The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-02-19
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its sickly existence, we have column or
two of maudlin editorial in strain like this:
"The fact need not be denied Tat the
once united and dominant Democratic party
in this State has been rendered powerless.
for the time being, by the entertainment of
discordant opinions, and the adoption of dis.
similar courses of action. This state of
things, disagreeable and damaging as it may
be t. US at home, and depl0rable as it may
be in the estimation Of our friends abroad,
is fact which cannot be binksd out of
sight, and which no motives of policy, or
of principle, should incline US to conceal
And it may be as we'll understood, first as
last, that having in no conceivable instance
devIated the tythe of hair from the creed
of the party to which we are proud to be-
long, &c, &c, eve are conscious of no
act OF ours that needs to be repented Of"
&C., &c.
We submit, is it not about time to change
that tune-isn't that song about sung out
| This shallow pretence of discord in the ranks
of the democracy of Illinois ought certainly
in decency to have been dropped after the
November election, when it was proved that
of the seven thousand office holders in this
| State, all of whom held their places on the
condition of walking up like cattle at the
halter and voting against the democratic or
ganization, loss than five thousand were
found slaves enough to do So And that
other equally shallow and dishonest pre-
tence, that the Democracy of Illinois have
deviated from, and stand in the attitude of
hostility to hair OF the creed of the demo-
cratic party-is not that game also about
played cut? In the year 1856, the democ-
racy in National Conve ntion at Cincinnati
made a solemn pledge, that SO far as the &C.
ton of the party could have control of the
matter, the people Of Kansas should BE al
lowed to adopt just such constitution as a
majority of them might approve. A year
afterwards a convention representing one
fifth Of the people of Kansas made a consti-
tuition palpably odious to the people, refus
ed to submit it to their vote for approval,
and presented it to Congress for acceptance.
backed by the unanimous democracy of Ill
inois and at least large wing in other
States, maintained that to accept that con-
stitution would be breach Of the pledge
given at Cincinnati. The President and a
majority Of the democratic members of Con
gress thought otherwise, and because Judge
Douglas refused to submit his conscience to
their keeping, he has been hunted down by
the administration from that day to this,
and to aid in crushing him this little tin
whistle was started at Chicago, and having
learned its one tune, continues piping il to
this day.
But the music of that tune has become de-
ranged-the whistle pipes discordant notes,
and should be stopped. II, when Judge
Douglas refused to be governed by the voice
OF majority of the democratic representa-
tives IN Congress, he committed the sin for
which expulsion is ipso facto the inevitable
penalty, 40 where, tel me where" about
these days is one James Buchanan? and
'where and Q where" about these days is
one William Bigler?
That same convention at Cincinnati AREA
dy alluded to, and its predecessor at Balti-
more also, gave another pledge, and that
was to this effect. Ina, the democracy
would ever oppose the protection of one
class OF the community at the expense Of
another-that the only purpose for which
tariff on imports ought to be levied should
be to raise revenue enough to support an
economical administration of the govern
ment, and the only true principles on which
~,
duties, on q perfectly horizontal basis
/ Standing iEnnovably on this platform, the
democracy have elected at least two Pres
dents.
| But what sort Of an economical admins
! tration Of the government we have under
/ the present Tegime may De inferred from
/ the fact that, whereas President Polk was
able to carry the government through a
whole wear ard maintain most eypen-
s.ve war with Mexico at z cost Of $j6, 000,-
600, the present administration, in its first
year q year of profound peace-expended
! $50, 600, 600, and its very lowest estimates
| for the current year are 10000 600. As
against expenditures oz such a scale they
/ can foot up a revenue of but some sos ,000,-
/ 900, it becomes necessary to re-tiuker the
/ tariff; and now we have this spectacle, that
! the President, at the head of an inconsider
| able squad Of democrats in Congress, boldly
attempts to repudiate the time Eenored dem
ocratic principle Of dd ralorem duties, and
substitute the old federal-whig doctrine OF
specific duties and protection.! Caucus az
ter caucus of the democratic representatives
in Congress is called, and firmly they refuse
10 bow to the Presidential mandate to de-
bauch the creed of the party, and commit
the degrading act of disqualification.
And thus the parties stand: the Presi-
dent with little squad of shakey democrats.
backed by the republican forces on one side,
against four-f ifths Of the democratic repre-
sentatves on the other. If Judge Douglas
must DO hurled out of the party, mere ilessly
hunted down and crushed, for diff ring with
a majority of his democratic compeers on
what was to say the most Of it, a very doubt
full point of the creed, what awful fate-what
unspeakable retribution must there be in
store for one James Buchanan, VIM. Bigler
and the ever faith'-leSs democracy o.
Pennsylvania who thus audaciously defy tas
majority of the party in and cut Ct Congress;
on a point OF the democratic creed that is as
plain and pilpablc as the sun in the heav
ems Can-O can the Chicago Herald en-
Tighten US:
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nearly every town large enough to have /
court house, idle persons who, during ceur
tina loaf about the court house. and corn