The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-11-21

marvel that such gentleman should
stoop to insult child.
Well, Mr.. M grew weary of
struggling in the city and living on
the refuse of the market; sohe sold
the little he possessed, purchased
an old horse and wagon, and with
little more than his hopeful family,
turned his footsteps westward.
Mrs. M wcpt bitterly, when
from the top of the hill she took the
last look Of her native place, the
| last farewell of the scenes Of morn
ing life, and felt that those places
should know her no more forever.
But she soon dried her eyes and
turned her face resolutely toward
the unexplored region in which
hope whispered she would find a
better home. They travelled weari-
Ily onward, and the blind goddess
who stands by the way side, bestow-
ing a guerdon on one in thousand
of the innumerable emigrants who
leave home with all its idols, and 90
forth on weary pilgrimage to court
her favor, smiled graciously on our
travellers, and pointed them to a
wealthy place.
Mr.. Nj purchased fertile
piece of land, on which he erected
cabin, and made rapid improve
ments. Wiley saw in a dim future,
the fulilment of his own desire, and
atthe age of ten years, could boast
of his expert axemanship, and bring
quite a tall beach TO the ground.
Our favorite of fortune was bles-
sed with continued health. The
winters at that time were unusually
mild; and every crop and seed
which they put into the ground
brought forth an hundred fold; ano
the laying the Great Western Cana
length-wisc through his land so in
creased its value, that in few years
he found himself rich. Willy wa:
then sent to college, and came
home at the age of twenty-iour, will
a thorough classical education. He
was seated among the Legislators o
his state and such was the conf
dence reposed in his honor and abil-
tiles, by his fellow men, that there
was no Office so responsible but the.
were eager to lay its burdens on hi
shoulders. -u
A few years ago, as he sat wit
his associates on the seat of Judge
ment, listening to Notwithstanding
,. details of sin and misery, amid thu
poor wretchcs arraigned for crime
against their fellows, were two mel
charged with burglary and arson
His very soul shrunk within hin
as he recognized in the elder of tn
two, man whom he had long for
: gotten, his fathers naughty neigh
: Dor, Mr.. W. 'This miserable
: whitc-haired felon, clothed wit
t rags, and covered with disgrace,
( he said to himself, SIS the very ma
against whom | so long harbored
bitter enmity. Well | lave no,
my revenge in full-and what is it
, A bitter drop.-Poor man | ougl
5 never to have cnvied you.'-Suc
were his thoughts as he gazed o
0 the poor man, WHO was taught /
his childhood to trust in riches, an
who, when they forsook him, turne
G to wrong and robbery.
s 1t was proved as the trial pro
y crossed, that Mr.. W and hi
SON. n-law had many years ago fai
f ed in trade, for a large amount, an
o became miserably poor. 1t SCENE
h that he had been used to live witt
o out eating but unable longer to er
I dure, he and his sun-in- law-avail
vicious-tempered fop, who ioun
. little difficulty in deceiving bot
- father and daughter-the first int
- belief of his wealth, and the othe
" into a firm faith in his worth an
} pure afection-took to gamblin
! and other disgraceful practices, b
" which they obtained precario'
" livelihood, until the commission
e the crime for which they stood az
cused. Towards the close of I'll
q trial, female muflled in an old can
81 blet cloak, and having her face col
y cealed by an old hood, and THO
"a green veil drawn over it, came in
l. the court room. She seemed
S walk with difficulty, and took a Sc
g Just behind the prisoners. The
IN she remained, silent and motionlc
'r as statue, until the jury, havil
10 agreed, without leaving the DO
p signifed that they had found We
as dict. She then claspcd her ham
III with a kind of uttcrance, and h
s. whole frame shook violently, un
OF as the word guilty fell on her brr
NJ sed heart, she sunk heavily to t
'lt floor. She was carried out and t
nv :4 ,,,to,o, oc the law possea n