Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-10-12
NASBY.
The Corners Afflicted by Bob
Ingersoll's Infidelity.
A Meeting Held for the Purpose OF
Den0uacing Him.
How Joe Bigler, the Carpet-Bagger.
Interfered with the Proceedings.

IN THE STATE wv kENTUCKY, sept.
%. 1876.-Tne depth Nv wickedniss
hes bin sounded Dy the Ablshn lists
at last. They hev Bob lngersol. Nv
Illinoy, on the stump, shreeking for
Hayes, and agin our Reform candi-
date Samyooel Tilden. To say | am
shocked is to state the state Nv my
feelins mildly. Don't they know
that Ingersoll is an fiddle? Don't
they know that he don't believe ir
revealed religion Don't they know
that he haint no vital piety?
told Deekin Pogram of it, and |
when | explained to him wat an
middle he wuz, he wuz shocked.
"What" sighed the Deokin, mot
believe in religion Well, I'm id.
Let's hold meetin' and protest agin |
the cuss."
The Deekin's suggestion struck
me ez bein an exceedinly good one,
and | determined to act upon it. l
he'd my mail to get thro with first,
and that took me neerly all day.
cooden't stop even TO rebook infid-
deity till did my biznis. | he'd re-
ceived $1,000 from the Moo York
Committy to be yoozed in sending
voters TO Ingeany L he'd to reed
two letters from John Morrlsey in
structin me how to yoose the money;
and i he'd to fnd quarters for al
Irish broosor, who he'd bin pardoned
out Nv the States Prison to assist in
this campane, and who he'd bin sent
on to show Us how to work reporters
to the best advantage. Afore
Good assist in rebookin Republican
in6ddelty and castn q stigma on re-
ligion, | bed to get all this out Nv
the way.
| called the meetin at Bascom's,
our church not havin bin opened for
religious meotins sence johnson
went out in 1869. It wuz a lively
meetln. When tho Corners wuz in
formed of the impiety and irreligion
Nv this pct Nv Republikinism, there
WIZ an indignashen manifested that
wuz trooly encurridgin. They wuz
all co4viust that, eft such contem-
mer w religion wuz permitted to go
loose without rebook, there wuz
cussid little hope Nv Republican in
sti ooshens and, after drlnkln
around two or three times, we
organized, takin the cheer.
| remarkt that it wuz no ordinary
occasion that he'd called us together.
Our liberties wuz in danger from the
Republican party, and our religion
from the shockin infdelity Nv one Nv
it's cheef advocates. We may lose
our liberties, but shell We lose our re-
ligion
"Not by a d ID site p ejsckIated
the awjence, ez one man.
then presented a series w reso-
looshens, ez follows
WAREAs, The Republican party hev, on
the stump, adyocatin Its heresIes, Bob lnger-
soil, Nv lllinoy and
WAREAs, Sed Ingersoll is an middle nv
the most radical stamp, man witch denies the
trooths Nv Holy Writ
"Wat is Holy Writ ?" asked
dozen.
[ bed to stop and explain to EN-
that Ingersoll wantid to destroy the
Bible, wich iufooriated EN-.
"Ain't we to be allowd to hev our
regIar township Bible !? Wat'll we
hev to sware witnesses on in boss
cases ?" they indignantly demanded.
$50 on ! 60 on down with the in
fiddle /"
WvREAs, The appearance Nv such man
on the stump is cagelatid to outrage the
feeIin. NV the Corners, and tare up the bull
works NV sosiety therefore, be it
Resolved, That the eleckshun Nv Tilden and
| Hendrix is a necessity and that, after this ex-
hbit ion Nv infidelity on the part Nv Inger-
soll, every Republican witch don't immejtly
| lne US, and cast his ballot for Tilden and Re-
form, is unworthy NV salvashun.
Afore we took vote on the reso-
ooshuns, we adjourned to take q
drink, and, while a takin Nv it, Joe
Bigler and Pollock come in. | shud-
dered when | saw em, for in all the
twelve yeers them carpit-baggers
hev bin here | never saw EN- with
out antissipatin trubble, and wuz
never yet disappointed.
When we come to order agin, J 0e
askt permishun to make few re-
marks. He sympathized with the
meetn hartily. He knowd niger
soil and knowd him TO be an iDfd
die end a unbeleever. Feeln that be
must add bis unworthy testimony
agin SIGH q man and SIGH doctrines,
be wood but, eff the meetin wanted
to heer him, they must get away
from tho bar.
1t took me some time 10 get EN-
away, for louisville drummer for
a likker-house happened to come in
7 for drink, and the entire meetin
he'd gathered around him expectin to
| be askt to take suthin. 1t WIZ
bitter thing for me to stay away
with SIGH an opportoonity atore me;
but, "Dooty first is my motto, and
l stuck it out.
The louisville man havin treeted
the crowd twice, and there bein no
show that he would do it agin, they
reassem bled.
Josef then remaTkt that, sympa-
thziin with the objecks Nv the meet
in, be had prepared some resoloo-
seuns hlsself, witch be shood offer.
with the remark that, eff he wuz in
terruptid, be wood to-wunst lick the
lntercupter out Nv his boots in less
than q mint:
WAREAs, The Republican party is lissenin,
| list now, TO Bob Ingersoll, Nv llliEoy, IN
fiddle, witch denies the trooths Nv revelashen
| therefore, be it
Resolued, That Bob Ingersoil, in denylu the
divinity Nv our Savior, irfix mortal stab
at the Dlmocratc party, to witch savior is,
especially, necessity.