The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-06-06

In reference 10 the following CONlhuDlC3
ton, VIC can only say, that the article which
seems so greatly to have excited the indig
nation of our friend "Tom," was cut by u
from the Bloomington Flag and placed in tn
"copy box" with the intention of sppendin;
to it a few comments, the substance Of which
we're, that there were many democrats il
Ottawa besides W. Rcddick and the editor o
the Free Trader to whose labors the sigma
and Flag could with at least equal If not
| vastly more justice ascribc the honors Of our
victory in May than to the individuals they
/ have been pleased so conspicuOusly to name.
! The article, however, got inadvertently into
our columns without the comments, and 70,
the carclessness. We proboblY deserve the
/ infiiction Of the following communication,
which under any other circumstances, in
these "ppirs tines Of peace" wo should
certainly withhold:
ME. EDITOR: In your paper Of May 22d, l
was astonished to find you had copied, APP
parently with appreciation, an article from
the Bloomington Flag, commenting upon
and endorsing the following extract from the
Joliet Signal, in reference 10 our late city
election:
ain no other city have tue democracy had
more to contend against than in Ottawa
They have had hard fight against some Of
the strongest and most influential black re-
publicans in the State, As well as number
of the most unprinciplcd rcncgrades from
their own ranks But they have come out
of the contest uhscathed. They have beaten
hlIr fa:, f-r ~
Free Iraie-. and such invincible democrats
as ". Reddick may be thanked"
That friend PIKE, of the Flag, should
copy sach a paragraph, may be natural
enough, but that it should be inditel By the
editor Of the Signal, and endorsed by you. is
to me marvel. To say nothing OF the in
viduousncss of singing out any Individual
democrat in Ottawa q make no objection TO
the laurels given the Free Trader to ascribe
to him the cr.dit Of our late triumph, how
much more grossly-grotesquely unjust is
it, to give the honors to Nv. ReGdck."
If the Signal were capable Of saying. any
thing witty, then | could appreciate the BIT
ing sarcasm of its allusion TO :. unprinciplcd
renegades" in connection with such a name
The Flag, in the article named, alludes to
the fact that it was there "a. Ottaw al that
the notorious CoddinG caused the American
flag to be traled in 1.-THE dust" viii not
the editor be somewhat surprised to find tina:
his "good friend Reddick" was big gun at
the republican mass meeting in Ottawa on
that day, and that he walked arm in arm
with the same notorious CoGding' on the
evening Of that day 10 a certain private
house is this city and took tea with him and
Loycioy, and Other notorious abolition
worthless? Then, although w. Reddick'
may claim to have backed down from his
black republican position of four years ago
(when no man in Ottawa was more foul
mouthed in his abuse OF Douglas, Pierce,
and the whole Democratic party than be,
where, in his pretended devotion TO denoc-
racy since his re-conyersiOn, have we found
him at every election since? Who bore the
brunt Of the terrible battle of the democracy
in the county last fall? Next 10 President,
the contest here Was on Senator and Sheriff,
and if b. c. Cock and Mr. Waterman had
better friends than w. KcdlicE they should
reward them. Where was Rcddick At the
April elccsione II he voted at all don't
know it; and at the city election in May, for
which he is goriti d by you and the Signal,
/ remember distinctly that he predicted
confidently we would be badly beaten, and
if he made an effort to get single man to
the polls, | will pay something to see the
man.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I know you are arerse to
publishing anything Of this sort now but
cannot consen; TO let the gross injustice you /.
have done TO 500 more deserving democrats |
could name in Ottawa to go unrebuked. !
feel indignant enough TO write a column, but !
less than the above could not say, and so |
much must be permitted to say. Tow