South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1888-05-11

luis caused Bens8.tUn3
g alleries, and manifestations of, APP
probation and reproval and the ser.
gernt-at.arms was directed to place
under arrest any person ,heresfter
violating the rules Of the Senate:
Mr.ingalls then read q letter writ
ten about four months before the fall
OF Fort Sumpter by Mr.. Voorhees,
for Mr.. +. A. Shute, which that gem
t'eman took South with hun in
which Mr.. Voorhees, said Mr.. Shute's
sentiments and his own we're IN close
harmony
Mr. Voorhees, replied that there
was no war of the Con federacy then,
and IL was one OF those things that
the people of Indiana have passed
upon Tor nearly 80 years.
Mt. Ingalls, said the Senator fMr.
Voor hees) declared that the charge
that he had called Uuion soldiers
'hirelings and Lincoln dogs, and said
that tLey ought to 60 to q black
smiths shop and have an iron collar
around their necks with the inscrip.
ton, My dog, Abraham Lincoln
was a campaign Islander and scans
DIAL that had been spit upon. That
averment could be sustained by as
credhaole q witness as there was in
the city.
Mr.. Voorhees, even il the
Senator said it, it would be absolute.
ly false and palpable lie.'
Mr.. Ingals.-'The Senator is dis.
orderly. When the Senator stated
that lie had been Endorsed by the
people of Indiana and tina, this &C.
cusation had been CONTEMPORARY
spst upon, he reminded the gentle
man that he had been Endorsed only
nv the democratic party of Indiana,
and not by the people. Everybody
knew wh At business the
democratic party OF Indiana had
been engaged in during the war,
Seventy thousand o. them had been
members Of the knights of the Col
den Circle and had been corspiring
against the Union
ME-. ingalls, then recited a number
OF circumstances. which he claimed
tended to show Mr.. Voorhees, sym,
pathy> IL not connection, with this
order. He (Mr. voorhees) had con
sistently and persistently voted a
gainsI every measure for unfolding
the Union cause and reinforcing its
army. yet continued Mr.. Ingalls,
in conclusion, the Senator who think
deserves charity more than any man
know Of On this floor, and who has
received II al the hands of his assoc
ciates, and who can afford less than
any man Of my acquaintance TO invite
the tcrutlny of hts war record, rises
here and with plsyfuIness and hill
ariousness refers 70 tue fact that I
served during tho war as a judye.ad.
vocate with the rank OF major, aud
subsequently as lieu .ensnt- colonel.
However obscure or inefficient nv
services may have been, they we're
always on the eide Of ny country.
Not ss bis have been-alWAys against
H.!
Mr.. Voorhees, said that IL the gen.
tleman from Kansas would dnd one
single vote that he bad cast against
the payment Of soldiers for their
supplies, for their bounties. OF against
tue appropriations for their pensions
be would resign bis sest In The Sen
ate. Every word the Senator had
stated on that subject was absolute
ly false by the record absolutely
false. lie measured his words.
The Senator said tbs, he (Mr. voor.
bees) was an object Of his charity.
The Senator vas an objec. OF his
contempt The Senator said that hs
(Mr. Voorhees, had issued q ptocla.
nation la ls6l that be would not
vote for money or men. Tia. vas
false. lie never Gid anything Of tbs
kind-never In the world. lie hal
fought for free speech AMI free
press but tie soldiers ot Indiana
knew that he had voted Tor every
dollar thst had ever fed them OF
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