The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1890-05-30
DID SENATOR INGALLS, pLAelARlzE,

DID SENATOR INGALLS, PLAGlARlzE7
Serious Charge, with Alleged Proofs
and an Explanation.
In Tie Kansas City l'irncs of NAV II.
Mr. Charles Carroll Carlton bluntly
charges that most Of Senator ingalls, fu-
neral oration on the late Representative
Barnes, of Missouri, was taken with slight
changes from sermon delivered $50 years
ago by Jean Baptiste Massillon. the emf
nent French prelatc and orator. The sena-
tors Grafton was delivered Feb. %, 1889,
and was one Of singular beauty and logi-
cal force. The passages in question are Us
follows:
FROM SENATOR INGALLS, ADDRESS.
AS / looked for the last time upon that coun.
tenance from which, for the first time In SO many
years. no glance OF kindly recognition nor word
OF welcome came, reflected upon the impenetra-
BILE and insoluble mystery Of death. But If death
be the end, If the life Of Burnes terminated upon
this bank al. shoai OF lrse' * no ,rornng Is 10
dawn upon the night in which he sleeps, then sor-
row has no consolation and this impressive and
solemn ceremony which We observe today has no
more Significance than the painted pageant of the
stage. II the existence Of Burnes was but a
troubled dream, his death oblivion, what avoils it
that tho senate should pause to recount his vir-
tues and that his associates should assemble in
solemn sorrow around his voicelcss sepulcherr
Neither veneratOn nor reverence Is due to the
dead il they nre but DUST cenotaph should be
reared to preserve for posterity the memory Of
their achievements, II those who come after them
are 10 be only their Successors IN apnihation aud
extinction
Unless we survive, the ties of birth. affection
and friendship are deusive mockcry; the struct-
ure of laws and customs upon which society is
based detected i.nposture; the codes of moral
ity and justice, the sentiments Of gratitude and
faith, are empty formulas, without force or CON
in n iS rpt,,
and consciousness why should their inculcations
be heeded2 Duty must be a chimera. Our pas
slons and our pleasures should be the guides of
conduct, and virtue is indeed superstition If
life ends at the grave. $am@ u@@
This Is the conclusion which the philosophy Of
neSaton must accept Mt last. Such is the felicity
OF those degrading precepts which make the cpl
taph the end. If these teachers are right. If the
life Of Burnes is like arrow that is spent then
we are atoms in u moral chaos obedience to law
Is ndefcnsible scrritude; rulers and magistrates
are despots tolerated only by popular itnbecility;
justice is denial Of liberty; honor and truth arr
trivial rhapsoiies; murder and perjury are ders-
I've 1ests and their harsh definitions are frivolous
phrases invented by tyrtnts to impose On the
timiIity Of towards and the crelulity Of slaves
If the life Of Bnrnes Il rs Ia per that is burned
out, then Wc treasure his memory and his exan,pl.
IN vain, and the latest prayer Of his departing
spirit has no lnore sancly ta us, who Or late
must follow him than tli. whisper Of winds that
murinur Of waves that break upon the complain
ing shore. &
FROM BISHOP MAsslLLoS's SERMON.
If we wholly perish with the body what an i'm.
posture in this whole system Of laws manners apt,
usages On which human society is founded II We
wholly perish with the body thes. innxims Of
charity, Patience Justice, honor gratitude and
friendship which sages have taught and good men
have prncticcd, what are they but empty words
Possessing no real and binding ehicacys Why
shorlE! we heed them, IL In this life only WI. have
hope: Speak not of duty. What can we owe to
the dead, to the living to ourselves il all are or
Will be, nothing? Who shall dictate our duty if
not our own plcasurcs-if not our own PASSIONS
Speak not of morality. 1t is II mere chmera Il
bugbear Of human invention If retribution Ter.
inmate with the grave Ii must wholly per-
ish, What to us are the sweet ties of kindred?
what the tender names Of parent child sister
brother, husband, Wife or friend? 1ilt. characters
OF drama are not mora iiluSivc. We have NJ,
ancestors, no descendants since succession cau-
not be predcated IF nothnguaSs Would a.,
honor the iustrois dead: How absurd TO honor
that which has no existence. Would we tnk,,
Thought for posterltyf How frivolous to CONCERN
ourselves for those whose end, like our own must
soon be anuhaton. Have we made II pronf,,.g
How can 1t bind nothing to nothing: Perjury is
hut n jest, The last injunctions Of III. diving
what sanctity haTs. they more than the last sound
Of Il chord that Is snapped, of an Instrument that
is broken:
~ SUN N1 ali. IL We itlllSt Wholly perish. then
Is obedience 10 laws hut ali insensate servitude:
rulers and magistrates nre but tho phanto,us
which popular inbecty has raised up; Justice
Is an understandable Infringement upon the ill.,
erty OF men. an imposition, usurpation the law
of marriage vain scruple: modesty prejudice;
honor and problty, such stuff as dreams nre made
of; and inrests, mk tlers, pnrricides the most
heartess cruclties and the bluclest crimes arc
but the legitimate sports OF mans Irresponsible
nature Nhilc tile harsh ephets attached to
them are merely such MS the policy ofIegislators
has invented and imposed un tn" cretl;tlitv of th,.
people. Elerc IS the issue to whici, tho yannt.J
philosophy Of unbeevcrs must inevitably lead,
Here Is TINT social Felicity, that sway Of reason
that emancipation from error, of which they
eterliallF prnle, AS the fruit Of their doctrines
Accept their lnnxinls, nna the whole world falls
back into frightful chaos; and all the relations
of life are confo'inded; and all ideas of vico and
virtue are reversed anil the most invioable lnws
Of society vanish, eud all moral discipline per.
iShesi aud the government of states and nations
has no longer any cement to uphold il: and MI
the harmony OF the body polite becomes tliscor.
and the human race ii no more than an Assem-,
hlage of reckless barblrians, Shameless re1lo,st.
less brutal, denaturalizrd. with no her law
than force, 10 other check t.ltn passion no other
bond than irrrlieian, other God than self
Such would bc thn world w.,icl impie,y would
make Such would lie this w>ilH were n belief In
God and immortality to die ~; or the human
heart.
Senator ingalls, VIXEN asked as 10 tn.
charge was quite anxious to explain and
declared that he had been npproached with
II proposition to suppress Mr.. Cartoons
letter if 500 We're paid. The price seemed
excessive" !" he added, land tho offer was
declined" He then gave his explanation:
III my youth began the study of French with
ont master, and in volume Of exercises found
this, with other extracts, credited to no one,
which TRANSLATED and copied into n common.
place book more than tiirly years ago Twas
struck by its stately and Somber cloquencc 1t
seemed to me then, Us it has always seemed to
ME since, the most fOrcibe and impressive prc-
senthtion of the strongest arguments In support
OF the Immortality of tho human soul never
had the sermons of Ainssillon iii my possession,
aud never had one Of them knowingly either In
the original or in translation. have used tho
same line of thought nnl the language of nv
paraphrase hundred times. have no doubt in
conversation, in speeches. and In letters when
ever have had occasion to dwell upon the mys-
terry OF existence beyond the grave, and shal.
continue to do 60 whenever occasion serves.
The writer and orator who repeats md preserves
such thoughts and rcscnes them from the dusty
oblivion Of forgotten centuries confcrs au nesl-
mabe benefit upon mankind. The language is my
own, and the ideas the priceless heritage and
common possession OF the human race. My la
mented friend, Col Burnes, was Democrat In
my brief and humble tribute to his memory which
was delivered ut the request Of his family, en-
deavored to portray his virtues to console The
hereft by the hope that the separation was not
or fame. His political associates consider It be-
coming and appropriate to resort to his grave
which which is green with the verdure of returning
them to the Judgment OF the living and the con-
tempt Of the dead.
Tho Hero of Last Island Dead.