Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . very and its agitation by lawand without the pale of law. Returning to the so-called Black Laws ofIllinois, they were known and read by everycitizen of the State. While very many hadtheir private opinions as to the right andwrong of such measures, in order to have peacewith their neighbors they abided by them, tookcounsel of their consciences and awaited thetime of deliverance and the inauguration offree speech and opinion. Still, there werein this county a few stalwart men and women,who, despite contumely, and even dangerto their lives and property, o
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . very and its agitation by lawand without the pale of law. Returning to the so-called Black Laws ofIllinois, they were known and read by everycitizen of the State. While very many hadtheir private opinions as to the right andwrong of such measures, in order to have peacewith their neighbors they abided by them, tookcounsel of their consciences and awaited thetime of deliverance and the inauguration offree speech and opinion. Still, there werein this county a few stalwart men and women,who, despite contumely, and even dangerto their lives and property, openly and on alllawful occasions announced their abhorrenceof slavery and all connected with the were ostracised from society, avoided aspestilential, and contemptuously named Abo-litionists. Notwithstanding, these heroesworked indefatigably for the success of Free-dom, and they lived to see it triumph. In 1852 John P. Hale, the Free-Soil candi-date for President, received nine votes inMcDonough County. By accessions, largely. MRS. GEORGE GAMAGE HISTORY oi Mcdonough county. 775 caused by the overbearinR and unfriendly leg-islation enacted by the Proslavery party, inISfii) IJncoIn received 2,2o) ballots, showing;that sturdy and consistent opiMsition to thewrong will, in the end. succeed. TiiK UNnKRCRouND — The insideworkings of the friends of the oppressed slaveshould be made a matter of record, and thefacts in this account of what was called theUnderground Railroad. are largely talorted over thelines are not now produced, and as a result ofthe continued agitation of the slavery questionthe rails are torn up and the station buildingstorn down. The death of Lovejoy at Alton, 111.,in 1837—a martyr to his opposition to slavery—gave
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