The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-05-30
The Arrest 81 Henry Clay Dean.

The arrest of Henry Clay Dean was a
greater outrage than that Of Nallanding.
ham He had made speech at Quincy,
ILL.,, and thence went to Keokuk, Iowa,
On his way home. At heokuk he stopped
with Judge C,aggett, a relative. The
house was surrounded at night by gang
of returned soldiers the doors broken
in, and Dean forcibly taken out and
locked up; and next morning, not darie G
to offer him further personal violence, he
was sent to the Provost Marshal at St.
Louis, who keeps him locked up There
was no process or warrant in the case
not even the miserable excuse Of a militia
ry order of arrest As to Mr. Dean Of
fence, there being no charge made against
him, we can only infer it from his princi-
pies, which are thus stated by the Quincy
Herald:
We claim to know Mr.. Deans senti-
ments intimately, having been on terms
Of the closest personal friendship with him
for several years, during which we have
heard and read quite a number of his
speeches and had many private conversa-
lions with him, and have never known .
disloyal sentiment to ceme from him il
any shape. He has always expressed the
strongest devotion to the union, and in
sisted upon the strictest observance Of the
constitution and laws, ard therein con-
sists his ofense. If he were AN abolition
list, he might declare with Thaddeus Ste
vens that he would never consent that
the union sholld ever be restored under
the constitution as it is, with slavery to
be protected by it, or like Conway, repre-
sentative to congress from Kansas, that he
would never vote another dollar or man
for the war until it assumes a different
standing, and tends directly to an anti
slavery result; or with Bingham, member
of congress from Ohio, who, in the name
of God, wants the cotton states, or any
other state this ride of perdition, to re-
main in the union if slavery is to con-
tinueT' Or similar sentiments with scores
of other leading abolitionists, and it would
be the quintescence Of patriotism. An
abolitionist may denounce any measure
calculated to restore the union with inn
punity. he rnay advocate q policy that,
if carried ont, would prevent the restora-
ton Of the tihion. and it would be all
right. But let a. democrat proclaim his
dSNOticH 10 the anu TIC
constitution as it is, and he is denounced
as copperhead and traitor. That is the
trouble with Henry Clay Dean. He wants
peace, and the union restored to its former
condition under the constitution as it is
Mr.. Dean, it thus appears, is peace
man"-believes the Union can be sooner
restored by negotiation than lighting 1t
is needless to say that the democratic par
ty as . body have never endorsed his
views; on the contrary, in congress and
out, and at all their great political conven'
tions and mass meetings, the democracy
have ever insisted on Sighting as necessa-
ry to end the rebellion. But the democ-
racy have also ever insisted that the right
to canvass tho Sets and tho policy. of the
gsvernment-heedom Of speech and the
press-of the person of the citizen from
illegal arrest &c, are sacri6ees which can
net promote the legitimate objects of the
war, and if they did, are too great to be
made even to suppress the rsbellion.-
The liberty OF the citizen gone, there is
very little difference whether we have
northern or southern despct' TO rule over
US In making the cause of men lik
Dean and Vallandingham' their cause
then it Is not To- b understood that the