The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-11-07
The Election ON Tues day.

The returns from the different countie'
OF this state come in SO slowly, that it is
yet Difficult to say to which side the popu,
lar majority leans 1t will generally be
found, We apprshsnd, that the Resubli>
cans, by their Dark Lantern League ma
chinery, got out full vote, while the de-
mocrats were Indifferent, SO that on a foot
up OF the majorities gwen in all the coun-
ties Of the State, we should not be sur
prised to see an apparent preponerance in IA
vor of the abolitlonists We scout :he
idea. however, as preposterous, that His
pois IS really to-day an abolition State.
In New York, the republicans, Cor, as we
should now more properly call them, abo-
litionis:s, for they are no mere nor less, )bave
elected their state ticket by some 10000
majority, Oh a poll Of about two-thI:ds of
the vote Of the State.
Wisconsin has gone Tor the aboiiti:ien-
lists By about 5000 majority.
Massachusetts. is, as usual, all over aboli
ton. The majority is figured at about
$1,000.
Missouri appears 10 be close contest
/, between the conservatives and radicals,
with the chances in favor of the latter
! Ia Maryland the radical aboltionists
have succeeded, the democrats and con-
sarvatives refusing to vote under the viI-
| famous order of Gen Schenck.
The democrats have carried New Jersey
By about loco majority.
There is no doubt the general result Of
tie October and November elections is
oppursnRy a strong endorsement of the
present war policy of the administration.
| As such Mr. Lincoln will, as he has right,
| to construe it. That policy means no con
| Citation, no terms, no mercy to the rebel
| ious states, but bloody, relentless war IN
til the whole southern people are destroyed,
property coufscated, and all their slaves
! liberated.
! We have repeatedly expressed our be-
T, lief that a conquest Of the South in this
sense is nc. only an impossib;iity, but were
/ it i'm possible, would be hideous wrong. for
!
it involves not only the political ard pc
T cun.ry destruction of the rebels aud
traitors liz fact. but Of thousands on thou
sands of peen in all the southern states
who have nescr in heart or deed been
: traitors, and many Of whom have made
such sacrifices as no man in the north has
been called upon to make, to their devo-
ton TO the Union. We have the authori-
ty Of one of these PATRIOTS for saying,
Were the aboltionists of the north over.
thrown, and the choice presented in good
faith to the Southern people Of returning
to the old Union with their rights and
privileges under the constitution unem
paired, the war would be ended by the
southern people in GO days This, is and
has been our candid belief This is exact
ly what the Crittenden programme Of the
war was based up, and to which we still
cling as the only practicAbe-the only pos
slble solution of our present difficulty.
| But the people have said otherwise
They have commanded that the war for sui
| rlS3tf0n anu AnululHbt1Ou ouni ~ vi y
year longer; and the President and cabi
net are usthing 10th, and so tho war viii
60 on At the end Of another year, with
another sI5O0.OOe, 600 debt added tosour
present S25Oe, eco 900, We shall be just as
near having crushed Ehe-svsth Is We are
at present. We may have taken Charles
ton, and Mobile, and icignena, bat We
shall not have subdued the bate aaGwra4A
and thirst for revenge which instead OF
becoming weakened, becomes more intense
by every reverse, in the Southern heart
These can never be overcome with arms
but will linger from generation to genera
ticn, so that peace with a people thus con
euered, can ONLY be attained by annihila-
ton; andas no whole people in the world
history ever yet has been annihilsted, Sc
we say peace on the abolition programme
will never come Two or three years more
of war on such a basis will exhaust us, and
then we shall have one Of two alternative,
left: a perpetual guerrilla strife, with ar
occasional military tyranny like Mexico
:. or an, ignominious peace with the South OF
the has;- Of dissolution Of the Unior.