I don't know who his relatives were and are or what they believed or believe! It has no relevance to our discussion. It just shows how STUPID you are!
More on the "most brilliant speaker of the English tongue of all the men on the globe."--one of the greatest human beings in all of history!
"Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) was
the best-known orator and political
speechmaker of 19th-century America. A
hero of the Civil War nationally famed as
an attorney, Ingersoll criss-crossed the
country addressing packed houses on
politics, ethics, human freedom, and
religious topics. He spoke against slavery
and opposed the Religious Right of his
day. A Republican activist when that was
the party of Lincoln, Ingersoll
campaigned powerfully for every
Republican presidential candidate but
one from Grant to McKinley. His "Plumed
Knight" speech nominating James G.
Blaine for the presidency set a standard
by which political oratory was measured
for more than a quarter of a century. In
the Golden Age of American oratory, no
speaker was heard by more American
men and women - nor sparked greater
controversy - than Robert Green
Ingersoll."
"One of the greatest orators of his day, Ingersoll was acclaimed by Henry Ward Beecher as the "most brilliant speaker of the English tongue of all the men on the globe." His lectures were widely read for a generation, and editions of his works still circulate; the Dresden edition (12 vol., 1900) has been reprinted several times."
See his letters, ed. by E. I. Wakefield (1951, repr. 1974); biographies by C. H. Cramer (1952), O. P. Larson (1962), and D. D. Anderson (1972).
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