Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-07-03
what il said in Illinois upon tIsc
Vote OF the People Excluding
Free Negroes from the State.
THE EMPHATIC "ORDER NO. g.

THE EMPHATIC 'ORDER NO. d.
Yesterday the people Of Illinois, by an
overwhe heIming vote, issued an order foI
the expulsion Of negroes from the State,
which completely throws Gen. Halleck'
famous order into the shade.
Here is the order, as issued and ratified
by the people Of Illinois:
No negro or mulatto shall migrate or settle il
this State (Of Illinois, after the adoption of thi.
Constt, tion.
No negro or mulatto shall have right of suf
Gragc, or hold any Office in this State.
The General Assembly shall pass all laws nee
essary to carry into effect the provisions of thi.
article.
No "intelgent contraband," though
crammcd to the eyelds with "important
intelligence" can be admitted hereafter
into the State of Illinois The moment
he places his foot upon our prairies he
will be sent TO the nearest Jail, and at the
first convenient opportunity will be taken
to the State line and ordered to leave
forever. And, what is still more
striking about the matter, is that, in is
suing this broad and sweeping order for
the exclusion of negroes, large MAORI
ty Of the voters of Chicago have partic
ipated. Considering that for nearly eight
months the Chicago Tribune has been cx-
posing the "iniamy" of Gen. Halleck's s
order, this result shows that the people
have not been convinced, and shows that
they approved so highly of the llalleck S
order that they have put it in force in this
State, and from Cairo to Chicago, there
is not hereafter to be a home or an abid-
ing place for the " contrabands," no mat
ter how intelligent they may be. The
present laws Of the State for tho cXclu-
sion of negroes, against which so m.ch
wrath has been expended, have been EN-
phatic lily approved by the people Of Hi.
Eois. "licvolutions never go backward" ."
and the fact that Chicago has voted that
this city shall no moro be the home of
runaway slaves will satisfy the country
that radicaism has seen its last days in
this metropolis.
The Chicago Tribune (Abolition) com
ments upon the result thus:
We regret the result, because. as far as
it goes, it is blight and insult thrown
upon the humanity of our age. As long
as the Infamous Black Laws rested mop
crativc upon our statutc-books, the citi-
zcns Of Illinois who were ashamed Of
their inhumanity could gather the con-
clusicn that they came down to us from
an unenlightoucd era. Now we have the
same atrocious statutes eXumcd, recon
structed and freshly Haunted in the light
now dawning broadly around us on the
great question of the age. In the
midst of Shareholders rebellion the
President issues an cmancil alton mes,
sage. In the border States the scheme
OF emancipation is putting forth its buds
Of promise, which, as surely as the
seasons come in their proper order, viii
bring Missouri and Kentucky into the
galaxy of free States. In our halls OF
Congress the debate is in progress on the
question of declaring liberty to the slaves
of all rebels who have lifted their hands
against the Union. And it is at this june
turc that the voice of Illinois risos discon
sonant and harsh, saying to the President
and to Congress and to tho struggling
bands in the convulsed commonwealths,
"lf you omancipatc, the product of your
labors, freed men and woman, are unwor.
thy, and shall not enter our prairics. .--
Keep them in bondage if you will--llli.
nois is for white men" What can but
be the effect of this, as far as it goes, but
to chill and stay in their formation the
tree principles and tho better manhood
this rebellion had looscd from old time
tammuls ?