The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-10-10

uttered such atroclous senCm6ntS he Knew ne
had stigmat;xed the democrats of this town ss
blubbering "uniom sarers" long before the war
when they were trying to avert that terrible
calamity. Cook knew he had taken to his bed
and board such political hsrlots as Yates, Chand-
Ter and Lane, and with them had raised the cry,
that the old union of our fathers wac not worth
crush without blood letting" Cook knows to-
day, if he is at all familiar with the history of
this government. that net president from WASH
ingtOn down to Polk. ever retired to the shades
of private life without solemnly warning the
country against the formation of any such party
as the black and tan party to which he belongs.
He knows that, while the black and tan party
at the north, and the radical prsslavery party at
the south, were arraying themselves against each
other In deadly 'irrepressible conflict" and we're
rocking this union from center to circumference,
the grand old democratic party, led on by the
great Douglas, was standing, like the sturdy ship
amid the angry waves of the maddened ocean,
between these two parties, holding proudly up
the old flag, crying, 'peace, be still"
He knows, also, that this proud old democrat
ic party, the finest and best party that ever ex-
listed, went down in the conflict, and with it
went down constitutional liberty and the union
of those states and Cook lies, and knows it, when
he says that the four years war, the two and
half billions of debt; the slaughter of a million
of men, the widows and orphans which jostle us
everywhere in our streets, are not the legitimate
fruits of the black and tan party and that party
alone. He knows, or ought by this time to
know, that there will be, there can be, no
union of these states until this same old demo-
cratic party is restored to power.
I will spend little time with Cook in regard to
his theory, that any of the states were ever out
of the union. He makes that as plain as mud
in the same cogent reasoning, used by him in
this place two years ago. He said them and saws
now that "Gov. Harris of Tennessee went out of
the limits of the state, and carried in his hat the
archives of the state, and therefore carried the
state out of the union" He went still further
and with gravity befitting Cicero said, I'VE
my countrymen, drove the rebel governors cut
of the rebel states, and with them the states
went out of the union" Now anybody, wLo is
familiar with the way in which Burton gave
''leg bail for security" against the red handed
rebels at Bull Run, will readily appreciate how
1--WE, my countrymen," drove cut the rebel gov
ernors and put down the rebellion.
Cook next devoted his attention to Horatio
Seymour. He bawled at the top of his roise
Wade Hampton, and after attempting to impress
his audience with the belief that Wade Hamp-
ton has horns he then attempted to swap off
Wade Hampton for Seymour. Cook here spent
one half hour by the watch, in order to con-
ton of 1864, in which convention SIS he alleged,
resolution was passed, pronouncipg the war
failure" Here Cook not only lied in the quota
ton and knew he was lying at the time he made
the quotation but he added to the crms Of w.
ing, the studied and deliberate attempt to hold
Horatio Seymour responsible for that platform.
and to Judge him politically by that platform,
when he already laid down the position, that it
is not only impossible to judge anybody or any
party even, by its platform, but in Just to do so
but that party ought to be judged alone by its
acts" He knows the Chicago platform of 1864
never proclaimed the "war a failure" 1t is
bald-headed lie, and L here, once for all, pre-
nounce it such.
Next Cook said there was bloody rebellion
in New York, and that this rebellion was gotten
up by Horatio Seymour Some one in the audi.
ence asked II Seymour did not put down this re-
bellion, and that, too, without crowSinp the
cemeteries OF New York with new made graves.
Cook evidently feeling the force of the question
and desiring to parry its effects upon the audi
ence, founsered around good deal discounted
for while, and finally replied that Gen. Dix
put down that rebellion, and that Dix refused
subsequently to accept the proffered hand Of Sew
mour. Now Cook ought to know that over his
own signature Dix contradicted this stale false
hood, that he never refused to shake hands with
Gov. Seymour. Still further, Cook said Dix
was life long democrat" Dix voted for Lin
coin in 1860 and 1864. After Dixs pilgrimage
to the tomb of Douglass, desired to know how
much Of a democrat Gen. Dix was, and wrote
him, and in reply received the anticipated an.
swer, that he had supported Lincoln at both of
his elections. Cook may have been honest in
saying Dix is a life long democrat Had Cook
been fresh III his reading of the rules of common
law, he would have known after reading the let.
ter OF Linceln to Seymour and Gov. Curtin's
speech to the soldiers sent to Gettysburg by Sew.
nour, that he and his party are estopped from
charging Horatio Seymour with disloyalty to
the union.
Burton G. Cook assault the patriotism of Ho-
ratio Seymour! Does Cook know anything of
the intellectual powers and the moral worth of
that great and good man z Has Cook we'll meas-
ured the patriotism, the undying love Of coun-
try, of Horatio Seymour? ,..
AS Vulcan of old split open the head of Jupi.
ter, and from his brain sprang the Goddess Nj
nerva, fully armed and equipped for battle, and
Jupiter experienced no serious inconvenience ex.
cepting the usual pains Of travail so split open
the head OF Horatio Seymour, and twenty Coaks
might spring from his just brains possessing all
the ability, all the religion, all the virtue, and
all the patriotism that Cook ever had and no &C.
rious Inconvenience would be felt by that great
statesman Why, in all that adorns public and
private life, Seymour is much above the villfi.
or Cook, rs the sturdy oak is above the shrubs i.
shades; or the Eagle is above the buzzard that
feeds upon the earrion bodies Of the battlefield:
or as democrat, in love of country, is above the
robbers and thieves of the blsck-and.tan party.
John Miller of Freedom says any honest and
patriotic man, who joins the black and.tan party
aud remains in that party, faithfully living up
to ITS principles, is at the end of a year, fit
subject for divine grace and repentance.
Cook said he personally knew Lincoln, while
contemplating issuing the Emancipation Procla-