The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-02

he hao allied The Union soldiers hire
llngs ana Lincoln d, gs," and said tina
hey ought to go to a blacksmith shOl
and have iron coiled around their neck
with the inscription, "My dog-Abra
ham Lincoln" was campaign Islander
and scandal that had been spit upon
That avermenG could be sub tantiated
by as credible witnesses as there we1e
in the ty.
Voorhees, Aud even if Ex-senator said
it. II would be absolutely false, and d
paipsbIe lie.
Ingalls-The Senator is disorderly.
Connnuing, ingalls, read from paper
| signed by citizens of sullivan County,
who stat d that they were present al a
mesting on April 6, 1862, when Voorhet s
had made the remark quoted. Every
body knew what business the Dsmo-
cratIc party OF Indiana had been eu-
gagged in during the war. Seventy thou
| sad OF them had been mem bers of the
Knights ef the Golden Circle and had
boon conspiriDg against the Union
They had entered into a mbination,
according to General Holt, for the pur-
poseof aiding soldiers to desert, DIS
couraging enlistments. circulating
reasonable publications, giving incl
and murder, and it was susceptible
of proof that they did conspire to
murder the government. This Or
ganiZatIon which the Senator said he
never belonged to, had a ritual. of
which I12 copies were found i'll the
Senator's Office at time when there
was found other correspondence con-
corning the obj OTIS and purposes ofrhaI
organization. Correspondence of G l..
VallaDdigham was in the Office.
Tne Senator, in his aCuress 20 his coa-
stituents in 1861. had declared nat be
Would never vote single dollar for
single man for the prosecution of the
war, and he had never done so long as
he was in Congress. Yet continued
ingalls,. the Senator who, | think, de-
selV S charity more than .eny man
know of on this floor, aud who has re-
ceiVed it a; the hands Of his asso.
ciates, and who can les, afford
than any man of my acquaintance
10 invite g scrutiny of his war
record, is here and refers to the fac
that 1ssrved during the war as judge
advocate. win the rank of major,
and subsequa ntly of a lieutenant
colonel. However obscure or inetfi-
ctent my services may have been, they
were always on the side of my country,
net, as his have been. always against it.
Voorhees, said that If the gentleman
from Kansas would find one single vote
that he had cast against the payment
Of soldiers for their SUPPL s, for their
bounties or against appropriations for
their pensions, he would resign his seat
in the Senate. Every word be Senator
had stated on the subject was abso-
lu ely false by the record, absolu tely
false. The Senator said he (VoorheesI
was tie object of his charity. ingalls,
was an object of his contempt. He
denied, again, the statements charged
to him. regarding the soldiers, and said
TIE ST und in his Office were left
there, to put up job on him. He
never had been a member of a sec Ct
political society in his life. So far as
the old stuff about his denouncing the
soldiers was concerned, the soldiers
wo aid take care of that. He said to the
people whose names were On the paper
from Sullivan County. that they lied
and did not tell the truth, nor did the
Senator when he repeated what they
The letter with regard to Captain
Shute he had written in DeCemb r be-
fore the war broke out, and he had
sympathized with the feeling that
there ought to be a compromise.
ingalls, Did not the soldiers OF
Indiana threaten to hang the Senator
with a bell rope on the train after he
made that LincolD-dog speeCh2
Voorhees-The Senator is q great liar !
when he intimates such a thing; a
great liar and a dirty dog. 1t never |
occurred, never IN the world. That is |
all the answer L have. and l pass IL
back to the scouDdrel behind the Sen
ator, who is inStigatiug these lies. Chi. |
remark was made IN reference 10 J epre |
Johnson, of Indiana, who was
seated at desk directly i. front of In
2ails.)
Ingalls, There IS a very reputable |
in the scnamber. citizen of |
Indiana who informs ms that TIE sign.
srs of that certificate a e enurely repu-
table Inhabitants of Indiana, aud that
be knows fifty people who heard the !
senator.
Voorhees-Tell him. say that he is |
IN infamous sccundrtl and liar.
Eustis. OF Louisiana, said he would |
nfCrm the Senator from Kansas that |
The mode and manner in which the |
Louisiana election had been conducte /. |!
being State election was none of his |
business, whatever. He denounced as
vituperative and unparlia-
the language which had beeu
lsed by the Senator from Kan as with
'eference to the people of Louisiana.
There seemed to be preconceived con-
Ipiracy among the Republican leaders
o question the legality of elections in
he south, for no other purpose than to
the northern people that there
vas usurpation. There was no reason
Why any man in Louisiana, white
n black, should vote for such
! man as Governor Yarmouth. The
had given Louisiana a
government which was a disgrace to
Utilization and society, and it was Only
'ecause the Intelligent men of Loui j.
IA resisted the negro domination,
ecause The Republicans had failed to
erpetuate their supremacy by the in
amous Vaccinations of political ma
hinery, that the Senator from Kansas
ose, TO day. and In his wrath abused
be Democrats of Louisiana. Instead
f being abashed by the charges, he
brew them back into the Senator's
eeth.
Senator Gibson followed. He said
ne charges of the Senator from Kansas
ere an aspersion upon the character
nd patriotism of the southern people.