The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-01-01
The Recognition, ~ thr fsr"c.ndr s.ieu-
teunat---s Tate OF Monterey.


Can hiaz II evil deeds, or consec,ae cimc."
BJco7.
The saying is a tritc one, but no
less true than trite, that every day
occurrences Of life dcvclope events
of fact but Of fact more strange and
startling than were ever conceived
by The mind Of fiction or brought
forth by the dreams of romance. OF
this, the career of the subject Of the
suhjoined sketch adds one more to
the many proofs which have long
since established the proposition as
a truism. To the victors of Mon
terey the glory Of the battle was not
without its leaven of grief. The
gallant among the most gallant had
faIlen-the brayest among the brave
lay whitening under the pain of
ghasty wounds. The living looked
around and saw their comrades of
the camp lying lifelcSs among the
masses Of miscellaneous dead.
lfitwas thus with the victors how
fell the vanquiShed? Their defeE-
ccs, believed to be invulncrablc, bat
tered down-their streets. through
which a few days before they walk
ed in conscious security, strcwn
with their dying and dead. And
they, the living remnant Of their ar
my, preserved only from total ami
hilation By proposition Of surren-
der, and an appeal to the compass
tomato feelings Of the foe, when they
fonnd further resistance unavailable
and unavailing. Hulniliating as they
must have felt their condition to He
crushed as must have been their
spirits, bowed their pride and sor-
row-freightc@ their feelings. Yet
how calm, how placid, how serene
must have been therrciiections Of the
most iccniy sensitive among them,
when compared with the torture,
Supcrinduced by a sense Of his own
turpitudc, trcachery and base trca-
son, which must have racl<cd the
mind of TIE dcgcnerat: Lieut.. r.,
as in sulIen detection and with
shameful, aver;ed look, lie skulked
from recognition Of those comrade
soldiers whom he had known in Ills
better and purer days; and as lie
shrunk from that flag of his country,
which he had rccreantIy periled his
life to disgrace, but which now way
cd in triumph above him! But lea
wing him to ruminate on his fallen
fate, IctuS to our sketch OF his transit
ton from a station Of confidence
bis pride Of placc-to his den of dis
honor
Some years ago, when there was
a considerable military force sta
toned at Fort Lcavenworth, young
Officer, whose talents and integrity
had secured the unboundcd conf
dencc Of tie Government and his
officers, so as 70 obtain for
him the Office of Commissary and
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