Text extracted from opening pages of book: GREAT: .. SPEECHES OF COMPLETE. o ms MATc: m, KKj; ICW. OGY ON LINCOLN; GREAT Si'KKc'n TO TIUC VKTKKAN SOUMKKS ; ADDRESS TO THK KAKMKUS CN I^ AUMINC; ; OKATTON ON r, DtSCOtTKSIO AT IMS BROTHER'S ( iKAVK, ICtC. , KtC M ICto. ILLUSTRATED. R< lit ( ad by J. B. MoCLUUK, A. M. CHKJAOO RHODES AND MC. CMTKK PUIU-rHTUNG CO. The brilliant eloquence, sparkling wit, and terse de clarations that characterize Col. Ingersoll's speeches, are as well-known to the American public as are the truths couched in his beautiful language practically useful to mankind. His address to The Fanners, on Farming, his great speech to the Veteran Soldiers, his oration on the t ' Declaration of Independence, his nomination of James G. Blaine for the Presidency, his funeral dis course at his brother's grave, his matchless Eulogy on Abrahanr Lincoln, all of which, and many others are herein presented, arc among the best speeches ever delivered by man, and together form a most entertaining and valuable library book. Many of his great political speeches are also pre sented, the scope of which include the practical ques tions of the day, such as the Tariff, Protection, Free Trade, Hard Money, Capital and Labor, ete., etc. Religious discussions of every kind have been carefully ignored. J. B. McCLURE. OLD GLORY, EtrtOGY ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN 19 Lincoln a Diplomat 29 SPEECH ON THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ... 51 A Revelation and Revolution ' 53 Education of Nature 55 The Rise of the Republic 56 A Nation 61 Liberty or Death 63 Eloquence of the Colonel 65 What We Want To-Day 67 Grand Future of America 69 To THE FARMERS ON FARMING 71 Col. Ingersoll's Ideal Farmer 74 Best Portion of the Earth 76 The Farmer and the Mechanic 77 The Farmer and the Professional Man 78 Col. Ingersoll's Idea of an Educated Farmer 79 ShoulcJ Live in Villages . . . 80 Getting up Early in the Morning 82 The Fashions and Handsome Women 83 Home vs. The Boarding-house , , , . , . . 84 ( 7) g CONTENTS. Industry and Brotherhood # 5 What the Railroads Have Done 86 Business and the Money Question 88 Illinois 9 What a Dollar Can Do 90 How a man Should Treat his Wife and Children. 91 Ingersoll on Cookery 92 The Happy Home 93 The Colonel's View of ' ' Solid Comfort 96 NOMINATING ELAINE 100 To THE SOLDIERS 105 Why the Colonel is a Republican 1 08 Ingersoll's Remarkable Vision 115 Solid Shot 118 Three Important Questions Answered 120 The Money Question i: ti More Eloquence 1: 14 Ingersoll's Horse Race rj 5 Ingersoll's Beautiful Dream 129 INGERSOLL'S FUNERAL ORATION 131 GREAT COOPER INSTITUTE SPEECH 134 The Two Parties Compared 134 The American Republic; 136 The Fugitive Law of 1850 137 The Bay of the Bloodhound 140 Abraham Lincoln 141 Bonds and Greenbacks - 142 War to Be a Failure 147 The Republican Platform 148 Paying that Debt 149 A Telegram from Blaine 151 CONTENTS. 9 Tilden's Essay on Finance 153 Hard Money 1 56 Protection of Citizens 157 Shot Down for Opinion's Sake 159 Tilden and Tammany 1 60 Hayes and Wheeler 162 Democratic Meanness 163 Freedom and Progress 1 64 SPEECH TO VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS 167 INGKKSOU-ON THE SITUATION 172 A Political Tramp 175 Democratic Stupidity 1 76 Its Usefulness Obsolete 1 76 The States' Rights Doctrine 179 The Colored Race 183 Sufferings of the Slaves 1 84 The Nation's Friends and Enemies ig5 The Greenback Question 186 Greenback Inflation 187 Running in Debt 1 88 Hard Times 189' The Greenback to Be Redeemed 191 Tilden 193 Tilden a Secessionist 194 Rutherford B. Hayes 196 Not One Scratch Upon His Honor 197 The Republican Party 198 < ' Government Should Be for All 199 1 ' Be a Blind Owl 200 Its Record 203 The Question of Superiority 204 My Horse Race 206 IO CONTENTS. We Must Stand by the Party 209 Old Corpse of Democracy 210 , Spurn that Party Forever 2 1 1 Hayes and Wheeler 212 The Marvelous City of Pluck 213 WHO Is TILDEN 214 PLEA FOR HONEST MONEY 217 The Crash 219 Fiat Money 220 Government Taxes 221 The Country is Prosperous 222 Goo --This text refers to the Paperback edition.