The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-12-15

Secretary Floyd hiss written = lengthy
a. interesting letter from Washington,
to Nat Tyler, Esq, Richmond Ii thi. lie
expresses the opinion tina; disuuion j. in
eyiy4hle, maintains secession Il. a coussitu-
,ion.l right reviews the grievances OF the
South in decidedly fire eating manner,
insists that in no way can Lincoln be con
sdered conservative asserts that the
South will assume, under the circumStan-
ces, position as extreme as that OF the
North The North has set tie example
OF doing nithcut the South in tho election
about answering thi. by allowing them 10
do also without her in ;le Union. The
people acting in mass will not stop in
crisis to draw distinctions ANA spii; hairs;
but rush besdlong to extreme conclusions.
Yet he declare. himself as opposed 70 -scs.
sion until all honorable effort shall have
failed 20 preserve the Union Oh 1. coDsti-
.ut!onal basis. guaranteeing equality, Jus
tee and protection 10 the negro property
Of the South
The repeal OF the personal liberty bills
I OF the Northern nuiiifca.,ion states j. de
manded as . precedent Ia &Ay attempt TO
reconcile the South - the Union.
/ He calls, in glowing terms the attention
of the South 10 two consequence. OF Sc
cession-tbe sacrifice Of their northern
friends and thc triumphant graduation OF
their New England enemies:
The South should remember that in dis
solving the Union she aunih'latcs a mighty
army of true. unseiiish and devoted friends
at the North, who battle forever for the
constitutional rights OF the slave Stats.
| Without tnis great and efficient AID, the
po'rer OF Abolition taustici-m would b-
urbroke en- anal uuche cd.-wcn.d Indeed
! surround the South with a wall of ire
1t would do more. New England would
consort with Old England in divising
means 10y which the cruel and inhu'nan
philanthropy prsctised in the West lmdia
Islands should be repeated here. That
religious zeal which turned away from al
rational hope of progress III Christian
faith half ! million of Africans to the say
agei~nl of fetish worship, and CONVERTED
the tiire-t islands Of the sea into deS-r
and waste; that English Justice which
seized upon a thousand millions OF hcI
| subjects property. aud vaVI.te1 herself be
fore the world for having paid one-tanti
of it, yalue-woull find surely and speed
ily ample room. in conjunction with New
England hbolitioni-.n for the practice o
her pharasaical virtues amidst the ield
of Virginia and Louisiana. If tie hat,
! Of New England Ahoii;iou.s;, To the South
, is sleeplesS and maiignant-ii they hop
ny iraGd and indirec,i"n, by agitation am
theft TO harass the South, and to impai
the security and value Of her slave pre-
perty-all combined would, in my belle
, be Justice, honesty and fair dealing cor
pared with the inexorabl. hate and MAZE
tic fanatlci.m OF England directed zgsius
i tIie slavery of a dismembeTed Union an
4 feared and hated commercial rival
lie has little faith that, in the event {
: lisunion, the South can hope for any syn
t pa,hy or assistance from England.
: II IS a tltH error 70 suppose that tie intcrc
II Of Eay!o,,i ,coa8 prompt her ia foster ii
planting Interests 81 tie South. From til
: Prir con.ort, who sat silently by az
L witnessed the deliberate insult OF q
y American Minister by a British peer b.
fore the congrecated in diligence Of a
Christendem. simply because slavery e,
=, isted in the United States, down to tn
wrctched cockney himself, forty times tn
y slave to suffering and circumstances b
10 vond what any negro is to lsw-there
!. not an Enslshman who does not in h
heart abhor slavery, ifhe does not also al
i nor the country where it exists Englsn
u will have margin enough TO supply be
/ wants Tor cotton, even with large dim
mutton OF our present production, If tn
demand of the North for it il cut off :
it world be by disunion and civil wa
But England. safe in her commercial a
z cendeney does not always follow tn:
< line of policy which others might thin
=, conducive to her interest She sacritic.
=; much and largely to crafty n hatred, ,
e vindicate a blunder or cater to sen,
r ment. Without caring much about til
opinions of Others. she values very highl
her own and with laudable desire
appear righteous in her own eyes, perp
n tratss any act of cruelty or oppression, u
der the pioUs pretence OF evangeiizng an
e civiiizing the heather, or reforming til
heresies of the Christian.