appointed a brigadier-general in the Confederate army, and he is now an ecclesiastic in Alabama or somewhere in one of the Southern States. I will read what the Senator from Indiana wrote. Anybody can see it, and anybody who knows his handwriting can identify it. This is the letter:

Indianapolis, Ind., December 12, 1860.

My friend, Capt. Francis A. Shoup, is about visiting the South with his sister, on account of her health.

I have know Captain Shoup since our boyhood; we were schoolmates. He is a graduate of West Point, and was in the Army as a lieutenant four years. No more honorable or upright gentleman exists. On the disturbing questions of the day his 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 my own are in close harmony,

D. W. Voorhees.

I suppose the Senator will say that that is a campaign slander, the vile calumny of the opposition press.

MR. VOORHEES. Mr. President, that is not a campaign slander, but it is

MR. INGALLS. He has trodden it under foot and spat on it.

MR. VOORHEES. Will the Senator pardon me a moment?

MR. INGALLS. Certainly.

MR. VOORHEES. I say it is not a campaign

slander, but it is one of those things the people of Indiana have passed on for now nearly thirty

years.

MR. INGALLS. The Democratic party of Indiana have passed upon it, I dare say. [Laughter.] MR. VOORHEES. They have passed upon it by a very large majority and no

MR. INGALLS. Oh, I know the Knights of the Golden Circle have passed upon it.

MR. VOORHEES. No colporteur or missionary from Kansas can give it any more respectability than the fellows in Indiana have heretofore. I have disposed of them. There was no war when the letter was written; there was not for nearly a year afterwards.

MR. INGALLS. Sumter fell ninety days afterwards.

MR. VOORHEES. No, it did not.

MR. INGALLS. Let me look at the date.

MR. VOORHEES. In December.

MR. INGALLS. December, January, February,

March four months afterwards.

MR. VOORHEES. Yes; inaccuracy is written on your face.

MR. INGALLS. Within four months from the time the letter was written Sumter had fallen, and yet the Senator from Indiana says:

I take this occasion to say that his sentiments and my own are in close harmony.

That is something I suppose that the Senator regards as the vile expectorations of a partisan press. He spits on it and treads it underfoot and kicks it out of sight. I will say to the Senator from Indiana that that paper was very important and influential in securing Mr. Shoup the appointment of brigadier-general in the Confederate army. When the archives of that government were captured it was sent here to the War Department, and the original is on file to-day.

Jesse D. Bright, from Indiana, was expelled for as small an offense as that from this body, yet the Senator from Indiana ventures to criticise my military record and my right to speak of the relations of George B. McClellan and Hancock to the Democratic party. The Senator from Indiana says that the accusation that he called Union soldiers hirelings and Lincoln dogs, that he said they ought to go to the nearest blacksmith shop and have a collar welded around their necks on which should be inscribed, "My dog. A. Lincoln', is a campaign calumny and slander which

has been spat on and kicked out and trodden under foot. I will say to the Senator from Indiana that the averment that he made that statement can be substantiated by as credible a witness as there is in this city at this time.

MR. VOORHEES. It is false, and even if the Senator said it it would be utterly false - just as false coming from the Senator as from the greatest liar ever in the country.

MR. INGALLS. If this were a police court the Senator from Indiana would be sent to the rockpile for being drunk and disorderly.

Sullivan, Ind., September 28, 1868.

We, the undersigned citizens of Sullivan County, Indiana, were present at a public speaking held in Sullivan August 5, 1862, when Hon. D. W. Voorhees, said, speaking in reference to the Union soldiers, that they should go to the nearest blacksmith shop and have an iron collar made and placed around their necks, inscribed thereon in large letters, "My dog. A. Lincoln", and at the same time he referred to the Union soldiers as Lincoln's dogs and hirelings.

Valentine Hick.
James J. Laudermilk.
Warden Williams.

Lafayette Hartley.

Philip W. Beck.
Helen Hereford.
Mrs. M. E. Earl.
Thomas Bulton.
John W. Hawkins.

Richard Dodd.
Jacob B. Miller.
Isaac Hilderbrand.
Margaret Hereford.
Mary Hereford.
Nelson Burton.
Seth Cushman.
Owen Adams.
J. H. Ridgeway.

I suppose those are reputable citizens of Indiana. They are not ashamed of their names or their residence. They give their home and their designation. The Senator from Indiana can settle the question of the truth or falsehood with them and not with me. And when the Senator from Indiana states that he has been endorsed by his own party, that all these accusations have been trod on and contumeliously spat upon by the people of Indiana, I say to him that that has only been done by the Democratic party of Indiana. We all know what business the Democratic party of Indiana were engaged in during the war. Seventy thousand of them were Knights of the Golden Circle, conspiring against this Union. They entered into combinations, as General Holt states in his report on that subject, for the purpose of

1. Aiding soldiers to desert, and harboring and protecting deserters.

2. Discouraging enlistment and resisting the draft. 3. Circulation of disloyal and treasonable publications. 4. Communication with, and giving intelligence to, the enemy.

5. Aiding the enemy by recruiting for them, or assisting them to recruit within our lines.

6. Furnishing the rebels with arms, ammunition, etc. 7. Co-operating with the enemy in raids and invasions. 8. Destruction of Government property.

9. Destruction of private property and persecution of loyal men.

10. Assassination and murder.