The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-08-11

american army 10 enlist under the star
spangled banner and fight the battles of
freedom"
"Eh an adventurer ? murmured Wash
ington, surveying him with look of dis
trust. The noble looking warrior quail
ed not before the whitening glance of the
eye Of the American General.
~ am an exile from my native land"
said the Polander, "my country has been
overrun by fierce barbarians. Many of
my counuymen and kindred have been
slain, coniendjng in battle for their rights
and the rest, who were too proud and
fearless to bow to the power of the laugh
" conqucror, have been banished to
gloomy Siberia, to toll under Russian ty-
rants and drag out miserable existence,
more dreadful than death itself in the hor-
rid mines.
81 fought long TO free my country and
rescue her from the grasp of her ruthless
invaders. and my comrades contended
for freedom till the last, but the foe tri-
umphed. We were defeated vanqdish-
ed--our country ruined, our cities and
villages sacked and burned, our temples
desecrated by the feet Of heaihens and in
idels, our soil polluted, our liberty and
government subverted by strangers, and
our nation bloucd from the annals of the
world and now, come with a patriots
heart and patriots sword, and offer my
services in the cause Of American freedom.
have a land which was once dear to me
and is no less so now, though it is lorded
by Russian despOts with the most cursed
tyranny--though its soil has been dyed,
and its rivers crmsoned with the blood
Of my friends and relatives, degraded as
it is, still it is dear to me because il is my
own my native land. We battled for
freedom and name, 50 long as there was
hope. We called upon the nations of the
earth for help in the day of our trouble,
IN the hour of battle, we cried aloud for
succor when the Russian Autocrat, with
his marshaled serfs and servile minions,
PlaitoG with lis wild Cossacks, and SUI
warrow with his fiery legions were
swarming upon the banks of the Prague
and Vistula, and were closing around
Warsaw to crush us, we called upon Eu-
rope and the world, in the sacred name of
Liberty, in the name of God to assist us ;
to help us throw off the yoke Of the ty-
rant achieve our independence, and repel
the foe but we called and entreated in
vain. The inhabitants of the world turn
ed deaf ear to all our applications, and
permitted the naughty Russian with his
countless host to overrun the flares, and
the loveliest land beneath the sun, and
humble and conquer, and lrampe upon a
brave and gallant nation. Now | have
no country, DO home, am compelled by
fate to seek an asylum from the rage OF
tyrants in a foreign land. came here
because it is the only spot on earth where
| could hope to enjoy that freedom which
is denied me in my country, and here |
thought | should find home upon he ga
cred soil of America, ;he patriots own
land where the Goddess of Liberty de-
lights to dwell, to hover over its hallow-
ed domain, and project its own brave and
"'ag"a"'',ouS So"S' ana she,Ief 'hem "l'n
'''eF go'ueh WINGS rom the wia'h ana
IMPRESSION Oh 'he ighooIe uespo's oil 'he
European world
Say great general dare you fepose
confluence III me- STRANGER foreigner eX-
lie ana ou'caS' as am
A''eF lne conclusion oil l',S harang"e'
inc 'a'I fo'Ish warrior stood IN GREATNESS
Anxiety awaiting the reply OF Washing
ION ,huch IN 'le same gallant kn'ghuy AZ,
'''uoe IN wHich ",ioei' &c Ia MaFI"oht diu
W"c'i nc $1,000 demanding III marriage
.nc u"ug'',er OF 'ne naughty oIa baron