The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-09-06
Explosion of HumbuGs.

Less tiian one year ago thefc " as d sti OiiS
and powerful party, opposing night and day,
by money and by the sword, the execution
of a solemn constitutional law requiring the
rendition Of fugitive slaves to their owners.
Then we heard at the street corners and in
the public rostrum severe language in its
condemnation, and moOn-sh:ne patriots
fOurished for season in all the freshness
of pristine vcrdure worthy of better cause.
Many good men honestly regretted the ne
ccssity. of this law, and did so from good
motives. But now we hear but little said
about it The Philadelphia convention
which nominated FIR Fremont for President
gave all the excitement about the law the
go-jv, and nominated man for President
who IS known TO approve Of it.
But short time since we had patriots all
over the Union denouncing the Kansas Ne
braska bill. It's author was stismatized as
traitor to his country, and even deserving
death. Then it was tho only string " OF the
harp of thousand string" that our Rcpub-
lean friends played upon, and the whole
: country was traversed by political mountc-
banks, deuouncing the Democrats for sus-
tanning the ever true Jeflersonian doctrine
of popular sovereignty-that the people are
capable of regulating their own domestic
affairs in their own way. We now hear but
little said about this bill, for all their DENIM
ciat:on of it recoiled upon them with crush
ing force, and they have spiked their own
guns and ceased all their Wild and terrible
thunder against it. True, they yet Shrek
| about suffering Kansas, and free Kansas
| but all their thunder is against the violation
of this very law, and the law Itself stands
| as proud testimonial of the wisdom and
farsightedness of the Democratic party, and
no member of their own party in Congress
has had the efirontery TO even introduce
bill for It's repeal, and like the much abus ID
sub-treasury law will stand as an enduring
monument TO its founders. This humbug
has had It's DAY, and now none are so low
, as TO DO it reverence.
When Congress first met, the fusion press
were loud in their boasts about the reStora-
ton OF the Missouri Compromise. They
elected the Know Nothing Banks speaker,
and It was but the beginning OF the good
work they promised the people. We'll they
had the majority in the lower house, yet
never attempted TO restore this great meas
IRE. which Senator Hale and other leading
members of their party in 1918 had pro
nounced humbug. lie was then right,
I l. II
him in ali that he then said
The fusion party have been wild and en-
thusiastic during the whole session of Con
grcss in regard 70 all their great measures
for the relief Of suffering Kansas. One 10y
one they were let fall, and the final and
death struggle was to be made on the aP-
preparations for our army. Here they ex-
pccted to fight and triumph Ike true heroes.
. In this unholy work they were cheercd on
/ by a prostituted press, and a hired band Of
/ shrieking orators. They finally surrender
and are led into captivity with much less
ease than were the children Of Isreal.
The cause of temperance too has not been
exempted from the unhallowcd touch Of the
leaders of this corrupt and debased party
organization. The time was when good and
honest men espoused the cause from pure
s.u,r rVIJy IIUIT'Us, DuL no sUUHcI iIaEf - Gn-
listed an army Of patriotic hearts under It's
proud banner, when came the hand OF the
defilcr and converted it into an engine for
base party purposes. Then came the by
pocritical cry Of " Nebraska and WhiSkey''-
Democracy and Rum and the Maine Law
was nou;ually seized upon as the great pa
nacca for all the public ills. Such men as
Loveioy and Cook, then in the Legislature,
were in the van. and shouted long AMI loud
for this great restOrer OF the public peace.
| No two men in the legislature made more
noise than they, and none made more vain
I inglorious boasts of services rendered than
they did. The bill passed and was defeated,
but nothing dauntcd they still hoped to make
political capita! out OF the measure, and it
I was pressed at home where the friends Of
these political tricksters happened to be in
I power. Here too the humbug was soon cx-
. pIodcd-public sentiment was against it and
their enactmcnts became dead letters. See
ing that the popular breeze was IN another
direction they shifted their sails, and now We
hear no more about tho more temperance
rallies are called, and we find these noisy
champions hanging around our groceries So
Letting aid from the very quarter they once,
proiesscdly, so heartily despi.ed.
rs in times past, so now, the great lever
Of the democratic party has overturned and
uprooted all Of these humbuggiHg and clap
trap operations. Every hobby the opposi-
ton have mounted has been ridden to death
and next November viii land them so deep
in the pool of oblivion that they viii not be /
heard of for all time to come.