The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-10-04

for Governor Davis. This interference
has caused all the delay, and perhaps in
the end, defeat The bond-holders had
no occasion to see Governor Davis, Meth
er did they wish 10 send for him. The
State Of Illinois had complied with her
part of the contract, and the report had
fully confirmed the statements of the
Commissioners. Had the Boston Com.
mitee desired to aid sovereign State in
her struggles TO redeem her honor and
reputation, instead Of forwarding their
own particular schemes, the least they
could have done would be, to let the cred
iiors advance the money, Instead If vol
ulcerng to warn them not to take any
steps in the negotiation until they had
sen, for Gov. Davis, and assuring them
that he held himself in readiness to come,
if they would write for him This
alarmed, as well it might, the subscribers
to the loan, and though they frankly adj
mitled they could see no occasion for send
ing for Gov. Davis, yet as they had lost
so much hy dealing in American securi-
ties, it behooved them TO proceed with
caution; and their friends in America
having given such adyice,-to guard
against blame hereafter, they must follow
il. Gov. Davis being a candidate for the
Vice Presidency, could not leave until af'
ter the Baltimore Convention. This de-
lays the whole negotiation from March
ill June, when many of the bond-holders
had left England for their summer tour
upon the Continent; Others had become
dissatisfied, and some discouraged, with
the unnecessary delay, and sold their
bonds. These and other causes, follow
ing from the advice Of the Boston Com
miuee, have paralyzed all the efforts of
the Commissioners to the present time.
In the meanwhile, the Canal has, from
its unfinished state, been going rapidly to
decay,-ihe cilzens of Illinois have be-
come disheartened and discouraged, and
all the favorable Influence anticipated from
the commencement of this work, upon
the inhabitants of that and other States,
has been lost.
The bond-hollcrs, it seems TO us, have
been very imprudent in not acting with
more decision. Even frank refusal in
the first instance, could aot have been So
disastrous as this INDIGESTION aud ialtering
The proposition might have been turned
to great advantage. if i, had been accep-
ted in time. The favorable effects Of "A
successful negotiation upon TIE public
mind of Illinois, and the example and
hope of aid that it would have held out to
the other insovent States, would have
done more to hasten the period of actual
payment, than any new train of measures
can accomplish in many years. We hes
tale not to say, that il the bond-hoders
let this negotiation inger until the next
session of the Legislature, as they have
been advised to do, they will be a long
time, very long time, in recovering the
advantage that might be gained by accep-
ting at once the present offer.
Every thing has been done by the Hi
nois Commissioners, Messrs. Oakley and
Ryan, which could be done, for the com
ple,ion Of the proposed arrangement.
They have acted in good faith towards
the bond-holdcrs, as well as towards the
State. They have eXer;ed themselves,
in season and out Of season, in every pro-
per way, for the accomp ishment of an
object which they justly deemed of great
importance to all concerned. They have
made two voyages to Europe. They
have communicated, in one way or an
other, with nearly all the bond-holders on
both sides of the Atlantic by whom we
have reason to believe their course has
been generally, and for aught we know,
universally approved. II they now re-
turn to their constituents, uncertain wheth"
er the object for which they were com
missoned, has been accomplished, or not,
they have at least the consolation of know.
ing that they have faithfully executed
their trust, according to the best of their
ability and others know that they have
not only been faithful, but judicious, in
the conduct of this most difficult, and in
some respects, most unpleasant, negocia-
ton.
Governor Dorr.
In the dark and loa,Isome penilentary
Of Rhode lsland--clsd in the degrading
habit nf Tho cnuvict and chm, out from tho