Vol
unteers. Laughter.
s'While Gen. Black, commissioner of
pensions, was bleeding on the Kansas
frontier; while Mcclellan was command
ing the army at Petersburg; while Han
cock was weltering in his blood on Gem
etery Heights at Gettysburg, the Sena-
tor from Kansas, always behind the rear
of the army, was prosecuting Kansas
jayhawkers for rifing hen roosts. Loud
laughter and applause Now what are
you to think Of the arguments Of Sen
ator who will leave his seat as presiding
officer and come to the floor in llustra-
ton of partisan zeal, which, [ am glad
to say, have never seen equaued, at
tacking all decent people from the Presi-
dent of the United States down, civilians
as well as military men, and letting no
object escape the venom OF his tongue?
One would say that he was a cynic,
despising mankind-perhaps because he
had suspicion that mankind is not
enamored of him.
s.But neither President nor soldier,
living or dead, Confederate or Federal,
except he accords with him in political
convictions, is safe from his unjust and
unfounded attacks. I do not want to be
put in the position of an opponent or
enemy of pensioning honest Federal
soldiers. I have never opposed pension
ing men who have served in the Union
army, and who were incapacitated from
supporting themselves either by disease
or wounds; and do not know Con-
federate who has done SO.
s'The Senator tells US, in that haste
with which he rushes to conclusions,
that no Democratic constituency IN the
South had ever elected Union soldiers to
either house of Congress. I do not
know that it is material to answer that
assertion, but there is not an atom OF
foundation in fact for the statement.
The State of Texas sent to Congress
term after term distinguished soldier
in the person of Governor Hancock. The
State of Arkansas sent in recent years
flom Democratic constituency Union
soldier to represent her in the other
House of Congress. Would like to know
if the late Governor Walker was not
a Union soldier and an honored Repre-
sentative in the other branch of Con-
gress from an overwhelmingly Demo
cratic district in the Old Dominion?
Did not the Senator from Kansas re-
member that within the last six years,
(and for six years. the State Of Ken
lucky kept continuously il the other
House Of Congress distir guished Fed
eral general during the war, (alluding to
Wolford, who was shot out Of his saddle
more than half dozen times, and who
always came there as the candidate OF
the Democratic party, elected IN Dem
ocratic district? | do not care to follow
the Senator (time forbids it, through ali
the inaccuracies Of his utterances. Party
man as | am, partisan as confess myself
to be, l do sincerely trust that l may
never find my term Of public service
prolonged to that day, nor my life ex-
tended to that hour, when, without war
rant, without facts to support it, with
out truth at my back, l will turn delib,
erately to traduce and abuse the dead,
who while living were honored by all
honorable men," Loud applause, which
the presiding officer again checked