The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-03-12
WHAT RADICALIsM Is RESPONSE

WHAT RADICALIsM 10 RESPONSE
BE FOR.
We use the word '.radicalisna" as appli.
cable to the plotters Of treason before the
war both north and south, for the extracts
we gave las. week from the biography OF
Theodore Parker show that the Eanceys
and Rhetts were not whit more deter-
mined on plunging this country into civil
war to force dissolution Of the Union
than were the Parkegs, Chasss, Summers,
Phillipses, &c, OF the north, and that it
was purely accidental that the latter were
not the first to raise the standard OF res
volt Instead of the former.
The radicals" now boast that they have
so effectually "watered' Mr.. Lincoln that
he has grown up to the fullness of their
own stature: and they are right. The
'fullness" Of radicalism, at present, is the
entire adoption Of the state suicide theory
Of Solicitor Whiting; and the amnesty
proclamation Of Hr Lincoln, OF the Sth of
December last, is the very embodiment Of
this doctrine. If the states are not dead
bat still alive AID ID .hs Union, nothing is
clearer than that their constitutions and
laws are still valid enactmsats, ard that
neither congress nor the President can
modify or set them aside. Bat the Prcsi-
dent does this in the proclamation alluded
to- He declares their constitutions in
applicable 20 The present state Of things"
and aboliShes their laws He prescribes
new qualifications for voters, now tests 10.
says there is no preteroe that these acts
are Ret wholly outside OF and unknown to
the Constitution, and he justifes them
solely en- the ground that "the seceeded
states have ceased to exist as states Of the
Union
and what does This doctrine involve :?
This, that secession has accom- plshed all
its guilty authors ever claimed for it that
by secession the Unioa has been Dissolved.
that the great experiment or mans ca
pacitv for self gsvernment is failure
that the government, purchased with the
blood OF our fathers, has passed away
that The southern conEetleracy has become
a foreign nation tl.at no rebel can be
convicted Of treason that TO Weld to the
CLAIMS Of the L. s. would be treason on
their part ard that to resist the authority
CT the u. S. is the highest act of duty and
on their rart
There is got q loyal man who has PEN
airated to the interior OF the conrederacy
cut brings back the same story that the
rebels are sick Of the war that they curse
their leaders who brought it on lat they
would gladly lay down their arms and re-
turn to the Union as it was Nav the
rebel Congress itself, in their address to
the people Of the cenfederaey, say they
are ready to negotiate for a cessation of
the war and return TO the Union under
the constitution. No sane man pre;ends
any longer but it was true every word
what Gov Seymour of v y. said in his
last annual message, that the war for the
Union has terminated in the TRIUMPH of
eur arms, and term, of peace on tn basis
OF the constitution can De negotiated IN
three moAths
If thi. IS true, why then i the war con-
tinued? It is TO enforce all the caase.
queaces Of the state suicide theory. To
break up and destroy foreign country;
to plumber whole community OF people,
conhscate their property aGa effects, seize
their lands, arm and give temporary free
dom to their slaves, and then TO turn over
their iich cotton lands to northern adyen-
tureTs, the NEGROES under the name of
hirelings re-enslaved and Transferred 10
Yankee task masters, whose avarice ias in
satiable as death Itself, is 10 he the meas
IRE Of the black man 5 slavery and suffer-
irg
This Is the character of t war since
the original purpose By which alone il
was justified has been abandoned. and
such q war is justified ty nc code OF inter.
national or moral law ever promulgated
by Christian or heather. 1t is 10 prolong
such war that our national debt, already
: 300, 0OOeJ0, is to es duplicated and
quadrup!ed; n ailiion more Of the hardy
sons Of the north 10 be laid in southern
graves the ..,nF' 0 &c filed with myriads
more Of mourning widows and furnishing
orphans, and ruin, oppression and desola-
ton alike overwhslm and crush both
north aad south
And all this, wesay, is the joint work of
and sece.sionists, those twin
in guilt and crime, who alike
sway the government Of the Union and
rebellion. Ard of all this wide spread ruin
and desolation, sor, ow suffering and death,
not papg has been felt, nor tear fallen.
nor drop Of blood been shed, nor grave
made, but has been the Joint work Of the
radical abolitienists and secessionsts.
They have" to use the language of 10y
al kentucklan, "cruciiied and murdered
the peace and happiness and unconstitutional
liberty Of a great nation. Oceans wateas
can never cleanse their blood stained
hands. Their crime has 10 paIallel; it
rises up nountain>high, covered all over
and sna oking with human blood"
Loyejoy is famous for bis jokes-alaa ost
rival to old ALs himself The otle-
day he got off q rich enc in the house
Says Washington despatch:
Mr.. Levejoy undertook to controvert
the statement by Mr.. Cox, of Ohio, that
the administration had almost the habit
OF dsregarding the constitution and the
laws" Mr.. Levejoy said such stateme Is
were utterly untrue: that there never