The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-05-06


full dumb creature would have been sacr-
feed by the younger Dayton and the two
ruflians Of officers.
"Be pacified, sir - said Caroline II
seek not to carry from my home aught but
a few necessarcs for my journey-they
are here pointing 10 little bundle in her
hand. "Your avaricious wishes shall be
gratilied-cnjoy the fruits Of your oppres-
sion--bu! be warned, the hour is not far
distant when you shall tremble at the
voice Of retrihulive justice -
"Pshaw!' said the old royalist, eve
want no canting here--the land is overrun
with rebels and their children; a ripe har-
vest is now ready for the sickle. Hurrah
for King George and his rulers ~
Only his son and the two myrmidons
of power responded to his expression,
while CmolIne turned upon him an eye
of contempt-there was FIRE in its glance,
enough to have wi,hercd hundred royal
ists-the fire of liberty, in whose flame
thrones, despots, and oppression shall yet
shriycl, like "shrunk up symbols of ami
hiIaton.
Caroline received parting salutalons
from her friends who by this time had ar
rived, each rendering her some little token
of remembrance. But her heart was full ;
she could not reply; and plucking a rose
from 4 bush planted by Henry Walworth
in her garden, and family auicula,ing,
God bless you all !" rushed from her
once happy home.
AS we have said, it was a morning in
sunny May, and all nature contributed to
cheer the dropping heart it was so with
Caroline she soon recovered her eiasti-
city Of spirits, and the cheering thought,
that she would shortly sec her father
alive, and perhaps Henry Walworth, for
she could not believe the report of young
Dayton altogether, made her pursue her
Journey joyously and vigorously. Injured
from her cradle to the pursuits of rural
life, she felt not the fatigue of the jour
ncy, and it was only when the sun was
sinking behind the highlands Of the beau
tilul Hudson, that she was reminded Of
the necessity of finding some place Of
shelter.
1t was the first night that she had ever
been doomed to pass from her native
home and to seek the hospitality of sron-
gcrs-we say hospitality, for in those
times, refinement had not planted those
convenient Inquiries, hotels, in every Sec
ton of the Union, and the traveller was
obliged to depend upon the chance cottage
of the settler or homestead of the farmer.
Thus situated, Caroline began 10 look
about her, and in little dell Off the road,
from out a clump Of trees, she behed a
blue wreath Of smoke laZiIy curling into
the golden sunset. giving signs of hahi-
tatiOn. Divcrging from the main path,
she directed her footsteps up a beautiful
avenue Of willows, which hrurht her in
front of plain substantial dwelling, built
after the antique Dutch fashion, over
which the ivy and other vines had woven
green and impeneirablc mantle. A
neat whilc-wash"d palisado surrounded
, the house and its garden, while at dis
lance lay the different rooms which show
! ed it TO be the abode Of some comfortable
5 farmer. On the porch was seated an old
man in whose silver locks and sunburn
: features might be traced the marks o
e some sixty winters he was quietly en-
i Toying the soporific fumes of Iarg'
i Dutch pipe, and was not aware OF tin
h approach of Caroline, till she stood .bctor
c him. lie started with surprise, cXclaim
;. ing
"Mein Colt, mcichcn, what bring 20
c here ?"
z ITO solicit the shelter Of your roof ii
o morning" said she, briefly.
n "And thou shalthave it, moin mechcn,
y cried the old Dutchman, rising and taIlln
ID the hand of Caroline. "You be a pratt
and guide melchen, and mcin vrow sha
,, make YOU very welcome. Come II
d come in; Peter Dcuchston never shut {
door against da traveller"
Is lie then conducted her into a plain AZ
a. comfortably furnished apartment and i
&c .old vrow' entering, made Caroline at on
welcome and a, home. A healthy AZ
'u substantial repast was placed before hc
gu and in the kindly society Of the old coupl
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