The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-04-30
ruEPREsEN.r CONGRESS.

to the Chicago tribune ana CineT aoo'!'ioi'
journals, and SHoDY sits enthroned IN ooth
houses as supremacy as the King OF Daho-
NAV over his vassals Let US see WHAT
some Of the ''intensly loyal Journals nave
tie say Of eur present abolition congress
The T,iJurs assumes that majority OIL
the republican members are oppose to
tho re>eI.ction of Lincoln, and to compass
his defeat gays, they are g managing to get
a few nonths delay (n holding the con-
yention,) and during those mcn,hs bring
defeat and disaster to the army. The
indispensable condition to Linboln defeat,
is TO defeat the army; and this bein:
clearly seen and admitted by those who
have made up their minds that Lincoln
must be defeated, it Is reasonable to sup
SUPPOSE that they eN do oil they can TO haze
lie army defeated
The Chicago Journal which iatterly it
has labored to out Herod tie Tribune in
its 'intensc loyalty, also gives oul bea1;i.
full abolition Congress blast, as-fo'iows:
Congress is the target Just now for adj
madversion and inveetve from all sorts OF
of public Observation-Disclosures War
Democrats, and copperhcad-and rightly
SO
Not to put to fine point on II, the pro-
ceedlngs of the Lower House ofCongress,
fer the most part, latteily, have been
'point-no point.
1t is positively scandalous in the House
OF Representatives TO behave Is it has been
behaving for the las. twenty weeks. We
question whether any twenty weeks Of
human life and OF feeting time have been
spent to SO little purrose, by auy OF our
legislative assemblies since the foundation
of the Government, as these twenty weeks
Of the life aud public services of this pop
ular branch Of the Thirty eight Congress.
And so on through have 4 column or
more
! The New York z.o.ss, the special organ
of Secretary Seward, laws" its political
brethren in Congress after this wise:
Gold at l15, and Congress, with tax bills,
tariff bills, bank bills. every financial
measure. lfeless and shz less, engaged
in putting down freedom. f debate in
the National Capitol. IN the name OF
loyal people we protest. 1t is =. disgrace
and an outrage,
W e tclI tltSt ElHa AT ~ ..SIIiH 5tOn lEaL
passion is making hem mad. 1t Is an ab
solute infa,uatiou ,hIt las seized them -
Their words .tike upon the ears Of The
people like the eibbersh Of bedlam.-
Where have the senses Of CoEgressmcn
gone that they don't realize the terrible
burden. that rest upon the people, and
the fearful dangers that ConfrSlt the
government Do they cali themselves 10y
al men, and yet play these fantastic tr!ckk?
By their default, the prices Of everything
TINA sustains life are rapidly mounting
The currency is gradually turning into
worthless rags. Inch by inch, foot by foot,
tie government Ecves on, sirai ght before
the eyes Of is guardians, toward the bot
| temless pit Of bankruptcy-y distant,
/ but, unless they act inevitable. Not an
| arm do they yet raise TO save it. II they
/ had bat done the duty they were pat to
do, Il credit Of tie government would
still be resting on its old foundations -
They have neither done il nor made any
rational effort to do it, 1t is not n;sfor-
/ tune, but guilt, that rests upon them; rot
failure, simply, bat feeblenszs.
1t would be useless TO attempt TO give
at the rate OF one column 20 a thousand
OF like extracts re could make from lead
ing abolition journals of recent date, but
having quoted the opinion OF the little
/ tribune, we only need yet to ado! that CT
+ the Big Tribune to show the pulling Of nine
tenths Of all the other abolition journals
as that, ct least, implicitly follow the lead
Of the Iyij,mes. Says Greeley's n. y
Tribune: -.
Congress has now been eighteen weeks
in session. term amply sufficient for the
maturing and passing OF all the measures
of an average session During those gh :
teen weeks. scarcely anything has been
acco a, plished; and The little that has been
we'll done in one House has been undore
in the other. Meantime the nation
is drifting towards bankruptcy capital is
aefrauded of its just income and labor of
its due reward and all for want of prompt
and proper legislation.
Had Congress, within two weeks after
its meeting, doubled tho ia 'iff Oh all i'm
ported articles bat those of prime neees
s.ty-the increase to take effect after the
Ist of January, 1861 and then proceeded
more deliberately, but Nth resoiute en-
ergv TO increase the excise OF internal
taxes wherever they would bear it. we
should have retained several millions OF
gold that have since gone out of the cOun-
try, and so strengthened the credit of
the government that the new ten-torty
loan could have been placed long before
this But, Though four months have passed
no general tax bill has yet beer even report
ed and the pettyand partial measure in
| creasing the excise on distilled liquors.
after pissing' tho House ina shape caicu-
lated tie render it efficient, was cut down
by the Senate to favor the whisky gains
blers, and to enable them to profit by IL cir
corner as to deprive Il of all vitality Or
consequence,
The New York Evening Post publishes