The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-03
that his sentiments and mine are in

anu anu IIiStI
they ought go to a blacksmith shop
and have an iron collar around their
necks with the inscription, MY dog.
Abraham Lincoln was a campaign
SANDER and scandal that had been
sat upon. That aYerment could be
substantiated by as credible a witness
as there was in the city.
VoorheeS-And even the senator
saw it would be absolutely false and a
palpable lie.
1ngalls-The senator is disorderly.
Continuing, ingalls, read from paper
signed by citizens of Sullivan county,
who stated that they were present at a
meeting of April 6 1862, when Voor-
bees said that the union soldiers should
have an iron collar around their neck
with the inscription, ''My dog. Abra-
ham Lincoln" The paper was signed
by respectable citizens of Indiana who
were not ashamed of their names and
residences, which were attached.
Everybody knew what business the
democratic party Of Indiana had been
Seventy thousand of them had been
members of the Knights OF the
Golden Circle, and had been conspir-
ing against the union. They had en-
tered into combination, according to
General Holt, for the purpose of aid
ing soldiers to desert, discouraging en-
listments, circulating REASONABLE pub
LEGATIONS, giving intelligence to the en-
envy, assassination, murder and it was
susceptible of proof that they did con-
spire to murder Governor Morton.
This organization, which the senator
said he never belonged to, had jour
nal, of which 112 copies were found in
| the senator's Office at the time when
Hancock was at the UnbloOdy Angel.
In that same Office was found other
| correspondence concerning the objects
and purposes of that Organization.
The correspondence of G. L. Vallan-
digham was in the same office. The
senator in his address to his cOnStitu-
ents in 1851, had declared that he
| would never vote single dollar nor a
| single man for prosecution OF the war
and he had never done so as long as he
had been in congress. He had con-
sisently and persistently voted against
| every measure for upholding the
union cause and reinforcing its
army. Yet continuing, ingalls, said:
The senator who, l think, deserves
charity more than any man know on
this floor, and who has received it at
| the hands of his associates and who
can less afford than any man of my &C
quaintance to invite the scrutiny of his
war record, rises here and with play
4 l.
during the war as judge-adVocate with
a rank of major and subsequently Of
| lieutenant-colonel.
| However obscure or inefficient
| my services may have been
they were always on the side of my
country, not as his have been, always
| against it.
Voorhees, said that if the gentleman
| from Kansas would find one single
| vOfp that hn had paCf QnQingt 9SGIOn-
ment of soldiers for their supplies, for
their bounties, against the appropria-
tion for their pensions, he would re-
sign his seat in the senate. Every
word the senator had stated on that
subject was absolutely false, by rec
ord absolutely false. He measured
his words. The senator said he (VOor-
hees) was an object of his charity.
The senator was an object OF his con-
tempt.
The senator stated that he (Voor-
hees) had issued proclamation in 1886
that he would not vote for money OF
men. That was false. He never did
anything of the kind-never in the
world. lie had fought for free speech
and free press, but the soldiers OF
Indiana know that he had voted for ev.
cry bill that had ever fed them OF
| clothed them, and the man who said
otherwise was a falsifier and a Sian
derer, and he branded him as such
The senator from Kansas said thai
, he (Voorhees) had announced
that that he That had was quit n6 Rract tTHs
There was not word of truth in it
He had gone from one Office to another
Some papers were left in one Office and
others, to put up job on him, were
put there and found there, and pub
liShed as having been found there. HI
hoped his Maker would take cogni
zance of him at this moment and never
| let him leave this chamber if he hat
| ever been a member of secret politi
cal society in his life. When he wa,
abused by a man who said thai
S Hancock fought two wars tt
8 make the war failure, and was al
ally of the confederacy, and that Nc
< Clellan belonged to the degraded ele
: ment of the north, he felt that abus
: as an actual compliment, and h
9 thanked the senator for his aspersion
s and responded to him accordingly. S
s far as the old stuff about his denounc
1 ing the soldiers was concerned, tn
d soldiers who would talk Of that Wer
e only miserable set of people. Blu
{ if suffers or suffers clerks or hummer
ever alluded to anything of that kind h
b did not want to say anything offensiv
but he did not care much whether
uOIs 11O OlIl say DIS II
T did to the people whose names were o.
b a paper from Sullivan county, tina
I they lied and did not tell the truth
II Nor did the senator when he reasserte
:. what they said. He had not tn
slightest concern, nor the slightes
II irritation in regard to this matter
g 1t has been passed upon time and tim
d again. The letter with regar
n to Capt. Shute he had written in De
,.
: he had SympathlZed with the feelin
/ that there ought to be a compromise. "A
e to charity, he responded to that wit
n contempt.
e Ingalis-s'Did not the soldiers of Ii
e diana threaten to hang the senate
% with bell rope on train, after he ha
h made that Lincoln dog speech?"
"a VOorhees-''The senator is gres
: liar when he intinates such thing
n never occurred-never in the worlC
That is all the answer 1 have, and
s. pass it back to the scOundrel benin
D. the senator, who is instigating thes
u lies.'' This remark was made in re
Jr erence to Reverdy johnson, of Il
u diana, who was seated at desk
r rectly in the rear of Ingalls).
Ingalls,: ''There is very reputab
n gentleman in this chamber-a citiZe
le of Indiana, who informs me that til
a. signers of that certificate are entirel
i'd reputable inhabitants of Indiana, an
I'd that he knows fifty people who hear
N the senator"
D. Voorhees-"Tell him say he is a
N infamous scoundrel and liar. TIE
e. him / say So
es Eustis, of Louisiana, said he wou
G. inform the senator from Kansas tn
the mode and manner in which tt
" Louisiana election had been conducte
being a state election, was none of b
or business whatever. He denounced ;
I'd scandaIous, vituperative and uRpa
Id liamentary the language which hs
been used by the senator from Kans
rd with reference to the people
as louisiana There seemed to
a. preconvened conspiracy amol
n republican leaders to question Il
on legality of elections in the south for
a other purpose than to convince mort
IA ern people that the democratic a
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