Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-03-22
! MD, TH5ksDAY, MARCH 90. 1885, NO. s7e.

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Mr.. ISGALLs. And that they wers
fully advised that the Northern peo'
pie ara not in the dark or unadvised
about the situation.
Mr.. MORGAN. Does not the Sena.
tor from Kansas recognize the fact
that he holds his place as President Of
the Senate in consequence of the votes
of two of the Confederates who fought
and surrendered at Appomattox?
Mr.. INGALLS,. Suppose I do; I nev.
er heard them defy Jefferson Davis.
/ never have heard one of them get
up here and dsnounce The efforts Of
the Republicans to pension Union SOL
diers. Have you? Answer me, "thou
learned Theban."
Mr.. MORGAN. Nor have you heard
me. an tAaabamian and Confederate
soldier, denounce the right of Union
soldiers to pensions. We have not
come and asked aims of you or your
friends.
Mr.. INGALLS,. You have done it
repeatedly.
Mr.. MORGAN. Not at all.
Mr.. INGALLS,. There never is an
occasion when an attempt is made to
pass a pension bill for the surviving
soldiers Of the Union armies, that ev-
cry Democrat does not put on his
spectacles, 60 to the blackboard, and
take crayon and say, ut is going to
cost too much"
Mr.. MORGAN. do not deny that
we have asked pensions from the Gov
ernment of the United States for that
splendid body of men who went to
Mexico, into foreign county
Mr.. INGALLS,. l will get to that
pretty soon.
Mr.. MORGAN. Who fought for their
country and brought to it dowry
which l believe includes 9 large part
of the State of Kansas, and who we
have always felt had claim to sin.
cere gratitude on the part of the
American people.
Mr.. INGALLS,. l will'come to that
shortly; but want the Senators who
are opposing this pension bill, and op-
posing it on the ground of economy
and on the ground the Senator from
Kentucky did, that it is an attempt
to dispose Of the surplus for the pur.
pose of preventing a reduction of the
tariff, to understand that the disguise
is exceedingly thin and that nobody is
deceived by it.
The South do not like the Union
soldiers. The Democratic party do
not like them; they never did. So it
is now, after the animosities of the
war should have died away, and upon
every conceivable occasion when we
attempt to enlarge the pension sys-
tenn or liberalize its provisions Sena.
tors rise here one after the other and
pevishly complain that it lie going to
cost too much.
Mr.. MORGAN. If the Senator will
allow me just a moment I will say
that the Democratic party liked Gen.
eral Hancock very well, and voted for
him.
Mr.. INGALLS,. They did, as they
are going to vote for again, Grover
Cleveland, under compulsion. They
thought they could fool the Northern
people by voting for Union soldier,
but they did not. We understand
very well what the voting for General
Hancock meant. 1t was just the same
as voting for Horace Greeley. You
have been engaged in illicit inter-
course with all the degraded elements
of the North for the last twenty-five
years.
Horace Greeley The Democratic
party attempting to delude the North
by nominating and voting for Horace
Greeley to show that they were recon-
structed, that they would fain fill
their bellies with the husks that the
swine did elt, and they could not;
and then the Senator from Alabama
rises and assures us with a suffusion
Of patriotic loyalty that they voted
for Hancock. Why, Mr.. President,
We understand why they voted for
Hancock. We know why Hancock
was nominated. We know why that
other ally of the COnfederscy, George
B. Mcclellan, was nominated, who
had just declared that the war was Q
failure after he had been trying for
two years TO make it so. No, Mr..
President. these pretensions are alto
gether too diaphanous. They require
TO have the drapery removed for an
instant.
But I am not quite through with
this aspect of the question yet. In
1856. on the first day Of May of that