The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-03-06
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I inr letter which though not intended i'l
rpDlir,tiou. is too valuable - be sup
| dressed. and is here appended. Tn" gen
! tleman, who resides in the southern par
Of the county. is a true lrishman, and ON.
whose voice and purse are eyer ready L
! aid the land OF his birth. And this trait OF
citizenship in an lrishman, such as on
worthy friend proves himself 90 be, * NOT
| in any manner Inconsistent With his dew"
ton and fidelity % the laws Of hls adopted
country. II il such a. Ia who are found
| fighting under the ttag Of freedom, No mat
ter in what quarter OF the globe it Is raised
With this depression we here Introduce his
| brief letter.
ME.sRs EprrOR. Il see by late issue
Of FREE TRADER yoI state you hat the
pleasure Of looking At q copy OF the Boston
| Pii0t some twenty year, i. Since then,
in looking through some files Of old papers
IN my possession, | find some 10 or ~
copies Of the Irish NGrS, twenty years Old.
TouaYe, no doubt, aware that ue NSrz was
FIRST edited by that other brilliant Irlshman,
Thomas Francis Meagner, who immortal.
lied. himself ~ the head Of his gallant
Irish brigade during the war OF the rebel
lion, OF course, anything with which
Menghpr wa- connected must be ot inter
est ~ every lover OF the Union and Of an
especial interest to every patriotic Irish
man. not alone for the effort he made in
defense Of the land Of his adoption In as
ssting 70 perpctuote It's free institutions to
unborn generations, but also because he
was one Cf the immortal baud who IN Is
showed the government of England that
The Old spirit Of ~ was still alive in Ire
hand and that lhsumen were not afraid To
die if necessary. in their efforts to secure
the blessings Of freedom for their native
Thomas Davis,
She j, p rich and rare land
oh She is u fresh aud fair land
She i, dear and rare land
This native land Of mine
] will nail you copy OF the Irish Mar,
which you will please preserve for Aud
Ang Syne. have also quite a number Of
the Irish citizen, edited by John Mitchell,
of ha!lOHed memory. Peace to their
ashes A READER. >
The Irish Nors above referred to Of
which the patriot soldier Meagher was
then editor and proprietor, is an eight page
paper va lll tliiful NAIt ll4ll NubhN ~ 'il
tor 10 have been rs mighty with the pen rs
lie was brave with the sword. Under the
head d! European News, July %, 1856, is
an account OF the proceedings in Parlia.
ment in which the attempt Of Great Britain
TO scduCe citizens Of the United States
from their allegiance is called the Amer
lean Difficulty in the debate concerning
witch Mr Gladstone and Lord PalmerstOn
took part. In France bill granting pen
sions to the Orleans prinCcSSes was unani-
mousiy passed in tho face Of a strong writ
ten protest from Count Mantalembert
which the Duchess of SAKE. COhdrg indig.
uantly refused the money A squadron of
Spanish ships were about 10 set sail from
Havana tor Mexico should that country
refuse 20 satisfy the demands Of Spain.
There Is u long account Of General Wal
ker'- election rs premier Of Nicaragua,
PatriCiO Riyas aud his cabinet having
fed The revolution rs thus stated is re-
tered 20 rs one Of the strangest in the
world. The Mems contains long account
Of the terrible Catholic school excursion
wreck, which took place June II, 1856 on
the Northern Pennsylvania railrOaia short
distance from Philadelphia. The train
hrted out from tue latter city early on that
fatal morning with happy and cheerful
company composed chiefly Of little child
rem who being with their parents parties
and teachers to attend picnic fourteen
miles away. The train had got scarcely
under full way when there came darting
along al "A fearful speed another train from
An opposite direction. There WAS fearful
collision and in AN instant more than
hundred human beings lay crushed, bleed
iug, burning, dead, mutiIated and diving
and the happy holiday party was changed
from JOY q s rruw aud blood and tears.
The accident was due Il the gross criminal
Careles-ne>s of the engineer VIM. Van
Slavren, whose train ran into that Of the
eNCurSiuni>tS and vino committed suicide
the same day To escape the fate that surely
awaited him. The paper contains an in
terestinI letter descriptive of the reception
of Charles G n Duffy in Australia, who
years afterwards was knighyed by the
crown aud whose name i held IN contempt
thereby. In the United States Senate Is
an account OF the assault by Brooks on
Charles sumner in the House The vote
on the resolution to eNpsl Brooks wis yeas
lei nays %, not twu-thirds rs required
Brooks then took the floor and in speech
The Buchanan campaign WAS then starting
and some ably written energetic articles
are found refe ring tothis can iidate. John
MitChelrs speech ON European Poll les
occupies five columns. There is an article
John Eanim, the Irish poet and prose
writer whom the writer SAYS was an al
mtrrr of every pretty glrl in Kilkenny and
between rhyming, painting, flirting and
book lending hiS entire time WAS fully &C
Cul led. A review Of smith O'Brlpn'S
Meditations in Exile, Jus tn pubIished'
is worthy of mention. h. editorials ARE.
written with Il true Celtic vim and are all
able articles #, m the gifted pen OF him,
who, later on Was the gallant major of In
Goth New York volunteers Maagher was
AT one time the favJri euIator of the Young
ireland party in IGIS and WIS sentenced
60 death but the sentence was committed a.
imprisonment fer life. In y he escaped
from the island Of Tas ainia where he was
imprisoned and came New Iolk. He
VAS drowned by fallinSf m steamer into
The Nj nuri river at Fort enton, Mon.
tana, July /, 1867.