The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-19
BLAoK.REPUBLICAN ISLANDERS UPON souTHERN
ILLINOIS

Some reasonable allowance should be made for the una
yang complaints Of sudden and unexpected dissppont-
mentsfor the mad ehsngs Of nsoent Zoe not Jet pa
tent under defeat although defeat has attended nearly all
his attempts 10 place and power The amusing
specimens oground and lofty tumblng with which Bennett
has favored his readers since the defeat Of Mr. Fremont we
fully prepared for Webbs rbald abuse of our nat
urazsd citizens after he became satisfied that the effort to
wheedfe them into the support Of the backrepubcan
candidate for the presidency had met with but little sue
Cess, occasioned surprise. The new programme and
the new combinations of the quintuple alliance were
ameng the things to be expected But we confess we did
not suppose the algnity of black republicansm was
of deep and bitter character that It's organs would
have had the adaiy to have poured their ISLANDERS upon
the half cn inhabitants Of the largest and airest por-
ton of Illinois for the heinous oencesand they plead
guilty 10 the ehargeof obeying the laws, loving the
Union reverng the constitution, unfolding the principles
of the democratic party and of the still greater crime of
desiring to elevate to the presidency tried patriot and
approved statesman in preference to an advenure of
exceedingly doubtful reputation in the various relations in
which he has appeared, has been placed by his own
friends before the public.
AS fair specimen of these ISLANDERS OF a viruoas patr
otto and intelligent population, we give the following
from late number of the Rochester New York; Demo
crat:
nwhen Illinois was supposed have voted for Fremont
Egypt had been heard from. The region known as
Egypt the southern part OF the State 1t is the Oldest
settled Section but has remained stationary in almost
everything for many years The Cleveland Herald says
the settlers are the poor white folkstoo poor to
nggers-rom Kentucky Tennessee Virginia, and No tn
Carolina and they transplanted into Illinois all their igno
rance, shessness, schoolhouse hating tobaccogrndng,
whiskey- drinking habits Too poor to own Slaves in
slave State they still regard the Institution as from Heaven
and they would vote to reopen the slave trade and esab
ish the tracin Illinois unanimously. Their public roads
daily used by the the travel of their
human chattels from Kentucky and Virginia to Missouri
with just as much security OF property to the masters
in Arkansas Texas. Politically they vote way
and all the time"
The language employed by the Chicago Tribune against
the people of Southern Illinois is equally low scuri-
lous, and caumnous that used by its brother deamer
of Rochester The Trbunes ISLANDERS upon citizens of its
own State has called forth powerful and whitening re-
buke from the St. Louis Republican OF this the reader
will be better able to judge after perusing the following
from the elaborate reply to the Tri-
bune;
1.-THE Tribune chargeable with slanderous lying and
knows it. We do not intend entering upon elaborate
eulogy OF Southern Illinois The people there able
take care Of themselves and will do in spite of the
rabd ytuperaton of journal that consus the interests
of the Commonwealth every portion of which should be
to it by wholesale SANDER of onehaf of the popua
ton of the State
They have their schools and churches in abundance
Their industry feghs daily the of Illinois railroads.
enrchng Chicago merchants Their trade augmens the
profits of Chicago racksrs, and among them swarms
of seeking to divert to the Lake city the produce
thousands of agricutusts in return for which sent
back degrading pictures of their political, social and
moral condition II the Tribune were not blinded by its
pitabe rage it would see too that in dealing its blows it
strikes portion Of the State noted its literary social and
religious advantages The maorities for Buchanan come
up from the counties of the Military Tract well as from
Egypt The fourishng, populous, thrifty ongsettled
counties, where schools and academies and churches
abound by the admission OF the Tribune contributed to
| the defeat Of Mr.. Fremont Black republcanism was
weighed and found wanting in the cities where churches
stand almost upon every corner and school houses in
every ward Quincy and Adams county, Jacksonville and
Morgan county, Springfield and Sangamon-the coun-
ties within which Intellectual and moral culture era-
ry and religious advantages have attained elevation
and general diffusion N comparison with which, in pro-
portion to population, Chicago and Northern Illinois have
nothing to boast of and from which they have much to
learnthese by large maortes put the stamp
black repubicansm resisted every caoing appeal every
faacious argument addressed to their intelligence and
conscience and passion rejected John Fremont and
ted for Buchanan. Fulton, Peoria Tazewe, Mason,
Adams, Brown, McDonough, Pike Schuyler, Sangamon
Morgan, Greeneto say nothing of others their peers in
everything of which counties should be proud-a region
where common schools literally supported where the
Gospel Is nteligently preached-where the people are
educated-where honest industry is encouraged-where
men are patriotic from principe-where newspapers are
well Observation-Disclosures literature is patronzed and the
higher semnares of learning reflect lustre on the State
where genuine philanthropy and Gospel benevolence
| prlnG IOrtn benign Hmta-tbere James Buchanan
ceved the highest mark of appreciation from the people of
that region and will take the presidential chair with their
cordial consent The districts crowded with colleges and
seminares for young and young women the very
tres OF educational influence and the very oci of Gospel
radiance in Illinois by majores transcendng the highest
expectations OF the party sustained James Buchanan and
reprobated John O. Fremont and his And the Tr
bune admits all hisconfesses that from the cenrethis
garden spot Of the Stae-ths Athens of the Common
wealth from which Chicago and Northern Illinois might
learn philosophy and religion, TOBIAS given its sanction
to James Buchanan-and charges that from hence have
come the men that have done the mischief The absurd
ty Of this nsnsenscal TRADE about the Ignorance and
darkness, and falsehood and antediluvian barbarsm
and sparse churches Of Southern Illinois and appalling
majoes there for Buchanan because Of ignorance and
heahenism is well illustrated by the setting confession
forth the same result-ght and darkness producing kin
dred phenomenasweet and bitter fountains sending forth
homogeneous streams"
| Again
with all the boosted inege and piey of Northern
bune feicates ITSELF that illuminated and sanity section
has not yet learned to respect civil law preserve in
tact the guarantees of the federal constitution With
perverted conscience and hardened one without selfre
proach they rob their neghbor Of their property and
boast OF the feonious deed thus auhencang truth
ognised both by experience and moral philosophy that
educational advantages cannot save from swiessnesa
and crime and that amid Astounding religious blessings
the conscience may be stAed, the heart hardened and
religion itself be Coerced into revolving alliance with
transgresson Our country in the North presents inpu.
merabe illustrations Of the fact that education and true
wisdom, religious advantages and true virtue do not
always go togethe Among the most thoroughly utored
and cultivated scholars Of the East found the widest va
carries in religion and politics Educated men, dealing with
aud Matte Il.