, 1861-09-06
ILLIHOIS POLITICS.

The Repu lean Central Committee OF Menard
county have Issued 3 call fol Union Convention
purpose Of nominating Crion candidates for tbs !
Various Offices to bs flied this fall in that County.
s. tar sa We car Learn party lines arc completely
i5E Until it has squehed party, and brought all
to the common p!a form or the Union, the Con J
stitutiou, and the Enforcement Of 1hc Lava |
May W.T. not hope, Notwithstanding the recent csls |
fcE Democratic Convention, to see Q 4 Mason
wheel 5r1o )ine with Menard on the Uuioa plat
form s Hdgana U'll Gazette
We had not beiort noticed the action Of
tie Republicans Of Menard county, but
We take OCCASION now to commend it
warmly and unreservedly, and to urge Re-
publicans in o:her parts OF the State to
follow so timely an example. If the
Democrats Of any particular locality insist
upon keeping up old party DIVISIONS, and
making issues which were vital before the
deluge, but are now valuable only to his
toriars and antiquaries, let them have The
field to themselves. The people want no
more controversies on the Chicago, or
Baltimore, or Cincinnati platforms. The
country has outgrown them. To illustrate
this fact in foIcibie manner, we need only
quote the two vital and essential para
graphs in the platforms Of the last Presi-
Dental contest.
FROM TIE CHICAGO PLATFoRH.
''That the normal condition Of all the territory
Of the United States is that Of freedom; that, as
our Republican fathers, When they had abolished
slavery il a OH national territory, ordained that
'ho person should be deprived Of life, liberty Or
i
our duty, by legislation, whenever such legisla-
uon is necessary, to maintain this provision Of
the Constitution against all attempts to violate
it; and we deny the authority OF Congress, of
Territorial Legis1str.e, OF any individuals, to
give legal existence to slavery IN any Territ3zy Of
the Ur1ted States.''
FROM TIE (DnEGLAs) BALTIMORE Platform.
*Ltscired, That 1t Is il accordance vita .he in
terpretstion Ct the Cincinnati Platform, that dur
ing the existence cf the Territorial Governments,
the measure Of restriction, whatever it may be,
imposed By the Federal Constitution On the power
Of the Territorial Legislature over the subject Of
the domestic relations, as the zane has been or
ehaH hereafter be f1ally determined By the Su-
preme Court Of the United States, should be re.
epected by ali good citizens, aud enforced with
promptness and ade1ity hy every branch Of the
General GoTe1umert.''
Now we ask whether there is any
man in the State caadid2y in favor of max
ing contest this fall on either Of these
planks. Tie man is not to be found.
Some there are, doubtless, who love to
cling to old party names after the prin-
ciples have vanished or ceased to have
practical Importance, but they will prove
less numerous than those who sought last
year to galvaDize the remains Of Whiggery
no less a job than TO "create q soul be.
meath the ribs Of death" Let those who
have fancy for mu1nmies and mummy
politics go their way without molestation
They will prove quite harmless. The peo.
pie will not j a them. Il the Democrats
OF Mason county, to whom the Gazets al.
ludes, persist IN holding an old party con.
vention, let the Republicans take advan
tage Of their blindness by calling Union
convention, instead Of initiating their folly
and courting defeat at the ballot box
That which we recommend to the Repub
icans Ct Mason county where the Demo
crats had measre majority last year, IT
recommend for all other counties Whateve
their former political cast. Let the dca
past buy its dead.