The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-09-06
one Thlag At a Tine.


ing the energies of the yeopie, eating up
their wealth, and, worse than ell, stealthily
disrupting our social and political systems
We need peace, aud it cannot come too
early. We must have peace. There is one
way, and one wsy only to obtain IL. The
ack knowledgment of the Southern Confad-
eracy would plunge US deeper thah ever
into ruin-wOuld make our domestic stur.
mOils perpetual We would be constantly
at war then, and upon the Border States
would be the crushing weight Of the con-
fiict Peace in America is only compati-
BILE with Union. In order TO live under
the blessings of national tranquility, We
must maintain, defend and perserve the
Union. There is no doubt about this--it
is no a debatable question.
As q people we have, for sixteen months,
been wrangling over side issues and essay.
in time Of war TO settle discussions which
only arrayed US against one another for
twenty or thirts years, in perion Of peace.
We have tried to prosecute a war against
a willy and aggressive enemy, whilst
quarreling among ourselves over inferior
and subOrdieate Mates. Our disputes
have served to strengthen the enemy and
have brought us no nearer to that unaEi-
nifty which is essential to success. With
the rebels there are the germs OF discord,
as with US; but they put away, to o great
! extent until a more convenient season.
! Sentiment a. the South is concentrated
aud solidifed The ConfedeTates are unit.
ed in purpose, for they have but u single raj
lying cry. We have done little to diyide
them, whilst they have been benefited
| imlneasurably by our own dissentions.-
This condition Of affairs, we have found,
| does not work well. The rebellion is
scotched, not killed. We must take q
lesson from the enemy, and sink all minor
! schemes in the one great, overshadoH ing
question OF the Union When we do this,
the result Is not doubtful. Until we do,
| who can tell when the war will end
The crime Of the Secessionists has not
exonerated the mischiey Gus and pestiieyous
| cilss of fauatic!e Abolitionists from share
of the blame of this war ALolitit nism is
| no more virtuOos or patriaiic because the
| treason OF others has been less covert than
theirs. The Union people have been
| fighting the rebellion with an Abolition
enemy in their rear The Abolitionists,
by incessant agitation, have been warning
against concentration OF our stieugth.
/ We must labor to bring them to the sup
| port Of the Union without any Of their
| ultra and radical conditions. or let thom
take their places with the other Disuuion-
I lists. .
| The President, the other day. throwing
of for the time the dignity of his station,
condescended to indite u short letter to
! Horace Greeley, of the New York Tribune
| Without stopping TO coutrOyert statements
or assumptions Of fact made by Greeley,
! which the President knew TO he 81 Ironeous
or to argue agains. differences taisey drawn.
or to take notice OF all impertIne mt and
dictatcTial tone, W hich Greeley, in common
with the other Northern fanatics, has
sdopted in Speaking of the measures ot |
the Administration Mr. Lincoln plainly |
states his sole platform, in this crisis, to be |
the salvation of the Union. He would do |
this IN the shortest way under the Consti. |
tuition. He announces himself for the |
Union as it war. The Uuion in his para
mount object, totally independent CT the
slavery or Of any other question. This is
the true. and only true ground, and the
whole country must work itself up TO it, or
We can never succeed.
We care nothing for the views which |
the Abolitonists personally may entertain
We do not ask them now TO lay down one |
atom cf theirhostiility TO slavery or the |
or the peorle Of the South. As individuals, |
they may cherish whatever sentiments |
they deem proper, for this is their right, |
and for our part we are perfectly wiil.Dg |
to accord il aa privilege. But We do ask |
them 10 refrais from coupling their private
notions with great cause to which they
have no Legitimate attachment or conect
ion whatever Let US save the Union first,
and resume, If necessary, our politicle
quarreis afterwards
Onc thing at time, we say. Let US
repossess Virginia. and Georgia, aid Miss
issippi. and the other rebel States, before
xrs ri do hot hor ~
erty of all the people, or merely hang
leaders-whether ta send the negroes to
Iayti, Massachusetts, or Central America
-or whether to set the white men to work
in the cotton fields. with negroes to watch
and superintend them, Ia Jim Lane in
Kansas. But how is the bert way to res.
tore the Union? some will ask. We
answer, with s'eel, iron, lead and powder
" 6 never knew a proclamation TO hurt q
rebel yet. The Governors of Georgia.
South Carolina and Florida did not cease
to be rebels, nor did any OF the people OF
those States, when Gen. Hunter declared
slavery abolished; nor were they made
any more or less rebolished; nor were
they made any more or less rebellious by
the Presidents abrogaton Of the decree.
Mir. Snead did not become a loyal man
when Gen. Fremont freed two negroes
supposed to belong to that person. Gen.
Pillow did not secede from the Confedera-
cy when Gen. Cnrtis turned loose his mig
gers, uordid he show any symptoms thereof
when he feared and expected that would
he done. Slidell is not coming home from
| France to give in his adhesion to the Fed
eral cause, albeit Gen. Butler has contisca-
| ted his property IN Louis lana. The rebels
themselves have taught the ignorant and
deluded people within their reach That
! the Federa!s would take all their uggers
and appropriate all their property when
| they could and that is what makes them
fight so desperately to keep the Federals
from reaching the places where their ne
groes and otner property are.
What we want is union for the Union.
We want sigle rallying cry, and he who
that it is too tame, aud that sufficient
enthusiasm does not contre about it's a
traitor at heart. and ought to emigrate.
The Presidents platform-the Union
under the Constitution-the Union as it
was, and the Constitution as it isis board
and comprehensive. Wecan all stand on
| that, and, as against the rebles, must be
! invincible. Atany rate, let the experiment
he tried Let our soldiers 60 into the
| field with zeal muskets, real cartridges,
real hayonets real artillery, fighting for
the Union without any fanaticalifs or butts,
and we shall soon see if better results will
not come of it than TO charge the enemy |
with windy proclamationss antl,slavery
speeches and abolition :racts'-.H LOUIS
Republican
A clergyman lost his horse on Saturday
evening". after hunting IN company with
a hov until sitter midnight, he gave UP in
| J..,.;. The next day somewha defect
al .t his loss, he went into the pulpit and
| took for his text the following passage
from Job: "Oh, that l knew where |