The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-08-14
victim, 81 M,,plascd Conndence.

V1Ct1MO u mxSYu0US0 SO04OS0CCs
The Dutch swors terribly in Flanders, tits
said, but they never Aasphemed half so
wickedIy AZ do some ofkhe Black Republi-.
cans at Judge Douglas. After lauding him
to the skies, they are nov eating their own
words, and doing their bsst, or rather their
worst, to defeat him. che Philadelphia
Erening Argus has an admirable article up
on the subject, in which II says:
"When Judge Douglas;sssumed an anita
gonistic position to the administration, in
relation to the Lecompton Constitution, the
whole Black Republican press, from the New
staciss Of delight. The odds and ends
ton of which the late Black Republican par
ty was composed, were jub;iantc in the su-
perlxtivs degree They were quite ready to
unsay everything they had -previously utter
ed; recant everything they had promul-
gated; repudiate every principle they had
hitherto avowed and defended, in order to
strike hands with the "Litsie Giant" from
Illinois Popular Sovereignty, which they
had previously opposed vita all the bitter
ness and rancor OF partisan violence, they
were ready to swallow, and did, at single
gulph, without the slightest contortion Of q
single muscle To such an extreme did they
carry their plant spirit of compromise, that
they even swallowed the Eso-sisvery doc
trines contained in the amel fimen Is 10 the
Kansas bill.
After regulating every fur damental prin
ciple which they had advocated, after having
unhesitatingly stultlfied MISUNDERSTANDING
deliberately committed post-sl suicide in
order to gain the co-ope.stton of Senator
Douglas-it turns out, greatlf to their NOR.
LITIGATION and disappointment, that Judge
Douglas is az far from sympathzng with
their sectional party and faasi<al schemes,
as the heavens are higher thai. the earth.-
Never was party SO effectuaily sold be-
fore. Never was political confidence so ia
tally misplaced. Never WAS peculiar creduli-
ty SO extensively taken in and done for
Their rage ard nortiticalon-4g well nigh
bound sss. Mr.. Montgomery, who a few
.rnontb s ago was qualified, IN -.lieir estima-
ton, for any position Of put}ic honor, is
now, they assert, unfit for Aog-rscye.'-
Judge Douglas, upon whom th.y exhausted
their whole stock Of eu!ogy, is now no bet
ter than he ought to be. TkAy unsay all
their complimentary commentators of him,
and begin to abuse him in the Old fashioned
way in which they were in the Aatit Of do
ing some years ago.
In communicating Judge B-,aglas from
their political fellowship and communion,
they also spit upon their late hobby of po-
pular sovereignty. This they tramps be-
meath their feet in ferocious scor.- forgetting
that but few days only have elapsed since
that doctrine was one Of the cardinal articles
in their political creed-defendet by them
with a zeal and energy which less>a. Demo
cratic championship of it whcs'y out Of
sight. Now it is condemned by them with
loathing and di~gust. Judge Douglas has
given them the back Of his hand sull in the
mouth, in return for all their blaraey and
honied words, and they cast him yS4 popu-
lar sovereignty aside, as if they had never
been Rugged to their bosoms in sympathy
and fraternity. Do not these unfortunate
victims OF misplaced confidence deserve
public commiSseration."