The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-08-15
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W 2at tho COn1e0ef1tCS fray For
The Richmond Enquir.r, Mobile Register,
ard the leading secession journals gener-
ally, have been Unusually ranceraus of late
in their abuse of the Democracy of the
North, to the great glee of the abolition
iotrnais, into which these articles from the
secession papers are copied. There, saJ
they, pointing to these articles, "what
have you Democrats to say to that =
These are the men you propose to bring
back into the Union, to sit in Congress
with" &c, &c Notquite. The Democra-
cy have 40 tender feeling fer the rebel
leaders They are and for years have
been the enemies of the Union, just as
the leaders Of the radical abolition party
have been We would, if we could, ex-
c!ude all OF them from the Union restored.
The Democracy are for restoring the Union
Us it was and maintaining the Constitution
as i, Is. and jeff Davis day is no greater
enemy to these than are Wendell Phillips,
Thad. Stevens, Wade, Sumner, and all the
controlling spirits Of our radical abolition
admin stration and its policy" In all es-
sentlal points these men are in perfect &C.
cord with jeff Davis, and his strong arm
ofsupport. Their speeches, proclamations
and policy have kept the South united,
and enabled jeff DAVIS to call armies into
the field that have amazed the North
Now that the rebellion has met with
heavy reverscs and is respondent, jeff
Davis Is again looking 10 these for aid
lie issues addresses and proclamations
ostensibly to the people of the South, but
manitestly for radical consumption in the
North, telling our Phillipses and Stevenses
to stick to their determination programme.
"Tell your people" says he, "that we are
determined to fight to the death Of our
last man, and will never again return to
the Union-neverr And our radicals
take it up and say, There, said we not so
These people must be exterminated before
the Union can be restored Accordingly
jeff Davis and his organs are wondrous
kind and honeyed in their language to-
wards the radicals "Give u.s." says the
Richmond Enquirer in one of its diatribes
against the Northern Democracy, give us
men like Charles Sumner and Thaddeus
Stevens; they curse the old Union, and
desplse it, and SO do we" But as for the
Democracy says the Mobile AduTtissr,
Should a strong Union party spring up
in Ohio, the third State in the North in
political Importance, it might find SOME
faint response, and give trouble. If VAL
landigham should, by accident, Or other
cause, become Governor of Ohio, we hope
Lincoln will keep his nerves to the proper
tension, and not allow him TO enter the
confines Of the State. His administrator
would do more to restore the old Union
than any other power could do, and, there
fore, we pray that ne may be defeated
Yes, that is what the secesslonists pray
for-that the democracy may everywhere
be defeated ard the radicals triumphant.
Let the PEOPLE Of Tennessee Mississippi,
Louisiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, &c !,
once know that the Democracy are firmly
in power, and that they can, if they will
| be restored in month to their old posi-
ton and rights in the Union, and what
would become of Davis, Toombs, Benja-
min, &c? Their reign would be at an eud
in q month, and the whole confederate
structure would dissolve into thin air 1t
is to the PEOPLE not the corrupt political
and military leaders of the South that the
Democracy look for the initiation of the
first effective steps for ending this wal
aud restoring the Union. And our OWE
Republican generals-Banks, Shapley
down to John 4. Logan assure us the PEG
pie Of the South are ripe for the movement
1t is nothing but the moral supper
given each other by radical leaders of til,
North and rebel leaders of the South-a
cordial and effective on both sides as if !;
was sworn brotherbo od and league be
tween them,-that prevents Termination
of the war, expulsion Of the rebel leader
from power and their suspension between
: heaven and earth, and happy restoration
of the Union IN ninety days