The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-10-12
NASBY.

The Corners Afflicted By the Gross In
fidelity OF Col. IngeFsoII, or Illinois.
EOW on the stump FOR hayes, Held
3 Meeting 70 DeBOunce HIm-Joe
Blgler Makes Trouble.
CoNFEDRIT Y ROAns, !
wIcH Is IN THE STATE Nv KY,
Sept. 22d, 1876.
The depth NV wlckIdness htz bin
soundid by the Ablishnists at last.
They hev Bob Ingersoll, Nv IlIinoy,
on the stump, shreekin for Hayes,
and agin our reform candidate, Sam
yooel Tilden. To say am shocked Is
TO state the state Nv my feelins mild
ly. Don'rthey know that Ingersoll
IS middle Don't they knOw that
be didn't beleeye in IeYeeling re-
ligiOn Don't they know that he
haint no vital plety
/ told Deekin POgram Nv 1t, and
when explained TO him wat al in
fiddle wuz he WuZ shocked.
await |" sighed Deekin, mot bieeve
In religion? Well, Pm ID Let's
hold a meetin snd protest agin the
euss."
The Deekiu's suggestion struck me
eZ bein an exceediuly good one, and |
determined to act upon It he'd my
mail to git thro with first, and that
took me neefly alt day. L cOOden't
stop even To reb0ok iufideIity, till ]
did my Diznis. he'd received 81 900
from tie Moo York COmmitty to he
yoOsed in sending voters to Injeany-I
4 l.F LII N,
MOrrisey instructin me how Tn yOoss
the money, and he'd to lind quarters
for All Irish brOOssr, Who he'd bsen
pardOhed out NV the States prison ~
assist in this campane, and who he'd
bin sent on to show Us how to work
repeeters 10 the best advantage.
AfOre | Good assist In rebookin Repub-
lican Infidelity and eastIn 3 stigma
on religion, ned to get all this out
ny the way.
L called the meetin at BAscom's,
TIr Church not hsvin bin opened for
ligiOus msetins ssnee Johnson went
: in 1869 IL wuZ q lively mestin.
yhen the Corners wuZ informed Nv
% impIety aud irrellgiOn Nv this pet
v RepubliEinism, there wuZ an iu-
lignashen manifested that WuZ trOOly
llcnrridgin. They wnZ all cOnvinst
That ef such cohtemmOr Nv religion
RuZ permitid TO go loose without re-
book, there wuZ cussid little hope Nv
Republican institOOshsns, and after
lrinkin around two or three times We
organized, and took the cheer.
/ remarkt that it wuZ no ordinary
occasion that had called US together.
Our liberties wuz in danger from the
Republican party, and our religion
from the shockIn infidelity NV Que Nv
Its chief advocates. We may lose
our liberties, but shsl We loss our re-
liglOn
"NOt by a d-d site % Gjackllated
lhe awjenes, ez one man.
/ then presented 3 series OF res0-
1OOshens, sZ follows:
WAREAs, The Republican party hev
on the stump, advOcatin Its hsreslss.
Bob Ingersoll Nv Illlnoy, and
WAREAs, Sed IngersOll Is an in
fiddle Nv the most radical stamp, y
man which denies the trolth Nv holy
writ
"WhAt Is Holly Writ ?'' asked a
dozen.
L he'd to stop and explain To en-
that IngsrsOll wautid tn distrOy the
Bible, wlch Informed EN-.
"Ain't we to be allowed to hsv our
egltr township Bible Wat'll we hev |
sware witnesses on in boss cases."
rey Indignantly demanded. $50 |
n go on ! down with the infiddlep'
WARRAs, The appearance Nv sich q
nan on the stump Is calkelated to
outrage tha feelins Nv the Corners,
and tsre up the bulwork Nv society, |
be it
Resolved, That the slsekshun Nv |
Tilden and Hendrix Is 4 necessity, |
and that after this exhibition nv In.
fidelity on the part nv Ingersoll, every |
wieh don't immejitly |
line US and cast his ballot for Ttldsn |
and reform, is unworthy Nv salvash-
en-.
After we took vote on the resO-
IOOshuns, we adjourned 10 take 3
drink, and while q takin Nv 1t, Joe |
Bigler and Pollock came 10. | shud-
dered when 1 saw them, for in all the |
twelve yeers them esrpIt-bSRgers hev |
bin here l never saw them without |
trubble, and wuZ never |
yit disappintId.
When we come TO order agin, Josef
sskt permisshun to make q few re-
marks. He sympathiZad with the
meetin hartIly. He knuwd IngersOll,
and knOwd him 10 be an middle and
q unbeleever. Feelin that he must
add his unworthy testimony agin sich
3 man and sich dOctrints, he wood
but Of the meetin wantij to heer him
they must git away from the bar.
II took me some time to git en-
away, for a Louisville drummer for y
likker house happened TO come IN for
y drink, and the entire msetln had
gathered around him eXpectln to be
askt to take suthin. It wuZ n bitter
thing for me to stay away with sich
an OppOrtoOnity aiore me, but "DoOty
first," is my motto and l stuck 1t
out.
The Louisville man havin treeted
the crowd twice, and there bsin No
show that be wood do it Ggin, they
reassembled.
josef than rsmArkt that sympR-
thizin with ths Objicks Nv the meet
in, he had prepared some resOloOshens
hisself, wich he shood offer, with the
remark that ef he wuz interrupted he
wood tO-wunst lick the interrupter
out NV his boots in less than u mint:
WAREAs. The Republican party Is
lissenin, list now, to Bob Ingersoll,
Nv IllinOy, middle, wich denies the
trOoths Nv revelashsH, therefore, be 1t
Resolved, That Bob IngeTsOll In
denyin the divinity NV our Savior,
infiix a mortal stab st ths DimOcrAtic
party, to wich q savior Is, especially,
8 necessity.
Resolved, That Bob IngsrsOll lH
denyin the devinity Nv our Saviour,
hurts our feelins ez DimOerats, ez It
wuz for US, mostly, that he came Into
the world and died.
Resolved, That when Bob Inger-
soil denies the trooth NV one part Nv
the holy skriptsrs, he denies 1t al,
and that when he shakes our faith In
the saviu Nv the theef upon the cross,
he destroys the only hope the averldge
Dimocrat hez In q blessed immortali-
ty beyond the grave.
Resolved, That when Bob Inger-
soil denies the necessity Nv place Nv
fueher punishment wlch shel be eter-
mel, it shows that he heZ never lived
in the Corners, and is therefore igner-
ent NV wat the requirements Nv the
sitoOashen really Is.
Resolved, That Bob IngersOIl ought
to be Immediately suppressed.
The resolOoshens, BiRler's and all,
wuz passed and we wuz agOiR on with
other biznis when the Louisville man
happenin to come In agin, the meet
in all rushed to the bar 80 ez to be In
time ef he shood invite the crowd to
another drink. The fool treetin twice
or three times, it wuZ with difficulty
l got EN- back to buZinis. he'd an
other resoloOshen wich l he'd given
Dsekin POgram to present, but the
old saint wuz too much overcome by
so much gratooitus likker, and he
sunk PROSTATE on the floor, afOre he
Good read q word Nv EN-. Then, jist
as Captain M'Pelter Wuz about max
in some remarks agln the alarmin in
ereese Nv infidelity in conscience Nv
toleratin sich men sZ IngersOll, the
louisville man assaulted him for pick
in his pokit Nv his Handkerchief, vile
at the bar, and the brOoser that Nor
Hisey he'd sent me jinIn the skrlmmage
without KNOWN where, or wich to
strike, the meetIn ended In . skrim-
mage that wreckt BascOm's place. j
managed in the row to git the LOOis-
vile mans hat and coat, wich he he'd