The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-08-01
"RebelS,"

A great handle is attempted TO be made by
radical journals of the fact that among the
Southern delegates to the Democratic National
Convention were q dozen or more former rebels.
They neglect to mention. at the same time,
that their own National Convention at Chicago
was attended by such noted rebels as Gov.
Brown of Georgia, Conway and Hahn of
Louisiana, &c. The difference between the
'rebes" who attended the Democratic Con-
vention and those who attended the Radical
Convention is this and this only the former
have refused to surrender their manhood and
self-respect by becoming the enemies of their
race and cringing and tawning at the foot Of
power; while the latter have prostituted
themselves for the sake of office and plumber.
All southern man, no matter how vile rebel
he may have been, need do to have his polit-
cal disabilities removed and be received in
high favor with the powers at Washington, is
to become blatant radical and hug the Mig
ger. A bill has just passed congress by which
1900 southern rebels were purgcd of their
crime at one swoop. In the whole list the
most respectable southern authority asserts,
there is scarcely respectable name, while it
is full of scoundrels, thieves and murderers.-
But they are all blatant radicals Not man
--no matter how sincere a unionist he NAV
now be-no matter how high his standing and
respectability-if known as conservative or
democrat, could get his name on that list ''for
love or money" Among the 1900 are the
names of three hundred deserters from the
rebel army, q number who were imprisoned
tor swindling the rebel government, and three
3o'Iorsof the AndersonriNe prison. 1t is motor
ious, that the southern whites who have Join
ed the radical party, and thus secured their
pardon of congress and in numerous instances
obtained office and authority, embrace, with
scarcely an exception, the meanest dross anc
scum of southern society. The character of
the whole is Illustrated by those whom they
have sent to congress. Here is one of them
as drawn by Mr.. Mullins, q radical congress
man from Tennessee. A. G. G. Bowen was on
Monday admitted as a member of Congress
IRON South Carolina. Mr.. Mullins says, when
the rebellion broke out, this man Bowen en-
terrell the rebel service as captain, and for his
zeal IN serving the rebellion was promoted to
be major. While in that position, in drunk
en- brawl, he killed his colonel, for which he
was put in irons, When the federal army
reached the place of his imprisonment he was
released, and to escape hanging for murder,
joined the federal forces. Gen. Sickles SAYS
his conduct among the federal troops was so
bad that he had to be incarcerated again. and
kept IN the lock up toothe end OF the war. On
emerging from prison, he became a blatant
radical politician and hugger of niggers, for
which this murderer is now rewarded with a
seat IN Congress. The list of some forty ''re.
constructed" rebels and carpet baggers admit
ted to Congress from Southern states within
the past week or two, embraces Mt least 81
per cent. whose biographies would be equally
dlsreputabe. After such blessed examples
inc democracy surely need regard it as no dis
grace TO sat in Convention with few southern
men who were once rebels.