The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-09-08
The State Fair ut Chicago.

Hitherto everything has gone along
smoothly and prosperously for a splendid
state fair at Chicago in October. The note
of busy preparation is heard in every quar-
ter of the state. The farmer has been saving
and nursing his choicest products, the horti
culturist his finest fruit, and the florist his
gayest flowers. All the railroad companies
in the state, with commendable liberality
have extended to the people the offer to con
vey their products TO the fair free of charge
and visitors at barely nominal rates The
season has been favorable Grain, fruit, We
getables, cattle, everything that grows, has
been favored by the elements and brought to
an aggregate OF perfection which could only
be attained by SO rare and happy combina.
ton Of circumstances. The toll Of the far.
mer has been bounteously rewarded, his
granaries and his pockets are full, his sever.
gratitude as his purse is with gold, he is
looking forward to the great farmers jubilee,
where, with his sons and daughters, he
hopes to meet his brethren of the plough,
renew his acquaintance with them, compare
notes and products with them, and by free
and social interchange Of views, become uni
ted, one to the other, by common bond Of
sympathy and good feeling, add to the stores
of their common information, enlarge their
views, and qualify them to adorn, as they
are the representatives of the noblcst profess
sion in the world.
But there never was an Eden so holy that
Satan did not plot its dissertation. While
everything promises so hopefully for the
great jubilee of labor, your Shiny abolition
politician, fearful and envious that at least
for three days in a year there should be an
uninterrupted reign Of good feeling, must
plot its dissertation by his disgusting pres.
encc and blatant frenzy, Last year the fair
at Springfield was violently seized by the po-
liticians and turned into an abolition convcn.
ton to nominate candidate against honest
John Moore, and to dcmolish Judge Doug
las. This year, the Chicago Tribune and
its abolition and fusion conrrercs are now bu-
silly at work in attempting to convert it into IA
great fusion nt-Ncbraska mass convention,
to consolidate the isms in this state and de-
molish the democracy. The farmers and
mechanics, the florists and horticultursts
who come to Chicago on their mission to
promote the arts Of peaceful industry and
the reign of common sympathy and good
feeling, will find that they have come but to
swell the numbers and attractions of an abo.
lition mass meeting. Instead of nterchang-
ing kindly sentiments with their brethren of
the hammer and plough, they will learn to
their dismay and horror that their brethren
who maintain certain political views or live
south of certain parallel of latitude are vii
lains and robbers, with whom il is disgrace
full either to sympathize or have fellowship.
To man Of ordinary dccency, who enters
your house unlimited and is asked to leave,
polite request not to renew the visit is ge-
morally sufficient. But the polite and ear
nest request of the farmers last year, that
the political hucksters, who had come unin-
vited to the Springfield fair should not renew
the visit this year, is not sufficient Your
abolition fanatic must be taken by the nare
of the neck and kicked out before he can
take u nint. Ana TINS Is the only course
that should be adopted in reference to the
Coddings and Loyejoys that propose to con.
vert the Chicago fair into a grand antiNe
braska mass meeting. They should be hoo
ted and pclted out Of the city.
We hope this project for an abolition mass
meeting during the fair may be abandoned
at once but if it is persisted in, we pray the
fair may prove failure. If The sons of no.
nest toll, who aim to dignity and ennobe la
Dor, cannot meet together without being for
ced into discrcditable political wrangles, they
had better not meet. Abolition meetings
may be right enough in themselves; at least
there can be no objection to those attending
them whose taste runs in that way. But TO
bring respectable men to such a meeting I'M
der the false prctcnsc of an agricultural cx-
hibltion is such palpablc fraud and out
rage on common honesty that it would be a
disgrace to Illinois to permit it.