The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-11


We are seeking the light of history
We have no wish to blur or blot out an.
fact of Importance concerning the dead.
conflict that imperiled our Union and tn
great republic. In 1862 the Republican
party meant the American people, Tn
! war was on; every day, almost, 1t brough
mourning and desolation to tho house
| holds where the widow and the orphan
| cried to God for loved ones killed or love'
ones dying. Men Were with or agains
us. How this party has fallen from IT.
| high estate TO level of loathlng an,
contempt is shown in the fact that thu
poor creature who not only dared not e
| to the front, but abandoned his party fol
the sake of wretched little Office, |!
now, through Republican votes, vice pres
ident Of the country he sought to betray
In its doadliest hour of peril.
The facts of that shameful affair, rs il
went to record in the Kansas Republican
press Of that day, are, when read in the
light of the senator's position now, as
ludicrous and shameful The Leaven
worth Conservative, a sound Republican
paper, styled coalition of soreheads and
copperheads traitors To their country. III
an article published Sept. 81, 1862, the
editor says:
"We concedc to the mongrel opposition
peace ticket in this state the following
support:
"Of every man who has been in the
guard house under suspicion of treason.
"Of the men who declared free state
hotels nuisance and RACED them to the
ground.
"Of the scoundrels who butchered anti.
slavery men in cold blood in the presence
of their wives and families.
"Of tho men who stuffed our ballot
boxes and instigated the raids of Missouri
rufiians upon our soil.
"Of every man who has a safeguard
from the Brigand Quantrell in his pocket.
"In short, of all who can join in an ALI
ance of. traitors, plunderers Of the state
treasury, Of the opponents OF tho war,
and those who are willing TO terminate 1t
at any cost to our free Institutions
In 1854 the regular Republican oonven.
ton nominated the governor who had
been elected two years before. Again the
copperheads and boiling soreheads hold
co operative conventions. and PLACED In
tho Held state ticket. Again this AMI
mated senatorial mud volcano Of patriotic
vituperstion appeared AZ = candidate for
lieutenant governor on what the Repub-
licans OF Kansas called the Treason ticket
How it was regarded by the loyal Repub
1icans Of Kansas the following choice
phrases from the Leavenworh Conserva-
tive tells US:
1T is mistake to suppose" says this
organ. chat all Copperheadism in Kansas
is embraced within the limits u the so
called Democratic organization. We have
hitherto shown that the embryo boilers
party was preparing to merge itself into
what has now become the Mcclellan Tory
party A man is known by the company
he keeps. We heartily detest the Peek
sniilian policy which characterizes this
faction. II refused to ratify the Lincoln
ticket. We call this the meanest kind Of
Copperheadism. Let the Re
publican press be warned In time against
cOuntenancing movement which, under
pretense Of reforming existing state or
ganization. designs, by way OF securing
for the plotters the control Of Federal
patronage. to deliver it into the hands Of
tho worst enemies Of our country. and
give the electoral ticket Of Kansas to the
peace candidate for the presidency"
On the 18th Of October of that year this
paper said of the gang of boilers to which
our Ingalls, belonged:
"They prefer to regenerate the Repnbli-
can party Of Kansas by combining with
the Mcclellan and Pendleton Democrats
and by dividing the Offices with the
trainers and supporters Of the ignomini
Gus peace platform Of Chicago framed by
Ben. Wood Vallandigham. Seymour, Pen
dleton, Voorhees, and Dodd."
Remembering that heated personal dis
cussion which disgraced the senate cham
Der not long since between our patriotic
censor In perpetual solution and the tall
son of the Wabash. the above extract Is
curious reading Poor Voorhees, is sand
wiched between Pendleton and Dodd;
while the sponsor of the unholy alliance,
tho would be lieutenant governor, besses
tho combination that so lately he de-
nounced until the freited ceiling Of the
senate chamber fairly ratified with his
vituperative sentences.
This same journal continues on the 10Th
of November the now very awkward his
tory Of the disloyal alliance. 1t says:
1T was a vicious, treacherous and un.
holy alliance between the secret enemies
of the government and set of disap-
pointed, insncere and INSCRIPTIONS
hangers on of the Republican party. The
Thatcher vote (Thatcher was the head Of
Ingalls, ticket gives the strength of the
Mcclellan Democracy and apostates com
bined the real strength of soreheads and
mongrels.
Again it says;
These factionists have the brazen au.
dacity to call themselves Republicans. A
large number of these men are either dis
charged or disappointed Office seekers.
They combined with Democrats, copper
heads and traitors to get into power,
They failed in their effort, and are already
trying to come back under the sheltering
wings of the Republican party"
The story of the TRAITORS ticket" can
be told and Catos part is not brilliant In
beginning, continuation or end. This
volunteer advocate Of the soldier, this
animated senatorial dyspepsia who springs
to his feet when the soldier is mentioned,
and hurls anathemas ut southern briga.
diers and northern Democrats because Of
his great love of the men under muskets
who saved the Union, did not receive the
support nor enjoy the confidence of those
same men of the muskets while the war
was going on. Out of the soldiers vote
our Cato got Gil to the votes given his
opponent, which counted 2,04l, SO that
every four out Of the five, voting as they
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