Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-06-12
Letter from Illinois.

Letter from Illinois.
CHARLEsTowN, Ill, May Is, '67,
EDITOR CHRONICLE Through the
kindness of a friend in Kinsman, we
received a few days ago a package of
your late papers. 1t is pleasant indeed
TO see the CHRONICLE in our prairie
State. A few years ago it could not
reach US. We had the testimony OF
friends that it was sent again and again,
but it nsver arrived. Somewhere be-
tween this point and Warren, the mail
route was guarded by a "double-fa-
ming sword" of Democracy, which the
Chronicle could not pass.
But the revolution in public senti-
ment has been complete. Even upon
Egypt" the light is breaking. Her
sovereigns have ceased to vote every
four years for jackson, since the last
two campaigns. The immense Demo
cratic msjorities that used to roll up
from Lower Egypt have abated. At
one time the majority IN 8 given dis
trict, exceeded the whole number of
inhabitants, men, women and chill
dren. 1t was in that vicinity that James
Parton discovered that astonishing
phenomena, s'the ~unteachable igno-
rance of an original se~cessionist."
There could scarcely be two classes
of people under the same sun, and es-
pecially under the same government,
more unlike than those of Northern
Ohio and Southern Illinois. The for
mer was settled by Puritan descend
ants, 3 race who took the world seri-
ously, and they brought with them
and Incorporated into their social sys-
TEN the ascetic and angular beliefs of
their forefathers, while the Southern
uIinoisians are emigrsnts from slave
States. full of the principles. Tor rather
want of principlesl peculiar TO their sa-
cred soil.
We had heard of the Western Re-
serve as a land flowing with fanaticism
and cheese, and 8 few months ago We
bent our steps thitherwaTd or a tour
of observation. We saw the cheese, but
failed TO discover the fanaticism. The
honest yeomanry seem rather to merit
the accusation of being slow than 9TH
erWise. The masses seem more inclin-
ed to linger in blissful repose on pres
emit attainments, than to venture rash
ly upon hazardous and forbidden
grounds. This thinkers, and those who
make public opinion, are now, and
have eVer been, in the advance there,
and were doubtless like the "little
leaVen, " in bringing about the freedom
of the nation.
-.
In the matter of public schools, Hi
nois and Michigan are already stealing
q march on yea, and if your education
al men are not wide awake in perfect
ing the free school system, they viii
get up some fine morning to find them
selves excelled by the untutored bar
barians ''aout west"
l zee from your papers that your
KinsmRn correspondence is becoming
"volumineus and vast" / should like
to have the honor ofwriting from there.
but il is impossible now. Kinsman is
q nice old town, "a city of magnificent
and principally celebrated
for being twenty miles northeast of
Warren. There is a peaceful, tranquil
air about the place, which strikes a
stranger pleasantly. 1t is q place where
one might think Of being buried with
some degree of fortitude. For my own
part I have always cherished an espe-
cial sntipathy t obeing buried anywhere
but in such q picturesque, retired spot,
ara heard no shrieking locomo-
no laundering railroad trains,
rafting wheels over stony pave
ments, where the hurry and confusion
and din of the busy world never comes,
one feels more r~econciled TO go to sleep;
it seems as though one gets
used TO the buried feeling, and submis-
i've TO doom.
They've had a dreadful time there
their "dogs," hayen't they? Iii is
TO be hoped that human flesh will con-
Time to advance in value and sausage
meat to d~epFeeiate. -
One of your late papers contained an
article which "hurt our phelinx"-we-
ourself-indiyidually and personally
You see, NJ. Editor, the martyred dog,
the dog who "set for his picter," bit
POUR humble correspondents little
daughter, leaving an ugly car upon
ner wrist, which she carries yet. We
ICAt0AC0 " 4OLAOAAoSAasC LAAAAI WIN
he clerk. and were answered with a
,urly growl. We bore this meekly al
20, but when the "store keeper" an
1ounces through the paper that the
log had never bitten any but suspI-
,ious and meddlesome persons-ah J
Mr.. Editor, That Uas The mos lnkindest'
'its Of all. Suspicious meddlesome!
We deny the charge! Though we
it that oughtn't to say it." we en-
the reputation ofayerage honesty
We are as decent q person as you would
wish to see. If eYer we 60 TO Kinsman
Igsin to breathe its salubrious air. and
rid of the HfeVerinsagur," and wear
int our old clothes, you just tell that
store keeper" he may expect to see US
armed with a certificate ofGood
Moral Character, SO that he need not
et a savage dog on his door steps, to
leTour our "hinnocept hinfspts."
Yours Indignantly,
-c- MORRIS.