The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-12-24
Esc5orc AID After. lf.c Election.

IL election is over, says some well mean
ing friend t. rs every day, now why not
drop politics, and gise Us news &c, sc.
We appreciate such advice, but as faithful
sentinel Of The people, how can wc shir!. the
duty Of exposing 50 glaring q fraud as was
played upon them before The election il re-
ference to tie draft?
On the ID of Sept. last, inst aner he draft
fo- 30. 600 had been ordered, Secretary Stan
ton telcgraphcd 70 Gen. Dix .s follows:
One hundred thousand new troops, prompt
" furnished, is all that General Grant asks
for the campaign cf Richmond, and to give q
finishing blow to the rebel forces yet in the
field.
Since the Secretary Of War said that, a.
draft has been made for 100000 men, which,
tdelucting credits. officially stated at 2OO, 000,)
has furnished 300, goo new tronps," and
row, the President has ordered another draft
for three hundred thousand more " new
troops" some inruisitiye ma ,hemat cisn MAJ
perhaps put the inquiry in this shape: If
100000 new troops we're all that were wanted
in September to rive finishing blow to
TIE rebellion, AID 100000 were furnished
and yet 100000 more new troops are wanted
three months aiterward, how many new
troops" will it require to - finish the REBEL
ion at the end of Mr. LincoIn's second term
The question is an easy olc-in figures.
1t IS also doubtless remembered by all how.
when a .Lo-t time before the election the
Washington correspondent Of the \. \.
EorN announced that Lincoln, if elected,
woulu order another draft, the telegraph was
Immediately brought into requis!tion to con-
.r2dict, "by authority the unlounded
statement" This was the despatch, sent by
Stanton all over the country:
OFYIcIALTEFUTATIoy OF UyFovyDED Re-
FORTS RELATIVE TO THE CONsCRIPTIoy AND
Fresh DxAFT OF SOLDIERS, ETC-The state
mcnt in The WORLD, p .rpOrting to have
been sent from Washington, that Provost
Marshal General Fry had officially represen-
| ted that the conscrpti0n law is a failure in
| obtaining soldiers, and recommending the
repeal of the substitute clause, and the com
pulsion ofthe personal service of drafted men,
and also that H, Lincoln ,riH. if re-cIccied.
cW for psrcmptO,y dyaH of three hundscd
| MoHSand men on Lis Isl Of Janu1Ty, as pro-
nouacc} by General Fry Utterly uyomAed
ant dcro:d Of truth.
And two days afterwards (Oct. 28,h,) Lin
coins most loyal" organ in New York Lad
this reference to S,anton's despatch:
! ELrcrIoyxrR1yG RooRBAcxs-In every
presidential campaign the INSCRIPTIONS poi
ticians on every side bring t. light the most
startling revelations of briberies and corrup-
lions, rutiianism, and ballotboX stufing,
! plots and Comspracies, and despotic designs
on the part 81 their opponents. Thus accord
ing to THs WORLD, bailot-box stuliiing car
red tie recent elections against the Demo
| Gratis a sweeping draft, if Lincoln shall be
elected will be the first thing in order after
| the election, and then the war is to be made
a permanent institution, until all the blacks
| of the South used up, and all the whites
of,tEe South cxtermlnated.
Just one month after the election the same
SUPERFICIAL paper has the following:
The Next DRArr.-We yesterday publish
| cd an oftsial notice Of the greatest importance
to all persons who are enrolled in this city
and liable TO dr #. The same notice ap-
| pears to-day in our advertising columns. It'll
the duty Of our citizens who are in any way
interested in the expected draft to give their
attention to the facts that are SO fully and
clearly set forth in this document There is
reason 10 Jeliere that Tie gorgEn,m.nt ,ciH
shortly caU for further rem forceme,tts for oar
armies in tie heid, and a draft may be order
ed at any day The first thing necessary is
to see that the enrolment be properly cor.
rected and reduced.
And today We have the pleasure of