, 1860-08-15
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.
lCsusspozdsncs cf tha r1es. ard Trbuns,l
o1s1r, August II. 1850.
Saturday. thu eleventh August, 1860, il day
TO ha remembered in Richland county. Spite
OF tie dust which envs'opcd e,srything-apite
OF The heat-in spite Of the bogus Democracy,
desperate as thsy feel tbs power slipping from
their hands aoiled With public plaudsr-the pso-
pie Of Rieh4nd ware cut ~ N army with ban
ntFs.
Z. Ono huzdssd and. fifty -Wide-AwRkss. flags
full Of printed mottoes--hoas1t, hard working
mau, md their ma!ronly wives, fair daughters
and active sons, joined tho procession, and
after marching through the town Of Oluey as-
semb'ed in beautiful grove south Of the rail-
road, where they were called to order \! half
pas: one P. H., by E'ward Kitebe!l, E.q.
Twenty Gro hundred people were there anx-
ious to tear and ready to respond to truth.
Nr. Hurlbut, Of Boore county, Was 6rst In.
troduced, and spoke to the crowd for about ons
hour and hat, upon tbs views Of slavery and
the power Of Congress over ths Territories
az held ty Southern a..tssmsn and Southern
Courta until 1948.
Lon. Leonnrd Svstt then followed in spesch
Of great power ard beauty, With exceedingly
practical ind forcible illustrations, specially
presenting The enormc Us wrongs That follow the
principle Of Squatter Sovereignty, If carried TO
i!s legitimate results. He instanced The case of
povRamy in Utah and the white slavery Of New
Mexico, ind read the record OF Jrmes Robinson
aad John 4. Logan ID. ~ refusing to repeal
that bill Of abomiCations, tha New Mexican
code.
These spetcaes brought Us down to tsa time,
and the meeting adjourned,
At u. there va. brilliant procession Of
the Wide Awskes, good mu -ie, fire. works, can
non, and At half psht the crow d, not diminish:d
in numbers, re4ss.n:Led on the ground, when
Dick Yates made them ore cf bis oest speeches,
for Asou. an hour. covering all the ground not
previously epoIen over by others.
A:ttr this, Allen G. Fuller OF Bacne. elec!or
for lie First District, addressed tie assembly
which lla was an honored ard Influential HEEL
beE, and proved by the records that tte presest
factions tha: cali themselves Democratic, bare
nothing but the nauc, and have long since lost
all the substance.
Mr. Fuller Has somewhat exhausted by an
elaborate and convincing speech Of scns twu
hours tile dav before, At Lawreuccrille. but he
warmed into his subject and held his audience
in wrapt attention ~ be dissected away The
bmsy veil uf pret-nce from The d -uXlas Deuuc-
rae, and showed tie skeleton IN all Its GRIM
ueas.
l. was now II II but the people would net
60 uat.l they heard from Linog.r, the Allant op-
Puuent OF LcgA1 in the 9:h-
DaTii I. Lluegar i. wicked-ho has no far
ia rs sharp Us . needle, and will glre Logan
plenty OF work.
Al lxA,, =. half past II, lie pscple were Hing
10 quiz, because tue SPEAKERS were wcrn out,
and adjourned with nint hearty cheera tor Lii
cuin ard Yutes. Democrats VII here admit
lArke Republican gains in Egypt, but 'nslst they
will bala: CT these in the North. IL.
ic1y:ezFcnacnce cf the Press AID T1itunel
Szcoo. Cumb rand Co.. ILL.,. Aug. II. 1850.
GENTLEMEN: Il notice Of Republican Muss
Meeting, held ut this place, Aug 81, WAS sent
to your cfIic., and you kindly inserted it in
your paper Of last week. In picking up tbs
Chicago Tsmts and Hercld to-day, notice IN
answer to it, in which the author stated that
"tbeze were but three hundred persons here on
that day, that they were counted By two reEia.
biz men," Eow ii the 1t Elements Of our Dong
1a.ites for truthfulness ia regard to Republican
| meetings in Egypt, were as well known abroad
as at home, We should not feel it incumbent on
| u- to notice this articls. Bat for fear it may
ms. al til. minds Of the public. land especially
the minds Of the few in Egypt who are still
| numbered with the Democracy, but who are al
| mcss persuaded to become Republicans.) we
will endeavor to correct any falso impression it
may make. Nothing in all Egypt l1ur:s tie
| Doug ug1asites 50 much Us to sre the large and en-
thusiuztic Ropubican meetings that are row
held almost tsily--larger ard fur mure enthusi.
| astic tuan their meetings. And hence this dis
position TO Getruct from their uumbera a:d sue
| rrss, The meeting tt which that commupica.
| lion referred YVES ruade 10 Of not less than nne
| thousand Republicans. The truth of large Re-
| publican gains in Southern Illinois, is admitted
| by a,| ho: oe4b'e Democrats In conversation
w;,h u II o'B'F .cklp lat Fr,day, be said t5.t phut
| Democracy lost in the South they would gam
in the Northern counties.
| Sor, Nit. Editor, it you can voueh for the Re-
h ruo.eans lo.so ~ ~ a.s .,,rs ~ oHa otd ~ ~
| VIA. nnt iss. tb.a ten thousaad nsiorltv-
| 4 REPrnLicAS.
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