Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-08
THE TWO POLITICAL PARTIES.
Col. Jn0ersOil Contrasts Them--Sonie
Earnest Words to Voters.


COL InGersOil Contrasts Thenl--Sonie
Earnest Words to Voters.
The following is an extract from Col
Robert lngersoll's recent speech in
Chicago:
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.
x The Republican party is proud of
the past, and confident of the future.
The Republican party brings its record
before you and implores you to read
every page, every paragraph, every
line, and every shining word. On the
first page you will find it written,
Slavery has cursed American soil
euough." On the first page you will
find it written, "Slavery shall go no
further" On the first page you will
find it written. "The b]oodhounds will
not dip their gore upon another inch of
free American soil. [Cheers. On the
second page you will find it written.
" This is nation, and not confeder-
acy. Every state belongs to every citi-
zen, and no state has a right
to take territory belonging to
every citizen in the United
States and set up a separate Govern
ment." On the third page you will
find the grandest declaration ever made
ID this country: "Slavery shall be ex-
tirpated from the American SOIL" On
the next r. e "The rebellion shall be
put down." On the next page. "The
rebellion has been put down." Cheers.
On the next page, ''Slavery has been
extlrpated from the American soil" On
the next page, "The freedmen shall not
be Migrants; they shall be citizens" On
the next page, "They are citizens"
Applause On the next age, "The
ballot shah be put in their hands," And
now we are writing the next page. that
" every citizen who has ballot in his
hands, by the gods, shall have right
to cast that ballot" Great applause.
That in short, that in brief, is the his
tory of the Republican party.
The Republican party SAYS, and it
means what it says: "This shall be
free country forever; every man in it
twenty-one years of age shall have the
right to vote for the government of his
choice, and if any man endeavors to in
terfere with that right, the government
of the United States will see to it that
the right Of every American citizen is
protected at the polls" X No
government can stand founded upon
the crushed rights of simply one hui
man being, and any compromise that we
make with the South, if we make it at
the expense of our friends, will carry in
it's bosom all the seeds of it's own death
and destruction, and cannot stand. A
government founded upon anything
except liberty and justice cannot
and ought not to stand. All the
wrecks on either side the stream
of time, all the wrecks of
the great cities and all the nations that
have passed away-all are warning
that no nation founded upon injustice
can stand. From sand enshrouded
Egypt, from thu marble wilderness of
Athens, from every fallen, crumbling
stone of the once mighty Rome, comes
a wall, as it were the cry that no nation
foundedup injustice can permanently
stand. [Cheers We must found this
nation as it were anew. We must
fight our fight. We must cling to our
own party until there is freedom of
speech over every part of the United
States. We must cling to the old
party until [ can speak in every State
of the South as every Southerner can
speak in every State of the North.
Applause and voice, "That's good."7
We must vote the grand old Republic
can ticket until there is the same liberty
in every Southern State that there is in
every Northern, Eastern and Western
State.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
One more thing. [ don't want any
man that ever fought for this country
to vote the Democratic ticket. You are
swapping off responsibility for dis
grace. There are thousands of you
great, splendid, grand men-that fought
as grandly for the Union as anybody
else, and now [ beseech you, beg of
you, do not give your responsibility to
the enemies and haters of your coun-
Try. Applause. Don't do it. Don't
vote with the Democratic party of the
North. Sometimes I hate the rebel
sympathizer in the North worse than
the rebel, and I will tell you why. The
rebel was carried into the rebellion by
political opinion at home. His father,
his mother, his sweetheart, his brother,
everybody ne knew-and there was
kind Of tornado, kind of whirlwind
that took him into the rebel army.
He went into the rebel army
along with his State. The Northern
Democrat went against his own State, |
went against his own Government; and
went against public opinion at home.
The Northern Democrat rowed up
stream against wind and tide. The
Southern rebel went with the current;
the Northern Democrat rowed against
him for pure, simple cussedness. Pro-
longed laughter. And I beg every
man that ever barred his bosom to a
storm OF shot and shell that that old flag
might float over every inch of American
soil redeemed from the clutch OF trea-
son-I beg him, I implore him, do not
go with the Democratic party. And
every young man within the sound of
my voice, do not tie your bright and
shining prospects to that old corpse OF
Democracy. You will get tired of
dragging it around, and won't you get
tired of smelling it. Applause and
Don't cast your first vote