Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1888 — THE WAR AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

THE WAR AGAIN.

Ingalls and Voorhees Have a Warm War of Words. Most Exci Ing and Acrimonious Scones Ever Witnessed In the Senate—Voorhees Denounces Ingalls as a Liar and Dirty Dog. » , The Senate session of Tuesday will go into history as the most exciting and acrimonious that has ever taken place in that august body. The combat of words between Senator Ingalls and Voorhees opened rather quietly, but at the end of four hours closed amid a rattle of intense animation. In opening his remarks, Mr. Ing ills referred to the put the Senator from Indiana took in the war, and charged him with being a copperhead, a butternut and an active participant in the Knights of the Golden Circle and all of the infamies of that organization, when Mr. Voorhees opened up a pels'll!al tirade which gave Mr. Ingalls the same privilege. Voorhees charged Mr. Ingalls with unfounded and malicious assertions, and declared that truth was never in him. To the charge that he was a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle and had conspired to not only assist the South in rebellion, but to prostrate the Federal organization in the North, Voorhees repeated, time and again, that he had gone before the people of Indiana in elections where these things had been charged against him, and he had every time come out vindicated. Voorhees alluded in a sarcastic and amusing manner to Mr. Ingalls’s war record, and eaid that he would stand with the Senator before the soldiers of Indiana or Kansas, and quit the Senate if he was not approve by them over Mr. Ingalls. Mr. Ingalls replied that as the Senator from Indiana had seen fit to invite comparison between their records and their relations to the great questions of the past twenty-five years, he felt it bis duty to put on record, from information in his possession, what the Senator’s record and history was. He should refer only to public matters in public records, and should venture the affirmation that, whatever might have been his own [Mr. Ingalls’s] relations to the great struggle between the North and South, the Senator from Indiana had been, from the outset, the determined, outspoken,positive, aggressive and malignant enemy of the Union cause. “I pronounce that,” said Mr. Voorhees, rising with anger io his eyes, “to be a deliberately false accusation. I voted for every dollar that paid the soldier, for every stitch of clothes be wore and for every pension bill that rewarded his sei'vice.” , • Mr. Ingalls said that the Senator came in here Tuesday and thanked God that he had never been followed here by a committee to question his right to his seat, and with much diffuseness ol illustration endeavored to cast aspersions upon him [Mr. Ingalls], and belittle him, and humiliate him in the eyes of the American people, when he [Mr. Ingalls] had only referred to the Senator’s public utterances, his speeches, which he had never denied. Mr. Voorhees declared that he did deny it Mr. Ingalls declared that the Senator could not deny the publication he had read. It was a verbatim report, and so certified to. Mr. Voorhees asserted that not one word or syllable r«>ad by the Senator was true, or believed to be true, in Indiana. The accusation had been trampled under foot. The Senator's insinuation that he [Mr. Voorbees] had ever been a member of a political secret society, the Knights of the Golden Circle, was so base and infamously false tbat Ve did not know how to choose language to denounce it as such. Mr. Ingalls, continuing, said the Senator from Indiana had written a letter for Mr. F. A. Bhupe, which that gentleman took South with him and filed in the confederate War Department in support of his application for appointment as brigadier-general in the Confederate army. The letter was dated Dec. 12, 1860, and said: On the disturbing question of the day, his [Shupe’s] sentiments are entirely with the. South, and one of his objects is a probable home in that section. I take this occasion to say that his sentiments and mine are in close harmony. DANL. W. VOORHEES. The Senator said that the charge that be had called Union soldiers “hirelings and Lincoln dogs” and said that they ought to go to a blacksmith-shop and have an iron collar around their necks, with the inscription, “My Dog—Abraham Lincoln,” was a campaign slander and a scandal that had been spit upon. That averment could be substantiated by as credible a witness as there was in the city. Mr. Voorhees—And even if the. .Senator said it, it would be absolutely false and a palpable lie. Mr. Ingalls—The Senator is disorderly. Continuing, Mr. Ingalls read from a paper signed - by Citizens oi SulHvan~ county, who stated tbat they were present at a meeting on April 6,1862, when Mr. Voorhees said that Unton soldiers should go to the nearest b'acksmithshop and have an iron collar put around their neck? with the inscription, “My ,Dog—Abraham Lincoln.” This paper was signed by respectable citizens of Indiana, who were nnt ashamed of their names and residences, which were attached. Everybody knew what buri-

ness the Democratic party of Indiana had been engaged in during the wa r . Seventy thousand of them had been members of the Knights of the Golden Circle, and had been conspiring against the Union. They had entered into comb nation (according to General Holt), for the pui pose of aiding soldiers to desert, discoaraging enlistments, circulating treasonable publications, giving intelligence to the enemy, and assassination and murder, and it was susceptible of proof that they did conspire to murder Governor Morton. This organization, which the Senator said he never belonged to, had a ritual of which 112 copies were found in the Senator’s office at the time when Hancock wits at the bloody angle. Ip. that sajne office was found other correspondence concerning tbe objects and purposee of that organization. The correspondence of C. L. Vallandingham was in the office. The Senator, in his address to his constituents in 1861, had declared that he would never vote asingle dollar, nor a single man for the prosecution of the war; and he had never done so as long as he was in Congress. He had consistently and persistently voted against every measure for upholding the Union cause and reinfore ng its army. “Yet,” continued Mr. Ingalls, “the Senator, who 1 think deserves charity more than any man I know of on this floor, and who has received it at the hands of his associates, and who can less afford than any man of my acquaintance to invite the scrutiny of his war record, rises here and with playfulness and hilariousness, refers to the fact that I served during the war as judge advocate with rank of Major, and subsequently of lieutenant-colonel. However obscure or inefficient my services may have been, they were always on the side of my country—not, as his have been, always against it. Mr. Voorheei said that if the gentlenaan from Kansas would find one single vote tbat he had cast against the payment of soldiers, for their supplies, for their bounties, against the appropriations for their pensions, he would resign his seat in the Senate. Every word the Senator had stated on that subject was absolutely false by the record—absolutely false. He measured his words. The Senator said that he [Mr. Voorhees] was an object of his charity. The Senator was an object of his contempt The Senator said that be [Mr. Voorhees] had issued a proclamation in 1861 that he would not vote for

money or men. That was false. He never did anything of the kind; never in the world. He h adfought for free speech and a free press, but the eoldie s of Indiapa knew that he bad voted for every dellar that had ever fed or clothed them, and tbe man who said otherwise was a falsifier and a slanderer, and he branded him as such. The Senator from Kansas said that he [Mr. Vooihses] had quit practicing law. That was not true. There was not a word of truth in it. He had gone from one office to another. Some papers wera left in one office, and others, to put up a job on him, were put there and found there, and published as having been found there, He hoped his Maker would take cognizance of him at this moment, and never let him leave this chamber if he ever had been a member of a secret political society in his life. When ha was abused by a man who Mtttthat Hancock fought two years to make the war a failure and was an ally of the Confederacy, and that McClellan belonged to the degraded element of the North, he felt that abuse was an actual compliment, and he thanked the Senator for bis aspersions, and responded to him accordingly. Bo far as the old 8 uff about his denouncing the soldiers was concerned, the soldiers would take care of that. Only a miserable sqt of people, not soldieis, but sutlers cr eu.tlers clerks, or bummers, ever alluded to anything of that kind. He did not want to say anything offensive, but he did not care much whether he did or not. He could only say, as'he said to the people Whose names were on the paper* from Sullivan county, that they lied, and did not tell the truth, nor did the Senator, when he repeated what they said. He had -not tbe slightest concern, not the slightest feeling, not the slight irritation in regard to this matter, it had been passed upon time and time again. The letter with regard to Captain Shupe he had written.. It was in December before the war broke ent, and he had sympathised with thefeeling that there onght to be a compromise, As to charity, he reponded to that with contempt. Mr.lngalls—Did not the soldiers of Indiana threaten to hang the Senator with a bell-rope on a teain, after he had that Lincoln dog speech? Mr. Voorhees— The Senator is a great liar when he intimates such a thing—a great liar andua dirty dog. It never ocenred—never in the world. That is all the answer 1 have, and I pars it back to the scoundrel behind the Senator who -is instigating them He's. (This remark" was made in reference to Representative Johnston, of Indiana, who was seated at a desk directly in the rear of Mr. Ingalls.) Mr. Ingalls—There is a very reputable gentlemen in the chamber, a citizen of Indiana, wbo informs me that tbe signers of that certificate are entirely reEutable inhabitants of Indiana, and that e knows fifty people who heard the Senator. Mr. Voorhees—Tell him I sav he is an infamous scoundrel and a liar. Tell him I say sq.