INGERSOLL'S
Great Speech at India
napolis. t SUPERB SAMPLE OF POLITI
CAL INVECTIVE.
ffit, Sarcasm, Eloquence, and Reason
Combined.
Te following 1 eeroarim report of Colonel
B G. Ing'-rsoll addree before the "Boy In
B ue" r-,ihf rlnp t Indianapolis :
T .tiirs AI GENTUMEX, FELIX) W-CITIZEWS,
" Soldieks: 1 am opposed to the
ImWTL,ehYtVceded from the United
ZZ was a Democratic State. Every ordi
"oT secession thtM draw- wa. drawn
TVrrocrat. Every tnn that endeavored
fcy , Imocr. . heaven that tt
- . Democrat. lA it
enn het tbit tried to destroy
,o wera. j - ,"K Everv enemv this
treat Repui:
T r en a Democrat
Every man iuh euut t nioa
r-, g-.sn that stsrwed Union soldiers
d rWuVd then, In the enmity of death a
!.tVas a Democrat. Renewed cheering
F-err nan that 1" lvery better than liberty
.'. Democrat. The roan that assassinated
Anrsbam Lincoln to a Democrat. Every man
tat tnopathied with the asaassin-every man
' ,nt 'he noblest Presidevst ever elected waa
Laefnited was a Democrat : tvery man who
wanted ie privilege of whipping another
man tn make him work for bim for .nothing
a him with lashe on his naked bark
Wii 'Democrat cheers; every man that
rased bloodhounds to pursue human being
a a Democrat; every man that elutched
f-m shrieking, shuddrring, crouching mother,
haie from their breats and sold them Into
, ,'v-rv waa a Democrat. Cheers Every
man that impaired the credit of the United
es ; everv man that swore we would never
rev tbe bonus ; every man that swore we would
p.vr redeem the ereenb ks ; every maligner
rt bis country's credit ; every calumniator of
k country's honor, was a Democrat. Cheers.
tvervmau that rensted thedraa; every mau
mat Old in the bushes and shot at Union men
TaiMv because thev were endeavoring to en.
f.'wve the laws of their country, waa a Democrat.
!i beers Everv man that, wept overthe corpse
of siaverv was a Democrat. Every man that
cursed Lincoln because he tssud the Proclama
tma of Emancipation the grandest paper since
the lieclaration of Independence every one of
th'-m was a Democrat (Cheers. Everyman
thai denounced the aolifcer that bared their
bosoms to tbe storms of shot and shell for the
lonorof Ameniaaud for the sacred rights of
man was a Democrat. Oheers. Ever' man
that wanted an uprising- in the North that
wan'ed in releaae the rebel prisoners that they
cpat burn down the homre of L'nion aoldiera
arjovc ihe heads of their wives and children,
w'e.iie the brave husbands, the heroic fathers,
were In the front f.irhtinp tor the honor ol
the old tic evrey oue of tihem waa a Demo
cat. (Cheers 1 am not through yet. Laugh
ter and cheers Every maai that believed this
glorious nation of citirs is a confederacy, every
man that believed the old lwnner earned by our
tat hers throuzh the Kevolution. through the
War of IMS. carried by our brothera over the
fields of the rebellion, simply stood for a con
tract, sirrplv food fur an azrecmcnt. was a
democrat Chevr Every man who believed
that any Stite muld go oot of the t'uion at its
pieanire. every man that helieA-edthit the rrand
fahrh ut the Anierican Government could be
r,u'- to crumble Instanlly into dust at the
tuch of trea-on, was a Democrat. Cheers.
Every mm taut hi-liied to burn orphan ajyluma
in the city of Nw York was a Democrat;
everv mall that tried to tire Ihe city of New
York, althouih he knew that thousands would
pen?h. and knew that the jrreat serpents of
f.am'f leiipiiij from buildings would clutch
hiid"cn fniiniheir mother's arms every wretch
Hint d.d it v,5a Democrat. ICheers Recollect
it ; Every maD lliat tned to spread small-pox
vellow t-vir in the North a the tnstrumen
uliti oi civilize-i war, was a Democrat. Sol
4:tj. eierv scar yon have pot on your heroic
boil's v:w riven to you by a Democrat.
( beers Evry srar. every arm that is lack
mi:, ever, liiii'a tint if L'one, every tear is a sou
vesurof Democrat, rheers 1 want you to
recoils, tit. I A voice "We will." Everyman
:lut the enemy of human lilieny in this
f..uuir w S5 a I" niocrat.. Every man that wnnt-
the tru.t of all the heroism of all the ages to
irnto a-hej npen the hps every one was a
Democrat, (i he"rs.
1 am a R ;ml''i' n. Laughter and cheers.
f will teil ,u whv : Th i the only free cov
ernmettt in tbe world. The KcpubjUan party
mcie tt so. The Rcrnbiiean party Hk the
hniis fr..m 4 ikki.iVhi of people. The Repnbli
'sr pMi'i.wiih ihttisndof propress, touched
the aiMion b!i..-k, and it bcme a school
nrur. Cheers. The republican party put
iin thr rctiejiion, saved the nation, kept
tie old lisirier aflrat in tbe air, and declared
thai slavt-ry of every kind should be extir
p"d iiom the fai r of thi continent. Cheers
V:il more? I am a Republican lccaiie it is
'he only free party that ever existed. It Is
party that liae a platform aa broad a hu
manity a platform as broad as the human
at a part) that says jou shall have all the
rml.if the iabor of your hands a party that
ayj no chains lor the hands no fetters lor the
v-iul. A voice ' Amen !" Chers.
1 am a Republican tK-eause the Republican
rjrty psvs thifr country is a nation and not a
oi;(.i. ra v. I am here in Indiana to speak,
and I have a;, rood a r'.rrht to speak here in
:n.1 ana as thonch I bed been born on this
.i-.c. net t'M-ause the flap of ihe State of
Indium aves over tie. I would not know tt
u 1 thould see it. You bare the same richt to
Vrik in lilir.nif : not le aue the Mate f.ni of
nnis v.ave over vou, but because thai ban
ker, ren !. red sacred bv the b!o.l of all the he-
o-s, waves vi r me and Jiu. Cheers I am
r. fa vor ot this beinr a nntion. Think of a man
-n" v,tii: his eut;:e ambition in the State of
Kufvie Isijnd. I.at:i;h'rr. We want this to
a nation, and you can't have a treat, irrand,
fien.l i people without having a pr-at, prand,
fieudid country. The gnat plain, the su-
line mountains, the preat, rufhiu, marine
:ver. shores la-l,efl by two oceans, and the
- "and atith-iii of Nmeura, mincle and enter s
t were in the character of every American citi
e;i, and make h.in. or tct.ii tn m.i h-'m a
Irrejt and prand character. I am for the Ke-
Mi'-an paity because ft savs the finvernment
aaa much rihl.an much power to nrotect
t r:t:irns at home as abn.ad. The Rciiul.lican
irty d-m't tir thut von have tm e-.,
on tome to iet the protection of the (Jov
uniPiit. The Democratic Jrtv savs th
vernnunt can't march i!a trooj's iiito the
-I. to protect the rights of the citizens,
t a he. (ireat cheer,. The tiovemmcnt
a '.u the rc-iit. and It is conceded that the
-.riin'tit baa me itcht to j;o to vour house,
t ie veil are itlir - br son. r.mA. - ok -
!!n.e!j..ren about you. and the old Jadv
Wihjai.d '' pla ins with the varn. and
rr -e-.y hj.,-y an-! socct the Government
te nt.t i zo to your fii-oiile and to
" t"H bv 1,,-te a;(j put Von into the armv ;
e.,u &u to ibe Vii!'v or the shadow of
. I set .ii l.r ,k- . " . . .
s t .-, tunny, roaring' pins, anei
"'i '"'"r'';"t '"r '"r (timers. Xow,
. I'C.i.e M h-n the W isr is iver ti vr.!ir
'.'!"" V"-"''r'",:,-,"t -vou CO back to "lour
e. an.i a f Ivni.H-rata want to trample
-n y..;.r r.,hts. I ,... ,..i..w ir.i.. .;.....:
'"V - "" vourtire-ide and made
'1 i : ;.t !,,r ii I ., . !r ... -
- -II lJ MIUW 11 11 1 UOt
.,l'l".r'""'t '"r '"uj -'hers.J The flaj
i i I .;. pr .-ei-; its protectors is a dirty rar
- r 'iiii tiiiii2-..s ti,eHjr ju which it wave,
e r.-ve: i.it.ciit i.-, ii, . ,. . ,
V, i. . j ' "ii. cot aeietia us oeieno-
m . ,uc siugni oi ma world.
J A voice : " Amen '." I am a Republican be
cause the Republican party aays: "We will
protect the rights of American citizens at home,
and, if necessary, we will inarch an army Into
any State to protect the rich Is of the humbleat
American citizen in that PMate." Cheers.)
I am a Republican. Laughter. I am a
Republican because that party allows me to be
free allows me to do nay own thinking in my
own way. Cheers I am a Republican be
cause it is a party prand enough and splendid
enough and sublime enoueh to invite every hu
man being in favor of liberty and pro
gress to tight shoulder to shoulder for the
advancement of mankind. Cheers. It In
vites the Methodist ; it invites the Catholic ; It
Invites the Presbyterian, and every kind of sec
tarian ; it invitee the free-thinker; tt invites the
In Artel, provided he is in favor of grivint: to every
other human being every chance and everv
riht that he claims for hisnself. Cheers. I
am a Republican, I tell yon. Lauphter.
There is room in the Republican air for every
wing ; there is room on the Republican sea for
every sail. Republicanism says to every man,
" Let your soul be like an easrle ; fly out in the
(Treat dome of thought, and question the stars
for yourself. Cheers " That's so." But the
Democratic party says : " Be Mind, owls ; sit on
the dry limb of a dead tree, and only hoot when
Tilden Co. tell yon to." Laughter. In
the Republican party there are no followers.
Ws are all leaders. Cheers. There is not a
party chain. There is not a party lash. Any
man that does not love this country ; any man
that does not love liberty; any man' that is not
in favor of human progress ; that is not in ts
vor of living to others all he claims for him
self we don't ask him to vote the Republican
ticket. Cheers. You can vote it if you
please, and if there is any Democrat within
hearing who expects to die before another
election we are willing that he should vote one
Republican ticket simply as a consolation
upon his death-bed. Great lauhten. W hat
more t I am a Republican, liecause tl at party
believes in fre lalwr. It believes, that free
labor will give us wealth. It belies- in free
thonpht, because it believes that free thought
will give us truth. A voice ' Tnat's so."
Y'ou don't know w hat a grand party you be
long to. I never want any holier or grander
title to nobility than that I belongs to the Re
publican party and have fouehl fur the lib
erty of man. Cheers. The Republican
party, I say, believes in free labor. Tbe
Republican party als believe in slavery.
What kind of slavery t In enslaving the
forces of nature. We belie we thai free
labor, that free thought, h.ve emJavcd
tbe forces of nature and made them
work for man. We make old. Attraction and
Gravitation work for us ; we it ak the light
ning do our errands ; we make "steam-hammers
and fashion what we need. Hie forces of
nature are the slaves of the Republican party.
Cheera. They have got no backs to he
whipped ; they have got no hearts lo be torn
no hearts to t broken ; tliey cannot be
separated from their wives; they cannot 1
dragged from the bosoms of their husbands ;
they work night and day, and they never tire.
You cannot whip them, you ctonot starve
them, and a Ibmocrat even can be trusted
with one of them. I-aujhter. I tell you I
am a Republican. Laughter. I believe, as
told you. that free labor would g Tve us these,
slaves. Free labor will produce alV these things,
ami everything you have got to-lay has been
produced by free labor, nothing by slave labor.
Slavery never invented but one machine, and
that was a threshing machine in the shape of a
whip. Laughter. Free labor has invented
all the machines. We want to tsonie down to
the philosophy of these things. The problem
of free Isbur, when a man w orks for the wife he
loves, when he works tor the little children he
adores the problem is to do the most work in
the shortest space of time. The problem of
slavery is to do the least work in the longest
space of time. That is the difference. Free la
bor, love, affection they hav invented every
thing of use to the world. JCheers. I sm a
Republican. I tell you, my lriends, this world
is getting better every day. sad the Democratic
party is getting smaller every day. Sec the ad
vancement we have made in a few years ; .ee
what we have done. We have covered this na
tion with wealth and glory, and with liberty.
This Is the first free Government in the world.
The Republican party Is tbe first party that was
not founded on some compromise wi'h the devil.
Laushter. Il is the itm party of pure, square,
honest principles ; the first one. And we have
got the first free country that ever existed. And
rieht here I want to tSiank every soldier that
foucht to make it free cries of " good !"
" pood !" and iheersj : every one, living and
dead. I thank you acein and again and arain.
Tou made the first free government in tee world
cheers, and w e must not forget the dead he
roes. If they were hesje they would vo'je the
Republican ticket, eveiry one of them, i tell
you we must not forget them.
The past, as it were, rises before me like a
dream. Arain we are to the great etrucgle for
national life. W'e hear the sounds of prepara
tion the music of the boisterous drums the
ailver voice, of heroic buj'les. We see thousands
of assemblages, and hear the appeals of orators ;
we see the pale cheeks of womrn, and the
flushed faces of men, and in those assemblages
we see sll the dead whose dust we have covered
with flowers. We lose sight of them no more.
We are with them when we enlist in the great
army of freedom. We see them part with those
they love. Pome are walking for the last time
in quiet woody places with the maidens they
adore. We hear the whiering and the sweet
vows of eternsl love as ihey lingerinirly part
forever. Others ars bending over cradles, kiss
ing babes that are asleep. Some are receiving
the blessings of old men. Some ars parting
with mothers who hold them snd prose them to
their heart arain and again, and say nothing ;
and some are talking with wives, and endeavor
ing with brave words spoken in the old
tones to drive from their hearts the awful
fear. W'e see them part. We see the
wife standing in the door with the bate in
ber arms standing in the sunlight sobbing at
tbe turn of the road a hatid waves she answers
by holding high in her loving hands the child.
He is eone. and forever.
We see them all as they march proudly away
under the flaunting flags, keyring time to tbe
wild grand music of wt m.in hing down the
streets of the great cities through the tow-r.
snd across the prairies down to the fields of
glory, to do, snd to die for the eternal right.
We go w ith them one and al. We are. by
their side on all the gory fields in all tlae hos
pitals of psin on sll the weary march ss. We
stand guard with them in tbe wild lUrm and
under the quiet stars. We are with 'hem in
ravines running with Mood In the fu: rows of
old fields. We are with them between tontend
ing hosts, unable to move, wild with t lirst, the
life ebblnr slowly away among tha mtthered
lesves. We see them pierced by balls rttd torn
with shells in the trenches by fort, audi in the
whirlwind of the charge, where ma become
iron, with nerves of steel.
We sre with them in the prisons of hatred
and famine; but human speech can m fver tell
what they endured.
We are at home w hen the news corrra that
they are dead. W'e see the nusiden in the
ahadow of her first sorrow. We ser tbe sil
vered head of the old man bowed wid i the last
grief.
The past rises before us, and we see our mil
lions of human beinrs governed by tbe lsrh
we see theru bound haud and foot wr. bear the
strokes of cruel w hiei we see thei hounds
t rax king women tliroueh tangled swamps. We
see babes sold from the breads of mothers.
Cruelty tinapesksble 1 Outrage iuliuitat '.
Four million bodies in chains four million
souls in fetters! All the sacnsl relafiors of
wile, mother, father, and child tlan.f led be
neath the brutal f-et of mlsrht. And all this
was done under our beautllul banner of the
free.
The pat rises before us. We hear zhe roar
and shriek of the bursting shell. Thes broken
letters fall. These heroes fled. We lrfc ; in
stead of slaves, we see men and wom en and
children. The wand of progres tou he the
auction block, the slave rcu.tbe whiij ii g-pot,
and we see homes and fireside a'.ui school
Iioujws and books, and where all was want and
crime and cruelty and fear, we see the,a.-e$ of
the free.
These heroes are d-.-ad. They died for- lihertT
they ui.-d for us. Tliey are at rest. They
sleep in the land they made In e. under the Ilsg
they rendered stainless ; under the solemn nines,
the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the
embracing vines. They sleep beneath th
shsdows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine
or of storm, each in the windowless palace of
re st. Earth may run red wit h other wars they
are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the
roar of conflict, t hey found t he serenity of death.
A voice, "Glory." 1 have one sentiment
lor the soldiers, living and dead cheers for tbe
living snd tears for the dead.
There are three questions now submitted to
the American people. Tbe first is, Shall the
people that saved this country rule It I Cries of
!" Yes, vea." Shall the men that saved the old
flag hold It 1 Cries of "Yes, yes." Shall the
men who saved the ship of State sail tt I Cries
of Yes, yes, ye,"l or shall the rebels walk her
quarter-deck, give the orders and sink it I Cries
of " So, no." j That is the question. Shall a
solid South, a united South, united by assassina
tion and murder, a South solidified by the shot
gun shall a united South with tha aid of a
divided North, shall they control this great and
splendid country I Cries of " Never, never."
Well, then, the North must wake up. Cries of
We will, we will." We are right back where
we were In 1S61. Tills is simply a prolongation
of the war. This is the war of the Idea ; the
other was the war of the musket. The other
was the war of the cannon ; this is the war of
thought, and we have got to beat them in this
war of thought ; recollect that. Tbe question
is, Shall the meu that endeavored to destroy this
country nil e it I Cries of " Never, never."
Shall the men that said this is not a Nation,
have charge of this Nation f Cries of "Never,
never I"
The next question, Shall we pay our debts?
Cries of " Yes 1 yes 1 and every cent 1" We
had to borrow some money to pay for shot and
shell to shoot Democrats with. We found that
we could get along with a few less Democrat
laughter, but not with any less country, snd
so we borrowed the money, and the question
now Is, Will we pay ill And which party is
the most spt to pay it, the Republican party,
that made the debt the party that swore it
ws constitutional, or the party that said it
was unconstitutional I Whenever a Democrat
sees a greenlnck the greenback says to the
Democrat, ' I am the one that whipped you."
Laughter. Whenever a Republican sees a
greenback, th greenback says to him, " Y'ou
and I put down the rebellion and saved the
country." Laughter. Now, my friends, you
have heard a great deal about finances. Nearly
everybody that talks about it get as dry
just as if tliey had been in the final home
of tbe Democratic party for forty years.
Great laugh ter.j I will give you my Ideas
about finances. A voice. " Let's hesr them."
In the first place the Government don't sup
port the people; the people support the Gov
ernment. A voice. "That's it.'' The Gov
ernment passes around the hat, the Gov
ernment ises around the aims-dlsh. True
enough, it has a musket behind it, but
il is a pertual chronic pauper. It passes,
I told you, the alms-dish, snd we all
throw in our shares except Tilden. Great
laughter. Tills Government is a perpetual
consumer. You understand me the Govern
ment don't plough ground, the Government
don't raise corn and wheat ; the Government Is
simply a perpetual cousumer. We support the
Government. "That's right." Now, the
idea that the Government cau make money for
you and me to live on why, it is the same aa
though my hired man should Issue certificate
of my indebtedness to him for m to lire on.
Lsughtrr and applause. Some people tell
me that a government can impress its sov
erelrmty on a piece of paper, and that I money.
Well, if it is, what is the use of wasting it in
making $1 bills r It takes no more ink and no
more paier why not make f l,(inu bills ! Why
not make $1 ,0w,'uu,OUU bills, and sll be billion
aires f Great laughter. If the Government
can make money what on earth does it collect
taxes from you and me for I Why don't it
make w list money it wants, take the taxes out,
and give the balance to ns f Laughter. Mr.
Greenha ker, suppose the Government issued
tlOO.onw.iklO to-morrow; how would vou get
snyofltf A voice "Steal it." I was not
speaking to the Democrats. Laughter. Y'ou
would not get it unless you had something to
exchange tor it. The Government would not
go around and give you your average. Y'ou
have to have some corn, or w heat, or pork to
civefortt. How do you get money 1 By work.
Where from ! Y'ou have" to dig it out of the
cround. That is where it come from. In old
times there were some men who thought they
could get some way to turn the baser metals
into gold, and old, gray-haired men, trembling,
tottering onthe verge of the grave, were hunting
for something to turn ordinary metals Into gold ;
they were searching for the fountain of eternal
youth ; but they did not find it. No human
ear has ever heard the silver gurgle of the
spring of inimortsl youth. There used to be
mechanics that tried to make perpetual motion
by combinations of wheels, shifting weights,
and rolling balls ; but somehow the machine
would uever quite run. A perpetual fountain
of greenbacks, of wealth without labor, is just
as foolish as a fountain of eternal youth. The
idea that you can produce money without labor
is just ss foolieh as the idea of perpetual motion.
They are old follies under new names. Let me
tcil you another thing. The Democrat seem to
think that you can fall to keep a promise so
long that It Is as good as thoueh you had kept
it. They say you can stamp the sovereignty of
the Government upon paper. The other day I
eaw a piece ol silver bcarins the sovereign stamp
of Julius Osar. Julius Csar has been dunt
about two thousand years, but that piece of sil
ver was worth just as much as though Julius
Osar was at the hrad of tbe Roman legions.
Was it his sovereignty that made it valuable !
Supjiose he had put it upon a piece of paper
it would have been of no more value than a
Democratic promise. Another thing, my friends ;
this debt will be paid ; you need not worry aliout
that. The Democrats otirht to pay It. They
lost the suit and they ought to pay the costs.
Laughter snd applause.) But we are willing
to pay our share. It will be paid. The hold
ers of the debt have got a mortgage on a con
tinent. Tliey have a mortirage on the honor
of the Republican party, and it Is on record.
Every blade of grass that grows upon the con
tinent is a guarantee that the debt will
be paid ; every field of bannered corn in the
great, glorious West is a guarantee that
the debt will be paid ; all the coal put
away in the ground millions of years ago
by that old miser, the sun, is a guarantee
that every dollar of that debt will be paid : all
tbe cattle on the prairies, pastures and plains,
every one of them is a guarantee that this debt
will lie paid ; every pine standing In the sombre
forests of the North, wailing for the woodman's
axe, is a guarantee that this debt will be paid ;
all the gold and silver hid in th Sierra Ncvadaa
waiting for the miner's pick is a guarantee that
the debt will tt p.dd ; every locomotive, with
it muscles of iron and breath of flame, and all
the hoys nd girls bendiug over their books at
school, every dimpled child in the cradle, every
good man and every good woman, and every
mau that votes the Republican ticket, is a guar
antee that the debt will be paid. Applause.
What is the next question? The uext ques
tion is, Will we protect the L'nion meu in the
South f Voices " Yes, yes." I tell you the
white Union men there have suffered enouch.
It is a crime in the Southern States to be a Re
publican. It is a crime in every Southern State
to love this country, to believe In the sacred
rights of men. I tell you the colored people
have suffered enough. Tliey have been owned
by Democrats for 2ou years. Worse than that ;
they have been forced to keep the comanv of
their owners. Lauiliter. It is a terrible
thing to live with a man that steals from you.
They have sullered enouirh. For 2(H) years they
were branded like catile. Yes, for 2iJ year
every human tie was torn amnder by the cruel
hand of avarice and creed. For 2(H) years chil
dren were sold from their mothers, husbands
from t heir wives, brothers from brothers, sisters
from sisters. There was not, during the whole
rebellion, a single negro who was not our friend.
We are willing to be reconciled to our Southern
brethren when they will treat our friends as
meu. When they w ill be Jut to the friends of
this conntry : when they are in favor of allowing
every Aniriican citizen to have his richt then
we are tnuir friends. We are willing to trust
them with the r.aticn when they are friends of
the nation. We are willing to trust them with
liberty w hen they believe in liberty. We arc
willing to trutt them with the black man when
tliey eafie riding in the darkness of niirht those
masked wretches to the hut of the freedman,
and no'-wUhstanding the prayers and supplica
tions of bis family, shoot bim down ; when they
eeae to consider the cuas.-acre of Hamburg a a
Democrat! triumph then, I say, we will be
their friends, and not before. A voice " That
is tbe idea."
Now, my friends, thousands of tbe Southern
people and thousands of tbe Northern Democrats
are afraid that the negroes are going to pass
them in the rare of life. And, Mr. Democrat, he
will do it unless you attend to your business.
Tbe simple fact that you are white cannot save
you always. Y'ou have got to be industrious,
honest, and cultivate a sense of justice. If you
don't, tbe colored race will pass you as sure as
you live. I am for giving every man a chance.
Anybody that can pass me Is welcome. A
voice, " There can't many do it." I believe,
my friends, that the intellectual domain of the
future, like tbe land used to be In the State of
Illinois, is open to pre-emption. Tbe fellow that
Set a fact first, that is his ; that gets an idea
rut, that I hi. Every round in the ladder ot
fame, from the one that touches the ground to
the last one that leans against the shining sum
mit of human ambition belongs to the foot that
gets upon it first. Applause. Mr. Democrat
( I point down because they sre nearly all on the
first round of the ladder), if you can't climb,
stand on one side and let the deserving negro pass.
I must tell you one thing. I hare told it so
much, snd you have all heard it, I have no
doubt, fifty times from others, but I am going
to tell it again because I like it :
Suppose there a great horse-race here to dav,
free to every horse in the world, and to all the
mules, and all the scrubs, and all the donkeys.
At the tap of the drum they come to the line,
and the judges say, " Is it a got" Let me ask
you, what does the blooded horse, rushing ahead,
with nostrils distended, drinking in the breath
of his own swiftness, with his mane flying like
a banner of victory, with his veins standing out
all over him as if a net of life bad been cast
around him with his thin neck, his high
withers, his tremulous flanks what does he
care how many mules and donkeys run on that
track. Prolonged and deafening laughter.
But the Democratic scrub, with his chuckle
head and lop ears, with his tail full of cockle
burs, jumping high and short, and digging in
the ground when he feels the breath of "the
coming mule on his cockle-bur tail, he is the
chsp that Jumps the track and says : " I am
down on mule equality." Renewed and up
roarious laughterj
My friends, the Republican party Is the blooded
horse in the race. A voices "Anything may
follow that wants to." Laughter. I stood a
little while airo in the city of Paris where stood
the Bastile, w here now stands the Column of
July, surmounted by the figure of Liberty. In
its right hand is a broken chain. In Its left hand
a banner; upon its lbrehead a glittering star
and as 1 looked upon it I said, such is the Re
publican party of my country.
Tbe other day going along the road I came
to the place where the road had been chanced,
but tbe guide-board was as they had put it
twenty years before. It pointed diligently in
the direction of a desolate field. Now, that
gtilde-post has been there for twenty years.
Thousands of people passed but nobody
heeded the hand on the guide-post, and it
sturk there through storm and shine, and it
(minted as hard as ever as if the road was
through the desolate field, and I said to my
self, '' Such is the Democratic party of the
United States." Laughter and applause.
The other day I came to a river where there
had been a mill ; a part of it was there yet.
An old sign said, " Cash for wheat." Laugh
ter. The old water-w heel was brokrn ; it had
been warped by the sun, cracked and split by
many winds and storms. There hadn't been a
grain of wheat ground there for twenty years.
There was nothing in good order but the dam ;
it was as good a dam as I ever saw, aud I said
to myself, " Such is the Democratic party."
Renewed laughter.
I was going along the road the other day,
when I came to where there had once been a
hotel. But the hotel and barn had burned
down ; nothing remained there but the two
chimneys, monuments of the disaster. In the
road there w as an old sign, upon which there
were these words: "Entertainment for man
and beaj-t." The word " man " was nearly
burned out. There hadn't been a hotel there
for thirty years. That sign had swung and
creaked in " the wind ; the show had fallen
upon it in the winter, the birds had sung open
it in the summer. Nobody ever stopped at
that hotel; but the sign stuck to It, and kept
swearing to it, " Entertainment for man and
beast;" and I said to mvself, "Such is the
Democratic party of the United States."
Lauebler. And I further snld, "One chim
ney ought to he called Tilden and the other
Hendricks." Renewed and continued cheer
ing and laughter.
Now, my friends, both of these parties have
candidates. The Democratic partv trots otut
Samuel J. Tilden. Who is he I He is a man
that advertise his honesty and reform, the
same as people advertise quack medicines. Iu
every Democratic paper iu the United States he
bss advertisements of his honesty and reform.
Samuel J. Tilden is an attorney a legal spider
that weaves web of technicalities, and catches
in it meshes honest incorporated flies. He has
stood on the shores of bankruptcy and clutched
the drowning by the throat. Samuel J. Tilden
Is a demurrer that the Confederate Congress has
filed aur alnst the amendments to the Constitu
tion of the United States. Samuel J. Tilden is
an old bachelor. In a country depeuding upon
the Increase of its population for its glory and
honor cheers and laughter, to elect an old
bschelor is a suicidal policy. Renewed and
prolonged laughter. Think of a man sur
rounded by beautiful women, dimpled rheeks,
coral lips, pearly teeth, shining eyes ! think of
a man throwing them all away for the embrace
of the Democratic party. Laughter. Such a
man docs not know the value of time. Laugh
ter Samuel 3. Tilden belongs to the Democratic
party of the city of New York. That party
never had but two objects grand and petit
larceny. Laughter. They rarely elect a
man to office except for a crime committed.
They don't elect on a crime ercdit ; it must be
a crime accomplished. They bare stolen every
thing they could lay their hards on, and, my
God, what hands ! ' When they had stolen all
the people could pay the interest on they
clapped their enormous hands upon their spa
cious pocket and slioujed for honesty and re
form. Samuel J. Tilden has been a pupil in
that school. He has by-en a teacher in that
school. He was reared in Tammany Hall,
which bears the same reliction to a penitentiary
as the Sunday school to a church. Applause.
More than this, when the rebellion began they
called a meeting at Union S quare, in the city of
New Y'ork. Il was of great importance how the
city of NirW Y'ork should go. co man refused to
sign t'jat petition in the city of New York but
one, and that man was Samuel J. Tilden. A man
that will not lend his name to save his country
never should be the Tre-blent of that country.
Y'ou offered to save your lives, anc&die would nut
give his Infamous name. I
Now, my friends. I want vou to wote the Re-
Fublican ticket. A voice, " We rill do it."
want you to swear you will Dot vcfte for a man
who opposed putting down the lvbelllon. I
want you to swear you will not vote Jbr a man
opiosed to the proclamation of emincipation.
I want you to swear that you will mat vot for
a man opposed to the utter abolition o slavery.
I want you to sw ear that you will never vote for
a man w ho called the soldiers in the rid Lin
coln hirelings. I want you to swear t hat you
will not vote for a man w-ho denounced Lincoln
as a tyrant. I want you to swear that y uu will
not vote for any enemy of human progre w. Go
and talk to every Democrat that you can' see ;
get him by the coat-collar ; talk to him ; Jiold
him, like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, trith
your glittering eye ; hold him ; tell him all the
"mean things hi party ever did ; tell him kindly;
tell hiin In s Christian spirit, as 1 do, hut tell
bim. Applause and laughter. KeoolVct
there never was a more important election than
the one you arc going to hold In Indiana. I
want you every one lo swear that you will vote
for glorious Ben. Harrison. Tremendous sp
plause. I tell you we must stand by the coian
try. It is a glorious country. It permit you
and me to 1-e free. It is the only country in tue
world w here labor is respected. Let us support
!:. It is the only country in the world whe:
the useful man is the only aristocrat. The nun
that works for a dollar a day goes home at nigl
to his little ones, takes his little boy on li si
knee, snd he thinks that boy can achieve an J
thing that the sous of the wealthy man ran
achieve. The free schools are open to hiiu ; te
may be the richest, the greatest, sud grsndi at ;
and that thought sweetens every drop of sw at
that rolls dow n the honest fac of toil. 1
(iause. Vote to save the country.
T st
DEMOCRATIC OPINIONS
OF
SAMUEL J. TILDEN
Expressed Prior to the St Louis
Convention.
The True Character of the
Man as Portrayed by
his own Partisans.
ruct THK CT3TC1SSAT1 IXQCIBEB.
"There are a few facts concerning Sam Tilden
which we trust will sink into the minds of West
ern and Southern Democrats :
" 1. He cannot carry his own State in No
ber. " 2. He cannot carry any Northern State.
" 3. He la a hypocrite, a political swindler, has
long been a public plunderer, and is really tbe
only disreputable candidate prominently named
on the Democratic side.
" 4. Ha has sought this high office by methods
so unprecedentediy shameless aud disreputable
that it would be an everlasting stigma upon a
Democratic convention to nominate him, and a
reproach upon the American people to elect him
if nominated.
" Should ' God's providence, seeming estran
ged,' permit his nomination, by whom snd what
would he be nominated I By the servile, con
scienceless tools that money can purchase; by
the most corrupt influences that ever entered
into a Presidential nomination ; by the system
on which all other quark medicines are sold
advertising and even respectable medical asso
ciations read out of the prolession doctors that
will advertise. It would seem that the Demo
cratic party should have as hich a respect for
the good name of the party and the Government
as tile vendors of pills hsve for their craft. It
could not but be that a man educated in cun
ning, hypocrisy, and iniquity, nominated in cor
ruption and shamles effrontery, even though
his millions could elect bim, would give us tbe
most corrupt administration tbe country has
ever known. Neither imperial dimities nor the
gloom of solitude, rays Tacitus, could rave Ti
berius from himself, snd Tilden could Dot rise
above himself, or above the sources of his
power.
" There are many reasons why Governor Til
den should not be nominated, aud w hy, if no
minated, he will be defeated. He has been too
closely identified, socially and politically, and
legally we will not say financially with tbe
Tweed rrgitm of New York. When Tweed
escaped from the custody of the Sheriff of New
York, many months ago, the Boss was not only
a penitentiary convict, who had not fulfilled
one-fifth of his terra, but was being tried on a
civil suit to recover f 3.000.000 but a portion of
the amount he had stolen from the city. There
waa every likelihood of making Tweed disgorge,
but the therifTs officers were bribed, no doubt,
and the Boss went ou his way rejoicing. Tilden,
the next day, with a flourish of trumpets, de
clared that the Sheriff, who was under bonds,
was liable for Tweed's escape: and further
more, to pay over to the city f:S.uOO.(XK), for
which Tweed was held, snd which suit, as a
matter of course, must go by default. Nearly
ten months have since elapsed. Tweed has not
been cansht. The Sheriff of New York (Con
ner) still holds his post, snd bis bail bond and
property, snd sll effort to capture and bring
bark the Boss has been abandoned. The people
of New York city hold Tilden responsible for
retaining in office a Sheriff who lets fly the creat
thieves of the Ring who nearly bankrupted the
city. Another objection to Tilden is his aristo
cratic proclivities. The common people of New
Y'ork do not like him. His money helped to
elect him two years sso. He is a bachelor,
with an ample fortune of four or five millions,
and spent it freely, or let his friends spend it
freely for him, in the campaicn of 1S74. Until
his election for Governor he was hardly known
outside of New York. Tilden and his friends
.bamboozled the poor workine men of New
Y'ork by telling them they could have plenty of
work, at coo. I wasres, if they would vote for
hira for Governor. They did so. To-day there
are more idle men in New York city than when
Dix was Governor. Besides, wage have been
cut down "
FltOM THE ALBANY "EVESIXU TtME."
' Supreme selfishness, and a cold, unscrupu
lous, running nature, sre his marked charsc
terUtics. The intensity of his selfishness hs
never been relaxed even by the softening influ
ences of married life, and he seems to be as
destitute of magnetism or emotion ss a mummy.
Having devoted the earlier portion of his life to
the study of the art of money-making, he prac
ticed it with a success which, within a lew years,
by one means and another, put millions in his
purse. When he felt assured that the downfall
of his former Tammany associate was inevi
table, he hastened to promote that result.
Having possessed himself of the party machin
ery, he used it to secure the nomination for
Governor, and succeeded on account of the
waut of any organised opposition, aud the de
termined declination of the man whom the
party really desired to nominate. Having be
come Governor, every act has been performed
with an eve single to the nerf f'n. Finding
that to attack corruption and fraud was popu
lar, and that the public mind was suspicious of
any against w hom charges were mane, he hesi
tated Dot to promote attacks upon those in
very respect his superiors, but whom he
thought were possible impediments in his path ;
that, as Governor, he succeeded in a single
year in reducing the Democratic majority over
thirty-fiv thousand votes, notwithstanding the
unquestionably popular attack upon the canal
frauds and mismanagement, is conclusive evi
dence of his want either of capacity or tart to
successfully lead the Democratic party of the
Empire State, lliat be is an Inemcieut, hesita
ting, and unreliable public officer, is palpable.
He U neither prompt, nor frank, nor generous.
nor agreeable, cor popular. To say that the
llemocracv ol the L nion reallv seeic such a can
didate is to say that they are unfitted to select a
f resident."
Y'et again the Time savs :
' There is a great stress put Upon the ser
vices of tilden in 'breaking up thelweed King.
Tiidcn was a co-worker with Tweed for years,
and did not open his mouth atralnst him until
Jimmy O'Brien and tbe New York 7uies had
furnished many of ths leading farts to tbe
"public. When it was discovered that an out-
rased community could no longer stand the
fraud of the Rings, but were determined to
DreaK them up, then it occurred to our great
railroad financier that the opportune momrnt
had arrived for him to make capital out of the
facts of fraud with which for years he had been
familiar. Had the public remained indifferent
to the frauds of Tweed, there is no reason to
doubt thai Mr. Tildeu would have been as mum
as a mouse up to this verv dav."
Ri.W THK NEW YORK 'EXPEC.9.'
" hile New York Democrats have not
chanted their position Governor Tilden has
changed his. He is no longer for Seymour, nor
for Church, nor for auv man tn the land but
Samuel J. Tilden 1 The Trifnmt wants
to know the reaon of opposition in the country
to Governor Tiblin. if it will read the ad
dresses, made at Albany it will find its question
answered. If it will read the disreputable re
cord of public opinion, manufactured and
circulated through a lurce advertising airency
in this city, it will find an answer. If it knew.
as we kuow, or the appliances used all over the
State lo elect and defeat delegate for tbe Utica.
Convention it would ask lor no other answer
but, beyond this, there are ample reasons.
There are better men. There are more popular
men ; men just as true as reformers, just as
honest, jut as true to principle snd to th
country, more faithful to frieuds. of quicker
perception, of better Judgment, of more execu
tive ability, Jess selfish. Is ambitious, end
w holly incapable of making the bad record
which has stirred so many thoiisauds in this
Slate either to a preference lor some other man
or to a more direct oppoeition to Governor
Tilden. We mlcht aild many other reasons,
but we forbear for to-day at least."
Again, June 2J, it says t
" A man who has dealt so largely in railroads,
and fronted so largely try them, will ot a
trusted a a candidate. The losses hare he
too frightful upon the one hand, and the pri
vate gains too enormous on the other, to make
any man. Identified, as Mr. Tilden is, with rail
roads, the propereandidate for the President of
the United State. We seek simply to avoid th
defeat of the Democratic party in November
next by using all fair and honorable means to
prevent an unwise nomination at St. Louis."
ntOM THE CHICAGO "TIMIS.
" Tilden and Hendricks combined would be a
guarantee of the success of the Hayes party,
even In Indiana. Instead of a strong
ticket, Tilden snd Hendricks would probably be
found the weakest ticket that could be made.
Tilden, without Hendricks, might carry Near
York, were it not that Tilden s nomination
would inevitably give Indiana to the Hayes party
in October. iienuncKs, without niden, micht
possibly (but not probably) carry Indiana, but
certainly not New York. Connecticut, or New
Jersey. But Tilden and Hendricks combined
would be a trade-mark or political dishonesty
that all honest citizens would spurn. It would
not get an electoral vote north of the Ohio river.
For Tilden to swallow Hendricks snd survive is
an imaginable possibility. For Hendricks to
wallow Tilden and survive is an imaginable
possibility But for Tilden and Hendricks to
swallow each other and survive is plainly sot
ithin the bound of things possible."
FROM THE PHILADELPHIA "TIMES."
"Without dealing with the question, whether
or not Tilden deserve to be elected over Hayes,
we turn to tbe practical and vital fact that ha
would be defeated by the largest popular ma
jority ever cast against any candidate, except
ing ilr. Greeley, lie would be pitted against
the same Mr. Hayes who owes his election over
Allen in 1475, and thereby his nominstion In
l76, to the open defection of Mr. Tilden 's
friends and their defiant assaults upon their oww
party and it candidates, and the October elec
tions in Ohio and Indiana would be swept by
tens of thousands for Hayes, with New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey .and Connecticut cer
tain to follow in November by majorities second
only to Grant's in ISTi."
FROM TIIF, CADIZ (OITIO) 'SENTINEL."
" Bates Ai Locke, advertising agent, of New
Tork, send us some puffs of that old bull
headed Bullionist, Sam Tilden, which they want
inserted as reading matter, and for which they
offer to pay us in ' rag money.' We do not in
sert advertisements anions reading matter, and
therefore decline their offer. The proprietora
of ' sugar coated' pills, who advertise in the
Otntinti, have to assume the pressure and bum
bug the people by shouldering the responsi
bility in the regular advertising columns. Put
this Tilden matter has snotber objection. The
laws of Ohio forbid newspapers advertising
abortion goods."
FROM THE FETERiTirfrO (VA.) "INDEX
APPEAL."
" What we urge Is that the public should be
enlightened as to tbe depth and origin of this
lately-born clamor for Tilden. It is meretri
cious aud mechanical ; as soon aa his nomina
tion is made the people will fall off from tha
ticket in disgust. Now pause and inquire,
while there is yet time, about the truth of the
matter. Respectable journal like the Mem
phis Aralmche, th 'Savannah .Veics, the Au
gusta Chronicle, testify to having been ap
proached with money In the interest of thia
New Y'ork candidate, and there is indisputable
and undisputed evidence that an advertising
agency in New York is running off Mr. Tilden
name a Helmbold wa wont to do his burhu.
Is the strength so bssed a safe one on which to
build the Democratic canvass! If so, goon;
wa wash our hand of the responsibility."
FROM THE NEW HAVES "rSIOV."
" Governor Tilden meet with admirable suc
cess in capturing Democratic conventions ia
States whsre the party has virtually no exist
ence. The sure Democratic States are all bit
terly opposed to Tilden, so far ss pnhlie senti
ment is concerned, but Tilden's money has a
perceptible Influence on the delegates. It
would not surprise us in the least should Tilden
pull through. He is utterly unscrupulous, and
ty his lavish expenditure of money now, he is
raising hope in the breasts of impecunious
strikers that money wfll flow like water if ha
becomes the standard-bearer."
PROMINENT DEMOCRATS
DENOUNCE HIM.
HON. AUGUSTUS SCHELL.
" I am decidedly and unalterably opposed to
Governor Tilden as a Presidential candidate.
He is bitterly opposed by some of the best known
and moit influential Democrats in the State, in
the metropolis, and all through the interior. It
is idle to talk of his ability to carry New York."
COLONEL ISAAC R. EATON.
" If Tiiden is nominated, the Greenback men
will organize and nominate a candidate on a
Greenback platform in less than thirty days from
the adjournment of the convention. The Kan
sas Democrat will utterly refuse to support
Tilden."
GENERAL JAMES B. STEADMAN
" Under no circumstances that could be
imagined would we accept Tilden. If Tfldn
should unfortunately receive the nomination,
Hayes would beat him in Ohio by 60,(XrO to 70,
000 majority, and In Indiana he would be beaten
by from 20.000 to 35.1)00. If any other man that
hat been named should be nominated on a plat
form declaring in favor of an immediate repeal
of the resumption act, we can carry Ohio by
2-5.000 majority. We would not even accept
Tilden on a platform with that plank in it, be
cause the man and tbe platform would neutralize
each other. If tbe city of Toledo, in which I
lire, 'la to be taken as at all a test of the State,
he would be beaten utterlv by Haves."
HON. AUGUST BELMONT, OF NEW YORK.
" Those who claim that Tilden is unassailable
do not k now him ,or if they do, then they are quit
as dishonest as he is. He has been counsel for
all the broken-down corporations with which
New York has been afflicted for a long term of
years, and out of them h baa not com with
clean hands."
GENERAL EWINO. OF OHIO.
" I am very much surprised at one thing.
The advocacy of Tilden comes either from State
that are innately Democratic or hopelessly Re
publican, while two great States whose vote is
the index to the dual result of the fight are ar
rayed sternly against him. It is also a curious
thing that Manning, editor of the Albany paper
regarded a Tilden' special organ, should, in
an interview in St. Louis, make the statement
that Governor Tilden is looking for the receipt
of tbe votes of a Urge number of Republicans
in New York."
HON. OEOltOE W. HOCK,
delegate to the St. Louis Convention from Ohio,
says :
" The party can survive a Presidential defeat,
as It has already survived three since 104, inau
gurated under the same auspices snd leadership
as the present, but it cannot survive the sacri
fice of the great principle of fidelity to the)
rights of the people which it was organized to
maintain. He Tilden ha used his
fortune with a lavish hand to promote hi po
litical aspirations. He is the first aspirant for
Presidential honors in the history of the coun
try T he, has utilized the provincial press by ad
vertising his qualifications as extensively and as
successfully as Helmbold advertised his burhu.
Such a man, fellow-citizens, who relies npon
such instrumentalities, and who seeks by indi
rection to compass his personal advancement,
is not the man to lead the Democratic party to
victory in this Centennial year of the Re
public." OENFRAL SLOCTM
severely castieated Tilden before s crowd of
delegates at St. Louis, and said : " Tbe greater
part'of the State is onposed to Tilden now ; a
large part of the New York delegation wa op
posed to bim ; snd it meant something, th's op
position, for the opposing faction comprised all,
or nearly all, the brains of the delegation. With
Tilden it wa impossible to rarrv Indiana and
Ohio in October, and il they were not carried for
tbe Democratic party, there would be no cause
for rejoicing in November.
PAN YOORHEIS.
"lam not surprised at all these things com
ing out on Tilden. I knew they were all there
and were bouud to appear. And," he added
sucsestively, " 1 am expecting, every day, some
thing still worse to be developed."
DR ffrrf C. LITTLEJOHN.
" I am utterlv opposed to the aomiastlon of
Mr. Tilden. I do not think he has the first
qualification to make a good President. Ha at
, iot salesman, but pouUcai trickteT.,
VS.awSss
upMId; auaotxd.
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