Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-09
POLITICAL ELOQUENCE.
Bob ngersol's Nomination of Blaine
in the Republican Convention
Eight Years Ago. =:
THE "PLUMED KNIGHT"

ISpeech of Robert @. Ingersoll in presenting the
name of James Ct. Blaine for the Presidential
nomination at Cincinnati in June, 1861 .r
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
Massachusetts may be satisfied with the loyalty
of Benjamin q. Bristow; SO am I; but If any
man can not carry the State of Massachusetts /
am not satisfied with the loyalty of that State.
If the nominee of this convention can not carry
the grand old Commonwealth of Massachusetts
by seventy-tive thousand majority would ad-
wise them to sell out Faneuil Hall as Demo-
cratic headquarters. would advise them to
take from Bunker Hill that old monument of
glory. ..l,..,,. 49,, 80 .;
The Republicans of the United States demand
as their leader in the great contest of 1876 man
of intelligence, a man Of well known and APP
proved political opinions. They demand a
statesman; they, demand reformer after as
well as before the election. They demand q
politician in the highest, broadcast, and best
sense
MAN OF SUPERB MORAL COURAGE.
They demand man acquainted with public
affairs, with the wants of the people; with not
demands OF the future. [Applause.]
They demand man broad enough to COM
prehend the relations OF the Government to the
other nations of the earth. They demand a
man well versed in the powers, duties and pre-
negatives 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 muet be paid through the
prosperity of this people; one who knows
enough to know that all the financial theories
in the world cannot redeem single dollar; one
who knows eneuga4to Know that all the money
must be made, not by law. but by labor; one
who knows enough TO know that the people Of
the United States have the industry to make
the money, and the honor to pay it over just as
fast as they make it. [Applausel
The Republicans of the United States demand
man who knows that prosperity and resump-
ton, when they come, must come together;
that when they come they will come hand in
in hand by the whirling spindles and the turn
Ing wheels; hand in hand past the open furnace
doors; hand in hand by the chimneys filed with
eager ire, greeted and grasped by the countless
sons of toll
This money has to be dug out of the earth.
You nnotmake1t by passing resolutions in a
poIl l convention lApplause;l - 81 al.
The Republicans of the United States want a
man who knows that this Government Should
protect every citizen, at home and abroad: who
knows that any Government that will not de-
fend its defenders and protect its protectors is
disgrace to the map of the world. They. de-
mand man who believes in the eternal separa-
ton and enforcement of church and school
They demand N an whose political reputation
is as spotless as star; but they do not demand
that their candidate shall have certificate of
moral character signed by a Confederate Con
gress. The man who has 5'+<' f''tt A.'ia@st.i! Z
IN FULL-HEAPED AND ROUNDED MEASURE,
all these splendid qualifications is the present
grand and gallant leader of the Republican
party-JameS u. Blaine ..-
Our country crowned with the vast and mar
velOus achievements of its first century, asks
for a man worthy of the past and prophetic of
her future; asks for man who has the audacity
OF genius; asks for a man who, is the grandSt
combination Of heart, conscience. and brain be-
meath her fiag-such a man is James G. Blaine.
For the Republican host, led by this intrepid
man, there can be NO defeat. u II rFsE -
This is grand, year-a year filled with recol-
lect1Ons OF the revolution; filled with the proud
and tender memories OF the past; With the
sacred legends of liberty-7a year in which the
sons of freedom will drink from the fountains
of enthusia 5m; year in which the people. call
for a man who has preserved IN Congress what
our soldiers won upon the field; year in which
they call for man who hasztOrn from the
throat OF treason the tongue OF Slander-fOr the
man who has snatched the mask of Democracy
from the hideous face of rebellion; for the man
who, like an intellectual athlete, has stood in
the arena Of debate and challenged all Corners,
and who is still total stranger to defeat. lap
plauSe.l -%es .E g. :1its!.'rsfg FIJI ~ sf q
n Like an armed warrior, ,..r
LIKE PLUA1ED KNIGHT,
James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the
American Congress- and sthrew his shining lance
full and fair against the braZen foreheadS of the
defamers of his country and the maligners Of
It's honor For the Republican party to desert
this gallant leader now is as though an army
should desert their general upon the field of
battle. [Applause.]
James G. Blaine is now and has been for years
the bearer of the sacred standard Of the Repub-
lican party l call it sacred because no human
being can stand beneath it's folds without be-
coming and without remaining flee.
Gentlemen of the convention, in the name of
the great Republic, the only Republic that ever
existed upon this earth; in the name OF all her
defenders and of al her supporters; iR the name
OF all her soldiers living: in the name of all her
soldiers dead upon the field OF battle, and in the
name ot4those who persisted in the skeleton
clutch OF famine at Apde sOnvi and Libby,
whose sufferings he so wildly remembers, Illi-
nols+ll hnois nominates for the next President
OF this country that prince of parliament alians
that leader Of leaders-James 6. Blaine