Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-11
BOB INGERSOLL
Goes to Europe Principally to Inquire
into the Life of Burns-What he has
TO Say about Ha3 es's Expulsion
from the White House.

New York Sun, August 18th: Colonel Boz
IDgersoll leaned against the rail OF the quar-
ter-deck Of the steamship Rhein, yesterday
afternoon, placidly smoking, and contem
plating the hurry burly of preparation for
sailing. He wore an easy fitting suit of blue
flannel, and a white beaver was care!essiy
pushed back from his forehead. Mrs. Inger-
soil and the Misses Ingersoll, blooming
maidens, the youngest being an exact softened
and colored likeness of her father, sat on
s. / , IL Europe. Most of our time will @
sp-nt In Scotland, for l go to Europe princi-
pally to inquire into the life of Robert Burns.
regard HIM as second only to Shakes peare
in poetry. Shakespeare was the palace, but
he WAS the cottage OF poetry; and the houses
between were not worth much. Then Burns
was probably the stJutest enemy that Calvin
ism ever had. His Holy Willy's Prayer
the best argument against Calvinlsm. |
don't like Calvinlsm; 1t is hidebOund, and a
deal less att. active that Catholicism, which 1T
was designed to supersede. Catholicism is
willing to let you have good TIME here be-
low, it you pay for it; but CalvinIsm is not
whether you pay or not. The pithiest opln-
ion that was expressed of Purltanism is at
trlbuted to Macaulay, VIC n he said that the
Puritans objected to bull batting, not be-
canse it was cruelty to the bulls but because
the spectators liked it. Now, / believe in
enjoying this life reasonably according to
the means at my disposal, and | don't take
stock IN any creed that keeps US worrying
about what is beyond. No one can know
what is to come afterward. Why, 1t would
be just as reasonable for me to worry myself
about the future state as 1t would be for me
to rush ashore, lay 10 a heavy stock of tales
about appalling shlpwrecks, and the suffer-
ings of shipwreoked men while cIiuging for
their lives to spars and hencoops, and lose
all the enjoyment that l expect to derive
from the voyage in reading them: This is a
sound and trim ship, and there's plenty Of
beer aboard-though, by the way, the only
beverages that enjoy are champagne and
claret-and / don't propose to make
myself miserable. intend to learn
German, and to be able to ask for what
ever want when land. Oh yes, we intend
to visit the exposition. From Pans we will
shall endeavor to find as many of the oldest
inhabitants as possible. | may not be able to
End out great deal about HIM that is new,
yet may obtain new light upon parts of his
history that viii double their interest. Yes,
| intend to lecture on Burns next winter.
think that he is IN some quarters moderated,
because he did not have what is called
higher education. Now, my estimation of
higher education = that, excepting in rare
cases, it crowds out whatever OF natural
genius a man may be born with. ="
Twill you make any more speeches In the
political Geld, colonel, when you return?"
IL cannot say positively now whether | will
or not. The party that is to carry tiS copu-
try IN the future must do something for the
workingmea. Their need is the vital demand
of the hour think that a government of
the United States that cannot assure every
industrious man a house of three or four
rooms, a wife and three or four children, and
plenty of food, clothing and fuel, when we
have millions upon mi hons Of acres of land
TO Weld food and articles of exchange with
Europe has no right to exist"
Would you stump for Grant?''
az don't believe that Grant will be the
nominee of the Republican party for 1880.
HAYES hes made some people think Of Grant
favorably as compared with himself. Grant
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