The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-06-06
Good AAyles to the Administration

EAru win contempt tHe pieaolnSS ana re-
monstrances of its political opponents. it
ought at least to respect the advice Gifts
friends. Thus far, we know of but one
republican paper Of characteristic New
York '7imes)-that has pretended to JUS
.tify or defend the action of Gen. Burnside,
and the administration through him, in
the arrest and trial Of Vallandingham, or
in. the general measures Of repression
adopted by the commander Of the. Depart
ment OF Ohio. On the other hand, the
Republicans press in large @numbers,~ like
the democratic press unanimously, has
denied the. legality of those proceedings,
aud protested against them. The New
York Eesnirg Post especially, a paper the
orthodox character of whose republican,
ism no one will question, not only earn
esily protests against these violent and IL
legal proceedings, but gives the admins.
tration a column Of advice SO tiinly, sound,
and happily conceived, that we cannot
forbear laying a portion of it before our
readers. giving it our full endorsement
1t is not Val!andingham,' Dean. or the
"copperheads' generally of the north but
jeff DAVIS, Lee, Beauregard. and the reb
els in arms at the south that the admins
tration should bend all it's weights to- ar,
rest. and it is not by military general or
ders," or 'proclamatons, but by concen-
tration, energetic action, and guns, bayo-
= I,,,f .~x. 81 I'LL, II
be suppressed. Gain victories by these.
and the administration can rest easy
about the ''copperheads This is the ad
vice of the Post: would the administration
had sense enough to heed it. Fl
Says the Evening Post:
The best, If not the only. way Of put
ting down the coppe,heads Is to defeat,
capture. scatter and destroy the rebel ar.
mics. If the government will assume that
to'be its principal duty just nov, and viii
set to work doing it with directness, ener-
gy and unfinchins determination, it will
have no further trouble with enemies at
home. Let it concentrate It's entire Vi gor
upon the military problem which has the
capture of Lees army for its solution, and
twill not Only have enough to DO. but Of
the right sort. The whole loyal commu
nifty will applaud and sustain its efforts.
and when they shall have proved Sue
cessfuI, everybody viii be loyal, and NIL
croscope of the hig chest magnfying power
will fail to discover an opponent outside
of the insane asylums north of Mason and
Dixon lines.
This object is Indeed so necessary in It.
self and SO likely to be universally saluta-
~. that no means should be spared TO ac
complish it, nor any side issues be per-
united TO distract the attention OF the Ad
mini-tration for n single moment. ]. is
the end to which It should bend all It's en-
ergies and devote al! the genius and tai
ent it can command. Our armies are
large enough; our soldiers are veteraps;
II needs now only a little more sagaciou,
and energetic eenesalship; and If the com
manders who have now the management
OF the ". IN their hands are OF able 10
beat the enemy, let them be removed and
others put in their places.
If the gnveruHeIt Will attend closely
TO the war. and If military gentlemen Will
20 aud fight the enemy, We shall hear less
of arrests and other abuses at home. Or,
If il be necessary that arrests should be
made, let US begin, as a writer IN one OF
the morning papers the other day advised
by arrestng JEFF Davis and his Cabinet
condemning Lee and Bragg to Fort La
| fayttt, and han ainy Toombs, Wise, Floyd
| and others, without benefit of the writ Of
| HnJsaS corpus or even of the clergy. These
| are arrests which may be made in the
most arbitrary manner and nobody viii
! comnia:n: no court will insist upon re
viewing the proceedings; and meeting
| could scarcely be mustered at the Five
| Points TO listen TO speeches in vitupera
| ton of the authors.
Gen Grant in his recent vigorous
| movements upon the enemys works has
| done more to stop the mouths OF gam
sa, ers than thousand arrests aud ten
! thousand prisoners teeminG with state
captIves. The btterest opponent of the
government is compelled either 10 fling
up his cap in the presence Of such facts
or 10 remain in stupid and obstinate 81
lence. Could the other officers OF the ar
my be made to initiate the activity Of Gen.
Graut and the nalf dozen little armies,
that we have scattered about the coast do
ing nothing, be brought together; could
on Lee from the rear su ported, however,,
by strong reverse; could Burnside, IN
stead Of interfering with political assem-
blages march with thirty or forty thou
sand men throgh Cumberland Gap into
East Tennessee, to Interrupt the cummu
nicaIions of both Lee and Bragg, and
menace both their armies. there would
never be another copperhead heard Of
| The ma orty of them would become sud
| denly loyol, and the others. in the bitter
ness Of their resentment, sting themselves
10 death.
No duty Of the government then, We
repeat, is so imperative and momenteus
as that OF overwhelming and crushing the
| rebel armies To capture Richmond, or
| any other place in the So,h, will not put
an ehd to the rebellion to Try political
| offenders by milirary courts will not put
down the rebellion to arrest women for
! tapping their crinolines At the star span
! gled banner will not put down the rebrll
| ion butte so mass our armies and so plan
our summer campaign as to defeat and
| rout and destroy the rebel armies-that
will pu; an end not only 20 the rebellion,
but TO all the mischieveous and siliv man.
| ifestations of sympathy with it which ap-
pear in the free states. 1t is of no use to
/ IlGth away Idii VI tuc taii tut
i copperh-ad serpent; but crush his head,
and then YOU will be rid Of tho creature
without further trouble.
| How to Unite the North-John Van Buren,.
John Van Buren, has been counted of
late III the black sheep fold, as semi
aboli,Ionist, affecting for some reason, to
support the Proclamation emancipation
war policy of the President. A few
months ago he talked very differently, and
certainly with vastly more sound reason
and good sense. Following is an extract