... happens when they become too happy? Look at what happened to the Mormons of Illinois. Look how Harlem was systematically destroyed when American ... ...ad to whitewash everything about themselves. Until they all wore white false Whigs. Until they pomaded and sprinkled themselves with white flour, ... ...eir evil treasure… but it is perfectly fine! And legal for rich upper class Whigs and doctors to go seek out where these poor, lower class illegal ...

...nry S. Burrage, of Portland, Me., and to General Tho- mas J. Henderson, of Illinois. For various courtesies received, the editor is furthermore indebt... ... way until the spring of 1830, when his father “moved again,” this time to Illinois; and on the jour- ney of fifteen days “Abe” had to drive the ox wa... ...have heard him say so often.” Then he lived several years at New Salem, in Illinois, a small mushroom village, with a mill, some “stores” and whiskey ... ...t lack ambition. He dreamed even of making himself “the De Witt Clinton of Illinois,” and he actually distinguished himself by zealous and effective w... ...ccustomed party allegiance gave way. Antislavery Democrats and antislavery Whigs felt them- selves drawn together by a common overpowering senti- ment... ...ide of his State he had attracted compara- tively little attention; but in Illinois he had been recog- nized as one of the foremost men of the Whig pa... ...ampaigns he had occasion- ally spoken on the ostensible issues between the Whigs and the Democrats, the tariff, internal improvements, banks, and so o... ...t shades of opinion within the party, and of the different elements—former Whigs and former Democrats—from which the party had recruited itself. This ... ...h a national bank for the same purposes. Mr. Douglas has said that we (the Whigs) have not dared to meet them (the Lo- cos) in argument on this questi...

...subject. When Judge Trumbull, our other Senator in Congress, re- turned to Illinois in the month of August, he made a speech at Chicago, in which he m... ...shall be content. I have before me the bill re- ported by the senator from Illinois on the 7th of March, 1856, providing for the admission of Kansas a... ...nsideration at the conference referred to; but, sir, when the senator from Illinois reported the Toombs bill to the Senate with amendments, the next m... ...ed Scott decision de- cides that they have not that power. If the State of Illinois had that power, I should be opposed to the exercise of it. That is... ...ssed by a Republican State Conven- tion, in October, 1854, at Springfield, Illinois, and he declared I had taken part in that Convention. It turned ou... ...and endowed by divine law with equality. And down South, with the old-line Whigs, with the Kentuckians, the Virginians and the Tennesseeans, he tells ... ...ld say he was not an old-line Whig. I am somewhat acquainted with old-line Whigs from the origin to the end of that party; I became pretty well acquai...

...ES & DEBATES of LINCOLN WITH DOUGLAS In the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858 [The following speech was del... ...red Scott’s master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free State of Illinois, every other master may law- fully do with any other one, or one t... ...er master may law- fully do with any other one, or one thousand slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free State. Auxiliary to all this, and working ha... ... and we shall awake to the reality instead that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State. To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty is ... ...imes. I have said, as illustrations, that I do not believe in the right of Illinois to interfere with the cranberry laws of Indiana, the oyster laws o... ...dge Douglas has a very affec- tionate leaning toward the Americans and Old Whigs. Last evening, in a sort of weeping tone, he described to us a death-... ...ntly promised himself that tears shall be drawn down the cheeks of all Old Whigs, as large as half-grown apples. Mr. Webster, too, was mentioned; but ... ...e Legislature that winter, he complained of me that I had told all the old Whigs of his district that the old Whig party was good enough for them, and... ... General Scott up for the presidency, Judge Douglas was around berating us Whigs as Abolitionists, precisely as he does to-day,—not a bit of differenc...

... and flog negroes in Nebraska was popular sovereignty. SPEECH A T CLINTON, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 8, 1858. The questions are sometimes asked “What is all... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO H. L. PIERCE AND OTHERS. SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, April 6, 1859. GENTLEMEN:—Y our kind note inviting me to attend a... ... as I understand the Massachusetts provision, I am against its adoption in Illinois, or in any other place where I have a right to oppose it. Understa... ...ncoln: V ol Five TO THE GOVERNOR, AUDITOR, AND TREA- SURER OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. GENTLEMEN: In reply to your inquiry; requesting our written opini... ...him. He was one of the few distinguished men of the nation who gave us, in Illinois, their sympathy last year. I never saw him, but suppose him to be ... ...can join in and establish it on a more firm and durable basis. We, the Old Whigs, have been entirely beaten out on the tariff question, and we shall n...

...o his already gathered constellations of those Western stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquered, Louisia... ... whole nation. It did not affect South Carolina otherwise than it affected Illinois, Pennsylvania, or even New York. The navigation laws may also have... ...i, and the whole of South Ohio, to Louisville in Kentucky, and to Cairo in Illinois, where the Ohio joins the Mississippi. The amount of traffic carri... ...not, in my mind, stand on a par with Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, 81 Trollope or Virginia. We are apt to connect the name of Benja... ... the south, had joined the South by a regular se- cession ordinance. Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, to the north, were of course true to the Union. Unde... ...Vir- ginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. As Radicals in England be- come simple Whigs when they are admitted into public offices, so did Mr. Lincoln with h...

...Baker were successively nominated and elected to Congress; and because the Whigs of the district are well acquainted with the system, and, so far as I... ...ing them only because I choose to leave the decision in each county to the Whigs of the county, to be made as their own judg- ment and convenience may... ... to attempt to bring about, at the next election in Putnam, a Union of the Whigs proper and such of the Liberty men as are Whigs in prin- ciple on all... ... to do no wrong, etc., I mean no special application of what I said to the Whigs of Morgan, or of Morgan & Scott. I only had in my mind the fact that ... ...ed the petition of H. M. Barney, post- master at Brimfield, Peoria County, Illinois, report: That they have been satisfied by evidence, that on the 15... ...at principle for the benefit of the State in which he resided the State of Illinois. The alternate sections were to be given for the purpose of con- s... ...d as it was, if it could be put in no more favorable form for the State of Illinois. When it should be before this House, if any member from a sec- ti... ...of the sanguine men have set down all the States as certain for Taylor but Illinois, and it as doubtful. Cannot something be done even in Illinois? Ta... ...adelphia, New York, and Boston, beyond what it is to the interior towns of Illinois. The next most general object I can think of would be improvements...

... superior force numerically, made his nomination for the Presidency by the Whigs a foregone conclusion. He was nominated and elected in 1848. I believ... ...ction for city of- ficers. Mr. Zachariah Chandler was the candidate of the Whigs for the office of Mayor, and was elected, although the city was then ... ... from the co-partnership with Boggs, and, in May, 1860, removed to Galena, Illinois, and took a clerkship in my father’s store. While a citizen of Mis... ...re anti-slavery men belonged to the Democratic party, and in others to the Whigs. But with the inauguration of the Mexican war, in fact with the annex... ...en the election took place in November, 1860, I had not been a resident of Illinois long enough to gain citizenship and could not, therefore, vote. I ... ...eaking was over volunteers were called for to form a company. The quota of Illinois had been fixed at six regiments; and it was supposed that one comp... ...ny was mustered into the United States service, forming a part of the 11th Illinois volunteer infantry. My duties, I thought, had ended at Springfield... ...ant-General who supplied my deficiencies. The ease with which the State of Illinois settled its accounts with the government at the close of the war i...