Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
"NO PARTY GAN REFORM ITSELF"
An Extract from Colonel IngersoIIs Aurora
Speech.


Ingersoll the oftenest in the campaign
say that the greater part OF every
speech is entirely new. The follow
ing extract Is full of the many fresh
and Incompatible hits in his speech
at Aurora yesterday
We are told by the democratic
leaders that ono party can reform it
self" This is laid down as self evil
dent proposition. I admit that it is
true.
"No party can reform itself !"
Every State that seeded from the
Union was Democratic State. Every
man that voted for secession was and
in Democrat.
"No party can reform itself !"
The men that fired upon Fort Sum-
ter were Democrats. Every man that
tried to tear the old flag out of
heaven was and is a Democrat. Every
man shat pierced the glorious banner
with shot and shell was a Democrat
Every man that shot Union soldier
was Democrat
NV PAL SohA AICSh
Every union man that has scar
upon his body, received in defense of
his country, has upon him a souvenir
of theDemocratlc party. Every man
that starved a union soldier was a
Democrat. Every man that denied to
furnishing negro the worm eaten
crust of famine was Democrat.
"No party can reform itself J"
All the cruel keepers of Libby and
Andersonville were Democrats
Every man thai hunted Union men
with bloodhoutds was and is Dem
crat. When come poor union soldier,
insane with famine, saw in his dream
the face of his mother, and dreamed
that she called and beckoned, and he,
following the sacred vision, stepped
one step beyond the dead line, the
wretch thst put bullet through his
loving heart was and is democrat.
"No rarity can reform ITSELF"
Eve,y man that tried to destroy
this government that slavery might
live every man that wept over the
cor.se of human bondage every
MN who fought for the right to whip
women, to sell them, and to steal
Jabes, was and is Democrat.
"No party can reform itself"
Every man that regarded blood
hounds the necessary partners of
Republican government; every man
that wanted to hear the baying mu-
sic of these hounds as they pursued
women through tangled swamps, was
and is Democrat.
"No party can reform ITSELF"
Every rebel sympathizer in the
North-every "Knight of the Golden
Circle every "Son of Liberty
every one Of those that tried to re-
lease rebel prisoners, that tried to in
augurate cruel war in the North, that |
wanted to burn the roofs that pro-
tected the wives and children of SOL
diers, while the brave husbands and |
fathers were in the field fighting for
the sacred rights of men, was and is
a Democrat.
mo party can reform ITSELF"
Every man who denounced Lincoln
as a tyrant, every man that resisted
the draft, every man that slandsred
and maigned the credit of the gov
eminent, every man that tried to burn
the cities of the North, every man
that tried to spread smallpox and |
yellow fever, was and is Democrat. !
mo party can reform itself!'
Every man that resolved the war ga
failure every man that swore our
glorious nation was but confederacy |
that this government had not the
right of self-defense-every man that
denounced the war as an courage"
and our soldiers as ''hirelings," was
and is a Democrat.
"No party can reform itself!'
Every masked murderer in the
South, every White-Liner, every
butcher at Hamburg, every man that
looks upon patriotism as a crime, is a
Democrat.
"No party can reform itself"
Every enemy the United States has
had for twenty years upon sea or land
is a Democrat Every traitor since
the days of Benedict Arnold has been
a Democrat.
"No party can reform itself!''