The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-07-05
The Real Issues I'm the Free states.

possible, still moro monstrous folly.
/ The Real Issues In the Free States.
7 II has become fashionable with aboli
ton Journals and leaders to denounce
every body who objects to any of the
measures adopted or proposed by the
President, or Congress, or the ultra aboli
ton leaders far suppressing the re
bellion, as secessionists Thus Ben
Wade IN the Senate impudently de
nounces those as secessionists at heart who
contend for a rigid adherence to the con.
stitution; while the big and little Tribune,
are vociferous in applying the same cpl
tibet to those who oppose the wholesale
confiscatien and emancipation schemes Of
the crazy abolitionists Yet, it is obsery.
able that at least two thirds of the best
fighting material of the army is made up
OF this same sort Of secession sympathizers
The mischievous effects of this kind OF
slang would be greater but that the thou
sands of loyal patriots, in and out of the
army, against whom it is directed, chart
tably look upon it's utterers as demented
| and treat their abuse with the contempt
1t deserves. The conservative men of the
North, and under this head we include
the entire democratic party and portion
of the republicans, have on no occasion
IN no meeting, convention, or leading
journal OF their party, ever taken any
other ground in reference to the present
war but this:
That the rebellion is to be put down
Internationally
That the legitimate power of the 90
vernment must be sustained in puttin, il
down.
That the administration must be libe.
rally supplied with all the means necessary
to put it down.
But having conceded these cardinal
points, there are hundreds of questions
daily arising in the Management of the
government and the war, and measures
proposed and adopted on the supposi.ion
of being conducive to the great end in
view, in reference to which the most loyal
and patriotic may surely be permitted to
express doubts, and, without being insub-
ordinate or factious, may interpose the
most strenuous objections. Such questions.
forming legitimate grounds for party d,.
vision among the most loyal while agree
ing on the cardinal points above stated.
they conceive the following TO be, among
others
What are legitimate and appropriate
means 10 put down this rebellion, and
what are not?
Was 1t necessary 10 put down this
rebellion to abolish slavery in the District
of Columbia?
Is 1t necessary to put down this rebel
lion 10 tax the people of the whole Union
to pay for the slaves that States may see
proper to emancipate?
Is 1t necessary 10 put down this rebel
lion to get up negro schools in North
Carolina, and support them at the govern
ment expense; or, in fact, to get them I'D
at all at any ones expense?
Is it necessary TO put down the rebel
lion TO burden the treasury with millions
to support runaway slaves?
is it legitimate FOR man with straps
on his shoulders to proclaim martial law
over two or three States, and assume 10
abolish slavery?
Does the constitution allow, as a pun
ishment for treason, to contscate property
at all?
is IL general conliscation consistent
with humanity, if it We're constitutional?
Is 1T necessary that the whole North
shall be afflicted with the curse of free
negroism to put down the rebellion
Is 1t necessary TO overthrow the old
Union, wipe out the constitution and
make new one, to put down the rebel
lion?