Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
THE WHOLE STORY.
Thoughts that Breathe and
Words that Burn.
Ingersoll's Great Epigrammatic
Speech in Illinois.
He Goes Over the Whole Political
Field and Makes Minoe- meat
of the Greenback
Theories.

The following are extracts from the great
speech of Colonel R. G. Ingersoll at Rock
ford, Illinois, September 2Ssh. The force,
eloquence. wit and poetry Of the speech will
be found to awaken the deepest interest and
engage the undivided attention:
PAIR DEALING.
l do not believe that it is possible to make
a vote in any civilized country by misrepre-
senting the facts. Neither do L believe it is
possible to influence a solitary man who has
got any sense by SANDER or vituperation.
We all want TO live in a land where
the law is supreme. We desire to live be-
meath flag that will protect every citizen
beneath its fold. We desire to be citizens of
a Government so great and so grand that it
will command the respect OF the civilized
world.
PARTY CHARACTER.
Two great parties are asking for the con-
troll of this country. We want to know their
character? You cannot make character in
day; you cannot make reputation by pass
ing a resolution. The question is, what
have these parties been doing? not, What
do they say now? That may help to
make them character twenty years
hence; but what have they been doing
Tor TIE last twenty years In
1860 and 1861 few of the Southern States
said: 1--WE will no longer remain in this
Union" What did the Democratic party
do? James Buchanan, with Judge Black
for his legal adviser, solemnly declared not
only that the United States could not coerce
State, but solemnly decided that the Fed
eral Government could not even protect its
own property.
HISTORY.
This is what that party said then does
anybody wish that that party had remained
in power? Does anybody to-day wish that
the advice of James Buchanan had been fol-
lowed? Does anybody wish that we at that
time had allowed the flag of our fathers to
have been torn forever2 The
Republican party said: THE Union must
and shall be maintained" Hundreds and
thousands Of Democrats also said the same
thing. 1 honor them for it. and I never,
while live, will say word against any man
who fought for our flag in the sky, never.
When these men who believed in the
preservation of the Union had enlisted, what
did the Democrats they had left at home do
in 1864? This Democratic party, just before
the dawn of universal victory, met in National
Convention and announced that war for the
restoration of the Union was a failure; that
il what they did. What did they do in H.
diana? They assassinated Federal officers,
they shot down Union men, they entered in
conspiracies for the purpose of releasing
rebel soldiers they were supplied with money
from Canada. / know it, and the evidence is
to-day among the rebel archives at Washing
ington that leaders Of the Southern Con-
federacy furnished money to the Democrats
of Illinois and Indiana to hold public meet
ngs Tor the purpose of influencing public
opinion against the Republican party.
WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER
What did the Democrats do? Now I viii
try and tell the exact truth. Every man who
advocated secession was Democrat every
man who drew secession ordinance was
Democrat; every man who svore that this
great and splendid Government was but
Confederacy bound together by ropes of
sand" by chains of mist, was Democrat |;
every man who wi she'd TO tear the old flag out
of the sky was Democrat /; every man who
wished to preserve the institution of slavery,
so that babes could be sold from their
mothers breasts every one who wished to
make slave by robbing the cradle every
one who wished to breed bloodhouuds TO pur-
sue fugitive slaves; every one who wanted
Northern freemen to become dogs TO hunt
slaves, was a Democrat Every man who
starved our soldiers, every man who shot a
Union soldier was Democrat; every wound
that Union soldier has is a souvenir OF the
Democratic party ; and you know it.
In the House of Representatives, and in the
Senate, the resolution was submitted to
amend the Constitution 80 that every man
treading the soil of the Republic should be
forever free, and every man who voted against
it was a Democrat. Every man who swore
that greenbacks never would be worth any
more than withered leaves, every man who
swore we would never pay our bonds, every
man who slandered our credit and prophesied
defeat, was a Democrat.
WHAT HAS THE REPUBLICAN PAHTY BEEN DO
ING?
In the FIRST place, our party preserved this
Government. Had it not been for the Re-
publican party the United States Of America
would not still enrich and glorify the map of
the world Had it not been for the Republi-
can party the old banner of stars and stripes
would now be floating in heaven. The Re
publican party issued the bonds made peces-
sary by the Democracy. and the Republicans
not only said 1--WE will whip you, but We
will pay the cost ourselves" 1t cost at least
six thousand millions of dollars-ap pile of gold
in the presence of which even extravaganza
would stand amazed. Six thousand millions
of dollars, and 400, 900 lives What for? Is
it possible we did all that to put the very
party in power that cost six thousand
millions of dollars aud 400, 000 lives to pre-
vent their destroying this Government?
What has the Democratic party advanced in
the twenty years that has been a success?
Now and then they have advocated good
thing, but that has only been when they
adopted some Republican idea. | admit that
the Republican party has done some wrong
things. l admit the great, splendid Repubii-
can party, endeavoring to do right, has now
and then, by mistake, cone wrong, and | adj
nit that the great Democratic party, endeav
oring to do wrong, has now and then blum
dered into the right
WHICH OF THESE PARTIES
Are the people of this splendid country will
ing TO risk the Government with It is
owing to what you want to preserve; it is
owing to what you wish to destroy. Some
people tell me we want change. What for
"Well, we want change" What for?
There never was time in the history OF this
country that it was IS prosperous Ss 1t is to-
day. Do you want change? This is not
only the best country in the world, but we
have good houses, we have got more TO eat,
have got better clothes, and we have got
more sense on the average than any otner
people on this globe.
THE SOLID SOUTH.
W nat IS tie Democratic party To-
day without the solid South? The solid
South is the Democratic party. The Demo-
Gratis Of the North are tools of the solid
South What do you want pre-
served? First OF all, you believe that in
republic there should be absolute freedom of
opinion you believe that in republic there
should he absolute free speech you believe
that this Government should rest upon the
intelligence, upon the patriotism, and upon
the morality of the people, and you believe
that every citizen OF this republic has right
to tell the rest Of the citizens OF this republic
what he believes. In what part OF this
country has the sacred right of free speech
been preserved--in the South or the North?
The South never favored free speech, never.
Why? They had there an institution called
slavery. Ii they allowed free speech, they
knew that slavery could rot endure. and the
consequence was they closed the lips Of rea-
son
PRE- SPEECH AND THR BALLOT
We not only wish to preserve free speech,
but we wish also to preserve the product OF
free speech After you have thought, after
everybody has said his say, and thereupon