The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-06-06
The Attempt to Suppress the chicago
Times.


run the length of bis tether in the illegal
arrests trial, aad transportation of VAL
landingham. One would have imagined.
the popular indignation excited BY that
outrage was enough to inspire caution as
| to further ventures IN that direction. IL
seems, however, Gen. L as in his venture
at Frederick sburg aclIed to do netting
SO much more desperate that its very
failure should excite sort of a 1:niration
for the daring foolharlness ofthe conbel-
tion. Such evidently was his project TO
suppress the publication of the Chicago
| Times. and, like his failure at Fredericks-
burg, SO in this affair his discontinue has
been as complete and signal, if not as dis
astrous. .a.-.F
The order to suppress the journal in
question was CONGO cted at Cincinnati on
Tuesday, the publishers Of the Times mott
fed of it by telegraph on Tuesday eve
ming. and the text of it published in the
Cincinnati papers on Wednesday morning.
Gen. Ammen was also notified of the or
der on Tuesday evening, and directed to
take possession Of the Tnes Office immr
diately if it was not implicitly obeyed.
The Times men, however. paid no attention
to 1t, but proceeded to"eet out" the pa
pers as usual. Learning this at Camp
Douglas. the commander, Capt Putnam,
was directed to enforce the order zvia
armis, and accordingly, at late hour on
Tuesday night, proceeded with company
of soldiers and took forcible possession of
| the Office The matter was noised abroad
| and soon collected an excited crowd in
front Of the establishment, and there
might have been "scene" Immediately
bad not the publishers stated that they
had already made an application to Judge
Drummond for an injunction to restrain
the military in their proceedings. The
application was laid before Judge Drum
mond, who opened court to near it at 10
clock at night; and withou. stopping 10
hear the question at length, issued a tenn
porary rescrIpt to the military to hold up
until the legal question involved could be
fully determined, Judge D Intima,ins
his determination, at the same time, to
enforce the LAW in the case, whatever
that might be- The military, however
D id no atten ton to JEdss D. S writ. but
h Id possession Of the of CO. and prevent
e a paper being issued on Wednesday
morning. 1t having been arranged before
Judge D., the night before, that judge
Davis, of the L. S. Supreme Court, should
be sent for to sit with him in the. hearing
of the case, the application for the writ OF
Injunction was not heard on "Wednesday
but put over until the arrival Of Judge D.
on Thursday.
Meantime, as may be imagined, the
excitement in Chicago began to run high
er. All day on Wednesday, an immense
/ excited crowd blocked the street in front
| Of the Times office, and was ripe for an
! outbreak at any time, had an object of
| attack presented itself This lasted until
! semLled in the Court House square, which
was addressed in temperate but firm
/ language by Mr w Fuller, Gen. Singleton,
J Moses 81. Strong En- Gov McComas aud
Others. and "A series Of resolutions adopted
protesting against the obnoxious military
order 4 strong police force surrounded
the meeting so that it adjourned without
disoi der, but break madefor the Tribune
office. which it was Gosne, necessary to
guard with strong barricades and coup
lie ofregimeuts OF soldiers.
Another meeting, however, OF differ
ent sort, took place on the adjournment
of the one Just named. This was held in
secret, ard Was participated in by Mayor
Sherman, Judge Van Higgins, Hon. Ly.
man Trambuli, !. \. Arnold, VIM B. og'
den, &c. This meeting, consisting main-
~ of leading republicans, acknowledged
and appr eciated the folly and rechie's
ness of Gen. Burnsde's order, and united
il drawing up memorial to the Presi
dent asking HIM TO rescnd it. com
mittee of substantial men vas appointed
to circulate the memorial through the
city for signatures, and III few hours
next day it had been signed by many thou
,nds. a...
This petition had the desired fleet. lis
contents and the number and character OF
the sgners had scarcely been telesraphed
t, Washington. before the President is.
SIZED an order annulling the offensive or.
der OF Gen Burnside. The despatch an
nouncing the fact arriqed ate vening-the
&c bat nd daft nIc
in that it fails also to relieve" Gen. Burn
side from his command,-an order which
would be hailed with shouts of Joy by all
truly loyal men in his now wantonly, I'M
necessc;uly and dangerously excited de-
partment.
On the principle of "ali is well that ends
WELL we have 10 disposition 10 add much
by way Of comment on the proceedings
thus imperfec,ly detailed If, as seems
to be the case, they have tended n, length
somewhat to enligh,en the powers at
Washington rs to llie temper ofthe people
of the west in regard to the system OF
wanton outrage on their liberties inaugu
rated by Gen Burnside, and to convince
them Of the danger Of persistence in the
business. immense good may result from
this raid on tha Chicago Tires. The
scene for the last few days at Chica go was
alone sufficient we hope. to demonstrate
the DANCES of furthey experiment in that
direction bat if the authorities at Wash
ington want more, we assure them that
not only Chicago, bat the whole state of
Illinois, was on a volcano. Hundreds OF
people came to Ottawa from the country
on Thursday, led hlther solely to hear
about the suppression of the Times. and