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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01
Our Candidates.

JAS. c. ALLEN, ALEXANDER SrAaNE, and
the Rev. JOHN P. BRooKs on the State
Ticket, need no eulegy from u.s. Our
people heard Mr. Allen, on Thursday eve
ming, and know HE is all fright. Mr.. Starne
was Secretary of state for four years, and
made the best the state had had in tiftee n
years. He is all right Mr. Brooks is
Professor in an institution of learning at
Rock Island is man whose character
Is abeve reProach-a man of education,
who has spent the best days of his life in
educational pursuits and promoting the
educational cause. There is therefore, no
better timber in the state for superin-
tendent of public schools.
For Congress. we present Col. T. LYLE
D.cKrr. Our people know him. We need
not tell them who he is The people love
him-almost reverence him for his patri-
otism and purity of character. His little
pettifogging oDe-horse lawyer apponent
stigmatised him as secessionist" We
could give the people no stronger reason
for not voting for him
Maj THEODORE c. GIBSON,
JoHx O. Dent, and
NJ. B. PATTY,
Are cur candidates for representatives
Maj. G. is known all over this county as a
man of intelligence, O good business man,
OF sociablo, affable, winning manners, and
as a man whom the people. for his noble
promptness in volunteering to fight the
battles Of his country, and for his sacrifices
of means and health in thus volunteering.
desire to honor Mr. DENr was the choice
of the west end Of the county, and It is
enough to say that he is able, competent,
of irreproachable character, and his neigh
bors all love him. Mr. Patty was the
choice of Livingston county, and if Me,
say he is all right, ire have no right TO oh.
ject to him.
WILLIAM r. MILIIGsS, for Sheriff, is a
man upon whom we have almost leaned
for years as an energetic, working demo.
crat. He is a high-toned, honorable man,
a man of talents, and one of our ablest
speakers. Although rabid republicans
may hate him for his efficiency as a iemc-
cratic uork er, that is the very reason why
democrats should the more strongly cling
to him Tn ere is no better timber in tn e
county for the Office of Sheriff He will
be elected, and then the PEOPLE will learn
to know his worth.
Dr. HATHEwAY, for Coroner, is a man Of
the same class. Intelligent, honorable, a
first class physician, he will confer more
honor on the oaice than it will confer on
him
Such, in brief, are our candidates Oar
opponents certainly present no better men.
We propose TO vote for a principle. We
propose 10 give that Judgment at the
polls which the President has asked the
country to give GA his Proclamations We
believe in his heart he desires them TO be
condemned a. the polls. We propose to
give that condemnation by voting for the
MEN named above. The men are all right
the principle is right-to scratch a name
on the ticket is to scratch the principle
Every true patriot and conservative man
will therefore VOTE THE WHOLE
TICKET
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01
Spurious Tickets Lo6k Out

flooded with democratic tickets with the
name of JAMES WILLS upon them for
Sheriff in place Of WV. r. MIIIIGAN.
James Wills, although an Irish man, is a
republican, and is being used and paid by
the republicans to impose on democrats
in the country by professions Of democra.
cy Let republicans vote for him, If the Y
like He is PROBABLY as good man as the
other republican candidate, Cullen. But
let no democrat touch him with forty
foot pole
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01
g.. Browne the artyr.S

/ If the editor Of the Ottawa Republican
could be supposed to possess ordinay COM
mon sense, one might be surprised at his
boldness III referring to the case Of J. w.
Browne of Earlviie We can assure the
/ editor that ihd! is an exceedingly sore SUBJ
ject with a great many republicans, who
dread nothing more than to have it venti-
lated
+ Why was Browne arrested? Browne,
says the Republicans. spent large part
Of his time in harranglning collections OF
listeners at street corners, railing against
the government fo- fighting the south,
discouraging enlstments by telling them
they would all be killed. dc. He was
therefore arrested for discoura ring enlist
meiits'
Who told the editor Browne did all this
and that this was pchy he was arrested
Browne and his friends have been hard at
work in vain three months TO find out
. these very things. The editor may be
called on to diyulge
We shall not stop to banter about these
charges against Mr.. Browne 1t is enough
that his neighbors in Earlville almost to a
man-regardless of politics, utterly scout
and deny then, The strong point in the case
is supposing.'the charges true, 10y what au-
thority was Browne arrested VIVA. law
of this state or United States makes dis
couragin. enlistments' punishable often
ce7 But supoosing it TO be legal offence
and we admit it ought to be-can the edi-
tor, or any body. points out hy what au
thority Browne was taken to Chicago piac-
ed in a military prison, denied the free
mans right Of Labess corpus TO know what
the charges against him are, who makes
them, and to be confronted with his &C
,rsers?
Bronze was arrested even long before
the President issued his most unwarranta-
bic procla,aation suspending the writ Of
habeas corpus. 1t WAS dons-or at least
may have been dons-at the instance of
personal enemies, to crafty a NJ can low
dastardly, personal spite. on atiidsvits
crammed with lies and that will never be
allowed to see the light
And the editor Of the Republican justifies,
glories in, and gloats over such an act?
Mr. Browne is an humble village lawyer,
a poor man, and comparatively obscure.
His case has not attracted that attention
which it ought But we say here, that
repetition of such an outrage in Earlville to.
day would lead to bloodshed, and like
attempt in Ottawa would lead to bloodshed,
and if that only could prevent it, blood
would flow righteously. Rivers of blood
were shed to wiring from tyranny the
rights which in the case of Mr.. Browne
were ruthlessly trampled under foot, and
moro blood will again flow before the free.
men Of this nation yield them up.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01
Judge Curtis en- the Proclama-
nations.
A settler Oh the COnstitutiOnal
Question.

| Blackstone lauds it as one of the glories
OF the English system of jurisprudence,
that great legal and constitutional ques-
tons can be settled by it with the certain
ty aud precision of mathematical demon.
stratian. Such a demonstration is that
given by Judge CURTIS in his recent ESSAY
on the constitutionalty of tho Presidents
Emancipation and Habeas Corpus Procla-
nations Thinking men, among a free
people, when their liberties are endanger.
ed, hail with joy the appearance OF a great
defender and champion. Judge Quits IS
such man. On the Supreme bench when
the bred Scott case was decided and dis.
senting from the majority of the Court, in
that instance nobody will dare to set up
the cry that he is a pro slavery democrat
That he is great constitutional LAWYER
without a superior and few equals in the
| country-no well informed man will deny
Equally pure arc his life and character
| Far remoued-aloof-from the contami-
nations of mere partisanship, it cannot be
pretended that his opinions are in the
least degree biased or tinged by party
spirit.
! Our great regret is, that this essay has
appeared at SO late date that is impossi-
sic to place it in the hands of every voter
before the election. Its length precludes
| tt now from our columns. But this we say,
that no man of sound mind can rise from
its rerusal and say that the Presidents
proclamations do not embody not only a
/ clearly and demonstrably unconstitution-
al, but most dangerous assumption of
power, and ought to be condemned in
tones of thunder at the polls. 1t is inapos-
sibi- to give synopsis. 1t is a demon
s.-aticn, and will never be answered
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01
Tn e Issue Next Tuesday.

The contest on Tuesday will be decided
on one simple, plain Issue, and that issue
lies between the conservatives and radicals.
The conservative principle !. to support
the constitution and the constitutional
President
The radical principle is, 10 support the
President if he will be radical, and if he
will not, then to have a revolution.
Up to September Goth the Presi1@nt was
conservative He steadily announced in
all his orders and speeches, that this
war was waged for the suppression Of the
rebellion and the restoration of the Union.
He took the constitution for his guide,
and bowed to all its mandates
But on the Goth of September, yielding,
as he confessed himself, to the pressure
Of the radicals, he stepped beyond those
safe bounds On that day he issued two
proclamations The first subjects every
man In the loyal free states, residing
though, he may, remote from the armies
and their operations, and where all the
laws of the land may be enforced by con-
stitutional means, to the possibility of
military arrest and imprisonment, and
trial before a military oenmission, and
punishment at its discretion for offences
unknown to the law and this may he done
at the mere will Of the President or by
some subordinate officer clothed by him
with this power.
The second makes the entire social con
dition of nine millions of people del end
eut upon the executive decree of one man !;
it makes it dependent upon that decree
whether q servile war shall be Invoked to
help twenty millions of people to subjugate
FIVE millions; 1t asserts the power of the
executive of this nation, as commander in
chief, to set aside the constitution, to make
and suspend laws at his will; to do, in
short, any and every thing which he as
com,ns nsier-in chief may deem expedient,
or necessary, or desirable, to enable him to
overcome whomsoever he may choose to
regard as his own or the country.s enemy.
Jhere is no. a judge, or respectable
politician in England or America who
will say that by the Constitution of the
United States, by TIE law of nations or the
laws Of war, the President has the remot-
est authority to assume any such powers.
Judge Curtis, Massachusetts republican
Judge of the Supreme Court of the U s.,
and the most eminent OF living jarists, says,
if the free, republican, loyal people of tn
u S suffer quietly their executive to as
sumo such powers, " it will be the most
stupendous fact in history"
The only issue next Tuesday is shall the
assumption of such powers by the Presi-
dent be endorsed.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

JUDGE ScArEs.-The republicans raised
quite shout over Judge Scates, two,
months age, when he became dissatisfied
at his treatment in the demo state
convention, and at one time seemed on
the point of leaving, for trivial causes, that
party ofwh,ch he had been an honored,
consistent, earnest life long member. We
have seen nothing, however, for month
in the republican papers about Judge
Scates, and this is the " cause why" Two
weeks ago Judge S. was prevailed upon to
make a speech in Springfield. 1t was a
salter He pronounced the Republican
Union Ticket" dodge hnmbug, declared
he could not support it, and, like a true
and able lawyer as ne is, condemned in
manly and vigorous terms the late high
handed and unconstitutional proclamations
of the president.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

TIE INDIAN WAR OvER-As in the case
OF the Florida war, this will probably be a
standing caption for year or two. The
latest reports from Minnesota and north
western Iowa, however, show that the
hostile Indians have betaken themselves
far away from the border, .manifesting no
signs of continuing their warfare on the
whites. At most, few cavalry companies
will be sufficient force henceforth in that
quarter, and Gen. Pope and his ten thou-
sand western men can recruits the armies
on the Mississippi #o a7h
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

Mr.. Morton, commenting on the resolu.
tions of the Democratic Convention at
Springfield, said four Of them found fault
with the administration, and but two cen.
sured the rebels. Mr.. Norton had lust
read his own Morris platform, reso.
iutions of which denounce the deneunoe
the democratic party, and not one even BY
implication censares the rsbelx What.a
the inference
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01
A DlLEMMA-A singular case has ariser

A DrLEMMA-A singular case has arisen
in Tazewell county. The county has OBJ
tanned a judgment against the Peoria and
Oquawka r r. Co. for $4,000 taxes. The
case was appealed to the Supreme Court
and decided in favor of the county. The
Company refusing to pay, the Collector is
required within given time to levy on
the rolling stock of the company But
now comes in the u s. Quartermaster at
Springfield, who informs the collector that
the r r is being used to convey u. s
troops from Peoria t. "the seat of wal"
and if he, the collector, undertakes to
& obstruct" or IN the least manner 20" de-
lay The passage Of trains on the road, he
win be dealt With as . "traitor!" The
collector has gixen his and is indivi-
dually responsible for the collection of the
taxes. The law commands him to do SO
by levy on the rolling stock Of the r. r.
A little satrap of the government threa-
tens to hang him if he obeys the law of his
state and the mandateef her ighest court.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

ArroISrAESr.-The President has ap
pointed Judge DAVID DAVIS, of Blooming
ton, one of the Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States. 1t is most
strange, if the President has of his own
instinct and choice, gone over to the radi
Gals, that he should make such an appoint.
ment Jude Davis, though a republican,
has ever been recognized as very conserva
tive, ranking with men like Browning s.
7. Logan, DC, asd on the Supreme bench,
should the question come before hiaa,
would as certainly as fate, decide against
the recent proclamations of the President,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

An officer expressed the wish to Mr.
Stanton to be appointed to command the
body guard of sone general. The Secre-
tary replied: Sir, General Ealleck tells
me the only body guard he ever had was
terrier puppy.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

The late Cumberland Gap army, under
command OF General & W. Morgan, is
now in the Kanawha Valley, Western Va
1t is one of the best divisions in the army,
and with the forces already there, fully
competent TO the work of driving the
rebels from, Eestera Virginia.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

Sweet Jesse, in his Court House speech,
wouldn't say a word against Col. DtcxEr-
not he He never did such thing ). But
he said Col D approved the resolutions OF
the Democratic State Convention, and they
were the essence of secession;sm. BE also
read the resolutions of the democratic
convention OF this county, which be said
Judge D approved, and they weT e rank
secessonism. So. willing or unwIllin he
must consider Col D secessionist sympa
thiser Of the worst stripe
The secessionism Of the resolutions OF the
Democratic State Convention consists, as
Mr. Norton explained, in their denuncia-
ton of those northern extremists, who
were urging the President to tsamqle un-
der foot the constitution. as traitors TO that
instrument as fully as the southern rebels.
The La Sale county resolutions are
guilty OF the same thing
Col. Dickey is therefore 4 secessionist
because he is unwilling that the constitu-
ton shall be pcnded-tranl-
Piled under foot-unocr the plea Of saving
il. /: matters not that Col, D Is moi only
in the army himself, but has taken his sons
and about all his able bodied relatives
with him, is enduring hardships anG daily
barring his breast to the bullets of the enc
my to put down this accursed rebellion.
He is secessionist nevertheless, says
Sweet Jesse.
Judge Champlin, o c. Gray, Churchill
Coffing, D H. Pinney, SIR South worth,
and hundreds of other honest conserva-
tive republicans in this district we could
name, who are now supporting Col. Dickey
against Mr.. Norton because the latter has
mounted the extremist platform, are also
all secessionists.
Judge Curtis, of the Supreme Court Of
the e. S, the author Of that earnest, Wig
orous, manly and unanswerable protest
against the late Presidential Proclamations
as an unwarranted assumption of po* er, is
also a secessionis1s.
The people of Pennsylvania, Ohio. and
Indiana. who in such thunder tones have
protested against the same unconstitution-
al assumptions of power, are also secession
lists.
There is but one answer to make to all
this. When Mr. Jesse O. Norton, or any
body else, says that all these earnest pro
tests against the unconstitutional and re.
evolutionary measures of the abolitionists,
mean that therefore the conservative
masses oppose the war and for jeff Davis,
they plainly and emphatieally lie. The
men who compose the conservative party
have pledged their own lives, the lives of
their relatives and friends aud their prop
erty to the last dollar and the last cent, to
the perpetuity of the Union. 1t is for this
very reason that they oppose the abolition.
lists, who would destroy the Union. They
are too loyal to our soldiers to send them
off to the wars and then betray them at
the polls by voting for the damnable party
of abolitionists, who have caused who now
prolons, ans who will never end this war
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

The Both Iowa regiment left Keokuk
for St Louis and the wars on Saturday.
This is the fourth new Iowa regiment that
has gone forward within q few days, and \
number OF others are almost ready to
move
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

Whom do the soldiers want in Congress?
A man like jesse O. Norton, who never
slept in . tent in his life; or . man like
Col Dickey, . soldier,-every inch OF him
himself, and who is familiar with all the
grievances and wants of the soldiers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

MR. CAMPBELL HAULs OFF-Hon Alex.
Campbell, of La Sale, who had announced
himself as an independent candidate for
Congress in this district, by card in the
last La Sale Press, backs off the track.
Mr.. c. is a republican, but he undertook
to ignore the more exciting issues of the
day. and make the issue on his somewhat
complicated, and. to the masses uncom-
pretended, if not incomprehensible, Fl.
nance scheme. Finding the people wholly
absorbed with other matters, Of course he
could get no hearing, and with straight
republican and democratic candidate in
the field, he stood in the way to be crush.
ed between the two mill stones, to avoid
which, he prudently backs of Mr.. c. is
An ADLER man than Norton, . very honest
man. and had the republicans taken him
~ their candidate, the result would pro.
bsblv have showed an endorsement by the
district of Mr.. Campheals finance notions
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

The secessionists of Louisville are being
made BY Gen. Boyle to taste the fruit: OF
their treason. They are not allowed to
trade, and their houses are 70 % used tor
hospital purposes
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

EXEMFrs IL tiEBELDoa-Editors are ex-
empt from military duty under the new
Confederate CONSUMPTION act, as likewise
such help as they require in their business !;
employees Of transportation and telegraph
companies, ministers of the gospel. physi.
cans, shoemakers, farmers, blacksmiths,
wagon makers, mixers, superintendent
and employees on government work, over
seers OF plantations, one man to every five
hundred mead of cattle.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

LATEST NEws!-J. N. TARBLE, corner of
Main and La Sale sts., has just received
$50 splendid Ladies' .Cloaks. We mean
the Cloaks are splendid; the Ladies' are
splendid, Of eouEse
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

Col D!cIEr IN WILL Co.-The Will coun-
ty democratic convention, which met at
Joliet on Wednesday of last week. unani-
mou>ly adopted the following resolution
Resoiesa That we earnestly recommend
to all Union loving men the support OF
Col. I. l. Dclley (now personally engaged
in the field IN the suppression OF the eriSt-
ing rebel!iou,) as a "a: didate for Repre-
sentative II the next Congress
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

Notice. OF Adm his r:a tors Sale.
DY virtue of order and decrse Of the County,
ID Court Of La Sale County, Illinois, made At the
September term tbste A. d. 1862, the petition OF
the uudersigt administrator of the estate OF Harmon
Il TEN pleton deceased for leave sell the real es-
tate said Deceased SHAH Saturday the goth day
Of December, 1862 between the hours OF 10 o'clock
a m and O'Clock p m. OF said day. sell at public
sale, the south door OF the Circuit Court House in
OTTAWA in said county. the following described real
tate. stu tie in sait county, to wit: The northwest
Of the southeast quarter Of section g? 49,
range also, south half OF the sou'h half Of lot Ne
81 in the OF Ottavz also, the half Of
the nnrthwss quarter OF the southwest
ton u, %, range also, the southeast quarter
and the southwest quarter Of section s thirty
two, range 4.
Said sale will e made subject to al incur,bssness
and widows do~.r.
Tgfxs-One third down, ous-thiri in six months,
snd one third ia OK: year from day of sale.
SILIANCS CROOK,
icctSl6w Adrninistrator.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-01

! TAXI pleasure in announcing 10 the citizens Of
OtiA. 81 v: atty that sm nov receiving direct
from the Eastern markets, my stock of
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-11-18
SIIERIFF,S SALE.

DY VIRTUE of an Execution issued out of
ID and under the Seal of the District Court
of Buchanan County, Iowa, in favor of Harry
A. King, and against the lands and tene-
ments Of Augustus +. Williams, the following
described mortgaged property. viz
The West half of the Northwest quarter of
Section fifteen, in Township eighty eight,
north of Range nine west Of 9Th P. NJ, in Blu
chanan County, State of Iowa.
Which property, as above described, will
offer for sale, at Public Auction, at the door of
the Sheriff s Office, in the village of Indepen-
dence, on Saturday, the 29th day of November,
A. d. 1862, at Two clock, L. NJ. of said day, to
the highest bidder, to satisfy said execution
and costs.
JOHN NJ. WESTFALL, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, independence, Iowa,l s.
October 18th, 1862. ( 81 DIV
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-11-18

The rate Of exchange Ola London l45
per cent, for 60 day bills) makes tie
English sovereign worth here six dollars
foriy-eishl and a half cents, l6,lGl.