Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1857 — Greeley Sustained by Facts. [ARTICLE]

Greeley Sustained by Facts.

It has been but a few weeks since that Horace Greeley, in a burst of indignant rage, declared that, in Illinois, no persons entertained any social or political prejudices against negroes, except Douglas and his brother Democrats. He further asserted that whenever white women in Illinois chose to marry black men, the laws of this State would prove no barrier to such amalgamation. We, as far as we felt authorised to do so, denied that Republican ladies in Illinois would seek negro husbands in defiance of law, but the j Republican papers will not unite with us | iu the denial. Be that as it may, Knox inois, or at least all that part of it lying about Galesburg, has lately been thrown into a high state of excitement by a verification of Greeley’s prediction. It seems that during the campaign of last year, when Banks, Burlingame, Grover, Hale, General Ney, and other Abolitionists visited this region, the negro equality faith, always very strong, got intensely heated at Galesburgh, and a most respectable and wealthy farmer of that vicinity, the head of a large family, by way of showing his sincerity in the doctrine, took a negro man into his house, treating him as-an equal and a fit associate for members of his family. Time, which develops all things, has developed even to the Abolitionists of Galesburg the practical effects of the teachings of Burlingame and Banks. One of the daughters, a young and blooming girl—is now a mother, and the mother of a black man’s child 1 Abolition ladies, mothers and maidens who cheered General Ney and John P. Hale, when they asserted that negroes were equals of white men, now turn away from the poor victim of that system of teaching. Galesburg has long been celebrated lor its Abolitionism. It is tit that its practical manifestations should have occurred there. The child has no name. We have a suggestion.to make. A few months ago an illegitimate child was born in this city. A Republican meeting was held, and it was resolved: 1. That the child should he taken to 1 the Mayor’s office on the following Sun- , day, and, after the ceremony of the Lord’s supper, should be christened. i. That the child’s name should be John Wentworth. Our suggeston is, that a Republican mass meeting to be held at Galesburg ; i that President Blanchard or the Rev. I Owen Lovejoy preach; and that the! child be christened,Nathaniel P. Banks,jr.' The child being all native and half black, the name of Banks is the most appropriate we can suggest. The young ladies of the Female Col • lege at Galesburg, who have had Abolition taught them on every occcasion, have now before them a beautiful example. They can write home ~to their parents that the “lovely” doctrines oL.negro equality upon which so many words have been exhausted, and so many anthems sung, and in whose cause they have so often appeared at political meetings, have at last a living witness. The ! complexion of the decendants of one of! the Kansas shrieking damsels of Gales-| burg will be of that peculiarly attractive hue known as “molasses color.” This is, however, in all seriousness, a deplorable example to spread before a college i of.young ladies,! May its repulsiveness have a good effect not only upon students but upon parents. — Chicago Times.