The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-18

tual rank. But, while we cannot have the
Southern lira-n III our politica! house as
wife, she MAY lu very well as Il hired girl. On
to de kitchen, Dinah!
NOW TO MAKE Us A NATION.
Complete the Revolution Of 900 by
Frst-FOrmally changing the name OF this
Republic TO America.
SecOnd-A brogn,ing so much Of the ConstI
tuition of what was the United States As con
hCts with the National solidarity, For exam
pie, such clauses Us recognize the individual de
partments rs States; that give to each State
two Senators irrespective Of population; that
give to each State one and only one vote, in
case Il Presidential election is thrown into the
House: that permit each State TO adopt Con
1Stitutlon OF Its own; that recognize State
Courts; that lnhibit the National Executive
and his Cabinet from reviewing so called State
Legislation.
Thirdly abrogating all State Constitu.
tons, and granting to the provinces or depart
ments thus created charters under which the
citizens OF each department might transact
their business
Four,h-By withholding charters from those
rebeilious States tina: torcibly resisted the rev.
olution of '60--'85.
Fif.h-By inauguratiRg Grant INTO the
American Presidency, March 4, 1881, and keep
ing him in the Presidential chair till the Ma
ton is consolidated.
THIS would complete the Revolution, and
the Stalwarts will never rest until they have
accomplished their glorious work.
ARE WE A NATION.
Scntimentaly speaking, we are
Stump specifically, we are.
Fourth yically, we are.
Spread eagley, we are.
| Yet the sentimentsliss, stump speakers,
Fourth of July orators, and spread eagle writ
ers, all profess profound admiration for the
Constitution, which says-we are not
We are not, and never can be a Nation so
long as there are SO Constitutions, each State
having two Senators in Congress, and entitled
to one vote in case of a Presidential election
gong into the House.
! We are not so long as u Rebel Bri gadler sits
in Congress, or it is possible tor one to get
there.
Nor so long As the rickety, battered, and
busted Constitution of the old United States is
recognized as fundamental law.
| Nor so long rs Republicans content them
selves with standing on the ramparts yelling:
This is Nation.
Nor will it be until Grant is seated lnsthe
| White House, surrounded by stalwartS, and
they proclaim-thc Nsti0n.
COMPLETE THE REVOLUTION,
that is to make lis Il Nation-change the name
abolish the COnstltution--canCcl State lines.
Abrogate State Constitutions -reorganize the
Senate-elect Grant-prOclaim the Nation.
1t was the passage of the Fugitive Slave
law that inaugurated the Revolution of --65.
Taking advantage Of the Constitution the
people of the North asserted and maintained
the doctrine of State sovereignty, as no South
ern State ever had the courage to do.
;cli nd
other Northern States detied and successfully
resisted the United States Government, in Its
ridiculous and false claim to supreme severe
ignty over the States, as they had right to do
under the Constitution.
They detied the so called Nation, and made
1t II crime against the sovereign States TO aid
in the enforcement of the odiOus Fugitive.Slave
law
They had a right to do so, for then this Re
public was a League, not a Natlon-a United
States not State.
But this GROWING act Of infamy by the slave
holding Barons of the South kindled the fires
of revolution destined to sweep them and
their institutions from the Continent
The North rose in its ma esty, purged the
halls Of Congress of their slavebolding and
doughface majOrties
Placed Lincoln in the Presidential Chair.
And inscribed Freedom on its banners.
And swore by the eternal gods that this great
Republic is IA Nation, that liberty is National,
and that any State that dared to resist, by viz
tue Of any pretended sovereignty, should be
COerCcd.
This was not Constitutional 1t is true; but
revolutions are the higher law, to which all
Constitutions are subOrdinated.
And the advent Of Lincoln to the Chief Mag.
lstraCy was the revolution.
inv. Atatn sr,,t,,
sectional shuttecock, passed from State to State
from section to section, as party and political
eXgenCieS required.
Eleven sovereign States resumed their SOW
ereignty and detached themselves from the
United States; but it was then too late.
The election of Lincoln was a political rev
olution, whose very essence was the transform.
ing of the United States INTO Nation.
The II States refused 10 concur in the rcvo-
luton.
But revolutions never 90 backward
And blood seems to be as necessary to legal
ize revolutions as preachers tell Us it is needed
for the souls salvation.
Enough
The doctrine of the revOutionists was in
dorsed by the God of Battles, and those who
had dared TO excite them were Rebels and Trait
Ors.
Aud the United States ceased to exist
a great business is going on this year in the
importation Of iron from Africa for use in
American manufacturers. The Philadelphia
Times says that the great reason tor preterring
African iron to native ore is, of course, its