The Illinois Free Trader And Lasalle County Commercial Advertiser

The Importance of the Coming Election.

Let no one stay from the election on Monday a week under a belief that the contest is of little importance. No idea can be more erroneous.

One vote in Congress may be sufficient to defeat some or all of the leading "whig" measures. The proceedings of congress show that though the whigs boast a majority of 40 in the lower house, the distribution bill, on which more than any other they expected to unite all their forces, passed a third reading in the house by a meagre majority of eight. Three democrats from Illinois would reduce that majority to five. On the question of a national bank they are still less united. Many whig members are opposed to such an institution, and others are wavering—the least popular breeze will incline them to one side or the other. Other leading measures of the Clay and Webster dynasty are equally obnoxious to many whigs. A few more democratic votes in congress will be sufficient to defeat them. Thus may the democracy of Illinois—of this single congressional district—at the coming August election, achieve a triumph of many of those great principles for which our party so nobly but vainly contended last November. Let the democracy come forth, then, in the majesty of their might on the first Monday of August next, and we will gain a victory that will tell at Washington.