The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-07-31
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der and the trial. What the ultimate oh.
ject is, | do not know.
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I'm .7mcricm M0:her.-We were
shown the other day, saws the Rio
/ Grande Republican, a letter from mo-.
/ ther to her son, volunteer in the army.
and were SO much enraptured with its
style that we absolutely forced it from
hIm for publication, liz strains are so
much like those which actualed our rev
Dictionary mothers, and the affinity so
great, that we though, our readers could
not be served with anything they would
relish more. The son had left without
advising the mother of the fact of his vol
unteering until he had left for the seat of
war, and she commences her letter as
/ follows -
"What shall say, my dear son -
You write me you have left for Texas.
Had YOU written me, d" Mother, shall /
volunteer - | could have said No. The
bones Of my first born, for aught know,
are yet unburled on the plains of GoIIad,
and grief for his loss broke his fathers
heart. | have had enough of Texas.
But you are lighting for your own coun-
try, have chosen your path, and God
prosper you in ii.-and If a mothers
prayers are Of any avail you will pass
unframed in the lhickest of the fight.
where have no doubt YOU will be nor
DO | wish otherwise, for | would blush
to own a coward son. But remember
Il, rashness is not bravery; there
tore tie brave, but prudent II is your
country, and you have righ,-yea, are
in duty bound to fight her battles and
say to you fight for your country, right
or wrong. That America will ultimately
be victorious, have no doubt; yet
have not so contemplate an opinion of
Mexican valor as our newspaper editors
have. There is good Spanish blood IN
parts of Mexico, and Spaniards are not
towards, as the Peninsular war will les.
tify.
MY earnest prayers are for your well
fare, whatever your lot may be and that
you may return unharmcd, a credit to
yourself and country, is the only hope
Of your devoted mother"
Death Of Co.. McNuhy.-From let.
tiers received in this city, we learn that
Col. &. ]. McNulty, Of the Mount Yer.
non Guards, died on board the steamboat
jamestown, when about 25 miles above
Randolph, Tenn, at half.past six o'clock
p. NJ. on the l2th Of July. lie was uG-
well when the boat left Cincinnati, and
continued to grow worse, until he died.
Every attention was paid him, particu-
larly by DR.. Treviit, the regimenta sur
geon, and by Col. Morgan, the comman-
ding officer. These gentlemen gave up
their state room to him, in order that his
situation might be made as comfortable
as possible and DR.. Treviu watched
over him personally, from the hour he
I '6i'C WI ubdIu Nh'ii iiC uitu' 4NOlIiIHB,
indeed, was omitted, tina, humanity and
skill could perform.
The remains Of Col, McNulty were to
have been buried at Helena, Arkansas,
with military honors. Ohio Statesman.
companlcd by younger female wen,
few days since into store in Quebec,
for the purpose of making purchases,
when the young woman was recognized
as the daughter Of Mr.. Kngsland, a
sievedorc living in this city. Mr.. X.
was sen, for, and declared his belief tina,
the girl was his daughter, but she would
have nothing To do with him. resisting
all the parental appeals and cllngng to
her Indian companions. The party was
afterwards carried before magistrate and
various allidavils taken, the females being
finally sent to prison TO await the return
from the country of Mrs. Kingsland the
suppose! mother Of the Young savage.
Mr.. X. il seems lost his child nine or ten
years since, aud supposed she had fallen
into the river and been drowned, being
at the time but three years Of age. She
cannot, speak word Of Engish.-Netc
FORK Courier.
2rue.--A contemporary Observes
/" Almos. the very worst thing tina. can
be said of man is that he has no en-.
emies. lie. any one undertake TO speak
the truth, but for single day, and his
enemies will multiply like the drops Of
the morning. In concealment lies the
safety Of the timid man.