Bro. Rust Renounces the Democratic Party
By Editor
We take the liberty to make the following extract from a letter written by Bro. Rust to a brother in this office. He speaks in reference to the Democratic party, and takes a stand which we commend as an example to all who have in the least degree, feelings of affiliation with that party. “The great excitement attendant upon election in this city (Chicago) is over. No riots, no mobs, or disturbances. And the returns are fast coming in to show an overwhelming majority for Mr. Lincoln. The Lord has been gradually working a great change in my mind for the better I trust; and I feel to praise his great name that the scales have fallen from my eyes. For some time past, and particularly since I came to Chicago, I have seen and heard things from the leaders of that party which I had clung to with such tenacity in former years, that I was compelled to denounce and condemn them as co-workers with Satan. I have forever made an end of justifying or apologizing for that party whose very life is in the perpetuation of that accursed institution of slavery. I now fully believe it. It has been, as you know, a source of great trial to me; but I thank God that I am now free. There are those who have been instrumental in my conversion on this point, but I feel to give God all the praise.” Bro. Rust would be happy to have brethren living in, or passing through, Chicago, call on him at his boarding place, 230 Madison street.