The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-12-17
VOL. VIII.-NO. 90,

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another evidence of your COED Judgment
and sound capacity for the staticl you nlI' \.
High wages in short, cold working days :
and low wages for long days and hhe wta.
ther. This may be an evidence CT sound
Judgment and prudent manage mcnt; but,
it is, it reverses all experience ana SETS
aside all obsery alton. ,ssssa
II is upon such acts MS these Tint you
boast your superiority, and, With phaiass'-
cal pride, set yourself up as n Sibsr u other
men. ......- a. / ....-.. .it., Kan ~
wished you to appoint MFR. Lynch asa
over body Of the men
you admit you abruptly refused 10 do
SO, and now seek to justify yoursen "
assaults upon his character. Mr.. Lynch
had been contractor under you Tor eight
years, you knew, br ought to have known,
him well, IF your own word can be taken
for it,) and in the month of July, few days
before I recommended his appointment,
you gave him letter which here COPY:
CANAL Orror, LccKpoRr,
July I'd, lS47.
Mr.. DAMN. LyNtn-Dedr AT:--Hav-
ing settled up for the work which you have
executed on the Illinois and Michigan Ca
nal, understand You intend to be ccm-
petitor for contracts upon other pubhc
works, and ! am happy to give my testing,
ny in your favor. have known You well,
for many years, and have no hesitation in
saying you have displayed much energy
and perseverance as a contractor ard that
have 10 doubt il you succeed in obtaining
contracts in other places, the work viii be
managed TO the satisfaction Of the cfIicers
in charge. Truly yours. 5r - a.ys laa
WILLIAM Goopise, 7io
Chief Eng'r. of the Ill. and Mich. Can.
1t was from such representations as this
that believe him n suitable man to be em-
ployed. Energy end perseverance, were Tho
very qualities to be desired, in a Superin-,s
tendeit. Mr.. Lynch had shown me yonr,
letter, and upon the strength of il recom.i
mended his employ ment, and your abrupt
refusal to employ him could only be attribute
ed, by me, to wilful stubbornCss ON Your
part. The truth is you thought him good
man, and only assail his character MS you
assail that of others, merely because they
speak plainly what they know and believe
of you. However luIe and excellent
man is, if lie does not approve OF all you do,
you pronounce him on Outcast. Fortunate
ly it is not in your power 10 do men all the
harm you wish them. ] hope, for your
sake, you may come ont Of the furnace you
have heated as unscathed in character ns
the individuals you SO unstiupulously de-
nounce. f,....- ~. E.
You have enlisted several Of the public
journals in your behalf, and you and your
minions furnisha full supply Of paragraphs
with which 10 please the public ear. lno.
ticed in recent daily in this city an article
stating that two thousand men were nj work
on the summit division. The true number
is between four and FIVE hundred. So farso
good-ths is some Improvement. The spur
of discomfort has been piled to the tagging
sides Of your industry, until the work is go
ing on more vigorously. You have an tffi-
cient superintendent il, Mr.. Barnett, and il
you should not clog his enterprise, that por-
ton Of the canal may at some time be GEM
pletcd. But the same daily paper admits
that this labor costs high. How does this
tally with your previously expressed crini-
ons of getting cheap labour in the wintcr9
In reference TO the mistakes, as you call
them, made in the estimates for contracts
under the prescriptions, permit me to say
that they were gross biunders. Yon knew,
or ought TO have known, the character Of
work TO be done on each section, as every
section, or nearly every section, had Lefore
then been opened. And ali engineer Of your
boosted experience ought 10 have known
much better than you appear to have done,
the proper prices to be allow ed for the sec
tions to be finished. Guesswork, in mat
ter of this magnitude, was not What the pub.
lie had right TO expect from you.
You admit you have been indebted 10 cen.
tractors for loans Of money, but you insist
that this was not improper. Did this, not
place you under obligations to such contrac.
k,,J n,.,,bt 10 FnS
rocal between YOU 10 the prejudice Of rutlic
that 'she borrowers the servant Of the len.
the public and the lender. Their interests
der without being detected. Therefore Il
was wrong; for all men do not believe you
so incorrlptible as you represent yourself TO
be. have now before me an affidavit from
which l make this quotation. The depen-
ent says, ole has heard jeremiah Crotty
say, at the time the engineers under the Old
commissioners refused TO lay cut this aft.
ants work, as follows, (said Crotty being a
contractor: y THAT he cou!ji get along--can't
you,' addressing afliant,) Hhrow cnt Il bait
for them? ! made three thousand dollars
by leaning Mr.. Goading one.' And this Of.
fant says that Mr.. Crotty has had plenty Of
work on the line of canal ever since said
conversation" Further comment upon this
topic is unnecessary. Tie matteris too laid
TO leave room for conjecture,
You enquire ofme how know that the
work on the summit division is costing enc
dollar per yard for excavation? answer,
because the superintendent, then in charge
of the work, so informed me; and from. your
admitted ignorance in relation to II, his OPT
Mon must be considered superior TO yours.
But You say that no admeas,irement Of the
work had beon made up TO that time, and,
therefore, that fact could not be oscertaihcd,
Yet you do no; contradict py statcr, eht, ex.
ccpt by inference. infer tl,at the work
does cost that much, and ;fit has hecn inca.
sured, which i doubtful, tina, Tie txamina-
ton will Sew Il. a compe,en, and faithful
engine, rwoaid not permit matter Of this
in. ortanec TO rest In doubt. A grave mat.
ter Ike this commit be trifcd with, or evad.
I'd by ,idiculing a verbal inaccnracy in nh
expression where sqpore is used for cubic.
Such on error ought TO bc easily excused in