The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-12
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From the Toledo Blade.

p, 1S76.-Ihe depth Nv wlckidness hes
bin sounded by the Ablishnists at last.
They hev Bob Ingerson Nv Illinoy, on
the stump, shreeking for Hayes, and
agin our Reform candidate, Samyooel
Tilden. To say am shocked is to state
the state nv my feelins mildly. Don't
they know Ingerson is an middle?
Don't they know that he don't beieev in
revealed religin2 Don't they know that
he haint no vital piety?
told Deekin Pogram Nv it, and when
I explainl to him wat an middle WIZ
he WIZ shocked
What" sighed the Deekin, mot
bleeve in religion? Well, I'm id.
Let's hold meetin' and protest agin
the cuss.'
The Deekin's suggestion struck me ez
ben an exceedinly good one, and de-
termined to act upon 1t. I he'd my mail
to get thro first, and that took me mere
" all day. l coodent stop even to re-
book infidelity till I did my bizniz. l
he'd received 1000 from the Moo York
Committy to be yoozed in sending vo-
tiers to the State of Injeany; I he'd to
reed two letters from Jno. Nor
1isey instructin me how to yoose the
money; and I he'd to find quarters for an
Irish brooser, who he'd bin pardoned out
Nv the States Prison to assist in this
campane, and who he'd been sent on to
shohw usow to work repeeters to the best
advantage. Afore Good ASST st rebookin
Republican infidelity and castin stigma
on religion, I he'd to get all this out Nv
the way.
I called the meetin a5 Bascom's our
church not havin been opened for relig-
ious meetins sence johnson went out in
1869. It WIZ lively meetin. When
the corners wuz informed Nv the impi-
ETY. and irreligion Nv this pet Nv Repub
ikinism, there WIZ an indignashen man
ifestedthat wuz trooly encurridgin. They
wuz all convinst that, eff such contem-
mer Nv religion wuz permitted to go
loose without rebook, there wuz cussid
little hope Nv Republican institooshens;
and, after drinkin around two or three
times, we organized, I takin the cheer.
I remarkt that it WIZ no ordinary oc-
casion that he'd called us together Our
liberties WIZ in danger from the Repub-
hkin party, and our religion from the
shockin infdelity Nv one Nv its cheef ad
voeates. We may lose our liberties, but
shell we lose our religion?
''Not by id site !' eiackilited the
awjence, ez one man.
I then presented series Of resoloo-
shens, ez follows:
WAREAs, The Repulikin party hav, on
stump advocated its heresies, Bob In
gersoll, Nv Illinoy, and
WAREAs, Sed Ingersou as an infid-
die Nv the most radical stamp, man
which denies the trooths Nv Holy Writ
s'Wat is Holy Writ 90 asked dozen.
I he'd to stop and explain to EN- that
Ingerson wantid to destroy the Bible,
which infooriated EN-.
CANT we to be allowed to hev our reg
ular township bible2 Wat'n we hev to
sware witnesses on in hoss-cases ?" they
Indignantly demanded 600 on ! go oni
down with the infddlei''
WAREAs, The appearance Nv SIGH
man on the stump is calkelatid to out
rage the feelings Nv the Corners, and
tare up the bulworlzs Nv sosiety;
therefore be it
ReSolUed, That the eleckshun Nv Til
den and Hendrix is necessity, and that
after this exhibition Nv infidelity on the
part Nv Ingersoll, every Republican wich
don't immeiitly jine Us, and cast his bal
lot for Tilden and Reform, is unworthy
nv salvashen.
Afore we took vote on the resolooshens
we adjourned to take drink, and,
while takin Nv it, Joe Bigler and Pol
lock come in. I shuddered when I saw
EN-, for in all the twelve yeers them
carpit baggers hev bin he1e I never
saw EN- without anticipatin trubble, and
I wuz never yit disciplined.
When we como to order agin, Josef
askt permisshun to make few remarks.
He sympathized with the meetin harti-
ly. He knowd Ingersol, andknowd him
to be an middle and unbleever. Fee
lin that he must add his unworthy testi-
mony agin SIGH man and SIGH doc
trines, he woodruff, eff the meetin wan
It'd TO heer him, they must git away
1t took me some time to git EN- away.
from the bar for louisville drummerfor
ikkerhouse happened to come in for
drink and the entire meetin he'd gathered
around him expectin to be askt to take
suthin. 1t wuz bitter thing for me to
stay with SIGH an opportunity afore me;
but ''Dooty first" is my motto, and
stuck il out.
The Louisville man hevin treeted the
crowd twice, and there hein no show
that he wood do it again, they reasem-
bled.
Josef then remarkt that, sympathiz-
IN with the obiecks Nv the meetin, he he'd
prepared some resolooshens hisself,
wlch she shoold offer with the remark
that ef he wuz interrupted he wood to-
wunst lick the interrupter out of bis
boots IN less than mint:
WAREAs, The Republican party is
hssenln, Jist now to Bob Ingerson, Nv
Illlnoy, middle which denie; the trooths
nv revelashen; therefore, be it.
Resofped, That Bob Ingersoll, in de-