The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-08-02
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Journal q Can.
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The last Boston Quarterly Review has long
article in which it gives few Iic-iikc portraits OF
leading politicians OF our county. We sulDin
those of the wing candidates, Clay and FrsIiug-
auyscn. These men, tie wings say, are the cm.
bldiment Of their principles, and it may afford
some satisfaction to have faithful picture Of them
in their syncopa,od stale.
Messrs. Clay and Trelinghuyscn re-
present what we may term ultra wing
ism. Mr.. Clay is uuquestionaJiy man
Of ability. He is splendid orator; he
has great power over the men with whom
he comes into immediate contact; but he
is no statesman. He is ambitious, but
shors-sighted; bold, daring, but iucapa-
( Die of approaching general principles. or
of perceiyng the relation between effects
and their causes, when these causes are
not near at hand. Yet he is abashed by
no inconsistency. disturbed by no self
contradiction, and can defend with firm
countenance and without the least mis-
giving, what every body but himself sees
to be political Gallacy or logical alb
surdity. Rclule him, demonstrate with
mathematical certainty that his PROPOSE,
ton is false confront him with names,
dates, figures, and he stands unmoved, un-
conscious of what you have done, and re-
ilerates his proposition in bolder tone,
reasserts it with growing confidence, and
pours forth in the full tide of his rich and
suasiye eloqUence in its defence. You
stand aghast. What can the man mean
His insensibility confounds you, and
YOU almost begin TO distrust your own de-
mons;raiion against INN, though as GER
tain as the demonstration of problem in
Euclid. In regard to right and wrong,
he manlests the same singular sel-pos-
session. He sees no moral absurdity in
determining right and wrong by parallels
Of latitude, and in declaring a thing to be
right on one side of given parallel and
wrong on the other. A man of rare abi-
tiles, but apparently void of both moral
and intellectual conscience, who finds no
difficulty in withstandmg, when necessa-
ry to his purposes, the eternal laws Of
both logic and morality, and therefore
man whom no power under that Of the
Almighty can restrain, he must needs be
the most dangerous man to be placed at
the head of the Government it is possible
to conceive. There is no foreseeing
what he would do, or would not do.
Not few even Of the wings feel that he
is an unsafe man; even the manufactu-
rers themselves support him with fear
and trembling; the noblest Of all the
wings has denounced him on more occa-
sions than one, and now 'damns him with
faint praise
Mr.. FreIinghuysen is quite different
man, and while agreeing with Mr.. Clay
in all the obnoxious measures to which
Mr.. Clay himself stands pledged, he re.
presents certain other elements of the
wing party, from which still more evil, if
possible, is TO be unprecedented. Mr..
Frelinghuysen is not only wing in the
worst sense of the term, but he is also
the very impersonation of narrowminded
ignorant, conceited bigotry--a man who
boldly attacks religious liberty, demands
the unhallowed union of church and
State, and contends that the Government
should legally recognise the religion of
the majority, and declare whatever goes
counter to that be contra JOnos m0reS.
He concentrates in himself the whole spi-
rit of Native Americanism and no Pope.
ry,' which displayed itself so brilliantly
in the recent burning of the Catholic
dwellings, seminares, and churches in
the city of Philadelphia.
We found this charge on Mr.. Frelng-
huysen's speech in Congress on the Sun
day mail question, and on book now ~
ing before US, entitled AN Inquiry into
the moral and Religious character of the
American Government New York
Wiley and Putnam, 1889 which, we
presume, it will not be denied was writ
ten by him. This work is exceedingly
declamatory in its character, and remark
ably deficient in clear, distinct, and def
mite statements; but no man can read
it without feeling that its author would
withhold all political rights, whether to
vote or to be voted for, from all persons
except members of what are called evan
gelical sec,s. Has it not it says, be
come cant among us, that as electors
we have nothing to do with mems relig-
lous sentlments-.no right even TO enquire
about them! Twenty gods, or no god,
or The God that made the worlds, is quite
indifferent; Pdpists and ProteStantS are
all one; SociniQnS, Je,ps, and eUangei-