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Show Yf' ,y IIMOLN AMI 0LT1IKU. I lli i '' I' Col, Itoliert 0. Ingersoll It onool ')?'' ' themot.loiUent of men gauged by (I certain ilandtrdt. Ilia lauguago la ijif St flowing, rhythmical, Inclilre and WfC' j ' ornate. That It at llmca lacka In aym- ,ft"vil metryand roporllon, that lilttropea jg. 5$) are ijullefrtiuentlydeTolJof literary fH . legitimacy, count for nothing with the ' crowd that llitena to Mm, for there la J '" ii " "m' ""n Wnen "'" ' ln ,,J"' I&&1' Ity, to antlyte glowing aeulouoe,tb (Mpii 4 llttener It all at ouon treated to another Wall! L "! another, an I the general idtct lr, ' that the llatonert are ciptlrated. flOT The colooel'a latett public tflort of ytti r Ine kind ipoken of waa hit recent i I" v J d eulogyof Abraham I.lnooln. A writer ,,, 1 I I In tb. Chicago Accord tjivaklng ot thl. 1 S4 occatlon, taya erldeutly Iugeraoll liu (Lu vj a genuine admlrttlon for many ot the fffi f fine (jualltlea which were found In 1 ri c Mr. Ijlncoln, but haibedono Juttlce ". 1 loblatutjecl? Mr. Lincoln wet not a yjj 'j member of any church, but lie waa t'j nn Intcmely rollgloua man. "In I 'jj ' early Ule 'he forniid au Intl. 0 (' mate acquaintance with the Cbrlttlan ' Illble and that book went with lilm to the While Home and wat upon tbo table In the room where he did tbo " , tubllo builnete. Ho waa nun of V lallu and prayer. He waa Indeed ' Hamion, but (he ij rlnga of hla alrenglli I . i ly In hla rtllirloua nature. All thle 'ft ' S 1 1 Col, Ingertolllgnons. It It II au Vfj)ii if artiit liaj alutod Mr. Llucoln with ''F fo !: v ' Dl '"b '""'' n"J "'nlia without auy (1 Z jl head, and It will not be fergottou that $i 'If Col Ingenoll la the man who) reaches jl to loudly that by rocrlty und lying I , ( are wrong." J 1 he wrlter,iiiotlng Hint portion of tho M eulogy tpokeu of uhlcli lajB "A fotv m . I men and women maku Iho nation ' . ; 1 j hIoiIoui; Hhakepearu made Kughud ' j I Immortal, Viltalre clvillied and liu- , ' f manlted France" tliliikt It might be I irofltable to look at Trance after Vol. I talre had glren It tboao loaaouii In j J "clvlllitug aud uumanltlug." We 1 ' I, think to, too, cipodtllr In view of llin tact that that jeilod was recogulzl uud haa coino down lo hlitory aa the "relgu of terror," a reign o eminent. 1 ly Ueiervlng of IU uamo that no mlt. I i tako la ever made as to Ha t Identity evin In a Ian 1 whero . ,, I euiti bloody and Inhuinauu tjooha I , wen common. One ot ttiu m j writers of Hint time one who was r 1 Totally numbered among t'loio , "civlllltil an I humanlaed" by Vo I tulre jjIJ; "We are the only people I In tli6worll that ever ottimpted tide , nlthoutrellglou. Hut what la our tad, ) aad exporlonci? I.Tory tenth d) we oru astounded lythe licit il of more crl ilea and aailnatlona tlun were (; f rmerly ojruiulit d ln n wlnl-j yrar, 1 . . Aud we declare tint we niuil itlp T trying to destroy religion If e would I uo society from utter ilittructlon." 1 T hla nuolatlou mores the wrltir In (ho ( Jtcontl tocommout an folio 1 ..."llerewp gcta eluhtof Irsnconatlv. Illwilaml biiininlud bv nltulcu I bit I I - Insenoll should be an ndiulror of Vultairuloory natural. Ho it wmkluit along the tamo lluos In liU iiruris to I I I clvlliso mid liuinsulio hla felhm.ciiuu. I, I irjineu.aiid If hla worlt haa not been -,, Q'lho so suocwaful as naa Hie 1 renob. . v; man's bohlmaelliiillaus why. llecuuld 11 1 ' not and did not got througu hla Itcliuo without oOiiliu to llioworl I hla poor 1. aoio hoart. Ho vanteil lo b ilia II governor of llllnola, I ut bo ill I I 1 not Rut Ihvtei and why notT He Irlla ua I therraiioul "liioaveraie man la alcald f I or ceulus" and of courso Iho averaue , ll" " afield ot him. Andst,tni , V "Oenlua carrlM loo m Kh suit ih ballsat nl dullnsaa inaplrix " ill lo " riintx waa lb. trouble! tliei" 11 In no hope for a neopls who ballast with dullneaa How 1 lain all IhMo things look when I rounfit wllliln looch ol this great aesrrh-llchtl aesrrh-llchtl Hut wo con safely truai the ntmo snlfvneofllnroln lol Ingeraoll may clssa lilui llh dlslre, but oven till cannot dim hit name nor cloud his memory. It Is a great py that 11 man of Ool. Ingcrtoll's tpleudll Intellectuality, menial acquirements an I humane ill.; oilllon tan find no I titer flgurct In hlitory to point la aa shining t xamplia tf grealneta than Ihote who figure In the category occupied ly Volttlrr Cunnlnr, cruel and hypocrltl. isl, being shrived an I forgiven ly n pleat at the apparent e preach if detth and returning lo his Lla.pl emous radices so soon as lie recovered, aurely what there was that wai t lillcsuf lilcal aud rtaionahlo of Voltaire's work was ao bocloudid and bcdlmmtd that II Is scarcely worthy ol any (lice at nil In the orchitis cf the world of Intellect and advancement. |