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 INGERSOLL

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HIS SPEECH NOMINATING BLAINE FOR PRESIDENT^

(1876)

Bom In 1P33, died In 1899; began to practise law at Peoria, Illinois, in 1857; Colonel of Cavalry in 1862; Attorney-General for Illinois in 1866; afterward settled in New York, where he gained wide repu- tation as a lecttirer and lawyer.

Massachusetts may be satisfied with the loyalty of Benjamin H. Bristow — so am I; but if any man nominated by this convention can not carry the State of Massachusetts I am not satis- fied with the loyalty of that State. If the nom- inee of this convention can not carry the grand old Commonwealth of Massachusetts by seventy- five thousand majority, I would advise them to sell out Faneuil Hall as a Democratic headquar- ters. I would advise them to take from Bunker Hill that old monument of glory.

The Republicans of the United States demand as their leader in the great contest of 1876 a man of intellect, a man of integrity, a man of well- known and approved political opinion. They de-

' Delivered in the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati, June 15, 1876. As printed in the New York Times on the following day.

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