The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-04-28

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Would you escape the beggars lot,
| The dcath-bed of the tppling sot,
! And live in sweet contcntmcnts cot?
BE careful of your money
| And if you need a friend indeed,
BE careful Of your money!
An Independent Press.
/ An independent press What an ADM.
rabc thing il an Independent press How
everybody loves an Independent press -
, How range it is that We don't have an in.
dependent press, when everybody is so in
love with the idea! Everything else is indie
| PENDENT; men speak their opinions, irres.
| pcctivc Of the feelings of their neighbOrs
and act without reference to what others
may say Of thcui--of course they do, 1t is
only the editors who are scrvis, poor chick
cn-heartcd fellows Afraid of WHAT
| Afraid of losing subscribers patrons, bread
and butter? Well-we must put up with
| il; and yet il is strange that all the moral
towards in the community are the editors.
/ The lower surface Of dough.faec and the
upper surface OF a trIpped, seem to to have
an affinity for each other. There is magnet.
| ism somewhere. Is it in the chair or the
. incumbcnty Does the seat attack the
/ dough.facc, or the dough-lacc the seaty-
/ Here Is question oi physIco- morality for
/ you, or for our cotemporary OF the Cincin-
| natl Times to solve. There is u truth some
/ where-at the bottom Of thc--chair, per.
/ haps. True.
| Why don't you pitch in: Into what -
Into everything aud everybody. Expose
the knayes, reform all the abuses, and le,
/ the river Of your Indignation ilOw into and
purge this Augcan stable Of society. That's
/ the way to make yourself popular. Every
body will take your paper and read it
I Fair aud softly, iriend-who is to pay the
/ bill' When we are sued for Il llbcl-whcn
the yirtuous aud eloquent Squire Blunder-
bus, with five hundred dollar fee buttoncd
/ snug and safe IN his pocket, rises before the
/ jury and pours the walls OF his piouS indg-
nation upon hcc"i'0HS press, and pain : Of
/ horrors Of It's ravagcs, N uprootng the rep
utation OF the just, and blackening the fair
fame Of the innocent, don't you all grow
/ virtuously indignant, that so awful pest
/ as n newspaper should be permitted to cx.
list? Don't you wonder that editors should
ever bc presnmd to interfere whsre the char.
actcrs OF people are concerned, ara doubf,.H "
Justice does not soon oVer'aNc thcm ~ thc
hands OF man, fro'ldence WIN sPcal'y mete
out IN the'F case inc late o' Moran auu Ia.
than
y man steals INTO ms ne'ghhot mouse at
midnight, ana blows o't MS nralhs-ah9thef
sehds 10 nus iilchd an 'n'eIhal '"'hp"'h"' ny
/ whose cSp'oHl"h 'a'h,'y n sent TO eternity
I --thc newspapers get "o'u o' inc iac'S anu
lay them before thc'r readers the criminal
is arrested indicted, ana arfaignel Ior traI
-anc what hrN'F "eht'eihch oi inc o"-
( ry' inquiries MS "eH'Pa'd COUNSEL nave
yon reaa any oi tn'Se infamous reports
against my c"eh'' WING" nave occ'i Puo"sn'
ed IN the papers, ior inc purpose o' securing
nus coh'ictoh Inc p"nHc oecou'c OUT
raGen AT ihe cohd"ct o, ihe newspaper
ana ''he man VINO o"a,'o"c"" '"''o" "y"
/ tcr-wouIu ne e1hn 10 tllfow up What they
read WIN such an appe.'e the dAy pe'ore'
they cou'd' oohhS,i mus ,nat ms cie"'
mas NO caSe-ho ae'ehSc' nat '"cn =
Make df''c at inc newspapers. ne u an
| 'hJureu' prosecuted h'ah,-he victim OF
conSP'facyL.he we Vena'' vulgar press mas
determined 'nnt ne shou!n DC 'Vi''lc'ca--,
rchtieihcn o' inc JURY WIN you DOW your
READS IN slavery 70 'h's new 'y'ahhy III 'he
state NC! NOT gui''y Leu inc W'
P'G'sea go iree' =,
Discount Swea'cioth' ESQ., come 10 'he
| city ana brought Tor capital a rogue rePn'
tat'on. AS the easiest Lioac 10 rehuer ms
roegnery. available he took up inc profession
oil banking ana re'igion' ne thrO'e-eaVe
/ SpIenald uihnefs--oahhGu III one Pa'ace ana
h'en III another' was 'eauer III 'ne c"uf,h,
and pattern among the snoos' iie ehue"
as any man oi sense must nave NhoWh ne
.
hlhG away w'th Tue money. iou khe" 'hlS
-sa" Wnat 'he Gnu must o'' oe,1re II came
why diuh you expose MN no"cs,, IN,
suppose we had saiu th"t discount sweat,
eIoth was knave, what huoono wom'u
nave osen kicked up IN tho chnrch! me
appearance oil Ahti-thrlSt, horhS ana a'''
would not have excited nan SO much com,
motion: we shoula nave oeeh denounced
as an ihildel, an alhe'st, win an espec'a'
grudse against uods CHOSEN people. sup
pose we had said ne was unsounu ana ihsoi-
vent, what st'r there wo'ud nave been on
Third street. ana now many gentlemen sns
pccting themselves 10 DC IN thc same tlckl,Sh
condition would have had their ssnsio'iit'es
wounded Dy our arrogance VINO woulu
nave he'Ped US 20 pay Tue exemplary uaina-
Ses that he i''Sht na'o "a'teu 'one enough
10 recover, or nave hesl'a.ea 10 RESPOND 10
inc verdict served MN r'sh!'
hei'ai smooth Is a eaiin' quiet sanct'mo'
NOUS domestic tyraht no man appears IN
the newspaper more o'ten thah ne, as 'he pa
iron OF some movement Tor tue spread oi Tue
gospel the rele' II inc indSeht, or the pro
motion CT the cause OF phllanthropy' iet
beneath TINS, all IS ialse ana noiiow' ana
these professions conceal heartess wre'ch
ana detestaoie hypoerlte' ms wiie sleeps
IN her grave sent 'here py coid ana cease
less persocu,'oh' anu ms ua"gh,ers were
orve" IRON MS mousse oy MS so"c''a''ons
anu ms aouse; nny uoh you uh'nasN the