The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-11-08
Democratic Oratory.

The CleCeland PlaiRdedier with reference
/ 10 the recent jollitcatiOn at that city, re
marks:
The speech of the Hon Samual F. Cary
was The great feature Of the evening Mr.
/ Cary never spoke in Cleveland but once be
! fore we believe, and that was eleven OIL
! twelve years ago, so that naturally much IN
tercst was excited to hear him. Popular ex
! pectation was more than realized. Mr.. Cary
has the reputation of being a great stump ora
! tor something of the COrwin school He is
| all that and much more, being a finished ora
tor fitted to adorn any public occasional
reasOner, story-teler OF the rarest kind, and
q master of rhetoric, eloquencc and humor
! His sway over an audience Is reSistcss
while he speaks time loses its weight, and
interest never flags. We give a capital verba-
TIM report of Mr.. Cary's speech in another
column, but the general must be heard to be
appreciated; no report, however full and &C.
curate, can do him justice"
Following is an elegant extract from the
Pidthdeaier'S own report of the speech allud-
ed to: Men are devoted to party. Some
times men say that they belong to a party and
cannot give any particular reason for it, They
do not understand the principles of the party
particularly, but they have an indistinct idea
of what they are, and what they are driving
at; so man will sometimes say: II was born
a wing, my father before me was u whig, and
expect to live and die u whig,' and | sup
pose | would have, il the party hadn't died
before | did. \ great many said it without
having any real idea of what the principles
of the party we're, any more than the Irish
girl had about religion. She had been for
ward 10 be prayed for a great many times
and had been to the anxious seat. The min
lister met her in the street one day, and, says
he Bridget do you think you have got re
ligion?" Says she: Mr. Minister, / feel
very funny; sometimes think it is religion
and sometimes | think it is. nothing but
worms that trouble me" Laughter.1 Why,
can remember, and SO can you, when an
old wing didn't think q democrat could have
religion. | knew of an old fellow who had
been serving the democratic party and the
devil for half century, and he concluded
that he was a great sinner, and applied to the
Presbyterian church for admission to mem.
bership. The members were all wings, and
they looked upon the old fellow with a good
deal of suspicion, and they held two or throo
meetings to examine the old fellow as to his
good intentions, etc, and were about to deter
mine against him, when the old man remark
ed: There is one thing, brethren, want TO
say: | have always voted the democratic
ticket, and think / was a sinner in that par
ticularly." The old elder slyly hunched the
other, and said II am satisfied that he is all
right" 1t was the first evidence that he had !
shown Of II change Of heart Laughter Old
democrats love their party There was an old |
man who had been a great Universalst and |
and voted the democratic ticket for
half century, and was taken sick 4 clcr. !
gymaD was called in to pray with him, and |
finally he persuaded the old man to give up |
but still he thought he didn't |
have that peace Of mind that he ought to !
have, and the clergyman iRtimated that it |
mi ght be that he had been too devoted to the |
democratic party; but the old fellow resent |
ing the insinualion, replied: II have voted |
The democratic ticket iol fifty years, and |
want you 80 understand that. he'll or no hell, |
am going to die'a democrat" Laughter |
Men have their preiudicas