Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-10-21
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Monroe Gazette.
A HISTORY
OF THE
TOLE DO w AR.
BY SERGEANT RAMRoD AND ENSIGN FLAGSTAFF.

our 0wn times, and we intend to follow
as closely as possible in the footsteps o
truth. Egotism we shall abstain from
altogether, although our deeds will be
long remembered by the valiant heroes
who fought and bled in this "last war;
our hard fighting and hard drinking we
leave for more able and disinterested
pens to transmit to posterity; the chival-
ry of the illustrious characters who fig.
ured so conspicuously in the great dra.
ma we are about to lay before the pub
lie, is the grand aim of authors.
Mr.. Wraxail, in his preface TO his
Historical Memoirs" very justly re-
marks, that "every man who undertakes
to write history, must, from the nature
Of human things, be unintentionally liza
BILE TO commit errors, however anxiously
desrous he may be of rela ting facts; an
observation which applies with greater
force to those who write on cotempora-
ry or real subjects, when the passions
Of men become blended with, and are af-
fected by the account given of almost
all transactions" When Merry. who
wrote the history of France, was infor-
med of an error that he had committed.
Il could point out hundred replied he,
which l have made in the course of the
work. while you only mention a single
instance. Such is the nature of all COM
positions which regards historical facts" "
There is much truth, as well as good
sense in the above; and the reader will
doubtless, excuse us should we be so un-
fortunate as to commit few small er-
rors ourselves, for, "grievous and much
to be commisserated," saith the most il
lustrous historian. Diedrich Knicker-
booker, "is the task Of the feeling histo-
rian who writes the history ofhis own
times"
We are aware that we shall not be
compelled to 60 back to the records of
the ancients, and brush away the dust
which the wing of time has swept over
the past, or clean away the rubbish that
ages have been heaping around the
tombs of the mighty men of old, in Or
der to contemplate their characters, or
to Gull the sweet morsel of truth from the
fabulous imaginings of Homer; neither
have we occasion to adopt the reason
ing of Voltaire, who is so incredulous
upon all subjects that SAVIOR in the least
of the marvellous For example," says
that model of incredulity, "PIutarch in
forms us that Cesar threw himself in
complete armor into the sea of Alexan-
drla, holding in one hand papers which
he wished to keep dry, and swimming
with the other. Do not believe word
of it." But when we Inform the reader
that Gov. Lucas was seen streaming
through the Maumee Swamp, seated on
a tall Narraganset PAGER, with the flaps of
his blue coat flying in the air, and his su-
perannuated visage shrouded by broad
brimmed white hat, it may be believed,
for we, the faithful historians of the Tole-
do war saw it with our own eyes.
We intend merely to give brief out
line Of few of the principal causes in
our preface, that impelled the great State
of Ohio, with her boasted million ofI
freemen, to commence hostilities against
the territory Of Michigan, at the same
time showing the honesty and consisten-
cy of some other principal inhabitants,
who, perhaps, up to the present day, are
supposed to have suffered almost mar
tyrdom in support other rights; where
as, If the true state of the case was
known, it would be found that their bod
les did not suffer quite as much as the
purses of many individuals who were
duped into the belief that money grew
on every bushin the vicinity of Toledo
when they purchased their town lots.
The State of Ohio, on her admission
into the Union, declared her northern
boundary to be line running due east
from the southerly bend of Lake Michi.
gan until it struck the waters of Lake
Erie, adding at the same time, this pro.
viso: "tllat ifthe southerly bend of Lake
Michigan shall extend so far south that
a line drawn due east from it should not
ntersect Lake Erie, or if it should in.
.ersect the said Lake Erie east of the
mouth of the Miami river Of the Lake.
hen, and in that case, with the assent of
he Congress of the United States, the
boundary of this State shall be etablish-
I'd by, and extend to direct line run
ing from the southern extremity of Lake
Michigan to the most northerly cape of
he Miami bay,"&c. "This proviso,"
ays Governor Lucas, established our
lorthern boundary" taking for granted /
hat the assent Of Congress was given
9 i BY their accepting the constitution