Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-02

~ btuOCfaCy, anu MS martial career rs
one OF the imperishable heritages Of
American glory. He marched and he
triumphed. lie filed the abyss Of fame
with names that will be eternallv lumi-
nous-the Peninsula, Antietam. Gettys-
burg, Charlottesville, Cold Harbor, and
Petersburg. Had he been a soldier I'M
der Napoleon he would have been
prince and a marshal. In
daunted in battle, resolute, and
with al indomitable passion forglory, he
was the ideal corps commander, and was
well named "Hancock the Superb.
When the war closed he enjoyed to q de-
gree almost unknown to our history the
aHectonate admiration Of the American
people But he, too, became tainted with
the fatal virus Of an ambition for nomi-
nation to the presidency by the Demo
cratic party. they filed 1t for him in
/ 1880 Not as a man who defeated and
overwhelmed and destroyed them a.
Charlottesville and Gettysburg and in
other great engagements in which he
participated, but as the author Of cor
der No. 40" and determined enemy Of
the reconstruction policy OF Congress
and Of the efforts that were being made
TO enforce justice. liberty, and order III
Louisiana and Texas.
Mr.. Ingalls, sketched from his point Of
view the events which ledto "Order No.
~, and announced his intention to pub
lsh as a part Of his speech the CORE
spondence between General Hancock
ana Governor Pope, OF Texas, IN 1860,
Of which that order was part, aud pro
cecded: Mr.. President, the people OF
the United states also passed upon tho
political affiliations Of General Hancock.
and notwithstanding his magnificent and
unapproachable military career, recOg-
niziug him as they did in his relation 10
the reconstruction policy Of Congress
and the acts and statutes made thcrcun-
der in 1850, he carried % the northern
States California with five votes, Re
Vada with three votes, New Jersey with
nine votes, and l3S votes Of the solid
South, which had been promised him IN
his speech ct Cincinnati by the Senator
from South Carolina ; and of the votes
Of the northern States that he received
those Of California and Nevada were
stolen 10y the forgery and fraud of the
Mor,y letter issued by Democratic poll
ticiaus upon the very eve of the election,
when IT was impossible that denial
should follow before the votes were cast.
Mir. President, the affected indigna-
ton Of the Senators from Indiana and
Kentucky at my alleged assault upon
these Union generals IS discrcditabie
either h. their intelligence orto their cam
dor. II they did not know that IN speak
ing OF them IN that debate in which
was not an intruder | Was speaking OF
them not as soldiers but ms politicians
and as Democratic candidates for the
presidency, they are dull, stupid, and
ignorant indeed. If they did know 1T,
aud persist IN their assertions. they ara
disnecnuous, and ] believe, Mr.. Iresi-
deut, If such thing were possible, that
they are both Laughter.
MIR. ingalls, then turned his attention
10 Mr.. Voorhees,, and quoted some OF his
speeches during the progress Of the War
aud some Of the utterances attributed 10
Mr. Voorhees, in reference to Lincoln.
Mr. voorhees,. speaking at Sullivan, in
Indiana. on the 9Th Of August, 1862,
said, In reference 10 Union soldiers, that
thov should 90 to the nearest black
smith-shop and have iron collars
made aud placed around their necks,
Inscribed thereon in large letters
My dog. A. Lincoln, and at the
same time he referred TO Union sol
dicrs IS Ilncous dogs and hrclues,
without excepting Mcclellan or Han
cock. Laughter and applause. Also,
from Mr. Voorhees, sspccChat Green Cas-
tle Ind, which was reported in the Gin
ciunqd ComWcrctai August <, 1864, by
Joseph B. McCulloch, now editor OF the
Giobf- Denocr0t in 81. Louis. "Why.
he said, "this campaign of Grant upon
the Rapidan and ut Petersburg (and
Hancock was there) "was of such ma
ture that YOU almost hear the bones Of
your brave sons aud brothers crush Ike
eggs clear to Washington city. The
slcheniug details of the slaughter came
up with the fumes Of blood on our very
hreahiast-table at Washington that morn
ing Yet Lincoln SAYS, ! will peg away
for four years more In Gods name
have you not had enough of It? Let us
try some other plan. This one has sig
nally failed. Five hundred thousand
more men, and that is all.
Mr.. ingalls, referred TO speech made
in the House of Representatives IN 1873
hy Mr.. Blackburn declaring it 10 be the
PURPOSE and intention of the Democratic
party to keep on until it wiped from the
statutc-book the last vestige of wnrleeis-
lation. lie said that within the nest
few years the Supreme Court would be
entirely reconstructed. Two OF tine As
sociate Justices were past The retiring
age, aud if that tribunal was to pass
hereafter on war legislation all knew
what the result would bc. There could
be no question about it.
Mi ingalls, devoted considerable space
to the discussion OF the electoral com
mission. the Louisiana elections OF 1916
and 1853 said the country WAS on the
very verge of the most important con-
test Of this cent ry-a contest whose re
suit would determine the destiny OF tho
country for the next twenty-five years
touched upon the appointment OF Lamar
TO the Supreme bench, who he SAID had
been forced upon the President because
he WAS the nearest and dearest friend of
jefferson DAVIS said the country still
had against it the Southern Coniede-
racy reviewed the speech of Henry l..
jackson, at Macon, and closed with PIE
turing what would have been the
miserable faie OF the country II the re-
bcllion had prevailed, and contrasting
that picture with the present and future
prosperity of the United States In cen
turtles that are 10 come he saw
vision OF united, prosperous,
and happy America avIst, homogeneous
domain oil free men rulers OF continent
from the Polar zone to the Gulf, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, enjoying the
franchises of liberty aud perpetuatlug
the arts OF peace. The people should F.
remember. he said, on each recurring F.
day when they celebrated. those who had .
died. that tins country held in Its fruit
ful and tender breast no more priceless
treasure than the cOnsecrated dust Of .
those who had died IN order that TINS /
shculd be government OF laws and I.
not Of men, and that liberty and con-
etitutional government might not perish .
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