The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-10-10
CoSFEpRIr X ROADS, !
WIcH IL IN rHR STATE wv KEruoKY, :
Sent. Odd. 1876.

the stump, shreekin for Hayes. anC
agin our reform candidate, Samyooe
Tilden. To say am shocked is IL
state the state nv my feelins mildly
Don't they know that Ingersoll is a in
fiddle? Don't they know that he dom
believe in roveeled religiona DOM
they knw that he haint no vital -piety
told Deekin Pogram nv IL, and
when I explained to him wat an inid'
die wuz he wuz shocked.
swat r. sighed the Deekin, mot
bleeve in religion2 Well. I'm id
Lets hold meetin and protest agin
the cuss." +f
The Deekin's suggestion struck me
On bsin an exceedinly good one, and
determined TO act upon il. I had my
mail to git tbro with first, and that
took mo nearly all day. cooden't
stop even TO rebook inddelity, till did
my biznis. he'd received 81 900 from
the Moo York Committy to be yoozed
in sending voters To Injeany--I he'd to
reed two letters from John Morrisey
instructin me how TO yoose the money.
and l he'd to fnd quarters for an Irish
brooser, who he'd bin pardoned out nv
the States prison to assist in this cam
pane, and who he'd bin sent on to show
MS how to work repeeters TO the best
Afore l Good assist in re-
bookin Republican inhdelity aud east
in a stigma on religion, i he'd to get
all this out NV the way.
j called the meetin at Bascom's our
Church not hevin bin opened for re-
ligious meetins sence Johnson went out
ia 1869. 1t wuz n lively meetin. When
the Corners wuz informed nv the impi-
ETY. aud irreligion NV this pet nv Re-
there wuz an indignashen
that wuz trooly encurridg-
In. They wuz all convinst that ef such
q contemmer nv religion wuz permitted
to go loose without rebook, there wuz
cussid little hope NV Republican insti-
toosheps, and after drinkin around two
Or three times We organized, l takin
the cheer.
remarkt that il wuz no ordinary oc-
casion that he called us together. Our
liberties wuz in danger from the
party, aud our religion
rom the shockin infidelity nv one nv
Its cheef advocates. We mas lose our
liberties, hut shcl we lose ovr religion?
"Not by id site!" eiackilated the
iwjence, ez one man.
1 then presented series OF resoloo-
,hens. az follows:
wAREAs, The Republikin party hev,
,n the stump, adyocatin Its heresies,
Bob Ingersoil nv Illinoy; and
WAREAs, Sed Ingersoll is an middle
Nv the most radical stamp, n man wich
lenies the trooths Nv holy writ
swat is Holy Writ 2" asked dozen.
/ he'd to stop and explain to EN- that
Lngersoll wantid to destroy the Bible,
yich infooriatid en-.
"Ain't we 10 be allowed TO hev our
'eglar township Bible? Wat'n We hev
% sware witnesses on IN hoss cases 2"
hey Indignantly demanded. $50 on
20 on down with the middle J"
WAREAs. The appearance Nv sich n
nan on the stump Is kalkelatid TO out
age the feelins Nv the Corners, and
are are pp pe the buiw0rfs NV -"-'@''' lh''"-
Resolved, That the eleckshun Nv
riiden and Hendrix is a necessity, and
hat after this exhibition NV intidelity
,n the part nv Ingersoll, every Repub-
ikin wich don't immejitly jine us and
,ast his ballot for Cilden and reform, is
nv salvashen.
Afore we took vote on the rcsoloo-
ihens, We adjourned to take . drink,
md while takin NV il, Joe Bigler and
Pollock ccme in. shuddered when
,aw EN-, for in all tho twelve yeers
hem carpit-baggcrs hev bin here l
never saw EN- without antissipatin
and i wuz never yit disap-
pintid.
When we come TO order agin. Josef
sskt permishun to make few remarks.
lie sympathized with the meetin hear
lily. He knowd Ingersoll, and knowd
him to be an middle and unbeleever.
Feelin that he must add his unworthy
agin sich a man and sich
doctrines he woodruff of the meeting
vantid too heer him they must git
away from the bar.
1t took me some time to git EN-
away, for q Louisville drummer for a
Iiker house happened 10 come in for a
lrink, and the entire meetin he'd gath.
cred around him expectin to bs askt TO
take suthin. 1t wuz bitter thing for
mo TO stay away with sich al opportoo-
bity afore me. but .'Dooty first. IL my
motto and struck it out.
The Louisville man heyin. .treetcd the
crowd twice, and there bein no show
that no wood do 1t agin, they reassem-
blod.
Josef then remnrkt that sympathizin
with the objicks NV the meeliD, he had
some resolooshens hisself,
sich he shood offer, with the remark
that ef he wuz interrupted he wood to-
wunst lick the interrupter out NV his
boots ia less than a mint:
WAREAs, Tho Republikin party il
lissepin, iist now, TO Bob Ingers5il Nv
lllinOy, middle, wich denies the
trooths nv rcvelashen, therefore, be it
Resolved, That Bob Ingersoll, in
Ilenyin the divinity nv our Savior, in
flix a mortal stab at the Dimocrsts, ez
il wuz for us. mostly, that lac come in
to the world aud died.
Resolved, That Bob Ingersoll in de-
nyin the divinity Nv our Savior, hurts
our feelins ca the DimOcratic party. 10
wich n savior is. especially. necessity.
Resolved, That when Bob Ingersoll
denies the trooth NV ono part nv the
scripters he denies 1t all, aud that
when he shakes our faith in tho ssvin
nv the theef upon the cross. be de-
stroys the only hope the averidge Dim.
ocrat hez in a blessed immortality be-
yond the grave.
Resolved, That when Bob Ingersoll
denies the necessity nv place NV fuch-
er punishment wich shell be eternel, il
shows that he hez never lived in the
Corners, and is therefore ignerent nv
wat the requirements nv the sitooashen
really n.
Resolved. That Bob Ingersoll ought
to be immediately suppressed,
These resolooshens, Biglet's and all,
wuz passed yoonanimusly and we wuz
sgoin on with other biznis when the
Loosisuille man happsnin to come in
agin, the meetin all rushed to the bar
so ez to be in time Of he shood invite
crowd to another drink. The fool
treetin twice or three times, il wuz
with difficulty l got EN- back to bizinis.
l he'd another resolooshen wich l he'd
givin Deekin Pogram to present. but
the old saint WIZ too much overcome
by SO much gratooitus hkker, aud be
sunk prostrste on the floor, sfore he
cJod reed q word nv EN-. Then, jisi
ez Capt M'Pslter wuz about maxim
some remarks agin the alarmin ipcroess
NV infidelity in conscience nv toleratir
sich men ez Ingersoll, the Looisvill,
nan assaulted him for pickin bis pock
il NV his Handkerchief, while at the bar
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