Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-10-04
JOHN J. INGALLS,.
incident in the Life of the Dead
kansan.

dinner at hotel in Atchison. 1t was
in the days of early Kansas, when
every one carried revolvers.
A drunken ruffian entered the room.
He saw Mr.. ingalls,, and, pointing a
revolver at him, said:
See here, my boy, they say you are
the best speaker in all Kansas. These
gentlemen here are my friends, and
we want speech. Now, get up on
that chair and give US a speech, or
III shoot - out of you"
The future senator looked the man
straight in the eye, and coolly replied
that he did not intend to make a
speech for any drunkard. He contin-
ued to look as the man fiourished the
pistol and jumped up and down,
threatening every minute to shoot.
Finally the man happened to hit the
pistol against his boot as he jumped
in his rage. 1t went off, and the ball
struck his leg, filling the boot with
blood. This sobered him somewhat,
and he left the dining room. Mr.. In
0e-Ai IA4th Nthb uPObulloy DlOu5tl QONE
his pistol, and laying it beside his
plate went on with his dinner The
drunken man was killed that after
noon in street ARRAY.
He had another experience of the
same kind later. He had been brought
up in Massachusetts, and he jumped
at once into politics He was free
soiler, and the pro-slavery men at
tackled him at every point During
one of his first campaigns he was
billed to make a speech at Atchison.
A party Of border ruffians warned him
not to speak. They had pistols in
their BELTS and rope in their hands,
and they swore they would hang him
If he said anything against them. Mr..
ingalls, told them to hang. He said
he was billed for a speech and he was
going to make it.
He did make it, and that in no
measured terms. He was not dis
disturbed. Still, this same crowd had
already committed a number Of out
RACES, among other things tarring and
feathering preacher named Butler
and then putting him, naked, on
raft and sending him with nothing but
bible and his feathers, TO float down
the Missouri river.
He always courted trouble in the
United States senate, and was hap
piest when in the midst of it. The
bitter battle which he waged with Joe
Brown of Georgia is an example. In
gals had charged Brown with mutt
lating the congressional record, and
Brown, after a venomous speech, had
intimated that ingalls, would not have
dared to make such remarks about
him outside of the senatorial chamber.
To this Ingalls, replied that Brown
could take his remarks in any sense
he chose, and that he did not desire to
shield himself in any way whatsoever.
He then went on to carve up Brown
under the title of the "the senator
from Arizona" characterizing him as
the Uriah Heep of the senate, as DO
litical Pecksniff, and as the JOSEPH
Surface of American politics. A due
was expected as the result of this. but
Brown did not reply and the matter
was dropped
About 1864 the Kansas Magazine.
Capt. King, editor, contained the fol-
lowing reference to Kansas, written
by Mr.. ingalls,;
mo one ever felt any enthusiasm
about Wisconsin. Indiana, or Michi-
gan; the idea was preposterous; it
was impossible. They are great. pros
porous communities, but their inhabi-
tants can remove and never desire TO
return. They hunger for the horizon.
They make new homes without the
maladie du pays. But no genuine
kansan can emigrate. He may wan
der. He may roam. He may travel.
He may go elsewhere, but no other
state can ever claim him as a citizen.
Once naturalized the allegiance can
never be foresworn."
In 1878 George w. Click made a DO
litical speech at Monrovia, Kas. In |
closing he said: by the time we
reach home and get our cows MIXED. |
it will be dark"
Mr.. ingalls, wrote "serenade."
which he dedicated to Mr.. Click. part !
Of which follows:
Once l was intthe railroad ring.
But now my hands are hard with !
toll.
I've scattered hayseed in my hair,
And BACKED my boots with harness
oil.
My city cows have all gone dry,
am no longer in my prime,
My day is drawing to a close,
And it will soon be milking time.
He was man of broad reading. and
drew his illustrations from the ante
periods of geology in one
sentence, took metaphor from IA [
nous English novelist for second.
and in the third. like as not, gave you
bit OF the latest slang from the slums
The books he read were always in
terlined and filled with marginal
notes, and these notes were often
sentences, which he made
huS and laid auav Co. f,,tv-, go III.