The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-11-13
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The St. Louis Republican has on sever
d occasions set the Washington Union
right, and given it some good, honest, plain
talk on Illinois politics, which that paper
would do well to heed. We find a little
more Of this kind Of talk to the Union in
the Republican Of Monday, in the following
quotation from the Union and the Com
,nents that follow Il:
1t is notorious in Illinois that an anti
Lincon majority in'the Legislature just cleo
ted per sc Douglas ma ority. In a letter
FROM u correspondent who had just travers-
ed the whole State, written on the LIST inst,
the day before the election, he sets forth tue
true state of the Case: al have Just re-
turned from a trip through the State. |
find that there are hosts of good Democrats
who will vote for Douglas candidates to beat
Lincoln, althoug h they have no confidence
in the Little Grant The election returns
will not the' efore give very good indlca-
ton of his strength. 1t was the impression
among leading Democrats at Springfield
that Douglas will not, under any circum-
stances, be returned, even though his tiiends
be in apparent majority in the legis ature-
They bel.eve that among them will be found
! a Sutuclent numOtT Vi thctIlOeTS elected TO
beat Lincoln who will refuse to vote for
| Douglas, and thus prevent the election of
either. Washington Union.
We tell the Washington Union, in all
| plainness OF speech, that It is idle to indulge
| in any such fantasy as this. There Is not
| q man elected to the legislature, there is not
/ a man holding over in the Senate, and
known as Democrat, who will not vote
e. IN
No other man will get the vote of any Dem
ocrat in the Leg: slature, if Douglas should
be alive in January next. The cOrrespoII-
dents Of the U.ion in illinois have not de-
sigued to IL the ;r.,h at any tine, else the
Administration would not now be exhibited
to the country in the position Of Ia; wing
been sustained by less than 3, 100 voters, in
a state giving quarter Of a million OF votes
If they had told te nth before the election
as honest men shoCid lave done, sUn
spectacle would have been presented. They
say now, that though majority OF ID, mo
erals may be returned L. The Assembly
Dough S VIII not receive a >;f.irie number
Z of votes 10 beat Lincoln, aUd some that 9TH
or man NAV he elected. A. We nave area
,iy said all this il the mcresl gauuaon. The
miserable politicians who rr"ii.u gate il dc
not I,cifcve II. The" are not the friends o
the President, TOR OF the Democratic party
nor should their Suggestions hc listened L
by any one having the interests Of The party
at heart, especially after the mischief they
have done in mis- vaIir, ;l.c President anI
the country as To then strength IN Illinois
Instead oi listening To such insane, absuic
ccunsels tIe D-in 'crItl: party alogi e
to WORK To heal ;!Iv breaches which hay,
unfortunately been made in II, and this car
be done this winter, ~ tim 10 arrange ev
erything for the contest with ) ward ant
his Abolition cohorts in 1850. Tle Dernoc
: racy of Illinois will then be seen ti:utin;
agains, the Back Republican party, the lea
dcrs of which can find no hope OF elevation
TO political powcr except by arraying tn
Free States against the States in winch
Slavery is Tolerated, and Dou. as, the lrlen,
of the Union and the defender OF the Con
: stituiion, az Webster was IN ly-gone times
will PLACE himself AZ the head OF tnc column
In this reconciliation ei the Democratic par
" is the Sefety OF the Lm.on.