The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-01-27
From the st. Charles Patriot.
Our New Congressional Distric,

We have not yet seen the law district
ing the state into congressional districts
under the late census, but, from our advi-
ces from Springfield, we presume the bill
has, before This time, passed into law.
The apporlionmcnt law of congress Civ
ing us seven members, there are, Of course,
seven districts. Our dis,ric, 1--WE suppose
the sixth or SEVENTH will embrace great
extent, and is understood TO contain the
following counties boone, McHenry,
Lake, Kane, Cook, De Kalb, Iroquois,
Will, Dupage, Kendall, Grundy, La Sale,
Livingston, Vermillon, Mclean, and
Champaign.
1t will thus be seen that it extends from
the Wisconsin line to the Wabash, inclu-
ding l6 counties ; the inhabitants of some
of which have not been accustomed to act
III concert, are, in great measure, slran-
gers to each other, and, many Of them, Of
different extraction, some from the south
and some fIom the east, with different ha-
bits and tastes in some points Of party
tactics and usages. This being the case,
we beg leave, respectfully and with defe-
renee 10 others TO whom it might more
properly belong, to suggest the proprie,y
and necessity of an early convention OF
delegates from the different counties, at
some central point, probably Ottawa to
nominate the congressional candidate to be
supported by the democracy at the Angus!
election.
The importance of this step, it seems
to us, will be apparent at the first view.
Union, harmony, mutual confidence. good
feeling, friendship, and concession. vii!
all be indispensaoly necessary Ia sue
cesStul effort, aud to the establishing oi
The democratic party on a permanent and
triumphant footing III the district.
That. with the AID OF these, It's ascend
ancy can he salel y scared, there is scarce
~ reason To doubt. Indeed, we do not
believe there are five counties IN Illinois,
where the democratic anli-bank, anti-ino-
nopoly, aud equal rights aud privileges
principle may not, i'll a short time, be tr-
umphant, if the right measures are adopt
ed and the right spirit is cultivated. 50
much confidence have we in the righteous
ness OF our cause, and in the honesty and
intelligence of the people, when freed
from the prejudices created by the false
hoods concocled and deceptively circula-
ed by the hard cider orgies of our political
opponents.
But we are getting away from our sub
ject.-None but an early convention will
afford time for that acquaintance and uni
on of action and feeling which must be
cultivated in our circumstances, in order
to secure success. Again, whoever the
candidate may be, it will require consiJc-
rable time to get him fairly before the
whole people, and it will, probably, be
necessary for him to embrace some oppor'
tunity of seeing the electors, without cali
ing them, as the times are, from their avo-
cations. The sitting of the circuit courts
which will commence early in March,
would seem to afford the desired opporti-
mites, if the convention could be suiii-
GENTLY early to designate the candidate
before that time.
With this view or the subject, we take
the liberty of naming the last of February
or first of March, or as soon after the ie-
gisla,ure adiourns as shall give the mem
bers an opportunity to reach home and
participate in the proceedings, as none too
early for said convention 10 be held. We
shall probably learn the time o! ADJOURN
men. sufficiently long before the day, to
'nable the county conventions TO be held
upon their return home, !