Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-03-22

orr beloved land great and prosperous
and its people intelligent, happy, and
Virtuous.
We will rival them in exalting all
that pertains to and honors this great
Union and in condemning everything
that tends TO foster a hostile senti.
aent thereto. We will rival them in
earnest endeavors to inculeate in the
minds Of all the citizens of this coun-
try, and especially of our children,
heartfelt love for the United States Of
America, to the end that present and
coming generations shall in every part
Of the land believe in and maintain
true allegiance thereto, based upon
paramount respect for and fidelity to
it's constitution and laws, which will
lead them to "descountenance what
ever tends to weaken loyalty. ineItes
TO instruction. treason, or rebellion
or in any manner impairs the efiicien-
cy and permanency of our free insti-
tutions," and will impel them ito
encourage the spread Of universal
liberty, equal rights, and justice to all
men, and to defend these sentiments,
which are quoted from the fundamen-
tai law Of our order, with their lives
il need be, and to the further end that
they shall so revere the emblems OF the
Union that under no circumstances
can BE coupled with them in the same
honorable terms the symbols of
sentiment which is antagonistic to its
perpetuity.
The contemplation of the grand
picture of long ago preserved Union,
a mighty people prospering as no
people on earth ever before prospered,
with future far beyond that which
opens to any other nation, a land,
comrades, which to all its citizens is
worth living for, and country and
government worth dying for, consti-
tutes the greatest reward of those who
have suffered and bled and striven
that such spectacle might be posi-
bic.
AN organization that entertains
those sentiments and that is animated
by such purposes is stigmatized here
as gang of sordid mercenaries, or.
ganized for plunderl Mr.. President,
they were organized for charity.
The total amount reported expended
in charity from March 81, 1886, to
March 81, 1887, was 1888. 93443; the
number Of persons relieved was a..
coo; II COZ of these were members Of
the order or the families of such, and
1899 were either ex-soldiers, not
members, or those dependent upon
them. 1t is to supplement this char
ity that the Grand Army has asked
the Congress of the United States that
this bill may pass. We propose in
this body to pass it. Initiating the
language that has been used by its
adversaries, l hope that it will pass
the other House OF Congress, and if it
does, let the President of the United
States veto it at his peril. Nantes
tations of applause.
Mn, BLACKBURN. Mr.. President, |
am at loss to account for the course
that the Senator from Kansas Mr..
INGALLS, has seen fit to adopt in
Juggling me into the TRADE in which
he has just INDUCED, for am sure
that | had never made boast of iden,
LITIGATION with any military service in
my life. had never referred to the
fact of having been a Confederate SOL
der. Unlike the Senator from Kansas,
thought my military record was too
modest and too humble to prove a
subject OF interest to the galleries that
have assembled to listen to his political
harangue.
did not need to be told by him
that | stood here representative
from State that had never seeded
from the Union. l did not need to
he reminded that Kentucky had al
ways been loyal. | knew then, as he
should know now, that | represent a
constituency that are entitled to draw
more pensions than the State SO ably
represented by the Senator who has
just preceded me. The records of this
country, l believe, show that the State
OF Kentucky furnished three men to
the Union Army for every one that
Kansas furnished; and in passing
may assure the Senator that it is not
without pride that l recall the fact
that OF the thirty-odd States then in
this Union the one from which | came
Is the onl V one that, without the APP
plication of a conscript law, furnished
more than her quota of men to both
sides during that struggle.
Now, why he should travel out Of
his way to have made an onslauS ht
upon me do not know. | DO not
understand that l was a necessary
text for his speech of acceptance Of the
Presidential nomination of which he
complained. | shall not undertake
to answer for the Senator from Mis-.
souri, Mr.. VEST The Senator from
Kansas doubtless knew that illness in
his family had taken him a long dis
lance from this city, and that he is to
be absent for some time on that &C
count.
DO not intend to be involved in
any controversy with the Senator
from Kansas, but / do intend to pro-
test against the lack Of fairness which
he employs when he undertakes to
deal after such fashion with men
who have but simply stated facts and
submitted data for the consideration
Of the Senate upon bill that is pend
ing.
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