The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-28
.AnADDeaIt TO the Fathers OF the
Revolution.
HAPPY ILLUSTRATIONS.
UNBOUNDED APPLAUSE.

1t is conceded by all having the
capacity to form or express an honest
opinion that the speech of Col. II. G. I
Ingersoll, at Turner Hall on Saturday
night, was the most able, eloquent,
convincing and uuanswerable ever
delivered in this city. 49, slsd1 \
Turner Hall was literally packed
full, every seat and every available
standing place being occupied-nearly
one hundred persons being on the
stage with the speaker. The Cres-
cent City Silver Band was present,
and played as if inspired especially
for the occasion. sa,sr gaf aol '''-'
A very large number of the most
intelligent, highly cultivated and re-
spectacle ladies of the city were pres
emit, who, by the heartiuess with
which they Joined in the frequent
outbursts of applause, manifested
their appreciation of the mastery
effort, which was so temperate IN
tone, chaste in diction, sound
in logic, and a withal, so full
of genuine wit and pointed sar
easm, that % it drew forth round
after round of applause, and set all
sides aching with laughter. As was
truly said of his indianapolis speech
by the correspondents Gof the Oincin-
natl Commercial, were all the sdject-
ives of excellence i'm" Webster's I'm
abridged 2 concentrated into one
containing the essence ofall, itwould
fail to express the superioritylof the
speech---eVen averbatim report would
fail to give a just conception
of the inimitable style and force
of his several arguments and their
illustrations. It was beautifully
comprehensive, grouping together the
premise, argument and logical Sc
quence SO closely and yet so clearly
that every mind, not stolidly stupid
could grasp it in a moment.
The speech was a comprehensive
and unanswerable, vindication of the
Republican party from 1860 to the
present time, and a consequent con-
viction ofthe Democratic party as the
authors of all our national woes and
distresses. -,.5
He vindicated the conduct of the
war by referring to the action OF the
Revolutionary Fathers" to whom
Democratic orators so often appeal.
and showed how they made war,
made arbitrary arrests committing
men to prison summarily. for simply
writing to their friends that the colo
MES showed signs of growing tired of
the contest. He said " the Union
men who put down the rebellion are
called to an account by the men who
Inspired therebellion. A pretty party
truly, to call US to an account. 'oi
He enumerated the various offences
charged to the account of the Union
Republican party, and gave parallel
incidents in the history of the Revo-
luton, in which the severity exer-
cised towards tories and loyalists far
transcended the harshest measures
resorted to by the nation during the
late rebellion. lie showdi how the.
colonists. by their Councils, had or
dered the arbitrary arrest of all per-
sons who by act or word indicated a
spirit inimical to the colonies and
whose going at large would en-
danger the liberty of the colo
MES. He quoted from letters
written by General Washington, ad-
vising the arresting. disarming. and
imprisoning of allwho abused or mis-
represented the friends of liberty. A
considerable portion of his speech
was made up of these extracts from
the actions of the Revolutionary
Fathers; and he laid it down as a
principle that whatever our fathers
had done to establish liberty we had
O. right to do to preserve it. 9dT al
He gave many amusing instances of
constitutional" and conservative
Democrats 2 who had been "arbi-
trarily aud 'unconstitutioually'
brought to grief by these '..petty
tyrants" of Colonial times. They
had committed men to close Jail for
refusing to- take Continental money,
and made them pay their own ex-
penses while thus imprisoned. I'm
der the tyrannical administration y
of Abraham Lincoln, petty Circuit
Judges had refused to take green.
backs, and had pronounced them
Unconstitutional" He said it. re-
minded him of a tumble bug planting
| itself in front of locomotive and
threatening to break up the entire
railroad system of'the worldl ait
/. He Illustrated the question Of negro
equality and negro superiority, Of
which Democrats express such fears,
by representing a race course, on
which we're entered for the race noble
steeds, 9 having the blood of the
desert In their VEINS" scrub horses
with name and tail full of cuckle burs
and perhaps a few mules, or some
thing worse. 1t was not the mobile
steed, with distended nostrils, con
! sclous Of his superiority, that feared
= being outstripped, but the scrub horse
that felt the warm breath of the mule
upon his tail. The application of the
e Illustration was readily made.