The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-07-23
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III city Offices.
Al HOME.
Cordial how aye do good friends and
ets Of ssf~ss Trader Most happy should
= givH Iar,xNiP and have a chat
Kan he more pleasant
than The warmls|yed good feeling with which
we have been welcomed home by all our old
friends and acquoiniarces SO Ear as we have been
\ ablo to meet them. Over year from home
x imagining ourselves almost forgotten, the aiten-
ton shown US, has bsen as. unexpected as il Is
hut too fl,,tcrng, and We now feel ourselves
J II rpssille, on be,lrr terms with. and more nj
tached 10, our old friend, than we were before
we left. Finding, however, our business pros
perous and demanding full attention on our re-
turn, On anxious as carly as possible 10 relieve
Mr.. flisc from du,its which, with his other
engagemcnts, have during The past year been
4 peculiarly onerous, we could MT permit our
selves 10 circulate as much among our friends as
: il would be SO plcasantio us to do, and can now
only beg them 10 attribute il more 10 sense Of
duty 10 one whose good nature we have already
taxed..ioo much, than 10 GOODNESS on our part,
that We have Welded 10 the call Of cuisines be-
1 fore pleasure"
We have, il is true, during our absence, en-
deavored TO keep ourselves olive in the remem-
brancc OF the readers Of the Free Trader by a
correspondence, wbich, We fear, however. served
to'relcve them from less ennui than it did u.s.
- These issfr~s-wcrc dlsaIs hastily anil but too
cs,elss~ly written. Rude transcripts Of our frs,
ipprcssions frequently chan ed by Second
view, on looking them over now. We liod them
faulty enough. Sill We would have our read
ers believe g. tssvsf faulty these leiler
msy have becn, H. views, and whatever inior-
nation VIE enieasarj to communicate, were
given in the honest belief, at The time that they
were correct. Far away from home, cut oiT from
all communication during the greater par, Of the
y iime-not knowing who was friend or enemy
dead or aivc>-ani in Utter ignorance, and caring
IS little as we knew abou, the position Of fac
tihns here, will any reasonable man believed
VIC shouldn't any time ha'ewr,en With the de-
libcratc purpose Of mulsning and iijurng a
large class Of our fellow ctz ms at home with
whom we have lived, and from whom We
thought we had parted On the best Of terms :
The supposilion is so teyohing 10 every good
feeling that II Is mol Without q degree Of morli-
iication and disgust that We fluid ourselves oblg-
: cd. on our return, 70 lake uoiioe of charge OF
the nature in heated founded on n ridiculous
pretexf, conceived jnihe most vulgar spirit, and
made, heaven only knows frnm what motive.
We find it in the "Can,itonas, Of May 6 h,
over the signature Of "Nuiiropos," altogether
too big word for u.s. bu, falhcrcd, we arc told,
by Mr.. Maurice Murphy, a candidate for the Of
fcs ofccuniy commissioner clerk Of this couny.
The accusation brought against us is, that we,
IN ono Of our letters, labured to bring olun up
on our Irish Catholic population, by stain, that
some Of the descdcrs from our army found with
Santa Anna had been imposed upon and indnc.
ed to ,dcser' by ihcpie'ls a, Monterey, aud that
notorious traitor Captain Riley was an
49, aan
~ the "b'sd and front Of our offending"
Homer TO Justify the vulgar aud unproyok.
= 80 pea upon Us, Nj. Maurice Murphy finds it
~ vssy nstsaa ous inguage and substitute
.9Gsto' an cSmg cdrcc,- ssc,cndcd meaning in
~ 7dsshape: N
Me Wenly men have deserted from the Amer.
WA r'ny oe',,e Monterey. al the insiga,on Of
tests. DC Principal man among them is
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