FATHER LAMBERT AND COL. INGERSOLL.

Freethought Review, Volume II, Issue 21, 1 June 1885, Page 6

FATHER LAMBERT AND COL. INGERSOLL.

(to the editor of the feeethought review.) Sir, —I have been looking in your able paper, and in other progressive publications for some explanation in regard to Ingersoll’s crushing defeat at the hands of a Catholic named Lambert. He (the gallant colonel) having to leave the room where the lecture or discussion was carried on amid the hisses of the audience. Sir, the newspaper that I gathered this from is the ‘ Otago Daily Times.' In its Saturday’s issue it gives an extra sheet, as no doubt you are aware, and the principal column is the ‘Passing Notes' by Civis. Now the said Civis is a verysarcastic gentleman, and he never fails to have a cut at us Freethinkers, but that we don’t complain of—it's being so obscure. Fie never gives us the whole of the yarn, as in the present instance, —that is, between Lambert and Ingersoll, In one issue he mentions the great defeat of the gassy infidel; never tells you how, when, or where. Next time he tells you it happened it America, and that all the American papers say he was shamefully beaten, and next he gives you a small paragraph out of the speech that Lambert made ; how he slays the Colonel with his own weapons ridiculemore particularly the Colonel’s penchant for alluding to women and children. lam afraid lam troubling you too much, but if you could throw any light on the subject in the Review you would oblige.— l am, &c., W. Gibbons. [As so many garbled statements have been made, we have written to America for the truth.—Ed. F.R.J