Year: 1866

Why an old bachelor should profess to
be in favor of disunion | can very readi-
ly comprehend-he can't find any one to
help him make union but why any
other thinking being should ever advo-
cate cause so against nature is beyond
my investigation. We, as Americans,
have learned more fully than ever, DUR
ing the past few years, the real meaning
of union; aud, as the Union has triumph
/ ed, | suppose there will, hereafter, be less
old bachelors and maids, for unions must
now be popular for alltime predict that
even Illinois will not, hereafter, carry on
that free and easy wholesale business of
'cleaving asunder" the dissatisfied ones
who patronize her from the different
States. I think such parties will now set
themselves to quelling these little rebel
lions between themselves and by them
SELVES OduaAd las uVH III d'1idStiOh
for the negro, aud hope Illinois will
have none for "the party aforesaid"


! The United States was very proper
name for our country it covered the
idea of union but united people We.
never were-not even during the Revo-
lution-and we never could have been
without the awful upheaving Of the Great
Rebellion. This has stirred US, as peo-
pie, to the very foundation, and Of a var
led compound, formed oneness which
only lacks time to make perfect whole.
Had we been disposed to cast away from
US /" the accursed thing" and, been united
for our country's good, there would have
been 40 civil war, but we would not, and
God eraitted our wickedness to force
US TO it. The South won not what it aim
ed for, the North gained more, and the
Union gained the whole; and this was
Heavens aim, not mans. There is no
North or South now; bothsare swallowed
up in one Union. Maine and Texas met
with the sword and kissed each other in
peace. Time will reconstruct the re-
newed republic better than hasty legisla-
ton. The volcano was too great, the
breaking-up too deep, to be rearranged
and grown over in moment. Time,
time is the great necessity now, and it is
but Just and right that those who sinned
the most should bear and wait the long
est.


For many years before the war our con-
congress was but an intestine broil.-
/ Men, elected from different sections, met
there as open enemies. ready for person
al encounter of slauder or knife 1t is not
so now it never will be again. The
great common isterest must now be the
same from all parts and local claims will
always be respected. Now, as we have
found more perfect Union of States, l
thought it would be a most opportune
time to make an effort towards a like i'm
proyement in neighborhoods, families
and homes. Less selfshness and more
brotherhood will accomplish this object
Fellow feeling, sympathy, interest and
love are also great necessities, and they
will bring a good reward.


A man can labor daily for the good of
himself and family and yet delight in the
welfare of his neighbor Whether he has
enough of this worlds goods or not he
need not be covetous Because it is the
lot of man to labor he need not make HIM
self miserable because some do not ap-
near to cultivate such a lot. Because
there is wickedness in the world man
need not think everybody condemned but
himself. IF there is such thing as hat
red there is such a quality as love too,
and there can be more of this and less OF
that if we try to make it SO. There are,
in reality, but FIVE families living on this
hall of ours. IF we only loved the one to
which we belong we would do we'll, for il
this were The case there can be no doubt
brt we would have morsel Of sympathy
to snare for less favored families, as the


II
African, Asiatic and Indian. "Unlon Of
hearts and union of hands" There is
sweetness in these words, but where Is
the example? There may be, here and
there, such a household family, but where
lis the neigbborhood, the church, the vii
Iliase? Where is the union between