The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-09-28
Speech Of the Eloquent Orator at Cooper
Union. New York.
The Most Enthusiastic Meeting
New York Has Seen For Years.
Democracy and Copperheadism
Handled without Gloves.
A ScnthinG Review OF These
Twin Evils.


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drew out one Of the largest and most enthu-
siastic meetings that the Republicans Of New
York have ever held. The hall of the Union
was packed from front 10 rear including the
platform and the organ loft, with the lead
ing men OF the city. Among those present
Cbauncey NJ. Dspew, Hon. Hamilton Fish,
Jr., Gen. George II. Sharpe, Rev. M. II.
Storrs, Rev. Henry Highland Garrett, Hon.
John d. Lawson, Hon. Lloyd Aspinwall,
Hon. Ersstus @. Benedict, Hon. Sinclair
Tousey, Hon. Zachariah Chandler. Hon.
Bliss, Hon. Isaac II. Bailey, Police Justice
Morgan, Commissioner George W. Blunt,
ex-Police Commissioner Disbeeker, Hon.
George H.. Andrews, Hon. A. b..
Cornell. Fostmaster Thomas L.; James,
and Hon; Charles II. resbody;
Hon. Jacob M. Patterson, Jr:, called
presiding officer Hon. George opdyke, who
delivered a short address preliminary to the
Introduction Of the speaker OF thc evening.
Col. Ingersoll's address was one Of the best
political speeches ever delivered In New
FORK. 1t was a bold, logical, eloquent and
opened with a sketch OF the condition Of TIVE
country when the Republican party came
into power, and IL followed the administra.
lion Of the Republican party and the conduct
OF the Democratic party down TO the present
time. 1t wound up with q consideration Of
the two great questions Of the day the finan-
cial problem and the question Of the main
tersnce Of the rights Of citizenship. Col.
Ingersoll spoke for nearly two hours, and
held the complete attention of his audience
from the beginning 20 the end lie was in
terrupted y score of times by applause and
cheers. which were ~partculsfy animated
when he read the dispatches from Maine,
and when he referred to Hon. James q.
Blaine and Abraham Lincoln,
&, address OF Col. IngersoII.
Col. Ingersoll spoke substantially as fol-
lows:
LADIES AND G%ESrLEMEs-I am lust on my
way home from the gallant State Of Maine, and
there has followed me a telegraphic dispatch
not good. you may swear l would not read 1t.
Every Consre ssional District. every County
I IG Maine and iss a2i.s g, That ~ a i. Large Ts,orm maIor X:
victory is overwhelming and the majority will,
A.voicc. Wei are on the homestrctch. Laugh.
MI. Ingersoll. That dispatch lie signed by
that knight. erraut Of political %chivalry. James
g; Blaine; tCheers; ,.,, n,,,,.. =. ...,,u
the votes Of this people; one wishes to retain the
power that 1t has held for sixteen years. the
other wishes ONCE. LIaughter:l The Demo:
. wolf. has been looking in at the National Cap.
itol and scratching at the doors of the White
House for sixteen years.. Laughter, Coca.
hence and lugubriousiy howled, about the Con.
George, that e It exactly. Laughter The
open. and asks every man, woman and
child In this broad country to read Its every
word; and say TO you there is not a line. a
onlyan honor to the Republican party, but to
the human. race. tCheers.l On every page Of
that record is recorded some great and glorious
action done either for the liberty of man or the
preservation Of our common country. ZAP.
iplause.l We ask every body to read its every
word. The Democratic party comes before you
and stain and treason. and Islander and maligni.
ty, and asks You not to read a solitary word Of
what 1t has done, but be kind enough to take its
Infamous promise for what 1t will do. Allow me
10 say here that character-good character-rest
upon a record, and not upon a prospectus. Zap.
plause.l A man has a good or a bad character
accomplished, and not by what he promises to
do. II promises would make a good reputation,
Samuel j. Tildcn and the Democratic party would
have one in twenty four hours. daughter; /
propose to tell you this evening. my friends, a
little Of the history Of the Republican party, u lit
ue Of the history of the Democratic party, and
first the Republican party.
try; II is the only free country upon this earth,
it Is the only republic that was ever established
among men. We have read. we have heard, Of
the republic Of Greece, OF Egypt, Of Venice; we
he have heard Of the free cities Of Europe. There
never was q republic in Venice. there never was
. republic IN Rome. there never was a republic
in Athens, there never was a free city in Europe,
there never was a Government not cursed with
caste. there never was a Government not cursed
with slavery, there never was q Government not
publican party Of The United States made this a
higher title q nobility than this. that belong
making this Republican party a fact. In order
for you to ascertain what the Republican party
did for us-for us-l mean to refresh ourselves,
now and then. in order TO refresh ourselves. In
order to understand what this great party has &C.
oomplished, let us for o moment consider the
state OF the country when
TIE REPUBLICAN, PARTY
was born. When the Republican party was
born there was on the Statute Book Of the United
slave law Of isse, under provisions Of which
every man in the State Of New York was made
by law a bloodhound, and could be set, could he
s,'s ssaa qpo Rs S SsssG she y Tf ise ssa%Rl, e.. Sss's saae as
you would hiss a dog upon Q Wild beast. That
was the fugitive law OF $780,. 1t made every
% Sis n;se eEs = Collar hSr'n sna .n %sn aid ! moi ia !; put .h roa asi
cency to put the mans name on the collar. but
they put the name Of his master. have said it
In the State Of Maine, several times. and ex.
heard 4 outraged the religious sentiment OF the
Democratic party and shocked the piety OF that
osgaa abs.s sr6 ~ SAYING i; saa VI. 3. ! did
law Of 1850 would have disgraced he'll in her
Rsi asssiy aa N q, l La WSssr,b SATIN A. the , ssmo u time 9
law. by virtue OF which hospitality became an
indictable offense. There was q law by virtue OF
which charity became q crime, and n man, Sim
Ply for an act Of kindness exercised. could be in:
dicted, Imprisoned and fined. IL was the law Of
Illinois. Of my State, that il ! gave q drop Of cold
water or 2 crust OF bread to a poor fugitive from
slavery could be indicted, aned and impris-
der the infamons black laws OF tho Western
states when the Republican party was born, II a
woman, ninety nine one .hundredths white. had
escaped from slavery, carrying her child In her
arms, had gone through, wiidernesses, and
Jungle. aud swamp, and river, and finally. got
within one foot Of Tree sol. with the light Of The
have been an indictable offense 10 have given her
a drop Of water and acrust Of bread. And under
the fugitive slave law y was the duty Of q North.
ern citizen claiming to be a freeman 10 clutch that
woman and hand her back " the dominion Of the
hound. the Democrat and the lash. [Cheers.
what moref The institutios Of slavery had pol
south, but a large proportion Of the Church IN
the North, so that ministers stood up IN theil
Puiplts. here and In New England. and defended
n every laws that l have mentioned. Not onlJ
z but the Presbyterian Church South, in 1903,
met In Generai synod and passed three resolu,
tisns. I've 81 Ms'ih were; "Rssolysd. Tia TIA,
God raised up the Presby terrain Church South Il
protect and perpetuate that institution" All
have 10 say that II God did ii he never chose q
| more Infamous instrument TO carry out a more
diabolical object; Laughter What more had
slavery doneg II had corrupted our courts st
that In nearly every State OF this Union, II O Dem
ocrat had gone to the hut Of q poor negro and shol
dow his wife and children before his eyes, and
strangled the babe In the cradle, his testimony
was valueless, and he was not allowed TO appear
before q Grand Jury and prosecute the wretch
Justice 70 him was not only blind. but II wai
deaf, and that was the idea Of Justice in the
born
y BIRTH oY THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.
When that party was born the bay Of the blood.
hound was the music Of the nation. The dome OF
The Capitol at Washington cast It's shadows
upon slave. pens In which crouched and shud.
dered mothers from whose breasts babes had
Deen torn by wretches who are now for honesty
and reform. Then II = poor negro had titled d
farm and watered 1t with the sweat Of honest
labor, and II 0 Democrat came along and seized
United states did not know TO whom that corn
belonged tCheers.J And when that question
came TO be tried, the learned Judges read all the
books and all the platforms OF the Democratic
party, ana pushed their spectacles back on their
noble and expansive forebeads, and came TO the
combustion that the Democrat owned that corn.
Lsnghter and applause,l At the. time
me republican party came into existence