Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-22

The lecture Ct II. Clay E"gana, cd, at
Lincoln Hall last night was the mos. 'S'i!aiN"
bic and un;uuc event that any Washagt"n sea
son has witnessed. Ths audience Was aruusen'
bewi!dercd and fairly carried away as il" au
dicnoe ever was before, and never Will De agsin.
The house was moderately full, but II Mt.
Eogland advertises lecture aga'n he mu?I
needs build hail. for he will flud no room 10
Washington spacious enough to hol1 Dis nu
dience. lie was late 10 appearing, anu "i;
Gray undertook to entertain the assembly un'l'
| his arrival, but the lecturers comng aiilu
storm oil cheers put to fight all other thihg"
| but q reply to bob lugcrSoll. Mr. E0gahd,
10 commencing, said he Thought tho lecture ,au
gone up. lie had made up his mild it shculdn t
| be. A wear ago he stood three thousand miles
away at the base Of the Rocky Mountains, aud
as the sunlight died out on the Slerras, the pur
ple light OF the evening faded, tho dcwdrops
| glttered in The opalesoent air, as he stood sur
rounded by The snarlDg wolf aud the dreadful
panther, and Shack Nasty Jim-he called lla.-
~ to take away the ladder-and the Wyoming
| Indians we're on the war path. he would havH
been scared but his nerve was good, aud he
never realized any sense OF danger until the
other night when he listened to Bob lnErf.
soil.
Sitting Bulls braves we're nlwhcre. Tbia
pompous, prcten!ious io1atCd, hell bound, he'll
denying platform poutcr, Bob ingcrsoiI, fresh
from the juugIcs and morasS1s OF the Nll:slss1p,
pi, made him feel what the monsters ho had
spoken oi uever did, tear, for those monsters
lived on fash aud blood, and this monster IN
Gde on The virtue, the conscience and the MGR
atty of Christian manhood and womanhood-
He knew he was alorc in his work, but he Was
there to beard the lion in his dcu and carry the
war into Africa Even the press was silent,
because Of lngcrsoIl's making twelve hun.
dred dollars night. lie haG 20 grecnbacks
Cartier and hog case 10 Ohio where man
was tried for stealing hog; the proof was as
clear as the uoonday sun, but the jury found
him not guilty, because" sail the judge,
"every scoundrel cf them had had some Of the
meat So the press had shared logersoIls
greenbacks and been muzz ed. Now, you have
no respect for e!cQucEcc, aud we arc no orator as
| Brutus was, we are yet ia our sW4ddltng cloth
cs of the legal profession and oratory, but tell
YOU what, if 20 ether man will come here aud
tell this iufdcl IngersoIl who doesn't believe in
Adam, and denies hell, then will. He
thought he could anuihiIa(c the great iuGdcI
and he meant TO d. it. lie told story about
a woman who was surprised in her novel by o
bear. Her husband ran up into the attic OF The
house and took up the ladder with linn, leaving
his wife to meet bruin alone. The woman :
courage was like tho speakers, it commenced
where man ended, and she went Ter the bear.
Looking through the trap door ABOVE. tie hus-
band every now and then hallccd Give 1t to
him, Sal, you see I'm hcrc!' When the little
woman had won the fight and killed the bear,
the husband came down and said: "Ah Sal,
| E,,b hnnr md ulin d..
molish this Colossus Of Rhodes this mammoth
lcviathan, this Major General Robert q. Logger
soil, who is the foulest blot o. the escutcheon
of the nation, you will all come around aud say :
"See how we've smashed the ihhdeI !. Tic
country was on the ragged edge, and 1t WIS
time for tho old Radical party 10 be whipped
by the democrats. lie wished his words were
the small prx to catch and sckcn every lLtldcl
in the land.
At this iuocturo DR.. Mary Walker cam, in
and the applause which had been CONSTANT was
now lcafcniog compelling the spea ker to pause.
Whan nranr ,Oas y"9.+."A' Is" ""~':"""" NJ"
lngerso!l mad SAID there was no lmpTmVtmene
10 the devil for Jour thousand years. There he
aud IugcrsolI disagreed. For whcu man has
represented Christian State 10 the u. s. Con-
grcss, and then steps or the lecture platform
aud charges 80 and IS cents head from Chris
tan men aad women, his eyes flashing with the
| lurd light of hell, and his brow biisIcrcd with
bascuess in his attempt to corrup Christian
manhood and womanhood, | think such man
is slight improvement on the devil.
The lecturer said that nlidety corrupted the
morals Revs. John y. Newman and Byron
Sunderland hadu't scaled the AlIcghauics and
cimcd the Rocky Nlountains, and plugged toto
Salt Lake for Dothiog. They had lcarocd
| thing or two. Yet there were more Mormona
| 10 New York, or Chicago, or Washington, ten
to one, than in Salt Lake City, lie had known
Mormous like ucnry Ward Beechcr to steal
away from their homes when the gas was tUrncd
dim to make love to their neighbour wives.
This wasn't coarse. No Christian woman in
the city but knew all this. Here the speaker
pitched into lngersoll again aud sucked lemon.
Proceeding, he, lngcrsoll, says there arc no
letters from Heaven. lie did not suppose there
were any old manufactured rags from there,
nor tclcgraphs, Dor Adams express wagons.
But take God at his word, and don't put straws
10 the wind TO be blown away by the breath OF
speculation. tell you | was converted once,
and an old Methodist will tell you that talr,
square, solid conversion IS like piece OF old
vuIcanizod rubber, likely to last. lie did not
stand up there as Laragon OF excellence. Did
IngersolI have the combined eye sight of a
| ullllUu VI CdSlCS, HC WOulu uol oCC Guy uiuSs
neither would his audience. Here he talked OF
the anglo saxon race and again pitched into
IngersoIl. Then he delighted the audience with
a dissertation on mules, after which he said
| don't want Bob to 20 to hell but he ls de-
termncd to 90. lie was sorry to know that there
were infdcs everyWhcrc-amoDg the roucs Of
Fifth Avenue and the Dead Rabbits Of the
Five Points-in New Z :alaud and the inhospi-
table shores Of Alaska, among the E.1uimauX.
| Great God said the speaker, there arc iDfdels
even in the CanDbal Islands When Iogcrsoll,
the other night, was talking Of the dug out"
the lecturer determined, if he ever rot a chance
to answer him on that platform. he would make
him dig out. lie bet Bob would pcver talk
there any more after hearing him. II hc had
had fair chance, he would take the Slug OF
righteousness and the pebble OF truth and smitc
this Boo Ingcrsoll, this giaot OF Gath, right
between the two eyes lngcrsoll says there
never was an Adam. Now, did you ever
hear a dog bay at the moon? Did you
ever see dog bite the moon? lugcrsoll
| L. Il ~ ted I,,,