The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-10-02
SENATOR DOUGLAS
VIII address the people of Illinois at the times
bcIOy.
OF WtIh His Head.

OF With His Head.
One james Buchanan. down at " ashing- |
ton, in whose behalf we recollect having |
spent some money and done good deal OF
hard newspaper fighting year or two ago, /
did US the kind trick in return, few days
ago, of sending one WILLIAM L. GIBSON,
respectable citizen OF Ottawa, into the Post
Office with the necessary papers and autho- |
ritv to demand that we surrender to him the |
various traps and perquisites pertaining to
the said establishment. la plain terms, the |
editor of this paper has been removed from |
the Office Of Postmaster in Ottawa and VIM. |
L. Gibson appointed in his stead.
What good act, or what fault we have
committed to deserve this notice from the
powers that be at Washington, they have not
coudescended to inform US. We infer, how
ever, from the fact that so-called " National
democrat" takes our place, that our sins
have been purely political that is, we are
not accounted good Irrational democrat
down at Washington.
Well-before the said powers that be I'M
dertake again to cut off peoples heads with
out trial on such charge, we beg most re-
specially to suggest, that they define what
constitutes Irrational democrat Wesup-
ported James Buchanan fer the Presidency
in 1856. and we have approved and sup
ported all the measures of the administration
from that day to this, with perhaps one ex-
ccption. Perhaps" for we are not by any
means certain that cur course on the Le-
compton question is acknowledged to be an
exception at Washington. We said it was
wrong to admit Kansas with that consttu-
ton without submitting it to vote of the
people. We have the authority of the
Washington Union for saying that the Pre-
silent himself " did not fully approve of that
constitution nor of the course pursued in its
adoption" The President, however, thought
it was best to admit Kansas under it, until
finally he agreed that he would net insist
upon the point, but would accept as COM
promise, that the constitution should be SUBJ
--.;..-I to tho rlnrla the plan proposed
in the English bill. We cheerfully accepted
the compromise, and from that Gay forth
supported the English bill as fair and
honorable ground upon which the whole
democratic party could meet and forget
their former differences. Accordingly, the
democracy o! Illinois having nominated
State ticket before the English ILL was
passed, we refused to place the ticket at the
head of our paper until We knew how the
candidates stood on the question of the
Preside nt's own olive branch. They came
square up to the mark, and thence 70 nth we
supported the ticket.
Then another question arose. The demo-
cracy Of Illinois were nearly unanimous for
the reelection of Judge Douglas. How did
he stand on the English proposition? We
read his Beards;own speech, in which he ac-
cepted it as finality, and declared there
was not single point on which he and the
President differed. So we felt still on the
safe side with the President in supporting
the re election of Judge Douglas. We felt
the moro constrained to do this, because re-
ally, we could see other course, except to
turn in and help the Republicans, for in this
State the only question is and can be as the
contest stands, whether Douglas or Lincoln
shall be elected.
Well, in all this we were honestly trying
to keep rigidiy up to the Presidents own
standard of a national democrat. 1t seems
We have come short of it. Now pray, will
he or somebody authorized to speak for him
say wherein We have failed?
1t is true, there is littlo squad of boilers
in this state, who call themselves national
democrats" They are outside of and op-
pose the regular organization Of the party,
add are in open league with the republicans.
Their leader, the post master at Chicago,
writes letters in which he tells tie squad to
vote for republicans always, where this
squad is not strong enough to get up q
ticket of their own; and the man at the
head o. their state ticket tells his follow ers
by all means to vote for the republican can
didates, in preference to democrats, where
there are no candidates Of this squad. As
they are SO weak as not to have candidates
in more than dozen Of counties in the
state, oil course, the main body of them, un.
der these Instructions, will vote directly for
the republican candidates OF, where they
don't need to do this, by reason of having
ticket Of their own, their votes might as we'll
go for the republicans, for they are in tho
end taking just so many from the democrats
to help the republicans.
Is it possible-dare we so insult the Pres.
ident as to suppose, that it is because wa
have not Joined these national democrats +,
this dirty, contemplate squad, of whom
there are not ten in all La Sale countv--
that We are no longer considered uation,,
democrat at Washington Would he have
us lose all self.respect-abandon our own
manhood9 Is Sir. Buchanan really ben, on
destroying the democratic party of the
North-W est, or is he so grossly deceived az
to believe that this squad in Illinois com
pose even respectable wing of the demo
cratic or any other party? If he is, ant
really believe it, then all we have TO say is
he is greater e. Well, the election il
November will open his eyes to few fact,
that will astonish him.
Mr.. Fl. n. Paine, of "watcr gas" celsbrit,
has invented a new motive power as . SUI
stituts for steam, and stolss it hydro calsric