The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-09-10
Damnins Fact.

coin that they would peril the existence of
the Union, and welcome an overwhelming and
crushing defeat of our brave armies, in order |
to accomplish it.
We ask every American citizen if such |
party is worthy of moments support p
Chicago Journal.
1t is simply = malicious falsehood that the
"copperheap'' meaning Demccratic] party Of
the north universally" or half dozen OF
them "confess that decisive military victory
within two months would insure the cleo
ton of Lincoln" and that therefore they
would "welcome an overwhelming and crush
ing defeat" &C. That lie is nailed by the
simple telegraph announcement on Wednes-
day, as follows:
Bv direction of Gov. Seymour flags were
displayed from all the public buildings, and
one hundred guns were fired at noon to-day,
in honor of the capture of Atlanta by Gen.
Sherman's forces and the victories of Admir-
al Farragut in the harbor of Mobile.
Gov. Seymour is too much 'copperhead'
entirely, as well as too honest 81 man and too
little the hypccrise, to get upall thi, mock re-
joicing if he had such dread of federal vic
tories.
No. sir The democrats are, and by all
means ought to be, hundred times more
sincere and earnest in their rejoicing over
federal victories than the shoddyics and ten
| thousand abolition army vampires possibly
can be. Firstly. the democrats have none
! of those enormous pickings arising from COM
hscations, cotton steaiings, house plunderings,
sfecial missions, contracts and army jobs
as infinite in number as they aye oozv in tat
| ness. liz which the followers Of Lincoln are
gorgcI. Seconds, the Democrats have no
love for JEFF, Davis and his rebel crew. an
never had. and have ALWAYS reioiccd t. see
them soundly ti,ras',ed. Thirdly, the DeIno-
Gratis love the soldiers; they are our fathers,
sons brothers and friends we are shocked
to see them led in thousands by Lincoln and
his incompetent butchers like sheep to the
slaughter, but rejoice with a JOY unspeakable,
snd share as part Of our own pride, when their
heroism achieves those mighty victories
over their enemies. For reasons like
these. Therefore. based on the absence
I ID - iiietbtos dticAf
OF the war: on true and genuine love
of the Union cause and hatred of the rebel
! lion and on love for our soldiers and a hor.
ror of their fearssi and often 50 wi,lc's.y use
! less slaughter. % democrats sa"":-Is and
ALWAYS rejoice in victories bv tie federal ar
mics.
But, to decsni to considerations of lower
! grade. as means of securing political victo
ries over the shoddyitcs at the polls, the dem
ocrats should and do rejoice III. and earnestly
! long for. great and decisive victories by our
armies over the rebels. Could Hoods army
be Immediately scattered ard demolished
Richmond taken. Charleston occupied. and
| Mobile and Savannah taken and a Butler and
/ Hunter placed there 10 plumber their citizens
and rule them with a rod OF iron. what then
! Would the war be al an end? II ought TO lr.
| The whole country would say. now srrelv.
when we have beaten the rebels at evcry
/ point and taken their last stronghold. the
land should have peace-lav, n1;st have
peace. But would there be peace? Tennes-
See has bcoa conquered in this way-every
I foot, from Memphis TO North Carolina Is in
federal hands. Bat is there peace there ?
There is no rebel military station-no TcdcZvoUs
of rebel soldiers, organized band except
wandering marauders within 100 miles OF
! Memphis, or Nashville Or Knoxville. Those
cities are and have been for year wholly un-
der Union cotrol and protection. Yet dare
! Union man from the north venture today ten
miles ont Of Memphis, Nashville, or Knox
Vile without military escort? Is this peace
| Yet such is exactly the peace the federal
victories we have indicated would give US
throughout the whole South under the Lin
coin programme.
Now is that what the people want or will
be satisfied with? Military Governors, like
those in Tennessee and Arkansas, placed
over North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, &c,
their authority maintained by 900 bavo-
meta in the principal cities Of the South, while
! outside tLeir military lines it would he daa-h
for Union man to show himself? And this
condition Of affairs TO continue on indefinite
ly-ten, twenty, fifty years or forever, as in
Poland, Ireland. and hungary
When the people see clearly that such is
the only peace attanable under the Lincoln
programme peace that is but another name
for perpetual war, and that of the most ex-
hausting and oppressive sort, then of course
there will such cry 90 up for change of
policy will end the dynasty of Lincoln alb
olitionsm in a whirlwind of public indigna-
ton and scorn.
The peace the people of this nation want is
one that shall give them back the Constitu-
| ton and the Union, and shall restore friendly
and cordial relations with the people of the
| South, so that this land shall again in senti-
ment and feeling be one. Such i, peace can
| be based only on the free assent of the peo-
! pie both Of the North and the South. 1t
must be attained by negotiation-by compro-
mise; by a cessation Of hostilities, conven-
thin of the states, and agreements and con-
cessions on both sides. Errors m ust be cor
rected, just causes of complaint removed,
grievances redressed, and the foundation for
future Union laid on the firm rock of mutual
interesr and safety.
| No amount of federal victories, every man
with thimbefu! of brains must see, under
the Lincoln plan Of subjugation, confscation,
| and determination, can ever give us such
a peace. But thousands are SO blinded and
infatuated that they CANNOT and will not see
this until, by the actual dispersion of the ar
mics Of the South, the truth is forced upon
them. 1t is therefore, as means of opening
the eyes of the people to this truth-the truth
that federal victories under Lincoln instead
of fastening, in reality only put off the day