Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-10
One of the Most Notable Speeches Ever
Delivered in the Senate.

ed long 5ofore two O'Clock by people who
wished TO hear Mr.. Ingalls, reply TO the
attacks made upon him by the Democrat
io Senators. The floor OF the Senate was
also crowded. Mr.. ingalls, spoke stand
ing near his desk, which was covered with
flowers lie began with recalling the
fact that Major General Fii2.J John Porter,
now on the retired list, wrote letter i'm
which he thanked his friends, and said
thar his heart was always with them, al
thoueh No one tine his hand and heart
had worked the best thoy knew how
against them The Senator from Indiana
com planned last Wednesday with hitter
ness, that an attempt had been made to
blackeu the names OF all the great civil
as we'll as military leaders in the late war
who remained tree to the Democratic
Party. FIiz-John Porter has been one Of
those military leaders who maintained
their allegiance to the Democratic Party,
Mr.. Ia 2ails thea criticised General Nc
Clellau'5 military record and said the
Senator from Indiana would not be able
TO place him IN the category with Napo
leon, Hannibal and Cesar. He Nugalis)
dealt with him as a politician, and said
that no one could read his letter to Presi-
dent Lincoln after the disastrous seven
days fight on the Peninsula and before
Richmond, without coming to the couclu
sion that Mcclellan was not fully and
actively IN sympathy with the forces, the
ideas aud tho sentiments which were
then controlling the American people.
General Hancock wa7 also, he suid, one
o tho military leaders ;rue 10 the Demo
cratic Party H.s martial career vas one
of the imperi-haby hrriiaRes of American
glory. II matched and triumphcd. lie
hllJ d the abyss OF fame with names which
woad be eterually luminous--the PENN
sula, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellor.
vile, Cold uarbOr and Petersburg. Had
he been soldier under Napoleon ho would
have been % prince aud marshal Of the
empire. lie had heel well called Hancock
the saperb.' But after the war closed,
he Cjke McClelap) had bee tainted
with the fatal virus of an ambition for tho
Presidential nomination.
Mr. IuvaIls spoke OF the affected iudig-
nation of the Senators from Indiana and
Kentucky as discradiable 10 their intelH
Eouco or their c8ud1r. II they did not
know That he OR. Ingalls, had spoken of
these Union Generals, not aa -oidier-, but
gs politicians, and 8s Democratic cau3i-
da as for The Presidency, they wero dull,
stupid aud igroraut indeed. II they did
knos IL, aud persisted in their assertions,
they were di-ingenuous, and he suspected
(it such q thing We're pOssiblel chat they
we're both. Laug
GILMAN oF HroNIEuY.
Mr.. Ingalls, continuing, said: mr.
President, from the impnssioucd tulogy
from the rhapsody OF appreciation that
flowed from the Senator from Indiana at
the grcot military achievements of Nc.
Clellau and Hancock lbtEausto have some
doubt who il was who really put down the
rebellion. / WAS driven curi0asly to en-.
quire what way the attitude OF the Dsmo-
cratic Patty il the North and of the
Senator from Indiana, as one of ita great
leader, in 1862, when Mcclellan, the
ideM Democrat was lighting the battle
of Antietam; in sG3, when Hancock was
hurting back in confusion and di-may the
scattered suuadr1us OF the COufrderacy. |
was ally, tor the moment Mr.. President,
Inclined 60 believe that the Democratic
Party If the North aud the Senator from
Indiana ana those other great patriots,
whom he eulugi2 ICES as an immovabla bul
wax uf liberty, oil the Constitution aud the
Union, Mr.. Thomas Hendricks aud Mr.
Horati3 Ssymoug ana William A. Richard
son, were IN tull panupiy of battle, assist
ing Mcclellan, assisting Hancock, doing
Wha ,huy could to make tine success of the
armies possible. And, il seems like Che
ftrs CLIMAX ct eHrontery, like the apex of
audseJty for these men, whose history lis
well known, who were from the beginning
the uyowed enemies OF tho cause of the
Uuluu at every step of It's progress, and
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