The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-03-05
WERE THEY GIIILTYt

the laHcy5i hhet-s ana S!idr!lS Oh tn'
South As the only plot:ers or treason AIT
dlsunion. before the Charleston conyer
ton, and the aboiitionlsts are in the habi
ofJustiiyIng their extreme measures asains
the South BY saying they brought theii
caiamities upon themselves. &c. Would
it not justify equal Indignation against
parties a; the north, if i, were proven thai
while tAe ianceys, &c, were plotting
treason at the South, there was an equal
ly influential viii organized band OF pc.
litical leaders at the north plotting the
saTe thing, and fully a. determined tc
dissolve .hi. Union, and pluase tae coun-
try into civil war?
This proof ws have in T. biography re-
! Gently published 0: Tnao lore Farker, the
! famous Massachusetts, aboli,ionIs. This
! man not only Lo!diy avowed that sil his
labors had ben ben, 10 bring abou. di.
solution c: Tie Union and civi! war, but
hi, bia:rspher shows tia: he was ia cor
respondence and full cooperation win
: Chase, Summer, Wilson, Chandler, &c, in
/ :.is treasonabie plotting.
/ We copy few paragraphs from a length :
review OF this biography 0: PArke: ia the
= Y Wsris:
! No argument is needed now to convince
! the world Of what NJ Parker aimed to
LIipg about; and thi, book Is full OF proc!
tbst lie clearly and exp!.c te.y set before
his political a SOciai-s ana gents Tamely.
M0ssrs Seward, Chase, Sunl.er, Hale and
/ Wilson. his own aims and the necessary
tea l-hcy OF tn-lt comm IN eNe ruoas II
/ people in general have heretofore suppose
! l;ai this man was : Blind zeA!ol. who did
40, see dissolution and civil war in the
future. Ei- j.0ssaUher has aoundantiy IA
deceive. :h5El. THUS wiring IN lsjj 10
= :5rci.I c>s.cs1 s1oulent, !.e says,
f I..e pa..-.cs. condition oF ;i.c country i
iii E.D. GAD Bat II looks hopsf4! Tor
the future ! ;hiaa this = l4- last PIE
ien,ia. election Ui,.cr ta- Constitution
. ct do not desire tn" dissolution Uat!
We have freed four millions, though J
{ should vastly prefer - d,,o.ution 70 the
present state oi things. Bat flo not be-
l.eye thai SrF permanent Ca.sH - posi-
J ble between tas North ami the South. In
ideas. aia.s aad hac.ts OF life there is IN Jre
unity between the Neapoiit.as and the
s.iss abaui the iisr1cqias,affer See ih2a
: between the North a.i the South. Now.
4 8 li-<Da'!c -.vys ysrnm-ut, Ike hu-tr.A. c.n
/ unite nations a. unlike As tGa iQn,sr.aus
and NeGstiaEs into one aGlOcracY, tog ln.l
I itary violence i the stlfi iron hoop which
holds these diIter.ntstav.s ICgst..rs. Sut
: in repubil: union Elast ue mora, OF
principle, or economical. OF ia;erst at an '
rate iniernal aau automatic. None o.
these conditions seem likely 10 exist lass
Besides lust now there Is a A-Tce hostility
betweea the South and the NorLh-the
South hates the North worse than the
LombarGs hate li4Hnldtl Lsj,Sch.-worss
than the French hated . iH.5a p-rF.e in
ISJU-Islj. The qucstioa j. row plainly
, pat IN the presidential election. viii you
have slavery spread over all iha Land, OF
will you give freedom m opportunity
There is no ether question before Us, and
,ui. comes IN its naked farm Buchanan
and Fillmore are tho two candidates d
tho salve- power fremont is the one can
d.d.te on the other side. The choice lie
se,wsen Buchanan and Fremoat Eiil'
morss chance seem. good for nothing
Ssw, think that Fremont will be chosen
on the 4th OF November aud then that
the South will prepare to break up the
/ Union, for, j! he succeeds, then slavery
will ba checked, and with il that t,lious-
,aring policy which has disgraced the. na-
tion and g!addcned the South 80 long
! All ,ais the South knows The present
administration continues in power Ill
March 1, 1857, and it is quite friendly t'
the worst designs of the South SO it viii
allow the slave-power to take AL thf steps
preliminary TO a dIsscutiou when FreHa 5nl
eomss into o!hce.
Blu, If Fremont IS not e.ectvd. then
look forward to wha. Is worse thaa civi
war in the other forn,, viz, long serir:
or u,urpa,ions on the part of the slave
uov.r, and OF concessions by the No tn
i until We are force to take he ilitiativ. O
revolution at the North. That will oe the
worst form of the case, for then the wors
fighting will be among the n,rthera men
-b.twesn the friends of f. eedom and tho
hunkers expec: civil war, and make
nv calculations accordingly.
You will Judge the strength OF my con-
vic.ions whom tell you that | order NJ
more books from Germany, bat send the
antiauarian catalogues 10 the Athenaun
unopensd.-p lS9. vol :
Atthe same time he writes Ia his jour
nal: This Gav is not less critical in oul
history for the future than the 4th ofJul
l716 was for the past At sunrise there
were three alternatives
|. Freedom may put dawn slavery peace
fully by due course Of law.
2 Slavery may pi, down freedom IA the
same way.
, Tb. friend. Of freedom aad its foss
may draw swords and fight
A, sunset the people hal r"pudiated
tho 6rst alternative. Now Aherira may
choose betweea Nos and ) OF cours
~, sLaH f1kt have expected civil wal
for months now l buy no more books !or
the present Nay, think affairs may
come to such p,ss tina, my own property
may be canfscatea- for who knows thai
~. shall beat at the beginning and
hung as a traitor. So ! invest property
accordingly. Wifas viii! be safe don
pay the mortgage till lS62.-p. 100
The GOODNESS with which he ca!cuiates
ths chances Of the .'traitdrs' being south
ern or northern. the safety OF nus wis
s,rtnne and his determination rst to nay
,T,., mortgage until 1860, are touches oi
rh;sl nature that are uneqnaied. But
-. Inn acain proclaim the purpose
,.h;ob was so settled and distinct that he
- no sacret Of it among his friends and
correspondents
A, NewYork and elsewhere Banks said
,ba election Of Fremont would settle the
slavery question and stop agitation foI
thirty years
l opened nv eyes when l went out
West ana saw that the hands OF the Re
publicans are not yet clean enough TO ne
trusted with power There has deal o
h.d ctuff came over to the Republican
n,r,v am more than ever Of the opin'
ION that We must settle this question in
|, The aid Anglo Saxon way With ths ssr'si