The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-06-05

To hope like that, that f,ilhs fuir star
May cid our onward path
Ottawa, May 80, 1916. NJ.
A correspondent of the Nep York
Weekly Chronicle, { an excellent
Sporting paper, that bids fair to be-
come powerful rival of the Spirit
of the Times,) descants upon the
'Jun" of going to War, and suggests
some valuable improvements in the
art of Staying, to which the atten-
ton of the Secretaries Of War and
the Navy is most respectfully invi-
ted.
Warfare the Natural State OF yunlIud.
"Ths is the age Of new Inventions,
For killing bodies aud for SAVING souls;
What opposite discoveries have we seen,
Signs of true genius and empty packets:
One makes new noses one gGIilollnc; lrts.
One breaks your bones, one sets them in the sock
" BYRON.
SIR,-Thc President, like man,
having come out for full "a 40, and
appearing determined to maintain it
, in the only true and legitimate way
according to the laws of nations, and
in accordance with the best feelings
of every true hearted son of Column
bia; as an humble lover Of liberty
and my country, beg to offer few
, observations which may prove of
value at this critical juncture.
There is nothing on earth | so
cordially detest as your chicken
hearted, pigeon-livered poltroons,
who are eternaly boring us with
their cssrstscbout peace; when sur
vey of nature must convince every
one, except those incorrigible asses,
that wdgjare is The natural state IF
man, and IF aHcreatedWe. Philos-
ophers tell ny that "Nature abhors a
Vacuum" ana venture to add that
she holds a cain in equal adherence.
let the tempess cease to agitate the
wave, and the ocean itself would
become the foul source of putrclac-
ton and loathsoRc disease.-Turn
from the physica world to the NOR
al, and VIC shall find from the time
OF Cam ana ADeto the present day,
one uninterrupHd, series of commo-
ton and butchev among the human
race. 1t is the ,me with what we
call the lower annals. The spider
seems to be borl FOR no other end
than to wage waiupon the fly; the
cat to dcvour thenouse, and so on,
to the end OF the HAPPIER. Take a
peep at two kits or a brace of
sucking puppies, en- at their play !;
see how Nature, ut great master
OF the art OF war, preparing them
for the noble purpos of their crea-
tion: their very gauols are so ma
ny sKam fights, vile we have a
pleasing variety of ing, scratch
Ing, rearing, charg'ngyinp in am
bush, and various o,heailitary ma
nGuyres; not TO fosgethe master
ly one Of re!reating, "turniuc
tail.'' o
With what rapture he I dwelt
upon the perusal of the sye of an
cient Tyre, where theIesiered
poured red-hot sand upon assail-
ants below! What SPORT must
have been to see them SIX about
like parched peas, as the I'D 90,
between the armour AMI ~ batT
skins--how the poor deyGmust
have reared! We havfothing to
compare to these contrivancesS in
our days; the use of bloodhounds to
hunt the naked negroes of st. Do
mingo, is entitled to some praise
however; nor is the scalping knife
of the Indians wholly destitute OIL
merit.
The introduction Of Congreve'.
rockets, and the catamarans and tor.
pedoes, so much talked of, aiforc
ine, however, cheering prospec'
that "neW sera' is at hand, wher
the noble art Of war will be brough
to the utmost perfection, and mill
tary and naval operations be con
Quoted upon scale worthy of grea
and enlightened nations. 1t is il
this expectation that venture t,
suggest some hints on this importan
subject, to be- improved upon b,
those who are so fortunately situa
ted as to boable to put them in prac
!. tico; oil | can do isto pray for thei
I success, which shall certainly dc
with the most fervcnt patriotic dc
votion.