Year: 1862




TO do anything openly and above board;
to whom any measure OF end, that is sim
ply good and merely right, is always disa-
gr.eable because it lacks the sharp flavor
Of deceit, Or the high seasoning Of wicked |
ness. To those men dishonesty is always
the best policy, and the triumph Of
thcir cause seems worthless, unless it is |
gained by lying management and hidden
fraud. 4 notable instance Of the dark |
plotting and dishonest purpose OF the poll
ticians Of this stripe, has been exhibited in /
tue framing and effort to establish the COL
slitc1ion, which the people Of Illinois have
just voted down with such emphatic ex
preston Of utter dislike. So far as this
new constitution WAS worthy Of support,
it would readily have received the almost
unanimous suiffages Of the people Of this
Stale; but what was good in it had been
so loaded down with mischievious partisan
and secession provisions and contrivances,
rs to make it an intolerable grievance to
all honest and loyal people. There is but
one feeling in this State among all
Intelligent men, whose judgment have
not been misled by their interests,
IS to the untold and enormous mischief and
wong Of irredeemable paper money; and
whenever a straightforward and earnest
effort is made to guard the people against
this instrument for fraud and plumber, no
honest man will fail to give his best and
most determined assistance to the attempt.
Il the new constitution had truly and earn
cstly been framed to protect the people
against rotten banks and their vile issues,
itwould have bccn almost impossible to
have stuffed it so full Of absurd, fraudulent,
and secession provisions, that it would not
have been upheld By the voters. But when
under the pretence Of prohibiting banks,
long life and special privileges arc given to
them; when, behind the lying aud loud
outcry against I'LL paper money, a well
contriycd scheme is sought to be
carried out for leaving the whole State to
be p1eyed upon by the worst and yilest Of
stunaptails and wildcats, he knows but
little who thinks the people won't find out
the chest. There is knayery so sharp
tAat it outwits itself; and some politicians
who think themselves so cunning that they
can always blind and manage as they please
the dear but stupid people, are taught now
and then that these people arc not SO big
focls as they took them to be. We trust
The time will come soon, and the sooner
The better, when the best and surest legal
and constitutional safeguards may be set up
in this State against paper money. To that
ED We shall labor in the future, as we al.
NAYS have in the past, diligently and un-
ccasingly; and we gather new strength fo1
thcstTugglc, and work now with more hope
tEan ever before, because the vote against
tie new constitution shows us clearly thai
tlc people cannot be bamboozlcd and fooled
by the swindling practices and stop-tlic
cries Of pack Of political black1cgs and
stumptai1 scoundrels, into fastening upo1
themselves for years the most a5ominable
and rotten currency.


Tho two grand results that the traito
trainers Of this abomination, called the ney
constitution, sought to bring about, was
first, tointroduce, firmly establish, aud gai,
consecratcd place in the fundanlcnts
law Of the loyal State Of Illinois, to tn
main principles and doctrines Of secession
The other, Has so to settle legislation fo
years TO come on the subject Of the currc1
cy, that the people OF this good State shoul
be dependent on the brokers and bankc,
Who favored this secession instrument, fl
all the rag money they could have; or els
be overwhelmed With q vile food Of Ii
worthless trash setting in upon them frol
every outrof-the+way wilderness, and ever
lar distant swamp in the land. It vi
thought that the true and loyal citizens
Illinois would be SO much taken up and al
sorbed in battling with treason aud rebellic
abroad, that traitors and rebels at hon
could set a1 their snares, aud catch the
unawarcs. Hence all the sneaking villair
and crawling perfdy Of the secession gar
IN the State, has been as busily at work,


1hc devil in a high wind. The have pic
ted, and cheated, and lied, and bullied, ii
br1bcd. The Knights Of the Golden Giro
have used all their schooled and practice
talents Whatever Of courage, of plottin
ortoachery could be learned from the d.
perste bravads Of the slave States, or to
the experience Of piracy and fllibusterin
have all been used to cary, whether
force or fraud, this offspring Of rebellion
the new constitution. The Chicago Tin
has brought all ia extraordinary gifts


lying and cheating to the work; it h
been sneahing into every place where


Thought Ignorance might be ensnared,


simple loyalty stabbed in the dark; a


been crawling On its belly to do its di


ard at1oclous work in any spot where I


passions and low practices had rendel


men fit tools for treason. But it has


been OF no avail The people Of this st


have seen through all this falsehood q


hypocrisy They have torn the mask Fl,


the traitors, and stripping the old der