Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-17
TFrom the Boston Advert1ser


 Hancock md English.
 From the Boston Advertiser.l
 GLOUCESTER, Mass, Aug. 12.-The people of Gloucester and the Cape turned out en maSse this evening to welcome Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, who entertained them for nearly two hours in the City Hall with. one of his best and happiest efforts. The Hon. Joseph O, Proctor, Chairman of the City committee, introduced the speaker of the evening who spoke as follows
 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Everything in this world that is good has to be defended. Everything that is bad will take care of itself There is the same difference between virtue and vice, between truths and falsities, that there is between grain and weeds. We have to blow the land, and we have to SOW he seed with great labor and gather the crops of ev- erything that is useful But weeds and dog fennel, sowed by chance and cared for by ac- cident, will grow in the common highway. And so it is with everything of account in this world The battle of right is never won. Fight as long you will, the. argument will not be changed. After four years of war in the United States, the questions that we en- deavored to settle by the sword are as unset tied as they were in 1850. These questions must be settled not only by the bayonet, but by argument All that the war settled is who are the strongest. War only makes the con- testants stop and listen, and the result has to be argued out, not fought out. And so o-day we are arguing the question in defense of which millions of men risked their lives, and that question is just as open and unset tied to- night as it was then. We have a country the best, think in the world. hold all other forms of government in su- preme contempt except the free Republican form of government. I look upon Kings, Princes and noblemen as men robed in the livery of larceny and wearing the insignia of robbery. When speak of free Repub- ican form of government, confne myself to the Northern and Western States of this Government. This Government is good sim ply because life, liberty, and property are better secured in the Northern and Western States of this Union than in any other part of the inhabitable globe. We have taken the men that other Governments have robbed and trampled upon, and, the second genera tion have been superior to the nobility of the countries from which their fathers emigrated We have given to every man coming to the States have spoken of an equal opportunity for winning applause and power with our selves. like this country because we all ad- init that labor is honorable, and because it is admitted, here in New England, that the la- boring man is worthy of his hive
 The speaker then proceeded to show the difference between the condition of the work ingmen of this country and those of the countries of Europe, drawing graphic pie ture, much to the advantage of the former He then continued: ''I like this country be- cause it gives me chance; like 1t because a boy who cuts cord of wood or drives Q mule on tow-boat has a chance to be Presi- dent, and he is going to be the President of the United States We have got a good country, but there are perils to be met. There are certain perils that menace this country Now, what are they? Let us be honor-bright about them. The first peril is the doctrine of State rights or State soye- reignty-the doctrine that part is greater than the whole that our General Govern ment was born of the States, when the merest tyro knows that there were no States till the Continental Congress had declared that the Colonies were free and independent States. But that doctrine of State rights has not been beaten out of the Democratic and rebel head It is there now. The doctrine of State rights has never been appealed t