The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-10
THE ILLINOIS FREE TRADER.

and adopted population) who have come
hither 5000 miles across the water.
"This remark evidently gave great
offence to our foreign and adopted citizens,
who were standing in the crowd, and
made it evident 10 all, that Gen. Harrison
still retained the spirit Of the Alien and
Sedition laws, which he is said to have
approved. He made frequent illusions to
his own log cabin, and hard cider, called
Van Buren, magician, and declared that
the measures of the Administration were
not only tending that way, but had already
converted our Government into mon
archy.
"On the whole, it is extremely FORUM
ate that the people of this part of the
State have seen and heard General Har-
risOn.
"The Cleveland Herald and Gazette,
you know is leading Wing paper of this
State, and opposed with all its might the
nomination of Harrison. This paper set
forth, as one of the great reasons why he
should not be nominated, that when he
was the candidate before, SIT ,cas OBJ
serpeable that the counties, ,chich Har-
rison visited in person, gaze increased
maiorities against him." What was
true, then, Harris, the Editor, viii find to
be true now; and it is pity that Gen.
Harrison could not visit every county in
the State. His present visit was contrary
to the wishes and policy of his advisers,
and he will return directly home by way
of the canal"
(From the Cleveland (Ohio) Advertiser, of the
18th of June last.)
"Our streets, on Tuesday last, were
filled with Wing professions of those who
had arrived by land and water on their
way to Fort Meigs. The largest and
the most imposing of the whole was the
procession of the Wings from the old
counties of Geauga and Ashtabula, Gid
ding's Congressional District. In these
counties, the main body of the Abolition
lists reside, and they are the strongest
Wing counties of Ohio, and probably of
the United States. This great Abolition
procession marched under the banners of
Harrison and Tyler and James II.
Paine was its Marshal, the leading Abo-
litionist of Ohio, and who would carry
war to the knife upon the institutions of
the South. In this procession were the
very men who compose the secret asso-
Citations upon the Lake shore, TO aid the
escape of fugitive slaves to the opposite
frontier of Canada.
"While this great Abolitionist process
sion was passing our Office, we could not
avoid rejecting upon the strangest OF all
possible unions, the Richmond Whig'
with the cleveland Agitator'-the Wings
of the South with the most miserable Abo-
lition fanatics of the North, uniting with
equal enthusiasm, for Harrison and Ty-
ler.'
"lMlions for Electioneering Amidst
the cry OF ruin and distress, which the
Wings have set up, and while they are
Withholding from the laborer, and the
mechanic their dues, and while they are
trying to reduce the wages of the laborer,
and are charging it all upon the Admin
stration, millions, within the last six
months, have been spent by the Wings
throughout the country, and thousand of
dollars by the Wings here in Cleveland,
in the vain attempt to purchase Wing
victories.-The cleveland Ok Conven-
ton" and the columbus Baboon Con-
vention' in February last, are supposed to
have cost the Wings of Cleveland more
than sac thousand doNars! and for the
idle and the empty pageant at Fort Meigs,
the poor Administration-ruined Wings of
Cleveland have been able, and have actu-
ally raised, at least ten thousand dol.
lars!!"