The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-10-25
The Signs of the Times.

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hour. 1t was supposed that the civil war
would be confined to the rebellious States.
There Is now every reason to believe that
the loyal States will not be exempt from
the usual calamity of civil war, which is to
visit every portion Of the Country in which
it kreaks out. ....r.t.
The addres of Cassius NJ Clay, delivered
in Brooklyn on Tuesday, and published in
yesterdays Herald, is most Significant
Mr.. Clay was recently the American Min
lister to Russia, and from this very fact
must be regarded as a representative man,
entitled to express the views Of his party
What does he say?
| So far from finding fault with Abraham
Lincoln, he rather found fault with him
that he had not suspended the habeas
corpus, not by dash of the pen, but By
the rope round the necks of these traitors.
A VoIcE-Wen hang them yet
Mr. CLAY-Yes, sir-the hanging of such
thousands of honest Tres
| A VoICE-That is So
ME- CLAY-IXats s true phiMutAropy Gap.
plause and laughter)
Quite in keeping with this Robespier-
aeian declaration IS another from the same
expounder Of the abolition programme
! He says:
1t was deluslon to suppose that liberty
could be established on this continent
Dhen tic President of tie Ua;tei States and
tie people Of tie Caitei .States hDd not tie
ce,rcgo to 0hdt s0as right Therefore, said
he, spot not General Boyle spot tie Prssi-
dent Of the tait0d .Sates spot The headi of
Departments; spot your military chief
talns; spot those who would have the
| Union az it was, and free yourselves from
responsibility
lie goes to say
| Let us not have, pray you, the Union
| IS 1t was The Union as it was
what did it bring but rebellion and
! bloodshed, war and desolation.
/ From the foregoing il would seem that
to President Lincoln alone we are indebt-
ed for the preservation OF the Government
from total overthrow its salvation NTH
erto against the revolutionary designs of
radicals who are driving him from point
TO point, but have not vet succeeded in
/ forcing him to the last point; of hanging
ell who differ in opinion from them.
! The views Of Mr. Clay correspond exact
/ ly with the opinions promulgated IN the
radical Journals and at the public meet
I ings OF the faction 10 aid the election OF It's
candidates So emboldrned are these men
/ that they openly announce their designs,
no longer caring 10 conceal their bloody
programme. Fo. instance, at meeting
of theirs, held in the Fifteenth Ward at
which Henry J. Raymond and Charles y
! Dana were present, it Was proposed by
/ George w. Blunt, aHd rd-olved, that every
vote given for Horatio Seymour is vote
| for treason and Erastus c. Benedict pro
claimed Seymour IS e" the .EaitOr candi
date
/ These are the principles on which this
4 san-siinary faction hope to be successful.
and the principles which they will un-
| boubtedly carry out If success should crown
their struggle. The people nave fair warn
/ ing But so apathctic are they, and 50
| little alive to danger, tnat we have reason
| to think they will let the election 90 by
default. As In other revolutions, violence
| prevails, and wisdom and moderation are
/ tfanpled under foot The men who start
revolutions seldom have the privilege of
guiding them TO their destination. The
| French philosophers who originated the
I Revolution OF 1898. and the republicans OF
the Girondist school, who merely sought
reforms. were swept away In thousands by
the radical .Iacobins, who went ahead o.
them, and the gu.lotinc had no rest by
night or by day, Ii was the same in the
case of CrtU.wei! skose army demolished
King because it did not go far enough for
the ideas of the i.ouudheadS
1t viii be the same with the radicals
and when they dare now 70 appeal 70 the
people on the principlee and ideas they
have announced, what may we not expect
when they obtain ioll possession OF power
in New York, Pennsy !vanIa, Illinois, aud
other States once conservative? Let Us
took out for scenes as bloody and dark as
any which appalled, the worl during the
despotism of Cromwell or the = Reign OF
Terror" in the French Revolution. We
warned the moderate conservative repuh-
licans that they-would be forced forward
fanaticism behind them, and that the time
would come when they would have to play
the part of bloody remorseless revolution
lists, or be crushed to atoms under the
wheels of the car of the Abolition jug
eernaut Those predictions are now re-
ceiving q remarkable tultllment
Mr.. Seward, and other men of his stamp,
soornad the very idea Of the fanatics ever
obtaining the control of the Federal Gov
ernment, oS of the State govesnneEts.-I
But what has that hearibroke8 statesman
to say now? Is he not poweEiess to arrest
the fearful progress of the revolutionary
tempest t,.st RACES over the land, and
threatens all things with desolation. The
politicians PLAYED with abolitionism. They
only sowed the wind; but now they reap
the whirlvind. From all that We can sec,
the radicals in the ensuing elections will
make a clean sweep of the whole North.
Then may we expect the price of hemp to
go up; and when hanging fails to cut short
the existence of enough traitor Democrats.
other processes, like the "novades of
Nantz' and the fu-illades, will be restorted
to, and the herrid Ycenes of the French
revolution will be re enacted in free
America 1t is, very evident that alter
eighteen months of terrible civil war we
have only reached '' the beginning of sor
rows N. Y. Herald
The HIGHEST BALLOON AscESsIoS.-Mr.
Giaisber, the celebrated scientific savan,
and Mr.. Coxwell, the daring seronaut, at
London, recently assembled in balloon to
the almost incredible height of six miles.
The observations Of the former will prove
most valuable to science, bat both gentle
men had narrow escape from destrdc-
ton. Mr. Glaisber became totally lnsen-
sible at about the fifth mile, but MIR. Cox
we'll went on until his hands were frozen,
and he was Just able to pull the cord at
tached to the valve with his mouth, ana
thus cause the balloon to descend. MI
Glaisber says there is no more to be learn |
ed, and that certain death must ensue II
an attempt is made to reach a greater
height. ---------
Perryviile, the scene of the battle III
Kentucky on "Wednesday, is situated be
tween Danyille and Beardstown, but much
nearer the former place. 1t is post wi, |
lage of Boyle county, Kentucky, and
numbers but few hundred inhabitants
1t is forty.one miles due south OF Frank
fort, and five hundred and slxty-fhree