The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-29
Ghe Daily Atsns.
SIXTH ILLINOIS CONGRESSIONAL DIS
TRICr.
How Old Abolitionists Will Vote.

| To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune
SIR: spent last summer IN the Love
joy district, and quite Il number OF hepub.
Ilicans came to me to complain that old
Aboitionsts we're going to vote the Oppo-
sition ticket. could not see that this was
any of my business Of course 90 not
have sense enough TO vote. mysei1 and
why should worry about how. other peo-
pie are voting? II there is class or men
in this country who have shown states.
manship and political forecast. it is the old
Aboitionists. If they do not know
how to vote, who does? And, If woman
may possibly instruct them in their duties,
to what political sagacity might not women
aspire? But, overlooking this dlfhculty,
these members of the party in power SEEM
ed to take it for granted that was, in some
sort, responsible for these old veterans, and
I ought to tell them how to vote. 80 l
looked over the ground and saw this: The
Republicans have nominated for congress
Gen. Henderson, who ran, or was run, as
a boiling Conservative Republican candi-
date in 1862, to defeat Owen Lovejoy, who
was the regular Republican nominee; and
he would have succeeded in defeating him
if some old Abolitionists had not induced
a War Democrat to run against him, and
so draw off that Democratic vote which
would not be cast for the Anti-War candi-
date. found that old Abolitionists had
worked like wheelhorses, day and night, on
"a long pull, and strong pull and a pull
altogether, to elect Lovejoy, and prevent
the defeat of the Republican party by this
Henderson bolt talked to some Of his
about th;s k<tta In ne
from party and principle fidelity, and they
excused the General on the ground that
his friends had used him without his
knowledge or consent; and said to my
self, said |, man who has been used once
is second hand article, and never should
be put in the market as new furniture -
A man who was Conservative Republi
can in 1862 is Eastwood stick, that never
should be trusted in bridge over which a
nation is to pass in it's onward march to
the foremost place among the families of
the earth From the Conservatives of
1862 may the Good Lord deliver us.
Gen. Henderson's opponent--the man
for whom it is said these stupid old Adolf.
tionists are going to vote--is Gen. Elliott,
a son in-law of Lovejoy, and man who,
from boyhood, has been in full sympathy
with that sturdy old patriot. Tie Gener-
al is a very successful stock grower; has
the finest horses, cattle, aud pigs and at
tends to them and his own business care
fully. He is not very graceful, is no orator.
wears very plain clothes but has a fine,
scholarly education, is good husband and
father, a warm friend, first-c|as neigh,
bor,- short gentleman and scholar in
homespun, and one that, up to this time,
10 one has suspected Of a mean or dishon-
est trick. On the ticket with him, as
State Senator, is Mr.. Benedict, another
wealthy stock farmer, with whom became
personally acquainted some years ago, and
who can certainly be trusted to know and
do his duty if anybody can, He is one Of
the Republicans who worked hardest in
1862 to prevent the defeat of the party by
Gen. Henderson's friends and their bass
wood candidate and | concluded that the
old Abolitonists of that district know pref
ty we'll what they are about, or, at least,
that some of them do and can be left to
vote without instructions.
JANE GREY SwIssHELM.
6lS West Monroe Street, Chicago.