, 1864-12-05
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PUBLIC mOHALTTV


lne Quincy Fhtg and R<pubiean makes q
personal application Of some recent remarks
o1 ours concerning intempe1aucc of public
men and thercupon reads us a lecture of
considerable length. II says:
I'VE publish IN another column a Commute.
ing the election Of Gov Yates to the finfed Ststsa
5e4ae, and condemniug the covert attackA Of the
LIN Hc1o 4t t1ainnhE upon him We coincide fully
.po'a Rosluons of our correspondent"
As the Wig and Republican does not pub
ush the article which it styles *eoyert At
tack" We print 1t again, for it is our purpose
always tp maintain and vindicate the position
which re then assumed. The article is as
follows:
(From the Chicago Tribune, Nor. 81
ss..,on M5ap y CnASokNTbere has hardly been
has mot been mSacd By outyaeeoas SCENES Of
dfpnkeuness In one I1onsc or the other-usua1ly
IN noah. ,niaaetly the Senate bus been more DE-
9ncntiy disturbed. and more deeply dishonored
than the House. That Illinois has had her aharc
n this great public odium, has been admitted by
4oSe 9i ass citizens who have visited the National
Capital. with the full sense Of sLame which at
Acnes 70 such confession, and ii Ia poor salts.
1acdnn TO the Union meu VI the State to Know that
nc dlsgIase DOES not beons" to their political
organization Every man. woman and CHILD shares
n n II and e;eX one who has proper sense OF
ne deceney betitttng great Stats IN i,e councils
3f the Nation, viii rejoice that we have now
The opportunity O, putting away the fcproach.
illinois, u u RtoGg5 GnteS q ststes s'as IS
league equal 10 his own hish asora1 standard, and
We doubt not TINT OIL Legislature will lind, among
the many excellent men who have been nal1ed for
the position, one who shall RINK with the fore-
most N ou those qualities which should disdn-
Eufsh the statesmcn ola Christian people We havc
suffered too much Of the opprohEium Of rahltc in
nnc., and VIC tell our Legislature in advance that
the people demand eobrlcty and good morals at
their hands the rat requisite Of their Senator.
We have mot the slightest apprehension that We
shall be dfgrnccd during the next six years as We
have been the past two years, but we can assure
tho6e to whom the choice II cO!um1ttcl that in so
p&aln matter 20 this, they Will be held to Just
responsibility"
Now We ask any candid man whether VIC
have made "coyert attack" on Gov. Yates,
or whether the Quincy Wig dad Republican
has done so, by entering confession in lis be-
half. We say that Illinois has been disgraced
by drunken Senator and that she ought
not to be SO disgraccd second time and that
position VIZ stand by! The Waig and Repu5H-
can c1claims TINT that Is q s'coyert attack on
Gov Yates. We have too high a regard for.
both Gov, Yates and our Quincy contemporary
to press the latter to the logical conclusion of
its'arSumcnt.
1t can hardly be necessary for us to enforce
our. views Of thc evils Of intempcrance in
high places by further discussion. We Affirm
that every decent man in the State Of Illinois
of both political parties, will say Amen to
the brief paragraph tc which the correspond
cnt Of the 1TAig and Repea:ican takes excep-
ton. Senator Richardson lives In Quincy.
We should be sorry to believe that the moral
sensn nf the UH{r and He7,ubtLtdn has haen