The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-02
SET-TU OF THE GIANTS.
ingalls, and Voorhees, Have a
Lively Spat.
A RAKIXG UP OF OLD SCORES
The Tall Sycamore Wakes WrOth and
Brands Ingalls, as ga Great Liar
aud Dirty Dog"
SENATE

WASHINGTON, u. G.t May IL III
Senate galleries presented an un
usually animated appearance at thu
opening of to-day's session, being
crowded. with spectators, principally
ladies, drawn by the announcement o
a speech at 2 o'clock by ingalls, il
response 10 Voorhees, inVectiYe of las
= Wednesday
At the conclusion of the morning
business, Stewart proceeded TO address
the Senate in support of his silver
coinage resolution. At the conclusion
of his address the resolution Was
adopted.
AS the hour of O'Clock drew near
the buzz in the chamber and galleries
became marked. IngalI's desk was
decorated with fiowers. He commenced
his speech by recalling the fact that on
the 11th OF July last Msjor-General
Fitz-John Porter, now on the retired
list, rote letter, in which he thanked
his friends and said that his heart wss
always with them, although at one
time his hand and heart had worked
the best that they knew how against
them. The Senator from Indiana had
complained last Wednesday, with Bit
k6TA6S61 ludb Ill dllCA Pb Adu DSCh LhoOC
to blacken tie names of all great civil
and military Iea1ers in the late war
who remained true 70 the Democratic
party. Fitz John Porter had been one
of those military leaders who
maintained their allegiance to the
Democratic party and he had within
the last four months written that his
''heart was always with them" Re-
ferring to General Mcclellan, ingalls,
spoke of his education at West Point,
his business connection with Beaure-
gard, and his attempt to extend and
continue human slavery by the acquisi-
ton of Cuba. He spoke of him as hav-
ing begun his military career by dis
obeying the orders of General Scott.
having abandoned hope at Centreville,
as having failed to put rebels to the
sword at Autietam,as having refused to
obey the orders of the President. and
follow the rebels to Winchester, and as
having fatally controlled the destiny of
the army until The battle of Fredericks-
burg. History had pronounced Its
verdict upon him as soldier
and the senator from Indiana would
not be able to place him in the cate
CORY with Napoleon, Hannibal and
Cesar. He (lugalisl dealt with him as
a politician, and said that no one could
read his letter to President Lincoln
after the disastrous seven days fight on
the Peninsula and before Richmond,
without coming to the conclusion that
Mcclellan was not fully and actively
in sympathy with the forces, ideas and
sentiments which were then controlling
the American people. As to General
Hancock, he was also one of the mill
tary leaders who were true to the
Democracy. His martial career WAS
one of the imperishable herithges Of
Am 9rican glory. He m 'rched ant
triumphed. He filed the abyss of
fame with names which would
be eternal and luminous The
Peninsula, Antietam Gettysburg.
ChancellJrville, Cold Harbor and
Petersburg. Had he been a soldier
under Napoleon, he would have been a
prince and marshal of the Empire. II
had been well called Hancock "the
superb" but after the war closed, he
like Mcclellan, had become tainted
with the fatal virus of ambition for the
presidential nomination, but notw,th-
standing his magnificent and unap-
proachaole career, the American peo-
pie recognized his hostility to the re
construction measures, and in the
presidential election of 1880 he carrie
but three northern States, California,
Nevada and New jersey, and the first
two of them had been st Jlen by the
forgery and fraud of the Mercy letter
issued by Democratic politicians. |
toral votes OF the sol south |
which had been promised him in his
speech at Cincinnati by the Senator
from South Carolina Hampton He |
spoke of the affected indignati N Of the |
Senators from Indiana and Kentucky |
as discreditable to their intelligence or |
their candor. II they DID MT know |!
that he (Ingals) had spoken of the Sc
Union generals, not as soldiers, b 1t a |
politicians and as Democratic candl- |
dates for the presidency they were dall, |
stupid and ignorant indeed. If they !
did not know it and persisted in their |
assertions, they were disingenuous, and |
he suspected (if such a thing were pos
sible) that thew were both. daughter |
Ingalls,, continuing, said: MIR. Pres
ident, from the imprisoned eulogy; |
from the rhapsody of approx ltioa that |
flowed from the Senator from Indiana |
at he great military ach yzme as OF |
Mcclellan and Hancock, began to
have some doubt who 1t was that resllv
put QOWn Gn6 hSDeIllODs was driven
curiousiy to inquire what was the att
tude of the Democratic party IN the
North, and of the Senator from Ind
ana, as one of its great leaders. in 1862
when Mcclellan. the ideal Democrat
was fighting the battle of Antietam; IN
1868, when Hancock was hurting back
in confusion and dlsmav the scittered
squadrons of the ConfederaCy, / was
really, for a moment. Mr.. President
inclined to believe that the Democratic
party of ths north, and the Senate
from Indiana. and those Utner gre Al
whom he eulogizes as eli i'm
movable bulwark of liberty. of the Con
and the Union, Mr.. Thomas
aud Mr.. Horatio Seymour
md William A. Richardson, were in
he full p3noply of battle, assisting
assisting Hancock. doing
What they could to make The success O.
he armies possible. And, it seems
Ike the very climax of effrontefy. lik
he apex of audacity, for these
men, whose history is SO
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