Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-01

these times when 80 many things are .go-
ing dry rather to oblterate than to enlarge
the construction between us. But / rejoice TO
KNOW that We are not only geographically neigh
bors, but that Indiana and IIlinO have been
neighborly in the high sentiments and purposes
which have characterized their people. l rejoice
70 know that the same high spirit Of loyalty and
devotion To the country that characterized the
state OF Illinois in the time when the nation
made its appeal to the brave men of all the
States to rescue its flag and its Constitution from
the instruction which had been raised against
them was equally characteristic of Indann
that the same great impulse which swept over
your state swept over ours that Richard Yates
Of Illinois and Oliver p. Morton of Indiana
stood together In the fullest sympathy and
cooperation in the great plan they devised to
augment and re-enforce the Union armies in the
held and to suppress and put down reasonable
conspiracies ut home.
As Americans and as Republicans, we are glad
that Illinois has contributed SO many and such
conspicuous names to that galaxy of great
Americans and great Republicans whose deeds
have been written ON the scroll of eternal fame
recall that it was the soil Of Illinois that
l.oveioy died martyr to free speech. He was
the forerunner of Abraham Lincoln. He died
but his protest against human slavery lived,
Another great epoch In the march of liberty
formed on the soil of Illinois the theater of its
most influential event. l refer to that high de-
pate III the presence OF your people but before
the world in which Douglas won the Senator shin
and Lincoln the Presidency and immortal fame.
But Lincoln's argument and Lincolns proclalna-
eANla hhusb oS hU fc eOCu ukui luc bUtlie-tftlu,
and again your State WAS conspicuous; you gave
- 41nnA send Ix,yxn. End imHlkitu<les u iesx
notakIe but not less faithful soldiers who wrote
the proclamation with their swords
congratulate you to-day that there has me
out Of this early agitation, out Of he work OF
Lovejoy the disturber, out Of the great debate OF
1888, and out of the war for the Union, a Nation
without slave; that not the shackles of slavery
only have been broken, but that the scarcely less
cruel shackles of prejudice, which bound every
black mar in the North have also been I'M
bound, We are glad to know that enlightened
sentiment OF the South TO day unites with MS In
our congratulations that slavery has been
abolished. They have come to realize, and many
of their best and greatest men to publicly ex.
press, the thought that the abolition of slavery
has opened n gateway OF progress and material
development TO the South that was forever
closed against her people while domestic slavery
existed. We send them the assurance that We
desire the streams OF their prosperity shall flow
bank full. We would lay upon their people nc
burdens that we do not willingly bear ourselves
They will not think it amiss if l say that the
burden which rests willingly upon our shoulders
is "a faithful obedience to the Constitution and
the laws. manly assertion by each of his in.
dividual rights and manly concessions OF equal
rights to every other man is the boast and the
law Of good citizenship