, 1863-01-03
The Board Of Trades Condemnation
OF the Chicago Times.

The Board Of Trade on Wednesday passed
resolutions which declared the Chicago Times
dls3oyal and traitorous sheet, unworthy Of
confidence or support, and ordered that hence
forthb the paper and Its reporter should
be excluded from the rooms Of the Board.
mortment, made after large portion Of the
memocrs hnd retired. This assertion is entirely
false. While from 200 to 800 members we're
present the President called the Board to order
and requested attention to the resolutions
TINT would then be offered, The reader Of the
the plainest terms that It was not the inten-
tion or desire of any one to press them
through without full and dellberatc consider
alton and discussion. Pending the motion
for their adoption no opposition was made,
and they we're carried with hurrah almost
unanimously. When the negative WIS put,
only fyc or six yoices, some Of them quite
votes we're given with considerable emphasis,
and CAME from gentlemen who not long since
lived III the Border States, and their language
and manner, on this occasion rs On all others,
proved that ut this time they should live a
good ways south OF Mason and nixnn's line.
Aside, however, from the half dozen that voted
against The passage Of the resolutions, there
opposition, not manly enough to vote
or to mike any direct head against
them. 1t was composed in part Of men Of
euell morbid "conEcryativc" nature that
they look upon q movement having for its OBJ
ject the perpetuity Of free institutions as an
action BY the Board as the public condemna-
tion of paper that breaches and practices
TREASON, Is in their view unconstitutional
under the charter Of the Board. What Won
derfu1 and patriotic discovery! That they
hold such narrow views is not remarkable
Ia h hat fha
from which they re Gently emigratcd hunlbly
looks to the mother country Tor an lntcrpre
tation IL what Is constitutional and what is
not. These gentlemen seek the protection Of
our free government and laws to pile up their
Almighty dollars and at the same time hug to
to foreign monarchy. They are proud Of
their fcalty to government which, from the
close Of our last foreign war to the breaking
out Of our present internal difficulties, has
been liberal In its protestations OF friendship
and brotherly lore, but which Is now throw
ing Oft its hypocritical curb, and besides heap
ing upon the North ali sorts of lying abuse,
is letting loose upon our commerce such free
bopters rs the Alabama. But saying more On
this point, would be like wasting ammunitioz
on very small game.
The declaration made By the Times that the
last few months by a hnatlca1 spirit, leading
to the adoption Of measures that did not
come within its province, thereby usurping
powers that belonged elsewhere, is without
the least foundation. 1t has ever been the
aim of the Board, both as a body and fudivid-
nally, to entirely ignore action upon any sub.
| ject the discussion Of which might bring up
political questions or involve party feeling.
| At the same time it does not consider that dis,
| loyalty to the Government ia question that
| admits Of any debate, and whenever treason
openly raises It's head to promulgate its IN
| famous doctrines, whether 1t be through the
Tines, tbs TR1nvNE, Or any other sheet, such
paper will be kicked from the files Of the
| Board, and It's reporter excluded from the
| rooms. The :, 600 men now in the field enlisted
under the auspices Of the Board, together with
| over sec, 600 raised by the Board and now be.
ing paid out to the families Of theserolun,
teers fully attests the patriotism Of the men
| who compose the Board Of Trade Of Chicago.
| Neither can the Times man, who has most
wantonly traduced the characters of nearly
every clergyman in the city, and who now,
With Wow to raise civil war at the North, I:
one connected with the administration Of The
goyernment-hope to paliiate the, rig
our Of the Boards condemnation b
| assuming to {givc the antecedents a
nameless members Of the Board whom h
claims engineered the action that with suct
daring effect brands him traitor. He has st
long violated and trampled under foot all tht
common decencies Of life that the use Of sucl
| weapons In his hands is harmless
| Not content with the almost unanlmou.
rasEage Of the resolutions Oh Wednesday, os
tracising the Timex, The friends Of this traito
sheet rallied on Change to-day, anxious for .
reconsideration Of the vote Of condemnation
as it had been claimed that the proceeding
at the meeting were Of c1andestine character
no objection was made to taking further &C
tion to-day 1t was one Of the largest meet
ing6 which ever took place on 'Change~fully 50
taken, fully nfne-tenths Of all present vote,
with great JUNCTION In favor Of confirming th
proceedings Of Wednesday. This ends th
matter: 50 far as the Chicago Board Of Trad
has It u It's power, 1t has consigned the Chi
cago Time to the intamy it merits.
4 MEMBER.
TRAE.-The next lecture before the Youn!