The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-26
An Estimate of IngersOn.
New York Sun.

Ingersoll is clever mother of stale and
pointless inhdelity; br We because in this land
OF religious liberty there are no heshly tor
ments for him to fear; impudent because ma
ture, in step motherish whim. denied him
veneration, and he never knew good breed
ing: so full Of selfconceit that there is no
room in his heart for other alteration; so shall
low as to think there is no bottom to the uni
verse because his towstring finds none; no
roof because he is unable to count the rafters,
and no God because He hasn't invited Bob to
dinner. installing bravado for courage. asser-
ton for proof, and cheek for Conscience;
whose wit is like that Of Rabelais, diluted
with dirty water; blatant famer of the
worlds ancient worthless and defender of its
modern thieves: the doughty knight of
republican rascali'y, and nickel-Plated apostle
of gospel which appears to teach that ribald-
ry, robbery and rioting are mans chief bust
ness while alive, after death it is his fate to
riot; as comely to look upon as polished
brass kettle; as noisy ard as sensible as a
beaten bass drum.
Little Pure Democracy VS.. Maj. Dryers
"Pure Democracy"
The Mexia Ledger, edited by genuine
democrat, has this to say about democracy
and John Hancock, which will be of interest
to Major Dryer and other Hancockites:
The Ledger is not too old or obtuse, but
that it might learn democracy from the Era or
any other paper which is competent to teach
it. But it must be pardoned for not "catch-
ing on to" the ideas or opinions of its neigh
Dor, s'above set forth.
In the first place, democrat of the right
kind, is not slave to party, to the extent of
approving everything the party does, regard
less of right or wrong in the premises.
In the next place, no democrat is in any
manner bound by the acts of his party, unless
these acts are democratic.
If party has acted, and democrat dis
covers wrong in the acts, it is not only his
privilege, but his duty to rebel against the
wrong and try to have it corrected.
In the very issue of the Era containing the
foregoing criticism of the Ledger's course, the
Era counsels the correction of . gross fraud
perpetrated upon the party, and takes the
identical course the Ledger is pursuing to-
wards John Hancock, with this difference in
our favor, we are opposing bad man against
whom no sort of allegation is made.
We oppose John Hancock's nomination,
because we feel sure, he has no more demo-
cracy about him than his opponent, Edmund
]. Davis. Also because, although he has
pretended to represent the state for two terms,
he has never done anything for it to entitle
him to the peoples support.
We oppose him, because he looks upon
southern people as persons who have sinned
away all claims to the regard of the balance of
mankind, and ought to feel honored to let
him act as their representative and draw pay
for services he has never rendered them.
Finally,we oppose him because we believe it
to be little less than crime to select such a
man as he is to represent us, when we have
many among US and around US, who have real
claims upon 10 for services done in our be-
half, while John Hancock was seeking to
overun and crush US with an army of negro
troops.
May our arms wither and our sight fail us,
if we ever forget or forgive men of this stamp
for what they have done, and may He who
gives men sense and decency impart enough
to the people of the tenth Texas congressional
district to enable them to spew out of their
mouths the miserable specimens of putrid de-
mocracy. represented in the person of John
Hancock! f.,.