The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1866-11-17
Singular Tcrc1yersnsIon..

i he Chicago Itn,cS has gone INTO Inc sem
sation business, and its first essay promises
to be Success" After ,l,anfully end nobly
fighting the battle against the long haired
parted -in.the>middIe radicals anL fanatics
for four years, it kicks all its former preach>
ing and principles overheard and surrenders 10
the malignan.s and roundheads at discretion
The Times, in double loaded leader IN Its
issue Ct Tuesday, comes out fat>footed for
negro suffrcge-not for a wary, stinted arts
Gle, but for the genuine, unadu liured, "as 1t
is now the rule Massachusetts, + 1t calls it
Impartial Suffrage, -that is, let the negro
vote under any aud all conditions under
which the white NAN Is allowed to vote.
i. Is true, the Times is not hardened
enough to advocate this strange bantling
from principle-it processes to believe tue
white man agraiu bctterthau the negro stiii;
but it proposes the surrender as e matter oil
ExrEDIEyCY: 1.-The negro question thus DIS
posed Of" it says, ''the occupation OF the
northern republican radical party Will be gone
forever" and the party must die. ihe eS-
pedielt is equal to that of the spins-cr who
Welded her virtue to get rid of annoyance
from her ardent sedueer. The vice OF the
Times expedient is, that it don't go far
enough. If it is necessary to surrender to
the maiignants to disarm them, the surrender
must he complete. The men who are now
crazy enough to insist on giving the brstlsh
and besotted negro of the Florida jangles the
elective franchise, will also insist on his
eligibility to Office, ''as is now the rule III
Massachusetts" on his social equality, &c.
To make the surrender complete, we insist
that the Times add another clause, that
simultaneously with granting suffrage to The
negro, there shall also be issued to the head
men among the so-s of ham patents OF
nobility. Nothing short Of this will fully
appease the Anna Dickinsons, Summers,
Ph;llipses, Tiltons, &C., in whose company
the Democracy is invited to train.
Bat the Times wholly misconceiyes the
spirit and temper of the Democracy,
whom its proposition brutality insults. The
Democracy, are not fighting against ''impar-
,ial suffrage" as the Times euphoniously
names the thing. Whether the negroes IN
Illinois who can read and write shall vote or
not is matter to us of profound Indifference.
We saw dozens Of republicans 90 the polls
to vote in Ottawa on the 9th inst, who gould
give no better reason for the radical vote they
cast than that they wished to punish PresI>
dent Johnson for refusing to hang Jeh
DAVIS and the other radical leaders. There
are few negroes who can read and write, we
fancy but can give fall as sensible reason
that for the vote they cast. The country
is full of voting cattle" and the addition OF
few negroes in Illinois viii make no percep-
ti5le difference. It is all 4 lottery anyhow.
and they are as likely TO vote right as
wrong.
The Democracy oppose the imposition OF
negro suffrage upon the south from much
higher motives than objection to the thing
itself. They oppose it because they pretend
to revere the Gems ttution which makes ibis
matter of state regulation, and not a thing
within the control of the national govern
ment. Suppose the Democracy Of the north
go with the IIneS and join the malignants in
the howl for negro suffrage al the south
Does tn, Times ask its party to surrender al
its state right principles, all its opposition to
contamination, in shor. all its sacred regard
for the hedges and defences the constitute
has thrown around the states to guard them
against being overslaughed and crushed out
by a central tyranny TT Washington? The
Tunes seems to halt somewhere this side of
such n leap; but then it says the south will
heed the "ADvIcE' OF the democracy OF the
north in the matter. If the south is craven
enough to heal such advice, we mistake its
temper-that's all.
The words Of the noble patriot Henry
Clay have passed into a proverb " had
rather be neht than he President" Fl
The democracy have 10 other reward for
standing firm to a just principle; they will
have at least a clear conscience. We could
| respect the Times even yet, if it made profes.
sums w al HohcSt Dut " Dt u
turncoat from no higher motive than a cold,
selfish, hypocritica! time serving expediency,
| is more than contemplate.
| The effect of this pron,ncioD,ento of the
| Times will be more ludicrous than tragical.
Democrats generally view the whole thing
with undi,gui.ed disgust. Even the Repub-
licans partially participate i'll the feeling.
The Chicago Republican says the Times is
| ''eddlea.' The Tribune alone coddlqs Il
like a sick baby. If the Times has deter
mined to cut loose from the Democratic
party, why, much as we shall miss the keen,
causic pen OF Storey, We can only say, in the
language of the great Nose, let 'er went"
1t has said many good things and some bad
ones. Always dict .torial, selfish cold blood
cd, it as often chilled as it warmed the life
blood Of the Democracy. We shall try to
survive its loss.
That we may do the Tunes no injustice,
we publish its pronpnciamento in another
column.
PcrlkiGs ia Seneca.
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