The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1866-10-20
Soldiers Monument.

The Rev. z. CoLMAN is out in another elo-
quent appeal in behalf of the long projected
monument to the memory of the soldiers of
La Sale county who fell in the late war 1t
seems that in spite OF all the efforts hitherto
made, but few hundred dollars have yet
been contributed to this noble object, and
Mr. G.. suggests, as a means to swell the
fund. the holding, during the winter. of
series of "Monument Sociables" throughout
the county. Five or SIX thousand dollars,
enough to build the monument, he thinks
could be raised in this way in a few months.
We are disposed to assist this matter in
any way in our power, but confess, in view
of the recent exhibition at Peoria on the
occasion of dedicating a similar monument
IN that city, we do not feel like hurrying the
matter. We had rather see the erection Of a
monument to our La Sale county soldiers
delayed fifty years, than that Its dedication
should be made the occasion Of such beastly
and disgusting outrage against decency as
disgraced the late dedlcation-so called, at
Peoria. People of all parties had coDtribu>
ted to the erection OF that monument; people
of all parties had the names of friends and
relatives incribed ON its tablets. Yet the
occasion was seized upon by political party
as a means to get together a crowd, not for
the purpose OF paying respect; with BETTING
decency and solemnity, &c the remains of the
noble dead, but to hear vile and Incorporate
political harrangues by thieves and black
guards like Beast Butler and John \. Logan,
and to witness orgies the indecency and bru<
tality of which would disgrace the savages
of the Fejee Islands. The Peoria Democrat
thus alludes to one of the speakers Oh the
"solamn occasion -
Amid storm of political Getraction and
the speaker attempted what he sad
was an imitation of the President when he
received the proceedings of the Phiadelphia
Convention. Representing him to be in a
state of extreme inebriation, be initiated that
condition which clearly showed that he was
no novice III the science of inebriate saltatio.,,
aud with a skill that Oglesby, bob Ingersoll
and Dick Yates have not often attained. For
several minutes he continued this exhibition,
meantime DISCERNING his filth upon the plat
FORM and with maudlin decla nation aud
drunken Interruptions in his speech, he pre-
tended to give the substance of the address
of the President on the occasion alluded to.
scene more disgusting could hardly be
imagined, and i, is gratifying to know that
while some of the most depraved of the aud
fence cheered the exhibition OF driveling
idiocy, many were SO much Disguised Is to
leave the ground altogether.
If the erection and dedication Of the La
Sale county monument is to be engineered
By politicians capable of such bestialty we
pray with all our heart that not another dol
lar may be contributed in its favor. Until
his accused venom, which, like some orie &.
tai poison we have read of makes men fends
before by slow process, it kills them, is
purged out of the dominant party of the
iaT. and men Of decent sell respect can APP
preach sacred places on sacred occasions
sitho out encounrering brutality and insult
the time for the erection of the La Sale
county Soldiers Monument will not have
arrived.