The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-30

n unfortunate war | was on the Confedera
IF side of the question. But there is anoth'
d matter, about which there is no mistake;
h. am a supporter, in this national contest,
d HAYES and Wheeler. | ceased to be Coz
W federate soldier over eleven years ago, an
II have tried to be loyal to my countrys fla
g. ever since. Since 1868 have beepan activ
|. worker IN the Republican ranks in Mssissi
'. pi, where it costs man something to be
g Republican. "-Radicdt papers.
l. It's cheering to find such statements
radical papers, but suppose he had said: "
l. am a supporter, in this national contest, {
q Tiden & Hendricks, &c. Since 1868 hav
t been an active worker in the democrat
" ranks for reform and decent government i
e South Carolina or in Mississippi, where
!, costs something to be democrat and a r,
d former" how many radicals would publls
/ his words? On the contrary what do the
say? Instead of cOnceding, that 'over eleve
t wears ago. he ceased to be confederate an
"has tried to be loyal to his countrys fla
ever SINCE" as they grant in the case of tn
, Hayes man, they pronounced the Tilden SUP
porter sham, rebel and a scoundrel fit 70
the blacklist lnfamy. According to these rad
ica thieves, he is still reconstructed, I'm
repentant; still Matching rebellion and mis-
chief, and they declare that his brother dem
ocrats in the north are no better. Only tn,
other night such little pop.gun squirts al
Gen" p. c. Hayes and Judge Hopkins ant
jim Goodspeed had the barefacedness tc
spout on that doctrine. Such men as Eight
ing Joe Hooker" Gems Sigel, Hancock
Shields, Buell., Slocum, Wallace and thous
ands of others, officers and privates IN the
northern army from first to last we're brand
ed as northern doughfaces" and copper
heads while Guerilla Mosby, Longstreet,
&c, land John A. Logan who, as every man
of prominence In southern Illinois well
knows, recruited, at the beginning of the
war, for the rebsl service,) were patriots and
heroes whose proper place is the It'll heaven
of glory, but who unfortunately happen to
be filing their pockets from the whisky.ring,
&C., like school boys stealing apples, expect
ing the farmer any moment. The insult to
LIVING democrats who fought for the union,
and to the thousand of democratic soldiers
whose remains fill southern graves, by this
nonsense that all the fighting on the federal
side during the war was done by republicans,
and that no democrat had anything to do
with Saving the union," is palpable. In
1860 of the tour candidates for the presiden
cy, Lincoln received but 1857 900 votes while
the other three received 281 900 conseq uently
If we believe these republican spouters mil.
lion and half republicans fought and whip
ed two million and half democrats, which
is rather strong dose for thinking man
even in campaign days. AT the same election
the republicans had majority in Illinois of
only about 5000, and yet the state sent over
100000 men to the field. The regiments
raised sonth of Springfield averaged at least
democratic. The soldiers from
this city itself were more democratic than
republican. The dirtyness of these state
ments and the utter disregard for truth or
decency which characterises the Granite
press is shown clearly by the late dlsreputa-
BILE attack on Chas. Francis Adams by the
Tribune and Journal who call him north
ern doughface,' and say that his nomination
Is triumph of the most AFFECT subservi-
,ncy to the rebel element of the SOUTH" en-
.ircly forgetting that he was conspicuous
and active counselor of both Of Lincoln's
and also of Grants first ad-
and only left that party when 1t
1ecame so rotten that his sense Of right and
iecency could stand 1t no longer and he per.
,eived that il was beyond reach of reforming
tself l.
There IS proverb in the South to this e.
ect whenever yeu hear man talk about
letting up another rebellion, you may make
Up your mind that he stayed at home in the
n the last one The same Idea holds good
n the North. With but few exceptions tn,
men who are now waving the bloody shin .
most furiously kept their garments entirely
rec from blood when the fighting was goinp
IN. They are preaching another war nowi '
because they never saw enough war to dread
/. The genuine veterans on both sides want
'eace-soid and enduring peace; and theyl
will support no party whose stock -in-trade is
alsehoods expressly designed to fire theI
Northern heart" and revive the SECTIONAL I
which have so long made the I'm
On, that has cost $50 much, melancholy 10
ham. III
The truth is that this whole fiuster of "the 1"
DOR soldier" and "boys-in-blue" conventions n
re cheap devices by which rotten party
opes to float itself through the presidential
ampaign on the tick of sectional prejudice
TO use the flag our emblem of truth, right ,
nd purity, us a drop curtain to shield their 7
Illainies, their stealings and corruptions In
he north, and their outrageous misrule in \
lie south, from the view and execration of an y
idignant people. VIII they succeeds
The recent attacks of the Chicapo TtiIu,sI