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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21
SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX.
AN EXTREMELY VARIED AND FAIRLY
SUCCESSFUL CAREER.

He Was Only incidentally Humorist,
but Always a Practical and asrd Work.
Ing Legislator--A Quarter Of Century
In Congress-is57 to 1889.
Now that Congressman Samuel Sullivan
Cox has passed to his eternal rest, the Amer
lean public fully realizes the good work he
did. He was humorist, 1t Is true; but he
was far more. He was virtually the creator
of the life saving service on the coasts, and
secured the enactment Of the desired laws by
congress; he devised and systematized the
best practicable system Of taking the census;
he drafted and had passed several laws of
great value to New York city, and during
the civil war he was conspicuous among the
very few men who opposed the general policy
of the administration, and yet was never for
one moment misunderstood or accused Of
fsltering in devotion to the Union and con-
stitution. His own statement Of his position
In those exciting times has been accepted by
mon Of all parties. 1t was given In his
Eight Years In Congress" In 1895, and ran
as follows:
II represented you truly when l warned
and worked from 1856 to 1860 against the
passionate zealotry Of north and south. l
supported every measure which was consti-
tutional to suppress the rebellion. At the
same time have fully challenged the con-
duct of the administration in the use OF the
means committed to it by devoted people.
Believing that proper use OF such means
would bring peace and union, and believing
In no peace as permanent unless 1t were wed
ded to the Union in love and contentment, l
have omitted no opportunity to forward
these objects. This have done in spite OF
threats and violence For doing it your con-
Hdence has not been diminished, but in
creased"
It may be added that though many believe
he erred in many Of his votes, all concede his
honesty and patriotism. He was, indeed, OF
patriotic ancestry on both sides. His pater-
nal grandfather entered Washington's army
as a captain and rose to the rank Of brigadier
general, and his father was one Of the pioneer
settlers and statesmen of Ohio, while his
mother was of the Sullivan family of Revo-
lutionary times. OF Irish descent, Samuel
Sullivan Cox was born at GAINESVILLE, O.,
Sept. 80, 1924 He graduated at Brown uni
versity in 1916, worked long and earnestly as
editor and contributor to Il local paper, spent
a year in Peru as secretary Of legation, trav-
eled in Europe, wrote "The Buckeye
Abroad" and did many other good things
before reaching the age Of 80, at which age,
in 1856, he was elected to congress.
Three times reelected, he served continu-
ously eight years; then, having missed two
terms, he re-entered congress, this time from
the Ninth district of New York. He had
taken up his residence in the city in 1865 In
1870 he was reelected; in 1872 he was beaten
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21
Truth n Tough,

Does not Mr.. Bryant say that Truth
will get we'll II she is run over Ly laco-
motive, while errur dies of lock jaw II she
scratches her auger," The truth about DR.
Pisrce's Pleasant Pellets will he found
hard to suppress. All who take them find
them gentle In their action. but true 10
their work. Don't be afraid of mercury
o. anything harmful In them. They are
purely vegetable aud perfectly harmless
No use of taking the large, repulsive and
nauseous pills. These Pellets, Cittle liver
pills) are scarcely larger than mustard
seeds They cure sick headache, bilious
headache, dizziness, constipation, idiges-
tion and bilious attacks; a5c vial, by
druggists.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21
pEVASrATION AM ATLANrIc CIrY-

DEVASTATION AT ATLANTIC CITY.
back of the hotel pulled it out of its mooriugs
and took it back where it was thought the
wild waves spoken of would never reach it,
but, bless you, they forgot all about the posi-
BILE conjunction of neap tides with cyclone.
And at sea also great damage was done
Many vessels were cast ashore, and many a
brave sailor boy went to "Davy Jones
locker"
Great is the power Of water
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21

The coal mining business In La Sale IL
just the same rs II has been only u little
more 80. The miners are willing TO do the
same work they did last year on ueduc.
ton of cents per ton. The eper tors
will pay this rate only they want more
brushing. Apparently the miners have
been waiting for the operators 70 come
and see them, and the operators have sp.
parently been waiting for the miners tC
come and see them But neither side has
visited the other up TO date
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21

pensions, was born
in Kansas City in
lAl. His C h ild-
hood was not spent
among the scenes
Of border warfare
which took place
there between the
Pro-Slavery an d
Free Soil parties. He
was brought up and
began his education
in Wisconsin. For
a time he was a
student in the Law
"a
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21
Infant Physics.

Mother-What have you done with your
new gun, Jackl
Jack-Frowed it down de well.
Mother-How do you ever expect to get it
outi
Jack-Oh, when the world turns over to-
morrow it will drop out.-Harper's Young
People.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21

Catarrh lisa common disesse,, 80 common
that suffering and hawking" reach YOU q
every turn. Your foot slips In Its mast,
discarge, In the omnibus or 10 the church
and Its stencil disgists at the lecture o.
concert. The proprietors OF Dr. Sage
Catarrh Remedy offer $500 reward for ,
case OF catarrh which they cannot cure
Remedy sold by druggists ut SOC.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21

their venture. In
the first year they
paid OIL all their
debts, and in the
second year their
carrying trade had
assumed such pro
portions that they
were obliged TO
purchase n larger
steamer, for which
they paid 5000.
Nov. 20, 1887, Mrs.
Hill applied for and
was granted q mas
ter's and pilots
license. That same
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21

for congressman at
large. The xt
election he came in
again, and was re
elected again and
again till his years
of service lacked
but little of a quar-
ter of a century. OF
his return to con-
gress Hon. James
G. Blaine in his his
tory says:
at was not pos
sible for Mr.. Cox to
keep out of the po-
litical field. H S
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21

The Mendoza Union Fair, In u financial
respect at least, was not u success for It's
managers, the expenses having amounted
TO $4.204 90 aud the receipts footing up but
S3,661.3O. leaving shortage Of $626.70,
which Is to be made good by the guarsn-
tors, party OF gentlemen who agreed Ia
make good any deficit which might result
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21
Buckltn,s Arnica Salye.


The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter
chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin
eruptions, and positively cures piles, or TO pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give perfect sat
isfaction. or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box For sale bv ID. Lorriaux.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21

Erlemeyer says that children born of wo-
men addicted to the morphine habit are
practically morphine eaters from birth.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21


Mrs. E. Slattery, of Delhi, La, says her
son, IA years OF age, had a, dreadful time
with ulcers, sores and blotches which fol.
lowed chicken pox. After using many
remedies without benefit, she gave him
Swift's Specific, which cured him sound
and we'll
We have sold s s. S since the first day
we commenced the drug business, and
have lead some wonderful reports OF Its
effects. Many use 1t with best results to
cleanse malaria from the system, and for
hood poison, scroffula aud such diseases
II Is without rival.
COLpERwOoD Il Co, Monroe, La,
Mr.. ". A Tibbs Is A printer In the of
fee of the Jackson, Miss, Clarion Lager
He says that three years ago he was VIC.
tim of bad blood, which deprived him Of
health and threatened serious consequence,
He further says that he took s ). 8. and II
cured him.
have been subject to painful bOils and
carbuncles over my body during the spring
season, and after much suffering, ard
much useless doctorlng l found perma-
nent cure in Swifts Specific. II is the
monarch of blood medicines.
T. j. WILLIS, Augusta, Ark.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21
Mai. william Warner.

William Warner, who is spoken OF as sue
sor to Corporal Tanner, commissioner Of
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-09-21
THE RECENT STORM.
How the Water Was Heaped Up All Along
the Atlantic Seaboard.

Those who read the story and have seen
the pictures Of the great Conemaugh flood
have good idea of the great power of wa
ter, and a renewed illustration of this power
is furnished by the storm which recently
created so much devastation all along the
Atlantic coast When the sun and the moon
pulled together and attracted the earths wa
The true northerner., 1889-06-26

land. MAJ. Warner clearly explained that
the present treaty only added to the old
one, not having any effect to do away with
that. He concluded his task by sn ap-
peal to them as friends 10 RENE mber that
they were fathers and should provide
their children with some security against
the future. Two Strikes, disgruntled
old chief, harangued them briefly. asking
for further increase OF the price of the
land. When in Washington last winter
he thought $l.25 enough. but now he
thought an increase of 20 cents would be
just; but of course such an increase was
beyond the powers OF the commission.
Speeches were made by the most stren-
nous opposers to the bill-Hollow Horn
Bear. Two Strikes, and Yellow Hair The
first speech was made by Two Strikes,
briefly in the following language: What
/ said the other day, the same 1 say to-
day. There were some payments which
YOU promised me under the treaty Of
lS6S for thirty years TO come. Now, when
there are ten years yet TO come in which
We are to receive annuity goods and all
those things which you promised me, you
come with another treaty. We all remem-
ber that other treaty. You say this treaty
and the one of 1868 go along hand in
hand / cannot understand this. MY
thought and that of my people is to have
payment for the goods as promised in
1868. L have heard about John GLASS
Charging Bear asking for Sips for this
land in Washington, but / know nothing
about this. l ask for 20 cents more. so
our young men can have money to buy
better clothes. Tell this TO your Great
Father and see what he says. If he says
give % cents more We will sign"
Yellow Hair, who has always opposed
The true northerner., 1889-06-26

Under the auspices of the Southern
Interstate Immigration Committee
there met recently at Montgomery,
Ala, convention of 100 able-bodied
and physically indolent white men to
devise ways and means for tilling the
farms in that State. The session open
ed with prayer, the chaplain complain
ing to the Almighty that "the plow
stands still in the field of promise and
briers cumber the garden of beauty"
and beseechiDg Him to send them i'm
migration and "to conduct those who
are exposed to the chilling winds of
frozen regions to this favored land,
where summer sings and never dies, ="
and closing with other fowery and
equally futile appeals for help, recall
ing the fable of the WAGNER who cried
to Jove for help when his wagon was
in the mud and was advised by that
deity to put his own shoulders to the
wheel. The prayer was followed by
discussion of vague sort, which tra-
versed every suggestion but the right
one bearing upon the reasons for the
decadent conditions of Alabama's farm
ing industry. 1t did not occur to any
of these Southern gentlemen that the
negroes are the natural tillers of the
soil In that warm climate; that no
other class can de the work so well as
they, and that if they were encouraged
70 labor by any hope of reward, If they
The true northerner., 1889-06-26

when you can live by hunting. snd now
you can only live as the white man does
by tilling the soil. The Great Father
wishes that your sons shall be taught
how to farm and become mechanics. and
your daughters shall become your school
teachers, and that the money which is
now paid TO the white men shall be paid
TO your own people, and that you shall
become citizens as the white men. He
has sent us to YOU to tell of this bill, and
we can neither add to it nor take any
thing"
He explained how the proposed reser-
vaton for this agency exceeded in size
that in last years bill, and on that point
alone there was enough land 10 give ey-
cry man. woman and child 1872 acres, and
that in the whole reservation there would
be $50 acres for each Indian, young and
old. I'm this bill il is provided that YOU
may take your land in severalty and have
patent" He explained the provisions
with reference to allotments. and as to
the assistance tho Government would
give in starting them in the new path;
also with reference 10 the educational pro-
visions, and the permanent fund created,
and how the interest is to be expended.
Major Warner concluded by asking each
one not TO be influenced by prejudice, by
anger, or fattery, but urged each one to
think and act for himself. At the con-
clusion of his speech the council broke up.
Throughout the council the Indians lis
tened with close attention and were evil
IDENTIFY impressed by the clearness in
which the act of Congress was explained
by the Commissioners. 1t is probable
that they will expect several days in
which to talk with each other before they
will take any decided action.
The true northerner., 1889-06-26

the treaty, s. id: i want 70 be white
man and work like white man, as my
Great Father ask me to- / want when |
work, TO get lood pay for it, and to learn
TO be a blacksmith, carpenter, and so
forth. When / was III Washington the
Great Father took me around and was a
friend TO me. He promised me many
things, but we did not get them. Why
did they lie 10 us? Some white men come
here and are good 10 us and are our
friends. We are glad when such men
come here and are their friends. l shake
hands with you with a good heart. You
give me rations and l am glad. We must
learn TO work and know how to make a
living. We want the Indians and half
bloods to be employed at the agency,
then the money will stay here and not 90
east like now, when the white men do
the work.
From Rosebud the Commissioners went
10 Pine Ridge Agency and held a council
with the Indians. All the principal
chiefs and many OF their bands, as well
as the representative men of mixed blood,
were present Agent Ii. ID. Gallagher
was chosen by the Indians to act as in
terpreter
Gov. Foster. Chairman of the Commits
sion, then addressed the Indians. He
said: My friends, we greet you by that
name and believe you meet US in that
spirit The Great Father has sent us to
you with an act of Congress for your ac-
ceptance or rejection. We are here to
explain il to you fully, and any word we
say or you say will be taken down and car
RED to the Great Father-your questions
and our answers-and if we talk wrong,
then the Great Father will know it and
all that We do will 90 for nothing. One
of our number is known among the In
dians as a man who never deceived them.
We expect you to ind that we will do the
same way You must know that you can
not now live as your fathers did. The
Great Father and his council have for
long time been studying what il was
best TO do for you, and last year sent a
commiss sion to you with n bill which you
rejected. Then he sent for your head
men and talked with them at Washing
ton, and now this commiss on presents
to you bill which is practically
what your head men said they
You must not expect that the
Great Council will be more liberal in the
future than it is now. He here exhibited
large map of the Sioux Reservation.
The Government asks YOU to sell that
portion marked yellow. He pointed
out the limits Of the proposed reserva-
yation for this agency. He then ex-
planned fully the provisions of the pres
ent bill, and poin ed out the c.fierence
b.tween the present and last years bill.
He concluded: We are not here to ask
your consent if you are unwilling TO give
1t, but the Great Father and all your
friends among the white men believe this
bill is good one for you.
Major Warner then spoke 10 the In
dians. He saits My friends, the days
of war are past, and the days of peace be-
tween the white men and the rel men
have come. The Great Father sends US
here to-day to talk with YOU as one friend
talks with another. The day is past
The true northerner., 1889-06-26
The Vets Elected Free Liquor Hill.

New York Tribune: Gov. Hills
vetoes OF temperance bills are not sur
prising to anybody. Even the mex.
cusable abusiveness and partisanship
of his vetoes appear natural with such
n Governor at such crisis. He be-
haves disgracefully, but no one had
right to. expect anything better from
him. The World is a Democratic pa
per of sufficiently intense partisanship,
and yet it asks: "Is that the kind of
legislation and statesmanship merited
by the Empire State? 2" The impartial
historian must sadly answer, 1T is"
The Empire State knew what Gov
ernor Hill was and deliberately elected
him. 1t knew what forces were behind
him; knew that he would be owned by
the liquor saloons, if elected, as abso-
lutely as any patient beast of burden
can be owned by its driver. Dir. Hill
was elected by an open alliance be-
tween the Democratic party and the
liquor dealers to serve Their Joint pur-
poses, and no one had right to imag
inc that the liquor dealers would sign
any useful temperance measures or any
bill to restrain the liquor traffic.
So far the case is clear; the $50, 900
votes cast for Gov, Hill were cast with
full knowledge of the man and of his
relations, for every one of these voters
was bound to know that he was voting
for exactly the grade of craftsmanship
which the Governor now exhibits. But
these were not quite majority of the
whole number of votes cast. May it
not yet be said that the Empire State
merited something better?
No The votes cast for Prohibition
ticket were also cast with full warming
that they would elect David Il. Hill,
the candidate of the saloons. Every
one of these voters knew that the State
ticket for which he voted had no chance
of election. He deliberately refused
TO elect Mr.. Miller and thereby made
himself fully responsible for the cleo
ton of Hill. There is no escaping that
responsibility. The 10000 Prohibi-
tionists are, indeed, incomparably
more blameworthy than the 600, ZOO
Democrats and liquor votes, because
the Prohibitionists were entirely con.
vinced that Mr. Hill was and would be
the instrument of traffic which they
held it their sacred duty to assail and
restrain. Many thousand Democrats,
who ought to have known better and
are responsible for their ignorance,
voted for Gov. Hill in the blindness of
sheer partisanship. But the ProMbi-
tionists, who actually elected him, have
no excuse. They knew whose tool he
was, and what the traffic was which he
was elected to defend.
The true northerner., 1889-06-26

were allowed the rights of citizens, n
they were paid fair wages, even, the Al
ALBANIA farms would not be in their
present condition.
The problem stands thus: The
white gentlemen" who want to live
without work off the toll Of others, will
not hire the blacks at fair wages or en-
courage them To obtain and work land
OF their own; on the other hand, all
through the discussions there was
manifest an intention TO drive the
blacks out of the State. The white
gentlemen" want to get the blacks off
the farm and will not work themselves.
In this emergency they are praying for
immigration. In their discussions they
rang the changes upon the farming
colony of Cullman with it's fruitful
vineyards, wheat fields and smiling
pastures--a colony organized in 1873 by
Germans, who during the last few
years have wrought this magical trans
formation on what is the poorest and
thinnest soil in Alabama, and all this
without black labor. What has been
done at Cullman they are confident can
be done elsewhere in the State if more
Germans or other white immigrants
would only go there and work for a
dollar day and practice rigid econo-
my. 1t never occurred to these white
gentlemen" who are so robust each
of them in his own estimation being
the equivalent of three or four North
ern mudsills, and who are afraid of
soiling their lily-white kands, that if
they would go TO work themselves-if
they would take up the shovel and the
hoe, do the planting, cultivating, weed
ing and harvesting, and accustom
themselves to work their lands as in
dustriously as these Germans do, they
would not be dependent upon black
labor. The whole trouble in Alabama
and the other cotton States is the lazi-
ness of the whites and their determine
tion to live off the toll of others. 1t is
part and parcel of the old heredity OF
slavery, and until that policy is
changed Alabama farms will continue
going to decay. White immigrants are
not likely to be attracted by such con-
ditions. The remedy will be found
when the lazy whites 60 to work and
pull up "the briers that are numbering
the garden of beauty" Chicago Ti'ib.
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