The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-17
An Eloquent Speech.
Justice the Corner Stone of Our
Nationality.
The Great Issue now Before the
ans People.
When Shall we Have Rest From
Our RreSeEtt Au0ietiesP
WHEN SHALL THE REsULTs OF
THE WAR BE ASSURED TO
THE PEOPLES

Colonel Robert G.IngersoII, Of Illinois,
madea brilliant and ringing speech at
Indianapolis one night last week. We
have net read anything better of its
kind during the campaign. He took
the ground that Justice to all men in
this nation is the only foundation upon
which the Republic can live forever.
1t was Qnly after we consented to do
partial justice to the oppressed and
doWh-trodden that our arms began to
be really victorious. His own language
is as follows 81
I want you to bear me witness to-
night, that we never commenced whip
ping, the enemy and being men and
heroes ourselves, till Abraham Lin
coins immortal hnger.wrote the words,
universal Liberty, ~ Great Applause.1 /
We were then fighting for something
more than a pieceof parchment called
the Constitution of the United States;
and yet, / regard that instrument as
much as the gentlemanawho addressed
the people of Indiana Tonight. Zap
plause.1 We were fighting for more
than laws, and for more than the mere
idea of Union; we were fighting for
more than empires; we were fighting
for more than physical national
u
mortal, shining, glittering principle,
that will not only benefit us, but will
benefit all future ages. Cheers
When that idea nerved our armies,
the eagle of victory peFched upon
our banners; but not till then: We
can see 1t now. i presume that that
great modern prophet, Mr.. Seward, can
now prophesy backward as we'll as for
ward. lApplause.l think from this
time forward he had better turn his
vision behind him. Gheers.I Now,
then, I am saying whatI do In order
that you may draw a lesson from the
fact, that we did not succeeded and could
not have succeed until we made uD our
minds 70 be just. This question IS bes
fore us again; audI tell you that YOU
Will never succeed upon the Con-
gressional plan or any other plan, un-
til you makeup your miudsto do equal
and exact justice to aIlsmeif. You new
et will succeed in reconsttucting this
government until you resolve and
swear before the shining throne of God
thatsyou will never forget the menithat
projected ouI dag. tCheers.1 You must
beconEinced thai whenever the govern
ment ceases to defend its defenders, il
For one, ] propose shat we carry out
the pledges that we made 70 the black
loyalists of the South. IApplanse.
When the Union Republican party met
in 1854 In the city of Baltimore and re-
/ solved that slavery should be exterrni-
mated from the soil OF this Republic, it
Twas. the grandest resolve that ever emit
mated from Northern convention.
[Appluuse We also said in that same
| platform, that AlrfJ ohnson says he il
now! standing upon, that We ask the
loyal black men of the South 20 put the
uniform Of the United States upon tlieii
bodies and loyal nnskets Ia theii
'hands, and 70 help IN crushing this re
bellion. lCheerss When the negrC
came forward and fought for thil
Il Union, what did ne dght for2
BE fought not only for his own liberty
y Tor his wife and chi ildren, but he Tough
Tor the freedom and proteetiou of lii
race. And every one of US, you and ]
by that plank which we put into tina
Platform gre reed not onl 8 10 give hin
3 liberty, but 70 protect him in tiint 1ibar
". ICheers. VIII YOU allow it to b
said that he American neitf b feeeivef
the services Of the negro under IA
pretenses2 WIN yol allow il 70 b
said that you asked tie snaRruit to hall
save the nag, and 70 b bed "a eI1i Of a7fliii
You ptofnised TO give VIII Il be siffI
great lion was crushed they fotzo
Eheir frienfls9 5oiegs5 stSeyeEf,i
AUST II 60 down IN histqFys 0f q
Z agoverntn en- IN the AfoEle q epublieal
IS the most ungratefnl; or viii we, b
our verdict in Indiana, Maine, Penn
Bylvania and New York, swear tina
whoever protects and defends this Gov
ernment shall be protected and defend