The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-10-30

courage to strike the fatal blow. Let u.
conclude that the men, who really intend
TO plan and execute civil commotion, ne
yer proclaim it on the house top. Itseeks
secrecy-it deals and lives in deep and
dark recesses, has hiding places and CO.
verts, and shuns the light of day it re-
qures pledges and oaths from its follow
ers for their fidelity it deals in inuendoes
and passwords, and so moulds all its ope-
ratlons, that, like meteor, it bursts sud-
denly upon you, and afirights by its terri
fic appearance, and frey course.
Let us rather believe that these declara-
tons are but the idle, empty, vapouring
sounds of men who wish to intmidate the
timorous and excite the more daring
that they are otherwise harmless, and are
better suited to the auditors of a female
abolition society than the political forum.
Mr. Van Buren, will be reelected, he will
continue to quietly and honestly admins
ter the Government as he has done, and,
ten to one, but some of these hotspurs will
be found, at no very distant day, loud in
praise of his administration, craving, in
the most humble terms, some official
crumbs from the administration table,
That there can be no ground of opposition
to him personally, or for want of talents,
sound doctrine, or integrity of purpose, is
most manifest, and his opponents have
furnished the most satisfactory and con-
elusive evidence of this truth.
In 1889 the whole opposition, with the
exception of one vote in the Senate and
not much greater number in the House,
agreed to, and by an act of Congress,
placed at his disposal 10 millions of dol
lars and $4,000 soldiers, to be used at his
discretion, in relation to the disputed
boundary in Maine, as the exigcncies off
the times might in his judgment require.
The peace of the country, its future pros
perity, the lives Of thousands of human
beings, and the hopes and destiny of mil
lions of lreemcn, were confided TO the
power and discretion of one man. Nobly
and faithfully did he perform the trust
the results known.-it is matter of history.
The honor of the country was defend
ed, its peace preserved, and its rights pro-
tected from encroachment. What a proud
tribute was paid by the passage of this
law TO Mr.. Van Buren,! The opponents
of the present administration, in justfca-
ton of all their idle and ridiculous paradcs
and prodigality, plead, most unjustly, an
alleged example during the canvass which
elevated Gen. Jackson to the Presidency,
forgetting the vast andincomparable differ
ence between the man they profess to SO
higly admire, and the soldier and patriot
the people love and regard for his noble
military achievements and wise civil adj
minstration of the Government.
They say, in affected delight, that they
have stolen the buglc by which the clans
Of Old Hickory were aroused from their
remote ana deepes! glens, and marshalled
on the field and so they hope to arouse
the warders and followers of old Tip and
Tyler, and march to victory. If they
have stolen the Jackson bugIc, of which
we know nothing, of one thing we are
certain, that they have not the Jackson
bugler in their ranks. Their musician is
an imposture, and knows not the note to
which freemen respond and recognise as
the war cry under which they muster.
The same ugler who sounded the notes
of Jackson's victory at New Orleans, now
raises the loud cry of preparation along
the mountains and hills, the streams and
valleys Of this republic I; and the shrill
notes will reach each ear and animate
each breast in our ranks, and lead them
to great and glorious civil victory, which
shall preserve the nation in peace, pros
perity and honor, protecting alike the just
rights of all. This done, each will re-
ceive a patriots best reward,-the nations
thanks.