The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-08

they held the safety OF our liberties re-
CURED should be promi tly condemned
| Their condemnation also involved, of
course, the whole war policy Of the Presi.
dent so far as that makes the object of the
present war emancipation of the slaves
rather than the restoration Of the Union.
Beyond this, the democracy have not
gone nor meant to go. 1T is very probable,
as the Journal suggests, IN another portion
Of its article, that persons in the North
who really sympathized with the seces-
sionists and prayed fer their success in
severing the Union, may have voted with
the democracy, but if they did so, they
were in the wrong party. Their natural
home was with the abolitionists, who
| equally with them, were fighting against
the constitution ard the Union.
No-Whatever the republicans may
have said, and some of them perhaps be-
lieved before the election, in reference to
the democratic party being opposed to the
vigorous prosecution of the war, they will
now, we apprehend, admit, or If not now,
will soon have abundant occasion to admit,
that SO far from being opponents of the
war, the democratic party are the ouly
true supporters of the war. The aboli-
tionists auguring from the result of the re-
cent elections, that their darling, lifelong
scheme of destroying the present constitu-
ton, overriding the constitutions, laws, and
flonnaStic institutions IF tho Southern
States are to be frustrated and abandoned,
and that this war is to be waged strictly
withia the constitution, and for the attain
ment of the only one object declared al
its commencement-the enforcement of
obedience to the constitution and laws in
every part of-she Union, will lose all fur.
ther heart in the cause, and will reiterate
in body what their leaders have already
have.the Union as it was, let the South
60 Give us dissolution rather than q
Union with Shareholders" In less than
three months, we confidently predict, this
will be the united howl of the abolition
. leaders.
| Then Will be made manifest the true
! position of the democracy. In every con-
vention which the party have held from
the commencement of the war to this day,
they have said, 4" this rebellion must he
put down The party have never receded
from a position once firmly taken. The
abolitionist5 will have ceased 10 be active
supporters 70 the war--some of them will
even be in open rebellion and opposition
to the government; while the democratic
party, backed by the patriotic, conservative
masses in the Republican party,-and
these include, however they may have
blindly voted at the late election, nine
/ tenths Of that party-wiil be urging more
stoutly than ever the vigorous prosecution
OF the war. Taking the constitution in
/ their hands, and proclaiming steadily to
the south that the day they lay down their
arms and return to their obedience to that
instrument they shall be restored to all
their rights under it they will also as
steadily proclaim to them, that until they
do so, this war will NEVER cease-SEvrR
Whatever may be the hatred and con-
tempt of the Southern people for the
abolitionsts of the north, and the utter inn
possibility Of convincing them that they
will ever receive fair treatment from the
! hands Of that party should they in day
| lay down their arms, the Southern leaders
at least will understand and respect the
voice of the democracy Of the north -
Once demonstrated that the democratic
party are indisputably in the ascendant at
the north, that that party is ready to
guarantee them their rights in the Union
on their abandonment of the rebellion ;
and further, that the same party have
also formed the solemn resolution that I'M
/ til they do So the inexpressible evils they
already suffer from the war will not only
be continued indefinitely, but tenfold re-
/ doubled, and the back bono eff the rebel.
t lion will be broken North Carolina now
| only asks this assurance to return to the
| Uuion. Louisiana, Tennessee, and other
States, with this assurance at the begin
ming, would never have gone out OF the
Union. Given to-day in a manner to con-
vince them that,it is meant IN good faith
and its enforcement is as inevitable as fate,
and half Of the battle will already be won
Yes" the Richmond enquirer was
never more mistaken aboutanything," than
when it augured. from the recent elections
that tne Northwes. is weary of the war,
and dream of permitting a dissolution Of the
Union. With the same tenacious, immo.
vable purpose with which the democracy
chung to the destruction OF national
bank, to the establishment of the sub
treasury system, to the annexation Of Texas,
the repeal of the Missouri compromise,
and to every other great measure they
have undertaken, will they cling to the
! vindication of the constitution and restora.
ton of this Union as it was, and from that
high purpose no opposition-nedi discourage
ment-no reverse will ever move them
short of complete success or annihfiation.
| TIE GREAT TRAIroR DETECTED.-The
traitor discovered in the War Department
is said to be James NJ. Wright, a confden-
tal clerk in the Adjutant Generals Office.
| He livaS in Prince Georges county ~