The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12): Dresden Edition—PoliticalIngersoll, Robert Green
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The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12): Dresden Edition—Political
Ingersoll, Robert Green
Free thought
All Citizens Stockholders in the United States of America--The
Democratic Party a Hungry Organization--Political Parties
Contrasted--The Fugitive Slave Law a Disgrace to Hell in its Palmiest
Days--Feelings of the Democracy Hurt on the Subject of Religion--Defence
of Slavery in a Resolution of the Presbyterians, South--State of the
Union at the Time the Republican Party was Born--Jacob Thompson--The
National Debt--Protection of Citizens Abroad--Tammany Hall: Its Relation
to the Penitentiary--The Democratic Party of New York City--"What
Hands!"--Free Schools.
INDIANAPOLIS SPEECH.
(1876.)
Address to the Veteran Soldiers of the Rebellion--Objections to
the Democratic Party--The Men who have been Democrats--Why I am a
Republican--Free Labor and Free Thought--A Vision of War--Democratic
Slander of the Greenback--Shall the People who Saved the Country Rule
It?--On Finance--Government Cannot Create Money--The Greenback Dollar
a Mortgage upon the Country--Guarantees that the Debt will be Paid-'The
Thoroughbred and the Mule--The Column of July, Paris--The Misleading
Guide Board, the Dismantled Mill, and the Place where there had been a
Hotel,
CHICAGO SPEECH.
(1876.)
The Plea of "Let Bygones be Bygones"--Passport of the Democratic
Party--Right of the General Government to send Troops into Southern
States for the Protection of Colored People--Abram S. Hewitt's
Congratulatory Letter to the Negroes--The Demand for Inflation of the
Currency--Record of Rutherford B. Hayes--Contrasted with Samuel J.
Tilden--Merits of the Republican Party--Negro and Southern White--The
Superior Man--"No Nation founded upon Injustice can Permanently Stand."
EIGHT TO SEVEN ADDRESS.
(1877.)
On the Electoral Commission--Reminiscences of the Hayes-Tilden Camp--
Constitution of the Electoral College--Characteristics of the Members--
Frauds at the Ballot Box Poisoning the Fountain of Power--Reforms
Suggested--Elections too Frequent--The Professional Office-seeker--A
Letter on Civil Service Reform--Young Men Advised against Government
Clerkships--Too Many Legislators and too Much Legislation--Defect in the
Constitution as to the Mode of Electing a President--Protection of
Citizens by State and General Governments--The Dual Government in South
Carolina--Ex-Rebel Key in the President's Cabinet--Implacables and
Bourbons South and North--"I extend to you each and all the Olive Branch
of Peace."
HARD TIMES AND THE WAY OUT.
(1878.)
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