The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-16
GheGntelIigenfsr:
INeERsoLL.
49,, ,,roat speech at Cooper Insti-
iiis Uni" mic in New York City.
prcaI Effect OF the Western
ElecL.sr;s ElOauence on the
Law immense Audience.

The following extract from So'0iei
p,b Ipgersoll's great speech at Cooper
institute T.t New York, will be read with
,CoIOnel Ingersoll was introduced, and
.nokc as follows: Hg. -'H
,nrrs AND GEsr1EMEH: I am iust
nav way home from the gallant State
" Maine, and there has followed me a
,slsgraphic dispatch, which will read to
ToS Cheers. II il was not good you
NAV swear | would not read it. Laugh
ter 4,
r,,rv Congressional District, every county 10
u,us. Republican BY large minority. SnsetI 4.
mi ories Of 1That Il REFORM" me xietS'y A. I.
oTVrrThslmlng. and tho mSJoFity WILL ! INNS
A Voice-We are on the rOme''re'cn'
l+ Mr Ii,USnse,IlsOll-That dispatch : signed
hv lint ESieht Grant Of political chiyal-
~ lanes e. Blaine. [Cheers'I
NY friends two PollticaI, H. ia nao ,.; a."
,,king the votes OF this peop'ei oIe miG ~
s,,o retain the power that 1t has held Tor
,;,,,en years, the other wishes oihce.
t y iIh.%eSb,erJ The Democratic party, with
!ts SSngry. starving eyes Of a wolf, has
t.sn looking in at the National Capitol
,eJ .cratching at the doors Of the Waite
Iiop.o for sixteen years. laughter
't,c,,ionalIy it has retired to some con.
,sninl eminence and lugubriously howled
sSort the Constitution. Cheers and
laughter. BY George, that is it exactly.
iI,Sgblerl The Republican party
comes to you with its record open ana
ak. every man, woman and child in this
b,o,d country TO read 1t every word; and
sny 10 YOU there is not line, u para
r,,2h Of page in HAT record that is not
onIT nm honor to the Republican party,
but TO the human race. Cheers.l On
every page Of that record is recorded
.oms great and glorious action done
si,her for the liberty OF man or the pres
eryation Of our common country. APP
nlauel We ask everybody to read Its
every word. The Democratic party comes
before YOU with its record closed, rec
ord Of bio, and blur, and stain and treas.
m and SANDER and malignity, and asks
yOl not to read solitary word OF what
Il has done, but DO kind enough to take
lu infamous promise for what 1t will do.
Allow me to say here that character
good character, rests upon record, and
no. upon prospectus. Applause.] A
man has good or u bad character by
what he has really accom- lished, and not
by what he promises to do. II promises
would make a good reputation, Samuel
]. Tilden and the Democratic party would
have one in twenty.fonr hours. Laugh
teri / propose to tell you this evening,
nv friends, little Of the history OF the
Republican party, a little history Of the
Democratic party, and first the Republi-
can party.
BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.
When that party was born the bay Of
the bloodhound was the music OF the
nation. The dome OF the Capitol at
Washington cast its shadow upon slave
uens in which crouchcd and shudderel
mothers from whose breasts babes had
been torn by wretches who are now for
honesty and reform. Then il poor ne.
gro had titled farm and watered it with
the sweat Of honest labor, ,and il Dem.
ocrat came along and seized upon the re.
suits Of hislabor, the courts Of the United
States did not know to whom that corn
belonged. [Cheersl And when that
question came TO be tried the learned
Judges read all the books and all the plat.
forms Of the Democratic party, and push.
ed their speCtacles hack on their noble
and expensive foreheads and came to the
conclusion that the Democrats owned that
corn. Laughter andapplausc. AT the
time the Republican party came into OK
istence, slavery was not satisfied with
being local, but endcavored TO use its in.
famous leprosy, rs it were, for pushing
it into every Territory OF the United
States. RcCollect the condition Of the
country ut that time. Boats went down
the Mississippi river loaded with wives
torn from their husbands, with children
torn from the breasts OF their mothers,
while the same men who did this
are now shouting for Tilden and Re-
form. [Great applause.l At that time
We were a nation Of hypocrites. We
pretended 10 be free government. 1t
was lie. We pretended to have free
Constitution. 1t was a lie. We pre-
tended to have Justice IN our courts. 1t
was lie. Above all our ,pretenses, and
above all our hypocriSies rose the crime
Of slavery like Chimborazo, above the
clouds. Great applause. The Repnb.
lican party came into existence tn 1850,
when il elected Abraham Lincoln, the
greatest man that was ever President OF
the United States. Applause. Assoon
a. he was elected the South said: ave
will not stay in the Union" The South
said: "You have no right TO elect a man
opposed to the extension Of human slave.
ry' and james Buchanan said that they
had right to 90 out OF the Union, and
there was another little man who said,
@lsay 40 too,n and his name was Samuel
J,Tilden. Great applause.1 He read
the Constitution OF the United States, and
several Democratic platforms, and deci.
ded that the government had no right 70
dOanything exceptto defend itself. Re:
collect that James Buchanan wds an old
bachelor not only, but Democrat.
Laughter and applause. Recollect that
and say to yourselves: "Why should we
ever trust man and elect him President
otthe United States who prefers the EN-.
braces Of tho Democratic party to the sal.
yatiCn Of the couhtry?" Applause and
laughter 81
The Republican party
has not done one thing that was not for
the public interests Of the government
ior sixteen years. Applause The
history Of the Democratic party Ia an ep-
'iaph. Applause. The Democratic
party to-day is searching around in the
old political cemetery Of the bygone ages
lct standard.bearer. They have raised
up in Massachusetts, that old cemetery
TTesulniscence, Charles Francis Adams,
Laughter aud applausel, who had his
henchnen at Cincinnati hoping that he
would get the nomination from the Re-
publican party there, and who was equal.
J! willing to take II at St. Louis, and who
vas va also willing to be the nominee of the
Republican party in, Massachusetts, but
nnaIIy the Democratic party, wishing for
sOae evidence Of reSpectability, and
showing that no live man would lend his
name to them for a moment, have crop.
Gu ~ this old cemetery for respectability
anu have flhed out Mr.. Adams. Laugh.
st and applause, The Law against vio'
,sInS the 'actedness Of the tomb ought
0o. oe enforced daughter. The Dem