Huntsville gazette., 1888-05-05


WASHINGTON, May 3.-At the conclusion
of Mr.. Ingalls, speech in the senate Mr..
Blackburn sent to the desk records to be
read il correction Of what he said were his
tOrcal inaccuracies of Mr. ingalls, Mr.
voorhees, then rose and began his speech by
applying skillfully the old story of the labor
of the mountain and the production of a
mouse. He did not regard Mr.. Ingalls,
speech as a good enough show fOp the
promise in the advertisement. He alluded
to the newspaper comment ON his-Voor-
heeS'-speech last week. that it has served to
galvanize a corpse. The senator from Kan
lucky had most effectually disposed of the
senator from Kansas and it had not been his
purpose TO antagonize ingalls, individually,
but he had been brought incidentally in his
arraignInent OF the Republican party
The senator from Kansas was like feeble
old gentleman in indianapolis, who averred
that he had been dead for year and was
merely walking around to save funeral ex-
penses He had galvanized the corpse, but
the performance of the dead man had been
disappointing There had not been the vol
canic action that was foreshadowed in the
DOfIGnU1OuS annOulc6iIeDU OF LQe kansas
senator.
Touching the report that he had called the
Union soldiers ''Ltncoln dogs "Lincoln
hirelings," and that he bad advised them to
have iron collars put on their necks he de
clared that was a stale, putrid falsehoOd,
that be had trampled on and stamped out in
forty campaigns. 1t was so base lie so in
famous falsehood that the black wall Of
-
kicked it, spurned and despised it, and de-
clared that it was possible for the man who
related this lie to become as bad as those who
invented it.
These stories raked up by the senator from
Kansas had been exploded long ago. Since
then he, VOORHEES,, had been indorsed by the
people in Indiana time and time again He
had been elected to the house when the sol
diers were home to vote and he had carried
the state by large majorities and been re-
peatedly sent to the senate He had never
been followed to the doors of the United
States senate by an investigating committee
and he had never been whitewashed
Mr.. voorhees, said Mr. Ingalls, was mis-
taken if he supposed he was the central
object Of his speech II was raised on a
farm said Mr.. VOORHEES,, land | have seen
the peacock sit on the barn-yard fence and
admire his own feathers and vOcalize the
ne ghborhoOdn y The senator from Kansas
was not the only bird Of beauty on the Re
publican side.
Mr. Voorhees, sail he could afford to
despise and cOntemn the reckless charges of
the senator from Kansas who was born with
inaccuracy stamped upon him. "If he ap-
peared as my long lost BROTHER said Voor-
hees. Il would strip him and look for the
mark of inaccaracy"
The Indiana senator then took up Ingalls,
apology for an explanation of his attack on
Mcclellan and Hancock, and declared it to
be a miserable afterthought. He quoted
from ingalls, speech when he declared that
in 1864 Mcclellan ran on a platform decIar-
ing to be failure the war which he had
been trying to make failure for two years
This was an absolute charge of treason
against Mcclellan as a military man No
bitterer charge could have been made even
against Benedict Arnold Mr. voorhees,
dwet on this point, and then proceeded to
show how the platform af 1854 had been
garbled, and read copious extracts from Nc
Clelans letter OF acceptance showing that
he was ardently devoted to the Union cause
He told how the Union soldiers were devoted
to Mcclellan, how they stood bv him and
had confidence in him, even after six days Of
misfortune, which eliminated on the sew
enth day in Malvern Hill where the Confed-
crates met with an overthrow that was al
most fatal to them.
He alluded to ingalls, assertion that the
Democratic candidates for the presidency
had been i'll illicit intercourse with the de-
graded elements, and said that in pamph-
let copy Of his speech the senate had ex-
plunged 'degradedn and inserted Sub
servient". Mr.. Voorhees, read from Mr. In
gals autobiography in the Congressional
Directory. He told that the senator from
Kansas had been in congress a good many
years, and that in each issue of the directory
he seemed to have a rAmarka hla rnan,nrv as