Year: 1861

nothing save patronage and power, | shall say


little about as most who ask it hereaway, ge


it, for as this is the first trip out for the new


Administration they do not deem it safe TO rur


over anything on the track yet awhile, and


those Changers on' here in Illinois have got tc


know that and all they have to do is to throw


themselves across the track and in their mercy


assure Lincoln what the consequences will be


to him and his Tetinue--he is Immediately in


formed "no room aboard" take me on to your


pilot" then he bawls out cor I'll smash up


your train!" Knowing that it will cost more at


the time to remove the obstruction than to allow


1t quietly to be placed on the pilot the latter


is Immediately done. And here let me remark
that crawling on to the pilot of Administra-
tion," not only Lineoln's but many former one
until by their members if not by the influence
Of some unmentionable qualification, they have
made it impossible for the engineer to see the
danger ahead" Hence they are one Of the
causes which have reduced our once prosperous
nation 10 the verge Of ruin. The same line OF





Davis, p c. S. A. and his crew. Davis is on
the track with his huge train--his government
and the danger ahead" is not seen by him,
because it is hidden from bis sight by that
immense pile OF would be officials, whom he
has taken up from the track, as did Lincoln,
and slowed away on the pilot or fore end OF his
locomotive, and in this perlous condition, j. we
are TO credit current telegraph reports, he is
though not with the speed ofa Lightning train
steaming mad|y on--north we are to believe.
While Lincoln with a more immense trains his
government is on the same track, steaming
South! Those two mighty trains, freighted !
with human flesh ard blood, have been moving
towards each other for some time, the distance
which now separates them is short, ,--hark! the |
sound as o. an approaching stupendous tornado !
CRATES upon the ear, ah, it is the rushing pin .
ions OF those two mighty masses-nearer and .
nearer do they approach there, they are now
in full view OF each other--behold! an assem-
oed world stands in breathless silence an un-
willing witness Of the iratricida scene. Ne
links hear the sobbing cries Of the spirit Of
Washington, Of Lafayette Of Jefferson, of
Franklin, Of Warren, of Hamilton, OF jackson.
't Clay, of Webster, of all those noble patriots,
who building the ark Of liberty cemented it
with their blood and dying implored Him who
loeth all things veil" 10 follow with his choic.
,st blessing their dying words that we as their
descendants might preserve the precious nher-
tence as a beacon light on the stormy sea of
time, in which was preserved the last hopes OF
he down troden millions ofearth and to which
liter generations might come and learn that
iod and not Kings governed here on earth -


repeat: Me thinks l hear the sobbng cries
'f the spirits of those patriots in union with the
,leadiugS of the angels of heaven praying the
iod OF harts to spare! Oh spare! this thy err
ng people. Will This warning call be needed,
IT will there be deaf ear turned upon it?-
Are we quite sure that the last spark OF civil
iberty-he guiding star Of civilization, will
rot be quenched in the ruins Of this impending |
conflict? If the evil is not to be averted, if the
collision must take place. then it is the earnest
ervent prayer OF Illinois that those who would
yitfuIy assassinate this the only child of lber-
y, and that other class, who if they cannot
ave the war prosecuted to their liking, would
'bandon the child of liberty to its fate, mayf
erish in the ruins Of the conflict, and that these
ulns may constitute the political Mecca of "
america, to which after generations may pill
rimage, and around which ambitious dema- c
ogues may linger, and from which they may 7
earn what will most assuredly bo their fate Z
nless they "obey the laws and support the
Constitution" THos CRAWFORD, Jr. c