The Illinois Free Trader And Lasalle County Commercial Advertiser

Senator Young.

We have now before us an address from the Hon. R. M. Young "To the Democratic Party of Illinois," the object of which he states to be "to vindicate his political reputation against unmerited reproach and against unfounded misrepresentations which, he is informed, were industriously circulated against him by persons professing to belong to the democratic party." These misrepresentations, which were secretly made use of prior to the recent election of U.S. senator in this state to injure Judge Young, and which since then, have been publicly made in the State Register, were, that he had requested his friends not to submit his claims to a democratic caucus nomination; that he was in favor of a high protective tariff, and had adopted Mr. Clay as his exponent on that subject; that he was in favor of a bank of the United States: that he had voted for the late treaty with Great Britain, for the bankrupt law, and for the confirmation of Gen. Wool's nomination as brigadier general in the U. S. army; and that he was against the reduction of the duty on salt, for which reason Col. Benton had opposed his re-election. All these charges Mr. Young answers in a clear and triumphant manner, and shows those who so industriously circulated them to have been base calumniators. We shall publish the address next week.