The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-10-26
Political Extracts.

tons" The teaching, one would think. is OBJ
vious enough. Clearly the result in Ohio and
Pa. indicates that military despotism will not
be tolerated by the people-that negro dom
nation anywhere in this country will not be
submitted to-that the robbery of two hun
dred millions of dollars a year from the people
to build up negro party at the South, is not
popular"
The Springfield (Mass.) Repuhiican seems to
think the Radical party has been on long
drunk, and that the late Democratic yicto-
rics have had u SOLDERING effect on the inebri-
ates. ltsays:
Senator Howard, of Michigan, wrote letter
recently in favor OF impeachment, which he was
persuaded to Withhold from publication till after
the elections Of Tuesday 1t is likely now to be
suppressed altogether. The truth is that the re-
suit of the elections has had a suddenly SOLDERING
influence, like bucket of cold water on the head
Of a drunken man, and the inclination now will
be TO moderate and reasonable councils. The
scheme of Butler and Wade to depose the Pres
ident first and impeach him afterwards will no
more be heard of, and Impeachment itself will
only be named by the more impulsive politicians.
The schemes for confscation, for reconstructing
the governments of Maryland and Kentucky and
for establishing equal suffrage by law Of Congress
in all the States, have all gone by the board
Amidst the universal glad tdings Of Radical
losses in every State, from Penobscot to the Sac
ramento, there is one lone spot where that for
lorn lost cause claims to have made gaia 1t
is out in Clayton county" Iowa; and the gain
is said to be l,10O. my bruddren," exclaimed
a colored Radical preacher, my belubbed
friends-amidst all de trubbles and authorizations
OBJ dis mortal 'zistence' remember, dere is al
ways one place where You kin look for consola-
shun." "Whar datS whar dat" eagerly in
CURED one of the brethren. The preacher rolling
his eyes skyward, and piously clasping his hands
serenely answered, In de dictionary The
disconsolate Radical leaders, from Senator Ben
Wade and Thaddeus Stevens down IL the i'm
peacher Ashley, the hyssop that springs from
the wall" should know that in all their grief
there is one place where Radicalism "still lives"
1t is in "Clayton county, Iowa.
The New York IriJ'tAs is very Justly and Wig
orously urging education and the general dis
semination of knowledge the only remedy for
disastrous election results. Wherever there is
ignorance says the Tribune, there is PERIL
To the cause of good government and to the in
situations of the country. Very true :--but
ought it not to have borne this in mind when la
boring for the introduction TO the suffrage, Of
half million of the most ignorant voters TO be
founl in this or any other country! Would it
not have been wise to insist upon little eduoa-
ton for them, before clothing them with so pre-
ponderant political powerI
The Rochester DtmocTdf. now that the people If
Ohio have rejected negro suffrage, proposes that
Congress shall force it upon them by law
The Hartford Times says:
The Radical papers are full of explanations
How TO account for their overwhelming reverses
seems to De task beyond their capacity. One
charges it upon too much Niger" another
thinks there was not Niger enough-and he is
clearly right One thinks "apathy did it an
other "woman's rights
Forneys Press admits that the defeat is
overwhelming" and says it cannot conceal its
profound regret" The Tribune Greeley over.
flows in column Of green bile, evidently poured
out from the depths Of the editorial gall.balddcr
for that journal is smart enough to see that the
g lesson" it pirates about means doom. to the par
who have sought to put the white race beneath
the heel of the negro 1t angrily commands the
10000 Republicans in Ohio who oppose negro
suffrage to go over TO the Democrats. The New
York Times, on the other hand, charges the re-
suit upon the arrogance of the ultra Radical lead
ers, in forcing ultra measures upon the party
The Sprinfeld Republican confesses that the party
ara aast down by the people that the issue was
fair and plain, and that the trouble with its party
was that its " reconstruction scheme has given
over the white people of the South to the rule Of
the negroes. The New Haven journal saws its
party has met with "serious shock" owing to
its "chasng after new ideas and novel theories"
1t thinks the liquor question injured it; that
the doctrine of Congress, that negro suffrage may
be forced upon Connecticut, had something TO do
with it; that Buffers reputation damaged the
party; that the adhesion Of the party leaders to
women's rights" capped the climax and has
nypPfhrOwn fhp' marty 'Tha nf 80
fall will purge our party of some of its obnoxious
stuff, and prepare it to take the field in the
spring for the great contest Of next year." on the
"simple and impregnable basis" offormer times
The Springfield Union upbraids its party for not
being truer to negro suffrage, and declares that
this is the whole trouble. The Bridgeport StW-
dd'd says it is owing to u want of frmness in
Congress, and calls on that body to impeach and
remove the President at once.
The Illinois Staats.Zei,uag Of Chicago, the only
Radical German paper in the country which is
edited with any remarkable talents, thus speaks
of the result Of the late elections
Only one result, though forscen by everybody,
is not the less humiliating for the Republican
party 1t is the rejection of the amendment to
the Constitution of the State Of Ohio, by which
the negroes should acquire the right of suffrage.
This is new evidence that Congress was in adj
vance of public opinion, when it forced negro
| suffrage upon the Southern States. The meas
ure was not agreed to as u postulate of abstract
justice, but merely an exemplary punishment
Of the South. With great many Republicans
it was not, perhaps, respect for the human rights
| Of the negro, but only contempt of the idea of
political negro equality which made them agree
to tho scheme az to the most offensive humilia-
ton of the South. This is neither right nor
laudable, but it is true, and just Us true is it,
that twelve years ago, especially in the West, the
Republican party strengthened itself by many