Your hatred if everything great and good is palpable!! Your impotent rage is a source of great amusement to me! Unfortunately for you--you’re living a lie! You cannot change history. FACTS ARE FACTS!!
Your impotent rage only hurts yourself. It keeps you wallowing is chains of ignorance and it fills your pea brain with pus you can little afford to harbor!
“Clark E. Carr (ex-minister to Denmark), who is intimately and personally acquainted with the last fifty years of the political history of Illinois, said, in an eloquent address at the Ingersoll memorial meeting in Chicago, on August 6, 1899: --
"We remember how, on account of his splendid services, and his sublime patriotism, we in Knox county and in our part of the state, united in seeking to place him in the chief executive office, and we remember that by modifying certain views he held, he could have been nominated by acclamation and elected to the high office of Governor of Illinois, which would have opened the way to even higher emoluments and positions; and we remember with what tenacity and firmness he held to his convictions, and that neither public sentiment, the appeal of friends, nor the allurements of position, could move him to accept as true what he could not believe."
"It is my strong conviction," wrote Dr. Moncure D. Conway, in the South Place Magazine, London, "that but for orthodox animosity, Colonel Ingersoll would have been President of the United States. Certainly no man of his ability ever occupied that office."
Many similar remarks might be quoted from like sources. They were often made to Ingersoll himself, by publicists and political leaders. Exact language cannot here be essayed; but the opinion expressed was usually couched in substantially the following, if, indeed, in much more intimate terms: 'Were it not for your attitude on religion, you could, with your ability and personality, have any honor that it is possible for the American people to bestow.' |
