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Title: The era of the Civil War, 1848-1870
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cole, Arthur Charles, 1886-1976 Alvord, Clarence Walworth, 1868-1928 Illinois. Centennial Commission
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Publisher: Springfield : Illinois Centennial Commission
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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arlythe Illinois Central. John Wentworth, the Chicago republicanleader, the friend of the laboring people and the opponentof banks, corporations, and special privileges, took the stumpin favor of the new constitution.46 Other republicans announcedthat they intended to support the document as a whole, whilerejecting certain of the articles submitted separately. The state officials from Governor Yates down set busilyat work in a rousing campaign against the new constitution;speakers of both party antecedents were put into the field,from Owen Lovejoy representing the strongest antislavery 43 Aurora Beacon, May 8, 1862. 44 Havana Battle Axe clipped in Illinois State Journal, April 4, 1862. 45 Journal of the Constitutional Convention, 1862, p. 1082; St. Louis Re-publican clipped in Belleville Democrat, April 5, 1862. 46 Joliet Signal, May 6, 13, 1862; Illinois State Register, May 8, 1862. Went-worth had become estranged from the state house clique at Springfield, seeTrumbull manuscripts. /
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THE APPEAL TO ARMS 271 republicanism to John Reynolds, the incarnation of old demo-cratic conservatism. They effectively played up in Egypt thebugaboo of increased taxes; and as the contest neared its close,they dragged out the bloody head and raw bones of treason ina sentimental appeal to the partiotism of the voters of the state.Every band of traitors in the state, they said, was workingfor this humbug constitution, this Vallandigham document. Why is it that every rebel sympathizer in Illinois is openmouthed for the adoption of the new Constitution? asked theIllinois State Journal on the day before election. Downwith the Secession Constitution, was the caption of the edito-rial in which the Chicago Tribune gave a final warning onelection day.47 The commissioners appointed to take the vote of theIllinois troops outside of Illinois began their work early inApril. With two regiments in Virginia, others on the remotestborders of Arkansas, besides the forces stationed in Missouri,Kentuck

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