Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1869 — Democratie Progress. [ARTICLE]

Democratie Progress.

Thu Democracy of Illinois and Indiana might learn something of their brethren in tbe South. The Democracy “down South” are not one-half so tender footed on the negroequalrty business as their friends st urn North. Infect they accept the ho wrings of the Northern Democracy as a voluntary contribution to the Southern cause by men who have no other Interest In the matter than to show a subserviency to their traditional masters. In Boyle county, Kentucky, the Demo-, cratic Convention met and resolved that as the Democracy of that county were divided as to the expediency of allowing negroes to testify In courts of justice, that question should be no longer “a test of party fealty.” They, therefore, call upon the nominee* for the Legislature to slats whether they will, without regardtottair personal feelings or private opinions, obey Instructions on that question from their constituents: and in order to obtain these instructions, they hsve ordered a vote by the party for or against negro testimony in courts. Colonel Ik J. Breckinridge, the candidate for State Senator, has written a letter in which he says he will aooeptthe result of the vote as an Instruction to be obeyed, notwithstanding Ms private opinions on the subject, but adds that the question itself is one "that is not, and cannot be made, a tot of party Conventions in Illiaoit und the Northwest, take Mtiee, ifrmefore, SSpSsr® Tribune, June 1& > . ,V, ; H. Camkw. Fwrfe Province# Ontario, assures JVjrw TVrfcr Uaathcwtfr destroys g thssggs or gsrm. of ** -Been, who tat eff the head of Ha brother-in-law fin Massachusetts) with a mast- nbnnnwir has Kami ntHltllTHlfrrt (a UlVto* ufiripyUT) MM UvriH nwawwait! Ml bTexhlMted a StttamoZp'Mi the officers on a With a brutal air of bravado MjtolCtoA the draught and exclaimed, “ No, G—4 d—» you, drink it yonna