The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-01-31

the ELECTROMAGNETIC satisfy any feaS""ao'S
man havin. l"yat heart IN his bosom
,s,at the effect, it not the intention. OF the |
..cn,..,iaxs ard i.owliays OF these politicians
is to end the war by National defeat aud
f-s-Al success.
All good men are in Favor of peace. but
none but reckless ar wicked men desire a
peace that is synonymous with National
di>i,oaor. disaster and endless woes III the
furure.- tatcago journal
Six caonths ago, while the administra-
sioa was s,outly bearing up against the
yaacai pressure and protested to De
~aging war solely to MAINTAIN the consul
tuition and restore the Union, the Chicago
Journal laid claims 20 conservatism, and
protested to lend its aid to stitfen the
back of the President. When Father
Abraham gave way, however, the line
between conservatives and radicals became
SO sharply drawn, that the journal was
radicalism, and it took the latter chute
So now, although less savage and raving
in its language than the Tritunss, the Jour
nal is exactly with them in principle. and
d. ~ dOoiIkioh ShSSS 10 ho" oh'y
more dangerous than the other papers
named because more decent
The j. urndi proves an apt convert and
/! has already BY rote the standing abolition
| Indictment against the conservative de-
mocracy. lis the preservation of slavery
III the rebel states of more importance
than the preservation of the Republic 2
! Thus the Journai-thus all the radical
that simply to state it thus is a blistering
f;,lsehood. The question is not, shall
slavery o: the Union be saved? Abe Lin
coin stated it more honestly when he said,
The question is, Can the Union be more
easily saved with or without slavery p
Honestly states the question is simply,
Shall the Union be saved or Slavery be
DESTROYED? 1t is possible. tho Union may
| he saved with or without slavery. So it is
possible slavery may be destroyed and the
| Union saved. Blu, the line Of denarcation
between radical aboiitionism and con-
servative democracy lies on this, that
| while the latter make the restoration Of
the Union the only legitimate object Of
the war, holding the fate of slavery as in
| comparison a matter Of indifference. the
| former make the de<tru,ion OF slavery the
grand object. holding the fate of the Cnior,
in comparison thing Indifferent
When this war broke out, half the peo-
! PIE of Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee We're Uuion men !;
and i'll Arkansas and Alabama there was a
. rong Union party. The argument Of the
| Union men In those states vas, that the
Abe Lincoln government was not mort
gagged 10 radical abolitionism-meditate
no interference with their constitutional
rights, would not rob them OF their slaves,
and that secession was therefore cause:ess
Does any one doubt, if a, this time Butler
end Farrigut had appeared AT New Orleans.
and taken possession of Il g city and state,
had strictly and sacrrdly respected all tie
: shts in slave we'll as other property Il
tie people; had thrown the aegis of the
Constitution over them and protected them
ana, which Oh Il fair count, han beat seces
sIouism 1T the polls. would have been
FILTERED away? But the s-c-ssiouists told
t .eD their confidence III the Lincoln adj
nInislrateon was misplaced. let them vail
and they would see. And they did see.
Tie first abolition congress, land nay i;
be the las; y with which God ever afflicted
tins nation, met in July, le6l. One OF
their iirst acts WAS 10 pass cOnfscatIoI
Jaw, AIMED solely at the negro. But II
MAS less in what that first brief session oil
congress did than in what i; said ,,at it.
true minus became APPARENT. The speech
IS of all the leaders bI-;itiied out nOtbinI
but wrath and de>I.uction-not against ,he
s-cessioni>ts only OF the south, bat against
all her people, particularly shareholders.
In the nature OF things, said Thah.
Stevens, all shareholders are traitors, and
the majority appiauded and showered
honOrs on the SPEAKER. Then came the
Fremont proclamation, and then the Hun
ter proclamation, Pnelps, DC. IL is true
i<tttoiti,
I'll them; but in SUCH u way lis TO make IL
more xp,areIt To the southern people that
the grand Climax Hunter proclamation
Toy the President himself was In reserve !;
and 1t CAME Thus the prophecy of the
se,'e>>ionsts to the Union men was fulfill
ed and they sac To be a Union man at
the South bcncetoith Was an absurlity
As Secessiouists, they might save their
proper;y-to be u Uuouists. was to sur
Fender it withouta struggle, ANONYMOUSLY
Thus step by step the great Union party
OF the South was fritterod away until tn c
proclamation climax, when they became
United as one man. Bat not sati, fed with
destroying ali Union sentiment in the
south, and uniting the people against Us,
this abolition madness has gone farther
IL has also exasperated that united people
t. the highest pitch Of frenzy by announc
lag the object OF the war to be, not only
to take from them their negroes and es-
tates, but to eXteim,nate the white race
and give their lands To the negroes and
yankees This is not only by logical in
ference the sum Of the abolition policy
but it is openly proclaimed So by Gov Yates
in his message, and by dozens OF Congress
s;ruai speeches. L"vejoy, but week ago,
in the L. $. House of representatives, els
dorsing speech Of rhad Stevens, said, 81
believe with him (SteveDs) that it is ne.
crss;,ry 10 ertirpate III. people Of Mose states,
and repeople them with loyal popula.
| ton
/ We hnrl back the SANDER that the