The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-01
numbered.
And out he must go.
ror IN his place well put the good
Old 1iVbsanoe and Tyler. Toe. etc.
A Feiicitous Address tn Delegation OF
Illinoisans who Called Upon Him.

A Feiicitous Address To n Delegation OF
Iiiinoisans who Called Upon Him.
GEN. HUNT AND MY ILLINOIS FRiESDs:
thank you for this cordial expression Of your
interest I'm Republican SUCCESS. l thnnk you for
tho kindly terms in which your spokesman has
conveyed TO me the assur ,ilce no. civ OF your
poitical support but Of your personal coma
The States OF Indiana and Illinois are
neghbors, geographically. The river thai for
"A portion cf It's length constitutes the bound
division. les tendency seems 20 be. in
these times whom many thin 3 are "go-
ing dry" rather TO oblteraCe than to enlarge
the co struction between us. But L rejoice 10
know that we are not only geographically neigh
hors but That 1ndiana ana Illiro have been
neighborly in the high sentiments and purros q
which have chsrac dried their people. rejoice
TO know TINT the same high sprir OF LOYALTY and
devotion 70 the country that characterized tho
state OF Illinois in the time when the nation
made its appeal 70 the brave on OF all the
states 10 rescue its dag and it's Constitution from
the instruction which had been raised against
them was equally characteristics OF Indiana !;
that the same great impulse which swept over
your sta swept over ours that Richar Yates
of Illinois and Oliver II. Morton of Indiana
stood together in tho fullest sympathy and
cooperation in ths Great plan they devised 20
augment aud re-en orce the Union armies I'm the
field and to suppress and put down reasonable
conspiracies At home.
As Americans aud 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
l recall that 10 was the soil OF Illinois that
Lovejoy died a 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. 1 refer 10 that high de-
bate in the presence OF your people but before
the world, in which Douglas won the Senatorship
and Lincoln the Presidency and immortal fame
But Lincolns argument and Lincoln's proclama-
ton must be ma 10 good upon the battle-he.'.
and again your State conspicuous; you gave
us Grant and Logan, and multitude of less
notabls but not less faithful soldiers who wrote
the proclamation with their swords
l congratulate you to-day that there has 1me
out OF this early agitation, out OF he work OF
Lovejoy tho disturber our OF the great debate OF
1883, and out of the war for the Union, a Nation
without "a slave; that not the shac<les 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 un
bound. We are glad to know that enlightened
sentiment OF the South today unites with ms in
our congratulations that slavery has been
abolished. They have come 10 realize and many
OF their best and greatest men 10 publicly ex-
press, the thought that the abolition Of slavery
has opened 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