The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-03-14
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stood 10 bc the melam,rphosis of u late enginee
= on the canal. who at one time, was a person U
considerable consequence, bu, havirg some Ill
years ago reached his eliminating point. he ha
since then been dNlndling down, until at rrcscn
he is iliu T. act the pan e "A skunk, Whose wca
pom is its flth, OF of viper in tAc gra.s. tia
''bilcih ia The heel
BY way Of beginning in bis new and dir,
J" vocation, this "nayls NJ. - has opened 9Th,
II shower on tie delegation to the legislature from
u the canal region aud all II thcm except two ~
q" three have alfcady BY turns received drcuchlng
: Hitherto wc have scdulou.I> avoided any contact
with him--frun. an instructive aversion to having
" aoghi to DO with any thing So filthy but as the
nuisance appears to he growing worse aud worse,
- and is no credit to the country, and may do some
injury, the public good would seem to require
tina, it shorld be Gbaled.
- The reason why Mr. Ryan comes in everysim,
Tor q full share Of his abuse, is easily comprehen-
lcd. Up To 1888 Melmotte bad always been
flaming democrat. /, wasin that year that Doug
lass WAS candidate for congress in this district
ncer on tho canal, became dissatisfied with the
nomination, and using the influence Of his Office
and several disorganizcrs uniting with him, sue
ccedcd in swindIing Douglass out Of his election
From that time his democracy waycred and The
hard cider huua commencing in the follow M
year, he was carried along by the tide end soon
became, as lie still is, one Of Tic mos, fouI.moutb
ed wings in the eo"'..ry. Daring all this time
Ryan, Il! MT a mc,c stripping. employed under
"emoiic, 1as in spite of threats and entrcatcs to
The contrary an active and efficient laborer in the
great cause Of democracy; and it remarkable
fact lhat abont as rapidly us Mclmotc wen, dQwn
Ryan rose, until now there is infinitely more des-
parity between the two thsn thcro was 1888, with
their positions reversed. Ryan is now "A senator
IN the legislature from this di.tric,, has lately
been employed 10y the state in conducting in the
important negotiation. in which he acquitted him.
self with signal ability and fidelity, and enjoys the
full confidence and good wishes Of the people Of
all northern Illinois. Melmottc, on the contrary
no, trusted by the wings, bobbing in vain after
every petty Office, and obliged, for aught we
know, to gain his subsistence by hiting on, as
common lihellcr. Its that this grinds Mcmottc.
Gould Ryan be dragged wn--dcgrajed-
could Melmotlc sympa,hise with him-,hcn all
his spleen would vanish. But that he, lately
mere stripping, an undersirappeI--shoud now be
honorcd and caressed and Memo,ic, who bot a
day ago looked down upon him, should hmsclfbe
an object Of contempt-,his is most in,ocrable--
this Is more than his constitution can bear.
That we have ske,ched the true cause Of Mel
NOTES hatred of Mr.. Ryan, were there no other
circumstances to prove it, would be sufficiently
npparen, from the charges themselves that he |
brings against him. "IIow much Of the spois |
has he pockcted during his two years journeying
in Europe !" Thus is one charge made, and It's
utter absurdiy will appear when the reader is
made acquainted with the fact that, for all his
unweared toll, Mr.. X. received barely CROUCH |
to enable him by strict economy to meet his ex-
penses Charge No. 2-"The gentleman from |
London" This is groan cxtorted by the fact
that Mr.. R. was entrusted by the state with i'm
pnrian, business across the water, while Melmotte |
could net even get the job of planning a slough !
bridge at home. But the third and only remain
ing charge is by far The most ridiculous. Mr.
Ryan is graveIy charged with having s,riven 'to
defeat the canal bill, to vent his spleen upon Col
Oakley" We hardly know how to treat such
charge seriously. Why, in the first place, no two
men in the state are on more amicablc terms than
Mr.. L. and Col. O.. And then that he s,rove TO
deiea, the canal bill! when every body knows
that he labore1 for it day aud night-wrote in ia.
vor Of i,-made the bes, speech of tho session in
favor Of it--and never failed to vote for single
proposition tcnding to favor its passage Ryan
has hung upon for four years To show how We.
ry widely Melmo,,e has come Of the mark in ,hi.
foolish charge, we call the readers attention to
tho following paragraph from IN editorial in the |
"ConsIitutionaIisl," the wing paper printed in
this Town, showing the opinion that ia entertain
ed here % Mr.. Ryan's course by the candid men
Of all pArtes;-
"But Their, is one other man, in our judgment
to whom the pco ,1lc Of Illinois are more deeply !
indebted for their pr, sen, proud position, as con-
trasted with their lately 50 dehascd one. than 10
any other one man in the s,s 10 or out OF ii--thal
man ia MICHAEL RYAN Parry considerations
shall never, 80 help us God, induce US to swerve
from u straight forward--and as we fec, 1t TO be-
manly acknowledgement of ncri, and scr> ice, 10
phomsoepr due; and although we have ben
blamed, On party considerations for the approha.
ton with which we have spoken Of Mr. Ryan's
services and conduct, we believe tina, we have fall.
EN- short Of Instead of exceeded. n ius, apprecia.
ton Of them, in what we have hitherto said in re.
gard to him. Facts and circumstances arc with.
IN our knowledge, however, that enable us moro
iuiiy 10 appreciate M. Ryans services, than can