The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-03-21
OTTAWA FREE TRADER: SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1868

"Uhereas, The said order in its sweeping con.
4 defamation of whole class of citizenA without
discriminating between the guilty and the limo
cent sillegal AND unjust, and III its execution il
tyrannical and cruel :. therefore, ,.--s /
"Resoiced, Thas the said order deserves the
earnest condemnation of this house, and of the
presidentas commander-in-chief'
! This was lost in the hOuse,-but-. only because
nobody paid any attention to it, and the order
had been revoked previously. The vote. after
AL, was very close one; az voted to table and
% to pass 1T; two more votes would have done
1t. Among those voting for the resolutions
were, besides other republicans, also Mr.. Colfax,
the present speaker of the house, Mr.. Low, OF
St. Louis, and other prominent members OF
that party. Is
Ihe order No. IL fell most savagely upon the
old Jewish residents in that department; but
there was no senator from these states in Wash
inSton, except from Kentucky. Therefore SEN
ator Powell, from Kentucky, in behalf of his out
ragged constituents, introduced in substance the
same preamble and resolution in the senate, where
1T was defeated in the most shomeful manner,
where but Z, viz: Messrs Davis, Harding,
Latham, Nssmith, Howell, Salisbury, and Will
con, OF, Missouri, had the moral courage and
moral rectitude to stand by outraged class of
their fellow-citizens
President Lincoln could not persuade himself
for long time that Gen. Grant issued that order;
but when AR Haskell, of Paducah, Ky, succeed
ed in convincing him of the fact, he Immediately
revoked it, and expressed his Indignation at the
outrage i'm the strongest terms, in presence of
Messrs. Gurley, Lilienthal, and Wise, from Gin
cinnati, and Blur, from Louisville. ,,..f.,
There was nobody, at the time, to defend the
despotic and barbaroris order Of Gen. Grant; not
voice was heard in its favor or defence; but
plenty besides President Lincoln, seven sena-
tors, and tifty-three members of congress, in it's
condemnation. Every free man felt outraged by
the lawless ukase of military chieftain, whom
they now want to fores upon chief nagis-
trate of the country. 1855 i.l... l.. .,
We have to say this As Jew, we cannot
and will not vote for man who has done us
more shameless injustice than any man in power
in this century, has done us in any civilized
country. Therefore We hope and expect that the
entire Jewish press will come out boldly and
Justly against the movement to nominate Gen.
Grant as president of the United States Again,
as citizen who loves his country and her free
institutions, who considers it his solemn duty to
protect justice and freedom as much as it may
be III his power, we cannot and must not entrMst
the banner Of Justice and freedom to the hands
OF a man who when possessing the brief power
of commander of volunteer army land among
them thousands of Jews abused it so outrageous
ly, and trampled upon his fellow citizens because
they Were too weak to resist That man, in our
estimation, is unfit to be the Chief of a republic
whose citizens claim equal justice and equal
freedom. Therefore, we hope and expect from
all political leaders to drop the scheme of nomi-
mating Gen. Grant As man, we feel an aver
sion to every person who disrespects the just
claims of humanity and justice, and Gen. Grant,
by his order No. II, 1862, is guilty Of that dis
respect.
That is part of what we have to say on this
point, and we will say il over and over again,
until the masses shall know and appreciate it;
till the feeling Of honor shall awake also with
those who cry with the millions laugh or weep
by order Of their newspaper, cheer or scorn al
h6ttno When few scanty and poverty strick-
en- insurance companies in New York offended
the Jews BY an order not to insure their property,
there noise meetings, resolutions, etc; now,
when one who outraged the Jews, the man, and
the citizen, the laws of the United States, and
the sacred cause Of justice and humanity, is pro-
posed as president of the United States, nobody
has the courage or the recitude to talk. In this
principle? Is it manful? Is it honorable
Let towards be silent for utility's sake; but let
men speak ont honorably.