The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-12-10
Will Count, Politics.

Y POI mas Deen raging among the democrat
il &c politicians Of our ncighborins county q
!, VIII Tor the last q or 5 months. and sucI
: eplihets rs sbolters.'' .uaiiors,' sin
trisuers," ''hemagucuc>. Sc, Sc, hay,
been hurled at each other by the partie
belligercmt with all the noise and smoke @
grape and canister. The cause of the diff
: Guilty appears 10 be the old story. The dem
ocrats of Will. as in many other counties
have among them set of men. who helm!
politicians. aud want office. Having mel
ther character nor ability. they base thci
claims upon the fact Of having done the dir.
iy work of the party; butt honest portion
OF the party, unable 10 appreciate such q
claim, seeing no necessity for any dirty
work, refuse TO nominate them rs candidates,
and thcreupon they show their devotion to
/ principle by Immediately going over to the
! wings and defeating the democratic ncmi-
neeS. This is exactly the history of politics
in VIII for the last year.
To show that we are not wrong in our e.
innate Of the general character OF the di>or-
GAMERS in viii. we give below an extract
from speech recently delivered at enc of
their "ma>s meetings." by their leader. Il
Mr.. George :. Fake. 1t is fair specimen
OF the bathos of iogf,r logic. 1t would be
considered inmitablc nj the Five Points.
The speech. il j, said was well adapted to
the taste of the crowd addressed. His
friends ought 10 bring him forward at once
for the legislature. He would be useful
there as = "horriblc example," or on the
principle that tie raiser, Of blooded horses
keep goat.
GESrLEMEN We are in favor of reform.
me and recognizing the panty: onr object
is to harnoni2c and 10 bring about
reconciliation of the party. and because we
have dared to take this stand and demand
our Just rights. we have been s,ignatiscd.
hcoted. and called boilers. wings. abolition.
lists. and dsor-anizcr>, BIZ -, Yes, the
finger of sccrn has been pointed at us, and
by whom. ny these very devils whom the
speaker who preceded, &c. c. Van Horn.
described and beautifully. too. az sucking
ut the pap> Of the county; these corrupt.
m llicious, designing demagoguts, in their
public Press have held us upto the gaze
of the world-denouucinS us as traitors and
describing us a. disorganizers. and As con-
nving with wings and abolitoui>ts 10 break
down the party, b. 49,. God knows. tina;
suoh Deriis lncarnate ought to he broken
down. such low, mean, licked, corrupt.
designing demagogues, ought to be broken
down and sent TO the DsiH, BY -. But.
gentleman, we do not wish 10 break down
the Party. far from it, we intend to purify it
we intend to carry out iis principles in
their primitive shape and form, BY tie help
Of God and the hore>t and good citzcuS of
this county. There has been a great hub
bub and noise about ildS and sisems. sc.
Wen. God knows we don. car. a A.,
what i>ms or siscmS the people viii adopt.
so that the Devils who have so corrupted
the Convention System gets their just de-
sertT.
There are things in this town calling
themselves mcn-yes calling themselves
men who are capable of the est intrigue,
and deception, and misroprc that
the human mind imagine; yes, design
ing, corrupt demeGoguoS Of thiStoWn. | VIII .
not call any names-you know them too
well-onc whom you may see crawling
through these streets with a hyuccrtical
deceit depicted uTon his countrLaucC. drag
ing his bumped back along and with his
pretended divinity. would ian make YOU
believe he was the GrcGt I'm! Another
long legged hypocrite who very much re-
sembles a peculiar sick Munkty creeping
through a country village for hiS-By -.
You might see another little npsiart, with
his long sanctimoniouS face, and hypccriry
and deception, cunning intrigue. depicted on
very features; why You would think lie
was little is, or in other words is
the Second. Another sly. low. evil mean
ing demagocue, whom you never know
where TO find, & C..