Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15

SENAIOh BLAChBURN Q e during the
struggle. Mr.. Blackburn did not know
that he was necessary connecting link
with the Senator's acceptance of the Presi-
Dental nomination. The Kansas Senator's
language regarding the Chief Executive of
the country was not entitled to reply
in presence so august as that
of the Senate of the United
States. What cause of grievance war
ranted the Senator in applying lam
guage to the Chief Magistrate which would
not be permissible the hustings-he
would not say it would be disgraceful even
to be employed by fish-women-he did not
know; but when that Senator undertook to
denounce the Chief Executive after such
fashion as to declare that no man aff1ict-
ed with ignorance SO profound, with OBJ
security SO gross, should consider himself
as unfit to become the Presidents success
sor, it did seem that the dignity of the
Senate chamber refused permission to re-
spond He was not here to defend the
President from such unwarranted attacks
He knew but one sin which the President
had committed in the eyes of the
Senator from Kansas That might be
the objectionable sin. 1t was that
having defeated the Senate party at
the polls. he had given to the Amer
lean people for three years past SO efficient,
SO honest so clean handed an administfa-
plrations to disaster. But the Senator from
Kansas in his Incorporate zeal, had not
spared even the sanctity of the grave in
his frantic efforts to stir up prejudices be-
tween sections already reunited. He had
dragged up for utilization men who had
furnished with their unblemished swords
the brightest pages of American history.
McCelland and Hancock were to be de.
nounced in the Senate chamber as allies
tn bn hax
been in better taste if he had made such a
charge before both these men were buried?
Mr.. Ingalls, did, often.
Mr.. Blackburn-Then SO much the worse
for the Senator from Kansas What war
rant or ground had he for that except that
they were both different from himself in
political faith? Hancock an ally of Con-
federates? Was he so regarded when,
weltering in his blood on Cemetery Heights,
he persisted in giving orders which checked
the last advance of Longstreet's battalions?
Was this man, who was honored by the en-
tire American people, an ally of Confed-
crates? The Senator from Kansas was in
the army from 1868 to 1865, and in what
capacity? One who listened to the Sen
ator might suppose he was controlling
great army.
sWhat was the Senator's occupation, in
military capacity?" continued Mr. Black
burn "He was Judge-Advocate of Kansas
volunteers. Laughter While General
Black, the Commissioner of Pensions, was
bleeding on the Kansas frontier, while Nc
Clellan was comman ding the army while
Hancock was weltering in his blood at
Gettysburg, the Senator from Kansas, al
ways behind the rear of the army, was prose-
cutting Kansas jayhawkers for rifing hen
roosts loud laughter and applause Now,
what are you to think of the argument of
Co., I, +,
ing officer and come to the floor in an excess
of partisan zeal which had seldom been
equaled, attacking all decent people, from
the President of the United States down,
and letting no object escape the venom of
his tongue2 One would say that he was a
cynic, despising neutrality-suspicious. because
he had a suspicion that mankind is not
enamored of him. But neither President
nor soldier, living or dead, Confederate or
Federal, except he accords with him in po-
itical convictions, is safe from his attacks
I have never opposed pensioning disabled
Union soldiers, and do not know the Con-
federate who has done So The Senator
tells us that no Democratic constituency in
the South had ever elected Union soldier
to either House of Congress. Texas sent to
Congress term after term a distinguished
Union soldier in the person of Governor
Hancock. The State of Arkansas sent from
to represent her in the other house of
Congress- I would like to know if
the late Governor Walker was not a
Union soldier and an honored repre-
sentative in Congress from an overwhelm-
ingly Democratic district in the Old
Dominion? Did not the Senator re-
member that for six years Kentucky kept
continuously in the other house General
Wolford, who was shot out of his saddle
more than half a dozen times, and who al
ways came there as a candidate of the DEM
ocratic party, elected in a Democratic dis
trict? do not care to follow the Senator
through all the inaccuracies of his utter
ances. Partisan as I am, I do sincerely
trust that I may never find my life ex-
tended to that hour when, without war
rant, without truth at my back, I will turn
deliberately to traduce and abuse the dead,
who, while living, were honored by all hon.
orabls men" Loud applause]