The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-03-27
The rrecman.s Journal en- Lccomp.on.

The Trecman's Journal On LccOmptOE.
The New York FTeemen's Journal Of last
week contains an ably written notice Of Mr..
Stewards late speech. The freemen, giving
u,terance to what is unquestionably the
opinion of large majority of the denom-
nation TO which it is attached, divides the
political parties of the present hour into
three classes. 1t says:
We have, first, the Administration, max
Ing slavery the ouly issue, and the pivot up
on which the national politics are still 10 re-
volve. The Presidents special message on
| Kansas, published by us 4 few weeks ago,
is the ablest manifesto in support of this
! policy that has yet seen the light. We have
| second, Mr.. Seward and the so-called Re
! publicans, or anti Slavery party, accepting
| this Issue with eXullation, and that by it
they expect not only to seize the Federal
/ Government, through the prepondercnce Of
/ Frees soil States, but to Csc it by way of &C.
! tive intervention against the action of the
/ slave States.-W it'll terrible distinctness Mr.
Seward, in this speech lays dow his plat
/ form in the following words:
1.-THE white man needs this continent to
/ labor upon. His head is clear, his arm is
strong. and his necessities are fixed. He
must and will have ito secure it. he will
oJIiqe the Government Of tie intel Suites
to dJGnGO51 iHterrsntio4 IN .Jdcor Of Stare
ld5or and slGre States and 90 blackboard 80
gears, and assume tie origi,iGi policy Of in
te'reatiOn IN .JaC0r Of free tdJ0r and free
! .States''
We have, third, the distinguished author
| of the massachusetts bill, and tie demo-
h.. -. IL, H. 81,
Act, as embodied in the platform Of the
National Democracy at the Cincinnati Con
vention OF 1867, upon which the last Pres
Dental election was carried. The policy Of
this party is to ignore the question of slaye-
ry in national politics, except in the re
/ spects in which the Constitutions Of the L.
S. provides for ;hc maintenance OF certain
/ rights and duties. The intent and meaning
of this policy Is 10 protect in the Territories
Of the United States. equally the sldveho'd-
+ ing and ncr-s!aveholling citizens Of the L.
/ s, in their persons and in their households
and property, so long as such Territories
continue the common domain Of the nation
The intent and meaning is, v hen any such
/ Territory organizes in the form of a Sovc-
reign State, to protect ITS J0Ha .dde inhabi:-
{ ants in the exercise OF all their sovereign
rights. free from force and free from vio-
; lcnce, IN framing and adopting such institu-
tons Of republican government as may
please them-lcaying slavery, like banking,
Ike railroads, Ike educational provisions,
10 be treated according to social, local and
municipal regulations. The policy therefore
of the Kansas Nebraska bill, Of the Cincin-
natl Democratic Platform, and Of those who
remain faithful TO these great landmarks, is
to render the existence or the non-ezi>tcnce
of slavery matter optional with the people
o: each inchOatc State, but Of no political
or national significance whatever. rs regards
the admission or n0n-admission of the new
State into the | MON. ia a word, as the 30.
ley Of the LccomItOnitcs IS pro-slay-ry in
terVeutiOn by CoUgrpsS-aS the policy Of
the so-Cailcd "Ecpublicans is anti slavery
Intervention by Congress, so the policy Of
that national Democracy which at the Gin
cinnati Convention adopted the principles
OF Judge Douglas Kansas Nebraska Act.
and have remain ed to their principles and to
that platform, is n true, honest, and Impair
tial reference of this, as of other social
questions, to the people to be affected by
them. The Administration, with lis great
official power on one side, and Mr.. Seward
at the head Of the Republicans" with his
great abilities, on the other side, are making
OF negro slavery the fundamental and para
.
B The maintainers Of the Cincinnati platform
are unwilling that the dcstinies Of this great
country and its twenty-four millions Of the
white people, should DC pc-Teiun'ly subo7-
dinatcd and checked by attempts to dispose
Of three millions Of negro slaves. This is a
distinction that it would be well for those
. good men to note who consider that Demo
Gratis who refuse to leave the Cincinnati Ma
tonal platform in the waSe or the Admin
istration, have thereby gone over to the
Republicans" That platform, and its
champions, afford the only possible chsnce
Of escape from the capture Of the national
government in 1850, by the overpowering
and sectional predominaucc Of the Free
soil "Republican party, NTH rs crced Of
anti-slarsJy iHteTceHti0H on tie par. 81 Con-
gross.
There are in Senator Sewarl's speech
many passages where he rises far above the
trammts OF lis party, aid discusses nation
al questions in a spirit worthy OF their
character. These were the remarks that
caused some Of his abiest opponents among
Southern Senator's, after listening iu,eutly
to his speech. 10 ccmc over and shake lands
with him at IL close, congratulating him on
lis grafton.