The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-09-21

ton Of delegates to the county con-
vention to meet on Tuesday. Let
no democrat presume 10 find fault
with a nomination, who neglects his
duty so far as to pay no attention to
these primary meetings, for here the
masses can frequently act more ef-
fectively than at the polls.
The Cause Of Freedom in Europe.
Our teleSraphic dispatches pub
lished last week fully confirmed
what our previous advices had but
too clearly forcshadowed, that the
llungarians have been crushed, and
that in this the last stand it had taken
in Europe, the cause Of liberty has
again failed. The papers are filed
with accounts of the final struggle,
but our readers we are sare have no
wish 10 read again tale that has so
traSicai an eHdiNS'
And pcrishes thus forever all hope
oihuman disenthrallment in Europe !?
Is this the "be all and end alp CT
those mighty upheavings which a
year ago promised TO "overturn and
oyerturn' until the last vestige of
absolutism should be uprooted in Eu-
rope? We still think, nothwithstan-
ding present discouragemcnts, that
the friends Of liberty throughout the
world have no cause t. despond-
that liberty is still safe, and dcspot-
ism is doomed. II is not only on the
plains Of Hungary that the battle has
to be fought. All Europe i, the bat
t'e-feld. 1t is war Of principle-o of
young right against old might, and
young right is rising while old might
is tottcrins and sinking.
After all, tie revcrses which the
cause Of liberty has met with in Eu-
rope are attributable 10 a pure acct
dent-the elevation to the prcsi-
dcncy Of France Of Louis Napoleon,
who, instead of upholling, unexpec-
teddy turned traitor 10 the cause.
Not satisfied with being merely pre-
sident, lie aspired to the crown of
France, and he made bargain with
the despots to assist them and their
cause, if they would assist him. lie
las villanously performed his part
of the bargain in putting down the
Roman Republic, and now he cx-
poets them to perform theirs by send
ing their armies to enable him TO ac-
complish his schemes.
Had Louis Napoleon been faithful
to the cause of humanity and free
dom, how different would be the pre-
sent aspect Of affairs in Europe
Instead Of marching an army TO
Rome to put down liberty, lie would
have marched it into Germany to
liberate German slaves from the ty-
nanny Of an old iron despotism. And
the German people would have wei
coined French army of republicans
with open arms, and Europe would
have been free.
But is there no deliverence from
the effects Of the treason Of Louis
Napolcan? He never will, he me-
yer can again be elected president
Of France; and all Tie armies Of the
despots cannot place upon his head
the crown Of France for the French
people are true to liberty, Germany
is very nearly up TO the mark, and
the spirit of the English people, as
distinguished from the government,
is true to the cause. 1t is NANTES,
then that the days of Louis Napole.
on ale numbered, and with his fall 9
new day will dawn on Europe. The
events of the past year have served
as schooling to the masses, ant
they are ripper than ever for liberty
Europe must yet be free. Hungar,
although apparently crushed, will
rise from her ashcs-we shall We
see the great German nation a grea
German republic in the centre o
Europe, giving tone Of freedom tc
the nations around her.
"7he Peoples Eaw Book."-Thi.
is very useful little volume that la.
just been laid upon our table by
Messrs. White g. Hunter, dealers in