The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-21
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INGERs0EL's ELlQUENGE.
HIS Love for His Country, where a Male
Driver ON "a Canal May Become Pres.
Ident-The questions of the War
Sill UnsettIed-Pieree Ipyee.
live Against the Doctrine
OF States Rights.


Everything IN THIS Woflu That ID goo
for anything has to be defended. Every
thing that is good has to be taken care OIL
Everything that is bad will take care Q
itself. [Applause.1 There Is the sam
difference between virtue and vice, be
tween truth and falsehood, as there Is be
tween tares and wheat. We have t,
plow the land, We have to SOW the seed
and We have, with great labor and infnit,
patience, to guard the crop against any
thing that might injure, while weeds anc
dog fennel, sown by chance and cared 10
by accident, will grow on the common
highway. And exactly so 1t Is witt
everything OF any account in the world
The battle is never over; the battle for thu
right is never won, fight as long as vol
may; and the argument will not b
finished. After four years OF war In thu
United States the questions that we en-
deayored to settle by the sword are Al
open, as unsettled, as they were in 1859
These questions must be settled not only
by the bayonet, but by argument. There
is no Argument in war, no logic in the
sword. All that war settles is who Ia the
stronger OF the contestants, War makei
them stop and listen. War gives the
successful party the floor in order
to present his argument, and the
result is to be argued, not fought
out. So to-day we are arguing on this side
in the defense OF which millions OF men
risked their lives, and the question Is fust
as open and unsettled tonight as 1t was
then. We have got country which is,
In my opinion, the best country In this
world. hold all forms Of government in
sublime contempt except the republican
form OF government. Applause.l ut.
terly detest every system OF government
that isnot founded on helegally expressed
will OF a majority Of the people. Ap.
plause.l ] look upon kings and princes
and noblemen as men in the livery OF lar.
Ceny, wearing the insignia Of robbery. l
am proud that / am an American, and thatI
live In a civilized country. When speak
OF free country confne myself 10 the
northern and western States OF this great
republic. Applause. This is, in my opin.
ion, the best government in the world,
simply because 1t gives the best chance to
every human being. 1t is the best country
simply because there is more liberty here
than there is anywhere else; simply be-
cause life, liberty and property are better
secured in the northern States of this
Union than in any other portion OF the
habitable globe.
! love this country because 1t gives to
the lowest equal opportunity with the
greatest. The avenues to distinction are
open to all. We have taken the failures
OF other countries; wehaye taken the men
who could not succeed in England; We
have taken the men who have been rob.
bed and trampled upon-we have taken
them into this country, and the second
generation are superior to the nobility OF
the country from which their fathers emil
grated. Cheers We have taken the
Irishman, robbed; we have taken the
foreigner from the aims house, and we
have turned their rags into robes; We have
transformed their novels and huts into
palaces; out OF the paupers we have made
patriotic, splendid men. That is what we
have done in this country. We have
given to everybody in the Union, in the
States TO which haze referred, equal op.
portunities to geta home, equal opportuni-
lies to attain distinction. That Is the rea-
son like this country.
like this country because the honest
and industrious man is nobleman. l
like It because q man, no matter how poor
he may be, whether merchant or clerk,
can go home at night, take histow-headed
boy on his knee and say to him, John,
the public schools and every avenue OF
distinction are open to you. Your father
NAV be ignorant; he NAV not be good at
figures, but you may rise TO the highest
office within the gift OF a civilized people"
IfApplause and cheers. We don't know
how good this country Is. Do you know
that we have more to eat here than any
other nation of the globe has? And that
is quite an item. laughter. We have
better clothes and they come nearer fitting
%. TApplause. There is more general
information among our people, and 1t is
bettcr distributed than In any other
country.
But really the greatest thing about our
country Is that there Is no other country
where women and children are treated as
we'll Us they are in the United States.
| TCheefs. Let ma tell you why: In other
countries the family Is patterned alter the
form OF government. In countries where
there is a monarch, the head OF the family
| ia monarch in COUNTRIES where there is
a despot at the head oil the government,
the head OF the family Is q despot. Here
| In this country our families are republl-
can. Every rian sitting by the tireside
has a vote. [Cheers,l These are few Of
the reasons Why | like this country. !
| like 1t because It gave me a chance. APP
plause. like 1t because man in the
lowest walks OF life can have chance. !
like 1t because boy who has worked on q
canal, boy who has driven mule on the
towpath, boy who has cut wood ut
twenty.fiye cents q cord-I Ike i be-
cause such boy ia going TO be next FIRES,
ideut of the United States. Applause
What magnificent compliment they pay
to our system OF government whM =
splendid compliment they pay b the good
heart OF our people, by making prominent
in this canvass the fact that the BOY was
poor. that the boy wascompelled 70 work.
| What in other countries would be marx
Of disgrace, In this county Is TRANSPORTED
into the wings Of honor aud lame; Ap'
plause1 Now, as | have saidf this -
good country, but there are periis against
Which we must carefully gHarl. AS ]
told YOU in the first place, you have got "a
fight for everything that is good, and the
work is never done. There are alwayi
some Eho fall in the rear. In the clearest
water there will be settings; and just 50
Il is in politics.
There are certain perils that menace
this government; and let US be homes
about It, tell yop tonight that I have
| no iayora to ask Of any political parties II
| This world. The first peril, in my j1dg
ment, is the doctrine Of States rights. The
doctrine that part Is greater than TIT
whole 1.-THE doctrine that the general gov
erament was born Of the States, whet
everybody knows that the States wer'
born OF the general government, and ina
4 their knees to George III :, and they Ter'
) NOT raised from their degradation into tn
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