The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-27
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Speech Of Robert @. Ingerso, Of Illinois, In the ne
publican Convention Of 1876
The Republicans OF the United State
demand as their leader in the great con
test man of intellect, man OF integrity
a man Of well.known aud approved politi
cal opinions. They demand statesman
They demand reiOrmer after, as well as
before, the election. They demand Q
politician in the highest, the broadcast, and
the best sense OF that VOID. They de-
msnd a man acquainted with public
affairs, with the wants Of the people, with
the requirements OF the hour not only,
but with the demands OF the future. They
demand man broad enough to compre.
bend the relation OF this Government to
the other nations OF the earth. They de-
mand man well yersed in the powers,
duties, and prerogatives Of each and every
department of this Government. They
demand man who will saCredly preserve
the financial honor Of the United States;
one who knows enough to know that the
national debt must be paid through the
prosperity OF this people; ewhe knows
enough TO know that all the financial
theories in the world cannot redeem a
single dollar; one who knows enough to
know that all the money must be made,
not by law, but by labor; one who knows
enough 10 know that the people OF the
United States have the industry to make
the money and the honor to pay it over
Just as soon as they can. The Republicans
Of the United States demand man who
knows that prosperity and resumption,
when they come, must come together;
when they come they will come hand in
hand through the golden harvest fields;
hand in hand by the whirling spindles
and the turning wheels; hand in hand
past the open furnace doors; hand in hand
by the flaming forges; hand In hand by
the chimneys filled with eager FIRE, raked
and grasped by the hands OF the countless
sons OF toll. This money must be dug out
OF the earth. You cannot make It by
passing resolutions in political conven-
ton. The Republicans Of the United
States wauta man who knows that this
government should protect every citizen
at home or abroad; who knows that any
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lenders, and will not protectit its protectors,
is disgrace to the map OF the world.
They demand man who believes in the
eternal separation and enforcement OF
church and school. They demand man
whose political reputation is as spotless as
a star; but they do not demand that their
candidate shall have certificate Of moral
character signed by the Confederate con-
gress. The man who has, in full, COM
plete, and rounded measure, all Of these
splendid qualifications is the present
grand and gallant leader OF the Republic
can party-James G. Blaine.
Our country, crowned by the vast and
marvellous achievements OF its first CEN
fury, asks for man worthy her past and
prophetic OF her future; asks for man
who has the audacity Of genius; asks for a
man who has the grandest combination
OF heart, conscience and brain tho world
ever saw. That man is James G. Blaine.
For the Republican nests, led by this in
trepid man, there can be no such thing as
defeat. This Is grand year-a year filed
with the recolleCtions OF the Revolution;
filed with proud and tender memories OF
the sacred past; filed with legends OF
liberty-a year in which the people call
for the man who has preserved in Gen.
gress what their soldiers won upon the
feld-a year in which they call for the
man. who had torn from the throat Of
treason the tongue OF SANDER: the man
who has snatched the mask OF Democracy
from the hideous face OF the Rebel
lion; the man who, like the intellect
ual athlete, hath stood in the arena
OF debate challenging all corners, and who
nm TO the present moment is total stran-
GER to defeat. like an armed warrior,
like a plumed knight, James g. Blaine
marched down the halls Of the American
Congress and threw his skining lance full
and fair against the brazen forehead OF
every traitor TO his country and every
maligner OF his fair reputation. For the
Republican party to desert that gallant
man now is as though an army should
desert their general upon the field oil bat
de. James G. Blaine is now and has been
for wears the bearer OF the sacred stand
ard OF the Republican party. l call 1t
sacred because no human being con stand
beneath its folds without becoming and
without remaining free.
Gentlemen OF the Convention: In the
name OF the great Republic, the only Re:
public that ever existed upon the face Of
the earth in the naAls OF all her detend-
ers and OF all her supportorsI In the name
OF all her soldiers living; in the name OF
ali her soldiers that died upon the field OF
battle, and in the name Of those that per-
ished il the skeleton clutch OF famine ct
AndersonyiIle and Libby, whose suffer-
Iings he so wildly remembers, Illinois
Illinois dominates for the next President
OF this country that prince OF parliament
tarians, that leaders Of leaders, James IL