The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-10-10

-, 4 few weeks ago there was an obscure para
prnnh in the personal column OF Western
nan.r to the ciioct that Senator Mortoa Scna
:. Tor CLAYTON, and cx-Chiht Justice Mcclure
of Arkansas were holding Il consultation al
Hot Springs Then report came from thai
fashionable retreat that they were engaged II
concoatinr Il scheme to get up negro riot.
throughout the south, so rs to influence the
Northern congressional elections, However
monstrous the charge may at first appear
when we come to look into the characters OF
4 the ALLEGED cOnspirators aud the necessities Of
the republican party, II does not seem SO i'm
probable. The republican party is on the eve
nf disastrous defeat. There is but one chance
Of saving it, and that is by rallying major
ity of the northern people 10 Its support upon
tie old cry that the rebel spirit is rampant in
the south, and that the wards of the nation
are being re-enslayed and murdered.
What gives color to the supposition that
the present troubles N the south between the
whites and negroes are the result of plot
deliberately prepared and having its ramiti
cations all over that section, Is that they
should break out simultaneously in almost
every state There Is a very strong indca-
ton of concert of action. The carrying out
of such Il scheme, if carefully arranged be
forchand would be easy enough. EmiSsarlcs
here and there would have no difficulty III
melting the ignorant negroes TO acts of Nlo-
lencc. This would naturally provoke rctalia-
ton from the whites, and thus the CirCum-
stances, arttully distorted by kilograms,
rrespondence, private letters, and .hc com
mcnts of the republican press could be made
to fire the northern heart" 10 Il renewed
support Of the republican candidates for pub
lie Office.
THIS rusc has been tried repeatedly before
4 Il ri,l
to influence the elections. The Outrage sea-
son" is annually about the time the conven
tons in the northern states are assembling to
nominate candidates, and it goes out sudden
lv the day after the November elections. The
abruptness with which southern whites AMI
blacks subsidc into amiCable relations with
each other as soon as the necessity for the
outrage business ceases, is one of the most as
tOnishing features of southern society. 1t
NAV be presumed that the carpet-bag inccn.
diaries having completed their contracts,
leave about this time for the north to obtain
a settlement of their accounts, and the ne
groes are left to meditation and quiet. The
plots will not have the desired effect il the
northern and southern people are made to
know the real origin and purpose. The az
onzed shrieks of the republican newspapers
will elicit laughter and contempt when their
readers DCCDlllC aware llldl IL lHtIC pan y lllNh
is behind them. While the people Of the
north are thus giving the reports Of rebel az
grcssIons The little notice they deserve, ii be-
hoovcs HE southern whites to carry them
selves with all the patience they can command
through their trials. 1t will be an unwise
course for them to play into the hands of
northern republican politicians. If the re-
publican party is destroyed in the torthcom-
lug election they will never be troubled again
with these Vaccinations of ploters. They
can afford to exercise self,contrOl now, even
under the most cXnspcrating circumstances,
for the sake of the relief that democratic
victory will bring to them in the autumn
elections. We can safely predict that if Radi
cahsm is wrecked in November there will be
no more conferences at Hot Springs between
such desperate political gamblers as Morton,
Clayton and the deposLd Chief Justice of
T. Worid