The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-10-29
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Logan ana ioslssby at Ottawa.
Two weeks ago John A. Logan honofed OF.
tawa with visitation and made an after
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pliuient. Both speakers had been abundantly
advertised, but in both cases tue turn out was
quite Ameagef-thc audience in neither case
exceeding 250,Wzboys and all.
The speech of Logan was such as he usually
makeswhen not stimulated by big crowd, or
by opposition. His efforts at wit and sarcasm
were-as they always are-weak and silly.
In the way of clarifying the great republican
party for what he claimed it had done =,
crushed, the rebellion, abolished slavery, re.
freedom and equality" was passably
coherent, considering how little he seemed to
care about telling the truth, but when he
undertook to talk about finances taxation and
the tariff, he became singularly incoherent
and muddled.
He was for a tariff for revenue, but not for
protection, except in certain cases, (where
paid good round sum for his vote possibly
The system efinternal taxation he thought
was about right now and the national banks
(they generally keep rich Iobby'at Wash
ington)he regarded as about perfection, favor
ing the creation of enough more to give US
$500, OO0, 900 more of their paper doing away
with greenbacks entirely Instead of paying
the banks come $lS,O00,OOO year, as we do
now, to give US a paper currency, he favors
paying them $1S,OO0,0O0 more year, to give
us double the present quantity of their paper
tarsh money. These were not his words, but
We're clearly his ideas AS most of our people
have still an honest faith in the superiority of
greenbacks over national bank bills as cheap
national currency, Logan's ideas on this branch
of his subject were not very favorably received
The speech of Gov. Oglesby, though cover
ing about the same ground, was very differ
ent affair. 1t is but truth and candor to say,
that there are few ADLER stumpers, republican
or democrats, in Illinois than Gov Ogesby.
Though occasionally coarse and vulgar, the
sober and select audience he addressed at Of
tawa was one, he saw at glance, with whom
vulgarity would hardly 60 down, and his lam
guage. though often vigorous, was therefore
unobjectionable. He defended the radical
management Of the national finances as any
adept lawyer would a criminal whom he knew
to be guilty, but for whom, by dnt of special
pleading and plausible augmentation he
hoped to wiring verdict of acquittal from an
honest but not over intelligent jury The
effect was manifestly not success. On the
grecnback question he followed in the tracks
of Logan, lauding the paper of the national
banks as a "sound currency" and denouncing
greenbacks as "chips and splinters."
The honest truth is, the vocation of the pro.
fessional radical "stumper' for the present
campaign as about played out The
people know all about the war who fought
the battles, who sold the shoddy, who
made fortunes, got the big offices and heaps
OF chances to plumber the treasury, by crying
''rebel sympathiser," "copperhead," &c. They
know, too, that they are swinded beyond
measure by corrupt tariff and an onerous and
partial system ofinternal taxation, filling every
village with horde of assessors, inspectors,
guagers, and tax gatherers that cost more, in
many instances, than all they collect amounts
to. The people are satisfied these things are
wrong and they want change. To this their
minds are fully made up; and it is useless tor
the Logans, and Ogesby,s and that whole
crew OF public paupers, to come around and
tell them that these things are all right and
change won't help them. They mean to