The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-06-07
Vigorous Letter. of a La Sale County
f--~s $3.50 Democrat, -

f. We find in the Debuque Herald the fol
! lowing extract from letter to frieno
I in that city from the Hon Geo w. Arm
strong, OF this county. In giving his
/ views relative TO the emancipation policy
} OF the Administration, he doubtless ex.
presses the sentiments of the Democracy
of this section of country In speaking
OF the war he says 49, r..-. .-..
- hope it will demonstrate that Re
publican Governments have an inherent
strength sufficient TO sustain themselves
and prove thai our Goyernme ent cannot be
oyerthrown, although | entertain serious
doubts as TO the result Not on account
of a want of power on the part of the
North, but owing to the mischievous ia
natical 5igotry of our rulers, which seems
. to have obtained some footing with our
people. Tins Constant agitation of the
slavery 9ucstlon-this sudden over yearn-
ing love for the negro and slavery eInan-
cipatton doctrine, or IN short, Abolitiorsm
Is What We have TO fear / think am
Justified III concluding that the present
administration, at least while Influenced
by these doctrines, can never put down
this rebellion and restore peace 20 the
country. The Republican party were not
IN power sixty days before they had
plunged the country into war by refus
ing TO compromise, and by maintaining
doctrines contrary to the letter and spirit
OF the Constitution From the ,!ay of I'll e
Inauguration of their party into power
until the present, they have endeayQred
constantly TO widen the breach between
the eontending sections, instead OF desir-
II l.. 1
iatIoas aud errors are without parallel.
, from the papers that Secretary Seward has
sent Pope Plus the 9th q COPY of Diy.o
ntntic and Ministerial CORES poudencc foi
. io6l, IN which William II Seward figure.
conspicuousIy as diplomatic blunderer
His book should have been named \
Comedy OF Errors. ......
This Abolition Congress discusses no
other questions than couiiscation acts an i
slave emancipation, some twentv bills
having been introduced on that subject.
these bills propose to abolish State lines
make slave States t-.ritogies-tyeat them
as subdded provinccs-set the negroes to
| farming IN Soath Carolina, and put a Go.
yernment agent to control them (at a
salary equal to the crop raised They
offer resolutions that army officers shall
return no more iugitiyes; and. lastly, thew
have freed the negroes in the District o!
Columbia, thus throwing helpless, un-
protected people upon a society which
always looked upon them a, servants and
Interiors. These negroes have no means
Of subsistence. and are turned out to
starve. stcll--to infest eveIv avenue as
begcars-to fill prisons and worlhousc, :
This IS abolition philanthropy and it IS
for the transacting Of such business that
this Congress devote their time, and
sguander the public money | should
consider this "a criminal, aud deserving of
the Just condemnation Of every honest
man.
| care not mentioned tgese odious and
unequal tax bills on their bunderinc d
ordinations in favor of the stoc; jobbcrs
IN the issue OF their treasury notes, or of
the arbitrary arrests and Imprisonment by
order OF the President or Secretary Of War.
oi good cltlzens-of men and women of
respectabllity, without a charge being
preferred against the,n-kept in felous'
cells at the pleasure Of the Secretary afore-
said, without hearing. and some of them
afterwards released without ever knowing
why so imprisoned, detained or released.
Such state of things never existed
even under the reign Of the Bloody Jeffri-
es or the Star Chamber But enough 1t
will devolve on the Democracy to put
down this rebellion, restore peace and the
Union, and collect the taxes to pay the
debts of this war