The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-11-28
POLITICAL HONESTY.
Mondays Chicago journal quotes the 70

POLITICAL HONESTY.
Mondays Chicago journal quotes the fol-
lowing from the Times of the same city:
".This question Of voting by soldiers is
one of tine most serious which tho Demo-
cratic party has to encounter. 1t is .
question concerning which the highest,
most positive, ard most unyielding ground
must he taken 1t 'devolves, it seems to
US, upon the Democratic and other COM
sentative members Of Congress. to initiate
that action WHICH must be followed up
Upon which tie Journal comments in
this strain:
The copperhead Times has as much |
adherence OF our soldiers ballots as the !
rebels have Of their bullets, aud for a like
reason-for they are sure death to copper
headsm.
"Thc Democratic party hod better not
go too far in their opposition to the rights
Of soldiers to vote Thousands OF these
brave men will return home by and by.
If the, are not allowed the right to vote
now, because they have enlisted to tight
for their country, they will mark the
politicians who thus outrageously disfran-
chi.ed them, &c, dc.
There are some awful mean things do
in the world, but i: would be hard tn beat
the above The Times had simply aliud'
to the numerous Instances that have come
to light since the late elections, where
whole democratic regiments in the army
were not allowed TO vote. while every IA
uiii,y to vote was given the abolitionists;
and tho J:.... Laid .ao,- :. hi. proposition
that hereafter the democrats must insist
that. either democratic soldiers shall have
an equal chance with the abolition sol.
diers to vote in the army, or that the
whole business of voting in the army shall
be abolished. The justice Of the demand
is too palpable for argument. Our object
here, however is not to urge the point.
but simply : a curiosity to show to what
a very mean aud contemplate shift this
abolition editor Of the Journal could resort
to dodge the strong point taken by the
Times.
PIrCHiNG IN-We have often had occa-
sion to notice the propensity Of the Chica-
go Tribune to pitch in While running
over with abuse Of copperheads, and
everybody else that deny the immaculacy
Of the Pr sident, and that he is the Gov
ernmcn', the Tribune itself has yet allowed
no opportunity to pass Of pitching into
the President, Secretary Chase, or the
whoi. kit and posse of the administra-
ton, if it liked 1t has now turned its
guns upon Cen Halleck, whom it berates
in two or three leaders a day. We APP
pend a specimen brick. The pity is, if
these structures are just, that the reputa>
ton of the Tribune as . common scold is
SO notorious that il can have no influence
in the proper quarter to remedy the evil
complained Of
The KNOXVILLE DANGER.
Our lines of assault, exterior Of course,
are supposed to extend from Ficksburg TO
Chattanooga, from Chattanooga Knox
willie. ami from Knoxville, by a military
fiction 10 Western Virginia. and by the
way OF Washington to Fortress Monroe.
The object of the enemy is TO break
through He tried it at Gettysburg and
was defeated. lie tried it in Western
I Virginia and was beaten back. He tried
! it at Chickamauga and was checked HIS
| effort is now upon Knoxville; and if tho
half that We apprehed is realized, he will
succeed We tremble t. think what will
tanoosn th thus iaffnnsdd, iHu-T lie cvacua,-d
in haste, and Grant with inefficient trans
portation-nay, with almost no Transport
ia,on 1T all,-must make his way back,
by such methods as he can, 10 supporting
distance Of the Ohio Huntsville, Steven
son, Tuscumbia and Nashville on the one
side aud Cumberland Gap, on the other,
must fall into rebel hands: and lucky will
the army be, il, thus assaulted in Hank, 1t
can find safety in precipirate light Lucky
will it be- as Buells was before it, if IL J.
not forced to stand and be destroyed on
ground that the enemy may choose.
This is the situation, and the country
NAV a, we'll look it in the face The re-
suits Of "a whole year Of time, Of half n
dozen battles, Of an outlay of more than
two hundred millions of dollars, are PEN
=. dent on the success OF the enemys at
tempt. If Knoxville falls, all is lost in the
southwest and Stone river and Chicka-
mauga 90 for naught The lives that they
cost have been wasted.
We know no reason, outside Of the in
efficiency and incompe'ency of General
llalleck. why this array OF evils should
now confront the country and send a cold
chill down To the sol.s of every loyal man 5
boots And we known of no remedy save
that heroic one of sending Hall-ck, who is
responsible for the army movements, back
to the captaincy for which he is best fitted,
or to the Mohawk and the cahbages among
which he was raised The disaster now
threatening has been foreseeh for more
THAI a month 1t has been the constant
theme of the rebel papers and their loud
est boast There is not man in the land
who did not know of the movement int.n-
ded There is not, save or e at Washington,
a General in Chief, VITO would not have
maGe counter novemet to check it. II
Knoxville falls, and Burnside is DESTROYED,
let the hero of Corinth-the author of Or
der No 3-look out. Not even Presiden>
tial favor can save him.
TEMPEST IN TEAror-To judge by the
Springfield journal and the Chicago IIib
ans dispatches a furious insurrectio a
against the authority Of the government
has broken out in Greene and Scott coue-