The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-11-15
What the Country Expect from the Demo-
cratic Party.

going to adopt, for the purpose of bringing
back the government and the nation &c
its normal integrity.
1t is true, indeed. that if the libels O.
their adyersaries, with which the minds o.
the people and the ARMY have been Sc
dulously poisoned these three months
past, were to be credited, it woule
appear that the democratic party had nc
divide the nation, or TO accept jeff. Davis
as the ruler of the whole Of it. But the
result shows that those lies were never
believed by those who uttered them,-for
no sooner is the election over, than you
find that these same libellers are claiming
the result as condo mnaton Of the feeble
and ignoble mamie: in which the war has
been conducted; all Of tiiem-the Chicago
Tribune and all, claim hat, and some OF
them, more candid and more fully com
pretending the issues that the people have
decided claim a good deal more than that
and they claim it truly. They say that the
Presidents proclamation of martial law in
the loyal States is condemned; that his
proclamation for confiscating the property
of loyal men is condemned; In short, like
repentant sinners as they are they admit
the whole truth. 1t is singular, indeed,
that these admissions, convicting those
who make them of falsehood and SANDER
-convicting them, indeed of more than
that-convicting them of preferring party
to country, of being willing 10 divide the
north for the purpose of retaining power,
should have been made so soon, for at
this writing scarce ten days have elapsed
since the election. But the promptness
with which these admissions are made,
also proves another thing, AMI one that is
honorable to these people, for it proves
that ne-ctto party they 60 for their country !;
that, at heart, they had lost confidence in
their own party, and that they breathe
freer when another party from whom they
have every thing to hope and nothing to
fear, SO far as the welfare of the country is
Let us, in this place, and before we pro-
coed to speak of the main question we
have set out to treat about ROW, just whis-
per few words in the ears of these Repub-
licans who have brought themselves and
their country to grief. Gentlemen, this
thing has but just commenced. Party
ties are very strong, it is true; but you
must remember We are in the midst OF a
revolution ten per cent. of your number
have already had the sagacity to see where
you were drifting to, and to see the abyss
into which you were plunging the country,
and have quit you; fifty per cent of the
balance will quit you before another
twelvemonth. Where will you be then
set your house in order, make your wills,
and compose yourselves for the fate that
is before you. Your own internal malice,
ambition, and blindness have brought you
to it, and now YOU haye nothing 10 40 but
to meet it like men. You don't own the
masses-none of them except the abolit-
onists-take them and so your ways
they are solemn looking fellows-they' II
make a nice looking cortege at your funeral
The rest will think for themselves. and
Will go with the party that goes for war
that will accomplish something, that will
put down the traitors, that will set the
constitution, in all its supremacy and ma
iesty, to rule over them, with a flaming
and bloody sword if they will-with an
olive branch if they desire it.
And that is the first point that these
Democratic victories have established -
But you have been telling the people that
our armies were led by democratic generals,
put there and Kept there by democratic
influence. You knew that was false when
you uttered it, and the people know it is
false If there are democratic generals at
the head Of the armies, democratic infiu-
ence had nothing to to with putting them
there, or keeping them there. We have
never attacked the generals at the head of
our armies, because we did not think it
was wise and patriotic to do so until they
had been fully ilied; but before the demo.
cratic party come into the exercise of the
power that has just been conferred upon
them, they VIII have been tried, and
well, do the Republicans suppose the De-
mocratic party are to be a tail tied to an
imbecile generals kite? They will be NO.
fully mistaken if they expect to have that
capital to retrieve their fallen fortunes with.
As for the civil administration of the Gov
eminent, in the first place, the Democratic
party are, what The Republicans are not,
an honest party, and a p.'actca! party. Upon
the contraband question, whatever they
may do--and it will he time enough to
discuss that question bye and bye-:here
rs one thing they will not do--they will
not pass a.oanfiscaton law, under border
state inilneaee--as the Republicans have
done--that is q fraud e cheat, and a snare
to the black man whom it processes to
benefit, ansl to the loyal, bat, it may be,
indiscreet, white men that honestly desire
to see the black man free; fraud in short
upon the whole Republican party. The
fraud is,-nos,in making this. nfscstion
law in conflict with the constitution, as it
is, in not providing any amnesty for those
whom it processes to subject to its provi
sions but in making it SO without any
need of doing it-for they had only to
enact an amnesty clause, and the consti-
tutional obstacle that makes it as it is, a
Dullity, would have been avoided. But
The border slate men intended it should
be aullity, and let us see If they hav'nt
got these Republican congressman to do
something more towards making it So.
For fear the constitutional obstacle should
not ho onounh fhav got II raSSol .r;t ont