The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-09-20

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We propose to gro1P together few
facts and let the reader jo ge-a1
Immediatelya after the Ees lent made
his i1rnpon the States FL coo 90 more
men, a monster war meeting was held in
the Park at New York, to encourage en-
listments. Patriotic speeches were made,
any amount of patriotic resolutions passed,
measures taken to raise large fund to
aid the work, and "War Committee"
appointed under whose auspices the funds
were to be expended
The committee went to work-funds
rolled into their hands in liberal profusion,
.ealissmeRts Rourished, and the COMMITTEES
appeared to be labering in good faith and
doing good work. Matters ran, on thus
smoothly until about the time of the
famous Gen. Pope disasters near Washing
ton. The committee grew uneasy, restless,
and projects began to be discussed outside
of their proper sphere, and it was found
expedient to sit with closed doors.
About this time an extraordinary meet
ing of FIVE New England Governors took
place at Providence Their deliberations
also were secret, and nobody has yet
learned the object of the singular conclave.
1t was not wholly unknown, however,
to the New York War Committee, for
they sent a subcommittee to consult with
the conclave of abolition Governors.
When this subcommittee returned from
Providence, it is observable that the New
York War Committee (still sitting with
closed doors) began to shape their action
in direction which soon caused a rupture
in its own body Moses H. Grinnell and
Judge Pierrepont, two as loyal, upright
men as ever lived, Withdrew from it in
disgust, declaring its aims would tend to
''embarrass instead of strengthen the
hands of the government"
The next thing we hear is scheme to
raise corps of $4,000 New England men
to be placed under command of Cen j John
G. Fremont, ard TO be welded by him as
General or army corps, but almost of the
Government itself. The project was laid
before the War Department in the mos,
suave and insinuatiug terms, but promptly
squelched in very pointed and pithy
note from Secretary Stanton.
ell a sheme to give Fremont com
mand OF 10000 men, to be used ia fight
ing rebels in his own way, aside from the
frightful waste of life and money it won c
doubtless have involved, looked otherwis.
harmless enough, but for sundry other ea
marks and most notable indications which
made their appearance simultaneously
with the proposition.
Up to this iuncture the New York T.mes
and World, and other notable republican
journals in the east had steadily supported
Prcsideu, Lincoln ana stuck to Mcclellan
Suddenly the Times turns a surlmersauit
than the World, then the Iaiepsrn,.nt chime
in, and now all these papers with the bi:
and little 7rij,oe and Sunday Mercury, ar.
on the same key. And VIII is that kew
In brief terms, they maintain that Pres;
dent Lincoln and his cabinet are who'll,
/ incompetent to manage this war that thei
generals ARP all incompetent that the
President and his cabinet ought therefor,
to resign and pass the government int
new hands, or, if they refuse to do this
they warn the President that his gov
eminent WILL BE SWEET AWAY BY UsURPA
TONI We live, says the Times, % in
/ day Of revolution, when violence and fore,
may give the law to national action, ane
when strong, bold men will throw asid.
/ forms and usases, however sacred, which
/ stand in the way Of what they NAV recare
"cIGire OF the nation, and plac.
/ power in hands that are strong, howeve
they may be stained with the black est nc
most damning guilt" 90 -'-I- -. .; /, T.
! We have no room to give extracts from
all the papers we have, named, but thu
| same spirit breathes tn ough them all, and
day in and day out their columns groar
with this sort Of matter, and if it can have
any other object in view than to incite to
that usurpation" which they affect tc
d, cad, we confess our utter inability to SEE
it. Taken in connection with the Fremont
project, the whole matter obtains peculia,
significance, and in connection with the
Providence conventicle of abolition Gov
| ernors, bears marvellous resemblance tt
a second edition of the old Hartford Con
vention schemes of toryism and treason.