Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1853-11-18

I. DELyIE REILLY, Esq, now clerk in the
department Of the Interior was accused by
the editor Of the New York Rsbsille, with Hri-
ting the attack upon O. EDWARD LESTER, which
appeared a short time since in the Washington
Uniou Boston Post DC Il was also said he
wrote il by express orders from MARor. To
this the said RRILLY responds, and pleads not
guilty to every count in the Indictment. After
which be enlarges and warns up in the follow
ing capital tyle. No one can fail to laugh at
the Irish wit, and humOr of the thing: 1.
This letter has been half forced from me BY
your and other "very creditablC" illusions,
and desire to get rid oI them ALL Though
now am totally removed and | hope forever,
from hat sort Of literary squirting known as
the trade Of newspaper writing and hope to
devote any leisure have from hel'snxiety and
toll otmy official duties as the official phrase is
to more ennobling and enduring works-a lei
sure never heretofore have had--I cannot
Withhold my admiration and my heart felt allie
glance and if duty calls nv lfe from the
Preident, the Secretary, and administration,
be they who they may who have, in the Koszta
affair, and the letter to Mr., Hulsemann, and in
subsequent acts consumated the dear est hope
and work Of Andrew Jackson, "a County Mon
aghab Irishman, like myself who came to this
country only two years before he was born, J
and given to the immigrant Of all nations and
the foreign born citizens wherever he treads
upon the earth the Nicene creed and the Mag
ma Charter Ct an Americans rights and liber.
ties. You and your squibs and your New
York squabbles may go to Jerihco with your
congenial London Times correspondent / go
for Cap: Ingraham-I go for Cuba, for the
"hull of Mexico, for as far down South as we
can get with the heat and as far North as it
wlnot freeze hot-blooded Yankee. be-
lieve in our Common Father in Heaven, and
iu our common Uncle on the earth, and that is
my religion. If Sam wants hacienda in Bra
zi and pagoda in India and bathing box,
with real black I'm oysters and Irish soil from
Commerara tu Poldooda light and snobby
cottage by the Rhine and serag!io in Turkey,
all at the same time go for every bit Of il, for
1 know nobody deserves it better or abuses
anything he gets less. II he wants to lick the
Tartars or the Spaniards, or the Mexicans I
60 in for that too, If he wants general
| fight round with them dalned old monarchy
varmints, will help him with all my soul and
body. Andif he goes in to whip the British
Government the owners of your correspondent
|. of the London Times at all times OF. any time,
at matn meal, mass or vesper time or all the
year round on any subject wanttto be s"fust
in thar Inshortifhe likes to stretch himself
out on the world stick his feet up on Yesuvius,
light his cigar at MonOtombO and throw his
arms at the same time about the beauties of
Cashmere and the vestals of Oircassia 4 will
help him to stretch himself out and do "as he
dam pleases.' And though it.may be a ceh-
ltury before the creature fully unfolds himself,
/ will give heart and hand to whomsoever tries
to begin. And believe Gen Pierce has be-
gun, and would not advise you to try and
stop him He is a roarer IL "a . a jorsl
With this publication 1 forgive you for your
"very creditable' attack; and as ga clerk in
1 the Interior, will be most delighted to crack
a literary Joke, or a literary dagon with happy
outsiders like you, Js'r Fs5dlo baa hs3lii
s Faithfully, whether my head sticks or not,
iyour friend and servant, = ll# oa sgoH
....., T. DELVIN REILLY.
A "Clerk in the Interior,