The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-12-24
Light in Dark Place.

There is hope of the Chicago Tribune.
The thing is not wholly purblind. The edl-
tor has madea discovery. He has been look
ing over the organization oc the senate COM
nittees for tie last few years of republican
rule, and . suspicion dawns upon him that
New Ene'alG ias exhibited in ,her constitu-
ton a selfish aud grasping disposition. Thus,
Gil looking oycr thee committees, he says he
discovers
The fact that nearly 81 The important
ones, and with a single exception, oil those
, which have the handling Of large sums OF
money, are mouopclizcd Ly that patriotic
corner Of the UE;on," tNew Engiand.l
Again
"Dur;ng the last session OF Congress land
for 4 long time before,) every Senator from
New ENGLAND WIS the chairman Of a COM
.ni.:ee, except Mr. Morrill,, Of Maine. This
/ is earring . Joke rather fur. Not only is
there ~ numerical advantage seized by that
portion Of TIE Senate in the allotment Of hon
ors. but there is q far greater advantage in
point Of power and influence, which may be
estimated by the fact that nine-tenths Of the
time OF each session IS devoted to business
prepared and brought forward b. the commit
tees II the New England column.
The editor also thinks he sees this selisl-
ness sticking out in the controversy which
has row ragged in congrcss some three years,
whether the :-sn nay gard congress has voted
to establish. shall lie located at New London,
Connecticut, or Oh League Island, near Phila-
delphia. Tie latter It finds is for a hundred
good reasons, altogether the preferable loca-
ton, but has every year been defeated, and
the country has been subjected to loss Of
many millions, solely through New England
selishness. Says the Tribune:
The plan 20 Put all the Atlantic navy yards,
except the uncomfortable one located at
Philadelphia, east Of tie Hudson river, is
akin to the grasp:ng spirit Itch las mono
polized the public business in the construct
! ion of lie Senate committees It's not relish-
cd in these parts, peopled though we are il
great measure by descendants OF New Eng
land And while the proposition TO crowd all
the good things into that corner Of the Union
. Is not relishej tie cbstinacy which stands il
the way Of T. work admitted to be necessary,
| and Which refuses to allow it 70 90 on unless
local interest are first satisfied, is still less ad-
Inired.
! This IS decidedly refreshing; and taken in
! connection with the . holy zeal the T'iJu''e
has recently manifested against the gang Of
loafers and drunkards it go ardently support
ed for office before the election, it becomes
actually exhleratng. Why, before the cleo
ton, we remember nothingwas so outrageous
/ in TIE eyes Of the republicans as to hint that
profanity, se.fshness, CT tanaticis.n had an
abiding place in New England and as to
! drunkenness being an objection to a man for
Office, such charges were quoted as evidence
Of bigotry and spite. All We'd with each
/ othc--peacon Bross and the Tribune attheir
heaI-:a supporting dozen ofmcn notorious
as whiskcy blOats, and the imPersOnat;on OF
| profanity and vu'garity. Even a large body
of most loyal preachers, who met at Spring
field last summer, 50 dotted on the patriotic
'whiskey bloat' Gov. Yates, that they got
him TO administer to them an oath which,
though eX.rajudicial, they regarded Us az
obligation Aiche, and LOyia than any the
! had imposed upon themselves in assuming
! their clerical robes.
/ We hope all these signs Of penitence ars
sincere; lut we confess re have seen &
much hunbug and Hypocrisy about these
political hacks and hucksters, that We are in
clined to the belief that their present peni
tentiaI clcaL Is only assumed to conceal sons
new piece c! devi!t-y.