Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-06-17
! OURsnLr. We have been 50 long en-

subjects are almost forgotten. Presum.
ing that the appctites Of our readers are
sufficiently feastcd on this kind of litera-
tufe, we are willing to retire from the
field "hors du combat" if the cut and
thsnst disposition of the Toledo Blade,
will allow US to do so. Other subjects
Of more importance claim our attention.
We live in a new country, and at the
turning point of time, which is TO decide
our future consequence in the world
Out of the materials, of which this is. to
be constructed, many topics arise, in the
investigation Of which, our readers are
more deeply concerned than they can
possibly be in local disputes and banded
epithcts. We are not disposed TO NOR
alize on these matters, nor should we
waste our ink in noticing them, were it
not that some of our brethren of the
crowquill have departed from the rules
of ordinary government, and converted
their journals into vehicles Of public a.
buse, absolute falschood, and low black
guardism. We feel no disposition to
individualize, but leave the public to
guess at our meaning. For ourselves,
we desire to be on good terms with all
our neighbors. but ifto efectuate this,our
freedom ofthought is to be trammelled.
on matters of public opinion-if we are
thereby compelled to enter the arena of
viliication and abuse, of elimination and
re-crimination-if indeed we are thus
constrained to choose the rejected weap
ons of honorable warfare, and to poison
them in the Phlegethon Of excited pas
sions, and deceitful prejudices, of which
the world is full--certainly we shall re-
main as we are, willing to advocate
whatever is feasible and proper-ready
to defend whatever is right and incon-
trovertible. For the prosperity of our
place, we have not the slightest fear.-
Nature has written her destiny, in char.
acters toolegible, to be mistaken. Pub
licsopinion, and that kind ofpublic opin-
ion too, which was not blown into exis-
tence by the powerful but short winded
breath Of speculation, and which now re-
quires the aid of such an impulse to stay
the exhaustion its energies, has every
where proclaimed our growing import
ance, and our means for sustaining it in all
its diversities. True, we have moi expert
enced the aid of foreign capital, nor have
we enjoyed the envied reputation of a
war with neighboring state, to give us
sounding name abroad, but we do pos
sess tongues to plead our cause with equal
success, which have heretofore beer ST.
lent. For argument, they speak Of our
canal, river, railroads, water powers,
and the vast country surrounding us,
now rapidly settling with an enterpris-
ing people, whose business must concen-
trate here. These facts they will en-
bellish with our beautiful scenery of is
land, river hill and fort, they will tell the
world it was here that Wayne, by the
well fought battle of Presque Isle, termi-
mated the northwestern campaign of '94
here the blenched and bleaching bones
Of the gallant but unfortunate Dudley,
with those ofsOO Of the flower of Ken
.tucky's youth, lie mingled with that soil
for which they fought and died-where
the wild war whoop of Tecumseh was
once heard summoning his band !; and
where Proctor, cold, bloody, and relent-
less as he was, relinquished seige in
despair. Patriotism here is associated
with Improvement. Every projecting
bluff, every ravine is sconsecrated gronad,
which has once been wet with fhs blood
Of our .countrymen. How fortunate, that
the scene Of SO many victories in war,
should be made thelocation Of so much
enterprise u peace. Itis right that
il should be 30. It is proper mauso-
Ieum, 10 eject 10 the memory Of buried
feuds,, an enduring monument on which
10 record, and transmit unimpaired to all
cofni1g time, the history Of events so
drilling and noble.