Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1892-04-17 | Page 16 | Ingersoll on Whitman

Inzers6Il on Whitman I Colonel Ingorsoll bad said that ho expected ex-pected to meet Walt Whitman in a Brighter and better world the incidental remark would have ntttacted general interest But the colonel did not speak diametrically as to where the expected meeting was to take placs Brookjn StantZardZftifon The address delivered at tho grave of Walt Whitman yesterday by Colonel In gersoil was all that the most ardent admirers ad-mirers of the poet could have desired and in so far as it was a tribute to the personal character of the deceased rather than to the genius of tho poet no exception will betaken be-taken to it in any quarter Brooklyn Gut S zen Colonel Ingersolls eulogy on Walt Whitman Whit-man was graceful but extravagant Nobody No-body but Colonel Ingersoll would have called the good gray poet the eminent citizen of the republic or have said thathe had uttered more supreme words than any writer of this or almost any other century 1 < A > 5 I Sometimes an eloquent man gets carried off his feat Boston Herald I Everybody had sympathy with poor old Walt Whitman in the lone illness which i preceded his death and everybody is ready to speak well of the good gray poet now that he is gone but when a man of Robert Ingersolls acumen and good sense says that Walt Whitman was tho greatest great-est poet of the past generation and lthe most eminent citizen of the United States ctzen ho talks in a vein that makes him ridiculous ridicu-lous in the eyes of men Baltimore Herald