The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-03-12
DENIES THE IMPEACHMENT.

DENIES THE IMPEACHMENT.
Charley Blanchard is out in a long com
munication in last week Ottawa Repub-
lican, in which he denies that he is tx,
which we had said was "ths short for
Chaley Blanchard" So X. is somebody
else. Charley fibs, however, when he says
we sent friend te him to ask ii he ,oas
X. No friend Of ours ever asked him
such a question, for we made no such
request of any one, and to tell Mr.. B.
that we did, was neither friendly nor
gentlemanly act.
If X. is not Charley Blanchard, all we
have 10 say is that X. is a mean man for
allowing Charley SO leng to'bear unjustly
the stigma Of his nom dc plume. x. doubt.
less is one of those sneaks who figure large
| ly in the T. L. A.. an institution of which
the Chicago Jou,na! says, since it has fall
len under suspicion Of operating against
the denomination Of Old Abe, shat men
Of honorable principle may we'll be sus-
pcieus of them" Dir. Y. can henceforth
write for the Ottawa Republican with inn
punity. We can fight an open, honorable
foe like Charley Blanchard: but nlisera.
BILE sneak and slanderer who Plies his vo-
cation in the dark and stabs behind the
! back, Is beneath of our further notice.
/ Charley, we are sorry 10 say, however,
/ pleads guilty to the soft impeachment of
| niger on the BRAIN and denies that he
has ever got over it. He says that he still
! believes that the equality and universal
! brotherhood OF man is natures divine
! law; that freedom is the universal herr
/ itage of man that slavery was the cause
of the rebellion and ought 10 be removed;
and that he believes in arming the ne
groe, bond or free, to defend the consti-
tuition f.om the assaults Of the Free Ira
dsr's rebellious brother democrats. And
SO forth. There is no mistsking this sort
OF cant. 1t is genuine symptom doubt
less Charley is right-he is still victim
of the malra-we are sorry for HIM.
Still laboring under such an atiiiction,
OF course we are not surprised that Char
ley makes cut SO poor a case in undertake
ing 10 prove our inconsistency on the slav-
cry question
let. We warned Douglas against sup
porting congressional action TO extend sla-
very over territory then free; and secondly,
we supported popular sovereignty, which
Charley says WAC inconsistent with the
first. We don see IL Bath positions are
consistent, we take it, with what was a.
ways cur doctrine, that Congress should
let slavery in the territories alone.
Again, we warned the South at the be-
ginning of thIs rebellion TO haul off their
forces, cor the. North, enraged, would
but, says Ciarley, when the South refused
TO haul off their forces, and the North
enragsd struck the shackles from their
slaves by the proclamation OF freedom"
we opposed IT, And these positions. says
Charley, are inconsistent. Again we don't
see il, Oar idea about The war at the be-
ginning was the same as that entertained
b. Mcclellan, Lincoln, Butler, &c That
that so long as they failed to haul OF their
armies the North meant 10 hurt them :;
but the moment thcy laid Gown their am 3
the war against thcm wss'd cease As
onr aaEny penetrated into Virginia. fos in
stance, whatever property belonging 10
rebels, .uch rs forage, provisions. gum
powder, &c, and negroes found driving
their teams, working their fortified
tions, o. raising prov is;ans 10 support their
armies, fell Into our hands would ee held
as contraband of war. and used or srnt
10 the rear. or course regroes thu. seized.
being released from further service TO their
masters, were free, and could never gain,
acc ordlng 10 tn. principle established iy
Gen jackson at New O,leaEs, be enslaved.
Thus If all VIZ. mia vas ovcrrua BY eur ar
mics before the rebels iaId down tLeiraruls,
all the slaves of Virginia would lie set iie..
And if the South ceased 10 take the .-ain-
ing, and compelled the aimies oc the en
ragged North TO traverse I'll her state. he
fore they grounded their weapons OF ~
bellion. why al, the slave: would Le go.
free
That was, as We understood il, the rri.;
inal Mcclellan, Lincoln, Butler and Crit,
tendon idea, and in reality It hss been
the only process by which an, slaves.
have as yet been set free. Bot The pro-
cess was too siCw for Lincoln, Brtler and
the crazy fanatics generally. and they
tried 10 add to it the efficacy Of paper
proclamatons. The result has been the
consolidation Of the. rebellion, the embit-
tering OF the strife, prelong.ton Of the
war the invention of all the state suicide
and many more alike unconstitutional
and revolutionary theories that threaten
to end only in the fna! defeat OF our
arms, universal bankruptcy and ruin
Can Charley now see our conSftency? If
he fails he INST clearly aseribe it to his
iufirrnity-N. o. B., which we know is
quite sufficient to ebfuscate the clearest
| intellect.
Charley we viii drop the subject ef
religious sersiSilities" lie: Brother Cole
man continue vigorously to cultivate yours,
and you will be less troubled about ours.
Day by day the schemes OF our abe lition
administration grow broader and deeper
At first the war was begun simply to re-
-.orn tbo un;o, ,r;tl, Tia ~; ar III n