The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-07-26
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"HEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE.


the act comforting upon the people Of New
Mexico the right to introduce or prohibit
slavery.
/ So DID WILLIAM II. BIssELL.
! That WILLIAM 4. RICKAEDsoS voted for
I the Utah bill, containing like provision.
! So DID WILLIAM ii. BissELr-
That WILLIAM y. RICHARDSON voted for
. both these bills in $50, knowing that with
in the boundaries of the new Territories was
I inc uded territory lying north Of $3.50, and
from which, by the Missouri restriction,
slavery had been forever prohibited.
So DID WILLIAM ii. BissELL.
That WILLIAM \. RICHARDSON voted for
the Fugitive Slave law.
/ So DID WILLIAM Ii. BIssELI-
/ That WILLIAM \. RICHARDSON voted in
. 1850 against the admission OF the Mormon
. Delegate and opposed the admission of De-
seret (U iah) into the Union as a State at
that time.
WILLIAM II. BIssELL voted r1r the admis-
sion OF the Mormon Delegate, and advocated
the admission Of the Mormon State into the
Union.
That WILLIAM 4. RICHARDSON voted for
the Kansas Nebraska act.
That WILLIAM II. BIssELL. at no time du-
ring the pendency Of that bill, said one word
or gave one vote against IL.
That WILLIAM II. BIssELL, while mem
Der Of Congress, and during the session Of
Congress. abandoned his seat to conduct Il
negotiation then pending between his consti-
tueuts and the Central Railroad that il
that negotiation he, while receiving per
diem Of eight dollars 4 day a. a Representa-
tive Of Illinois, received also seventy thou
sand dollars for managing the controversy
on the part Of the Railroad Company against
his Own constituents.
That as attorney for the railroad company
he was authorized to contract with he State
that said company should pay 10 said State
ten per ccntum on the gross receipts Of said
road and that said Bissel withheld said Of
fer aid proposed to pay only five per cent
um. That subsequently he al, ou cd, gra-
ciously consented. that his clients should
pay seven per cent, thereby depriving the
State OF the additional three per cent. viii l.
tn. railroad company were Ing to pay.
That how much OF this three pei cent.
thus saved to the company, foun! its Way TO
the pockets of said BI>>cll is unknown.
That said company already ,n-age in
an endeavor to obtain repeal Of that con
tract, which requires them to pay this seven
per cent. to the State, and William II. Bis
sell is their secret attorney for that purpose.
That the election of William II. Bissell to
the office Of Governor of this State, will be
the transfer OF the executive authority of H.
linois, to the Board of Directors OF the Hi
nois Central Railroad. That the experience
of the past, disclosing as it hoes, that while
a member of Congress and drawing his pay
as a representative from Illinois, William Ii.
Bissell received pay from corporation for
services against the State and his constitu-
ents, should teach the people of Illinois to
beware making him Governor at salary of
81 800 per annum, when that same corpora
ton is interested in the abrogatou of Il con
tract, requiring il to pay TO the State a half
million of dollars annually.
That Vi iliam ii. Bissell while member of
Congress, did what no other member of
Congress from the establishment Of the GO
yernment has done, demanded and received
from the United States his regular per diem
as member of Congress, not only while in
attendance as member, and while absent
during tie session, but for many months
when Congress was not in session. he
charging and receiving his per diem: from
session to session. That is to say, Bissell is
the only man ever in Congress from any
State of the Union who ever demanded pay
from the day he took his seat till his term
expired, and for months after.
Such is the political record Of the Fusion
candidate for governor. Until 1855, no po-
litical party had made the subject of Polyga-
my part of its political creed. And the first
act Of that political party, was to nominate
for governor the only man in Illinois who in
Congress had advocated the unconditional
admission of the Mormon State into the
Union !! "Shrieking for Freedom" the same
political party selected for governor Of the
free State" Of Illinois, one Of the only five
men in Illinois who voted for the celebrated
and nevert -be-fergotten Fugitive Slave
act
Upon his financial record we would have
had nothing to say, had not one of his or
gans in this city wantonly, grossly and un-
justifiably assacd Col. Richardson upon his
course.
Cut this record out, and when you hear
man speaking Of Bissell as an advocate of
Freedom, show it to him.-Ch. Times.