The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-07-03

nearly satisfactory. Upon one poiti':''"'
we haG the misfortune not to be fully COM
pretended, and as state ofsdubiosny in
such an Intensely important case must be
no less excrutiatngly narrowing to the
..pbe,inx" of cur friend Mac than the thought
is to us of not being fully comprehended by 7
SO important parsonage. we hasten to
make ''clesr as the mondays SUM- the bit .
of remaining obscurity. ---
Friend Mac don't understand this para /
graph in our article
We magnify Judge ID. into no such inn
po,tsnce. We shall support him as u Dem
ocrat, and as the only Democrat III the State
who can beat Lincoln for the Senate bat
only so long as he is squarely with the DEM
ocratic party. If the issue should assume
the shape OF Judge y. on one side, and the
Administration on the other, we should
drop BIN Us soon we should any black
Republican, for between him and the Re-
publican party We could then see no dlri-
tiingsiin - e.
The word "such" refers TO what preceded
this paragraph. We said the late Spring
field Convention had made opposition to
Judge Douglas the test Of Democracy in this
Stats. and we said there was disposition
on the other side fthe .ScAtiaoJ is in the cat
egory) TO make support OF Judge d. the test
in this State. He support the Democratic
platform. We neither magnify Judge ID.
| nor the President into the Importance of re-
garding either Of them as that platform
While they support Democratic principles
We are with them-when they support the
opposite We are opposed to them. That is
what We mean there. -.s. a
But we say, ''if the issue should assume
the shape of Judge d, Oh one side, and the
Administration on the other we should drop
Judge D., &C., and this puzzles friend Mac.
He thinks that Is the issue, and nothing else.
The President supported LecomDton, he
says, and Judge d. opposed it, and for this
opposition Judge ID. is ostracised by the
Administration. They therefore stand in
direct opposition. Support Of the one is
necessarily opposition to the other.
| We certainly do not so understand it. Is
| it true that TIE. Administration make Lee
compton test? If they do, then they
! stand in the most singular attitude ever oc
| cupied by politicians in the history of the
| world; for we believe no one will question
| but that the Administration accepted and
supported the English bill after the failure
of the Lecompton bill; and there is as little
question but that the latter was an abandon
raent of the former If the Administration
therefore, adhere to the former as & test,
! they prescribe as test to others what they
themselves have ceased to support. No
d. the truth is, Lecompton is dead cock in
| the pit-nobody supports and nobody any
/ longer opposes it. The only measure the
Administration now present Of they DO even
that as test, is the English bill. And
does Judge d. oppose that:. There IS no
body that speak more authoritaiiyely
and explicitly on this point than Judge d.
himself. From his late speech in the Uni
ted States Senate, "On the state Of Parties
in Illinois," 1--WE believe tho .S.nti1lel pub-
l;shed IT'D we make the following extract:
"The question Of admission was remanded
[by the English bill to the people of Kan
sas, to be decided by and for themselves at
an election to be held, in pursuance OF law,
for that purpose thus recognizing the prin.
ciple for which ! had contcnded during the
whole controversy, that the people had a
, right to decide fox themselves the question
of admission under the constitution. When
| saw in the ILL the recognition of the prin-
ciple, deeply regretted that the provisions
of the bill and the form OF submission were
not such as could sanction with my vote.
| expressed this regret at the time, and in
dictated two amendments, which, if they
could have been adopted, would have ena-
bled me to vote for the bill. But when the
bill became q law the whole question was
remanded 10 Kansas, to be decided at an
election, which has been fixed for the first
Monday in August. Which ever way the
people of Kansas may decide the question
at that election win be final and conclusive
If they reject the proposition submitted by
by Congress, the Lecompton Constitution is
dead, and there is an end to the controversy.
If, on the contrary, they accept the ''propo-
sition," Kansas from that moment, becomes
a State of the Union, and thus the contro-
versy terminates. Whether they shall &C.
ccpt or reject the proposition is question
for the people of Kansas to decide for them
~
the people Of the several States, nor any
person, Official or otherwise, outside Of that
Territory has any right to interfere. Hence
the Lecompton controversy is at an end
for all men, Of all parties, must be content
with and abide by whatever decision the
people of Kansas may make. II is true that
the same question ay arise on the applica.
ton of some other Territory for admission
into the Union. l am prepared now 10
give notice that whenever that question may
arise shall be found maintaining and vim
dicatng the Same principle which | have in
sisted so strenuously should be applied to
Kansas. l rejoice, however, in the assn
rance that hereafter We are to have no di-
vcrsity of opinion, at least in the Democrat
ic party, In, regard to the wisdom and pro
Iprieiy of applying this great principle o.
popular sovereignty to all future cases a:
be found sustaining with all my energy IT.,
recomme nda'ion of President Buchanan il
his annual message, that the aoise esampL
az the Minaes0ta case, achere Congress pdsseC
az fndbliaJ act Containing a clause requi
ring tie Constitution to be submitted TO tn
;. people, Should be Invariably .totlored, ant
g nerer departed from, IN any future case
|. | I think this 4 wise recommendation on the
. part of President Buchanan, and | TAX
pleasure in giving the assurance that he vii
1 at all times find me ready to sustain him i.
: his patriotic efforts to carry that recommen
G dation into practical effect, and thus proven
r the possibility of another Lecompton con
troversy ever arising.
Under these circumstances, the question
: naturally arises what controverted principl
q is there left for Democrats to differ and di
vide about?
In the first place, we all agree, not onl,
I democrats, but men of all parties, that what
: ever decision the people of Kansas ma.
make at the election on the first Monday II
n 1 I'D COR