Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-09-21
INGERSOLL.
The Great Speech Of Col. Robert G. In :
gersOH In Cooper Institute, New
YOrk--The Effect OF Great
Orator on His Audience.

Orator on His Audience.
On the Monday night of the elec
! ton in Maine, Col. Robert Ingersol
OF Illinois, was passing through New
! York city, and spoke in Cooper's In
stitute to an immense audience. The
following full extracts give a gooc
idea of the speech:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: am ius-
on my way home from the gallant
State of Maine, and there has follow
ed me telegraphic dispatch, which
will read to you. [Cheers.l If it was
not good you may swear 1 would not
read it. Laughter.
! Every congressional district, every
county in Maine, Republican by q
large majority. Cheers, and cries OF
1That is reform."1 The victory is
overwhelming, and the majority will
/ think, exceed 1900.
| A Voice-We are on the home
stretch. [Laughter.l
Mr.. Ingersoll-That dispatch is
signed by that knight errant of polit-
ical chivalry, James G.. Blaine.
[Cheers.] ioo se
Ny friends, two political parties are
asking the votes of this people; one
wishes to retain the power that it has
held for sixteen years, the other
wishes Office. Laughter The Dem
ocratic party, with the hungry, starv-
ing eyes of "a wolf, has been looking
into the National Capitol and scratch
ing at the doors of the White House
for sixteen years. Laughter Oc-
casionally it has retired to some con-
genial eminenee and lugubriously
howled about the Constitution.
[Cheers and laughter.] By George,
that is it exactly. Laughter The
Republican party comes to you with
its records open and asks every man,
woman and child in this broad coun-
try to read its every word; and say
to you that there is not a Inca para
graph, or a page in that record that
is not only an honor to the Republi-
can party, but to the human race.
[Cheers.] On every page of that rec
ord is recorded some great and glo-
rious action done either for the lib
,erty Of man or the preservation Of
our common country. Applause. ]
We ask everybody to read every
word. The Democratic party comes
before you with its record closed, a
record of blot and blur, and stain and
treason, and slander and malignity,
and asks you not to read solitary
word OF what il has done, but be kind
enough to take its infamous promise
for what it will do. Allow me to say
here that character-good character,
rests upon record. and not upon q
prospectus. [Applause.] A man has
a good or bad character by what he
has really accomplished, and not by
what he promises to do, II promises
would make a good reputation, Sam
uel ]. Tilden and the Democratic
party would have one in twenty-four
hours. fLaughter-] I propose to
tell you this evening, my friends, a
little of the history Of the Republi-
can party, little of the history Of
the Democratic party, and first the
Republican party.
BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
When that party was born the bay
OF blood hounds was the music of the
nation. The dome or the Capitol at
Washington cast its shadow upon
slave pens in which crouched and
shuddefed mothers from whose
breasts babes had been torn by
wretches who are now for honesty
and reform. Then II poor negro
had titled a farm and watered it with
the sweat of honest labor, and IL a
Democrat came along and seized up
on the result OF his labor, the courts
Of the United States did not know to
whom the corn. belonged. tCheers.l
And when that question come to be
tried the learned judges read all the
b0oks and all the platforms of the
Democratic party, and pushed their
spectacles back on their noble and
expansive foreheads and came to the
conclusion that the Democrats owned
the corn. Laughter and applause.l
At the time the Republicn party came
into existence, slavery was not salts
fed with being local, but endeavored
to use its Infamous leprosy, as it
were, for pushing it into every Ter
ritory of the United States. Recol-
lect the condition Of the country at
that time. Boats went down the
Mississippi River loaded with wives
torn from their husbands, with child
rem torn from the breasts of their
mothers, while the same men who
did this are now shouting for Tilden
and Reform. [Great applause.l At
that time we were nation OF hypo-
critics. We pretended to be a free
government 1t was a lie. We pre-
tended to have justice in our courts.
1t was a lie. Above, all our preten-
ses. and above all our hypocricies
rose the crime OF slavery like Chin
borazo, above the clouds. lGreat ap
plause.l The Republican party came
into existence In 1850, when il elected
Abraham Lincoln, the greatest man
that was ever President of the United
States. (Applause.l AS soon as ne
was elected, the South said: "We
will not stay in the Union" The
South said: you have no right to
elect a man opposed to the extension
of human slavery" and James Buch-
anan said they had right to go out
OF the Union, and there was another
little man who said, Il say so too"
aad his name was Samuel j. Tilden.
Great apPlause.l He read the: Con-
stitution OF the United States, and
several Democratic platforms, and
decided that the government had no