Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-12-30


CANADIAN MATTERS IN BuFFALo.---
The good people of Buffalo are on the
qui uiue, in relation to the Canada insur-
rection. Meetings are holden nightly
at the theatre and other public places
where frothy orators
Assume the port of Mars while at their
heels,
"Leash'd in like honnds, keen famine sword
and fire ...
"Crouch for employment.
Furious speeches and more furious re-
solutions are the order OF the day within,
while speech-makers plethoric to suffo-
cation with patriotism, or in other words,
"Brim full of wrath and cabbage ...,
pour forth tremendous harangues to the
rabblc in the street. Parties of armed
rag-muffins, the froth and scum of po-
pular ebullition are parading the streets,
staggering under the excitement of the
occasion, boasting of deeds of arms yet
to be performed, and burning to sweat
their maiden valor with a trial of their
prowess upon the peaceable citizens Of
the place, while the citizens, or at least
the sensible part are somewhat in the po-
sl,ion ofthe unskillful magician, who had
involuntarily raised the Devil, and had
forgotten in his fear ofthe apparition, the
spell with which he should lay him again.
A part Of the doughty volunteers for Ca
NADIA marched down to Black Rock, and
boldly placed that place under martial
law, and it is even asserted that one lel-
low, with half shirt and no coat, had
the boldness to fire off musket, which
he had stolen the night before from the
Court House in Buffalo, full into the face
ndeyes other Majesty Queen Victoria's
dominions, taking the precaution, how
ever, to shut his eyes and turn away his
head before he pulled the trigger, where
upon the patriot flag was run up to the
tip top Of a liberty pole, and the whole
regiment fairly made the fish in Niagara
river jump out of the water with their
cheers. Oh! these are glorious times.
when double rations Of whiskey make
every lofer soldier, and when the lug
ging Of a rusty musket up and down a
peaceable country exalts a soldier into a
hero a2m M ba
The truth is, that the great and patri-
otic doings in Buffalo, are likely to turn
out mere farce. MI. M'Kenzie and
his Coadjutors will receiveaspeech for
speech, and get their dinners and enter
tainment into the bargain. and the rabble
of the place are ready to enlist in any
cause which will give them dinner and
grog, notoriety and glory, and are per-
fectly willing to march to any place, SO
that they come home safe atnight, and
no bones broken. There are no new
doings for the Bufaloneans. A year or
two since, or perhaps less, a similar ex-
citcment pervaded the city ofthe Lakes
upon the Texas insurrection. Huge
speeches were made and huge dinners
eaten; an army was raised TO march to
the assistance ofthe Texans; to this ar.
my dinner was given with patriotic
addresses, not few and ardent toasts
and ardent spirits ad libitum. The re-
suit was as would be expected the Spar,
tan band became intoxicated, and in get
ting sober il dissolved and evaporated
and disbanded, andthus ended The mat,
/ ter.
/ THn BANK CONVENTION. This body
adjourned on Saturday the 22d instant
without fixing upon a time for the re
sumption Of specie payments. II is tc
meet again On the second Wednesdayo
! April next. The Convention hasrecom.
mended to ill The Banks Of the United