The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-07-12
POLITICAL ELOQUENCE.
Bob Ingersoll's Nomination of Blaine
in the Republican Convention
Eight Years Ago.
THE "PLUMED KNIGHT

speech of Robert Ct. Ingersoll in presenting the
name of James Ct. Blaine for the Presidential
nomination at Cincinnati in June, 1861
MIR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
Massachusetts may be satisfied with the loyalty
of Benjamin II. Bristow; so am /; but II any
man can not carry the State of Massachusetts,
am not satisfied with the loyalty of that State.
II the nominee Of this convention can not carry
the grand old Commonwealth of Massachusetts
by seventy five Thousand majority. l would ad-
wise them to sell out Faneuil Hall as a Demo-
cratic headquarters / would advise them to
take from Bunker Hill that old monument of
gIOrv.
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 ap-
proved political opinions They demand q
statesman; they demand reformer after az
well as before the election. They demand a
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
only the requirements OF the hour, but with the
demands of the future. Applause.J
They demand a man broad enough to COM
prehend the relations OF the Government to the
Other nations OF the earth. They demand a
man well yersed in the powers, duties, and pre-
negatives of each and every department of this
Government They demand a man who will
sacredly preserve the financial honor of the
United States; one who knows enough to know
that the national debt must 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 enough to 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. lApplause.l
The Republicans of the United States demand
a man who knows that prosperity and resump-
| ton, when they come, must come together
| that when they come they VIII come hand in
hand through the golden harvest fields; hand
| 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 fire, greeted and rrasped by the countless
| sons of toll
This money has to be dug out of the earth.
| You cannot make it by passing resolutions in a
| political convention. Applause.
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
| a disgrace to the map of the world They de-
| mand a man who believes in the eternal separa-
ton and enforcement OF church and school.
| They demand a man whose political reputation
| Is spotless a star; but they do not demand
that their candidate shall have a certificate OF
moral character signed by a Confederate Con-
| gress. The man who has
IN FULL-HEAPED AND ROUNDED MEASURE
! all these splendid qualifications is the present
| grand and gallant leader of the Republican
party-JameS G 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 audaclty
| of genius; asks for man who is the grandst
| combination OF heart, conscience, and brain be-
N ath her tiag-such man is James G.. Blaine.
| For the Republican host. led by this intrepid
man. there can be no defeat.
This is grand year-a year filled with recol-
lections of the revolution; filled with the proud
and tender memories of the past; with the
sacred legends of Hberty-a year in which tn
| sons of freedom will drink from the fountains
| OF enthusia m; year in which the people call
| for man who has preserved in COnere s what
| our soldiers won upon the flelG; year IN VIII ch
| they call for man who has torn IRON the
| throat of treason the tongue of slander-for the
! man who has snatcned 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 a total stranger to defeat. APP
| plause.l
Like armed warrior,
LIKE A PLUMED KNIGHT,
! James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the
| American Congress and threw his shining lance
full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the
! defamers of his country and the maligners OF
! its 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.l.
James q. Blaine is now and has been for years
| the bearer of the sacred standard of the Repub
! licaa party. l call it sacred because no human
| 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 all her supporters; in the name
| of all her soldiers liying;in the name OF all her
soldiers dead upon the field of battle, and in the
| name OF those who persisted in the skeleton
clutch of famine at Andersonville and Libby,
| whose sutferings he so wildly remembers, Hi
! nois-Illinois dominates for the next President
of this country that prince of parliamen Mt arians
that leader OF leaders-James Ct. Blaine.