Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-06-16
CAUTION TO DROVERS AND BUSI.
NESS MEN OF OHIO.

The abuses | have received from officers oi
the government of Upper Canada, induces me tc
caution my friends to beware ofthe traps that
are sell for them. shall represent my injuries to
the American Government, and if our author
tiles deem 1t necessary that innocent and unof-
Tending citizens, pursuing their lawful occupa-
ton and transacting business with the agents
ofanother government shall submit to the hu-
initiating ana dlsgraceful outrages that have
been practised upon me, must be content with
the issue; but it is not IN the nature of free
born man, living under our institutions, to be-
lieve such things can be submitted to with i'm
punity. DANIEL s. DRAKE.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, Daniel s. Drake.
County of Wayne IS. of Marion county,
Ohio, being duly sworn, says that on the SOth
day of May last, he visited Maiden for the pur-
pose Of collecting money for stock which he
had sold to contractors tor the Government OF
Upper Canada. That he took lodgings at the
public house of George Bullock, in the village
of Amherstburgh. That Messrs. Hawes and
Hull, the contractors, arranged their accounts
with him in gentlemanly and accommodating
manner. That they were deficient in the sum
of five dollars current money, and whilst wait
ing for it, lost the opportunity of leaving the
place in a passing steam boat: but Immediate
ly after the arrangements of his affairs, walked
upon the warf with the intention Of taking the
first boat. That while there he was approach
ed by an individual wearing the uniform of a
commissioned officer of the British army, ac-
complained with side arms, land rudely arrested
and taken before two magistrates and board
of officers, when the officer arresting complain
ed of him and preferred the charge, on oath,
that he had been guilty Of offering on or about
the esd Of May, nineteen dollars toa British
soldier to desert and cross over to the Ameri-
can side, on Gross Isle, and exhibiting his pock-
ct book, said he would pay that amoont when
he should meet him at white house on that ISL
and. That soldier was produced to swear to
the fact, and also boy to testify that he had
treated soldiers at the bar Of Mr.. Bullock, and
at the time he wore whskers and grey over
coat That he demonstrated with the court and
was treated with great rudeness and unfairness,
but succeeded in having Mr.. Bullock and his
bar keeper examined, who testified that he had
never treated any person in that house and had
never ordered but one glass of liquor, and that
his conduct whilst there had been discreet and
gentlemanly. That he demanded search of
his person, stating that if he was man of the
character they assumed, 1t would be natural that
he should be in possession Of papers indicating
the fact. Thathe exposed his pocket-book and
pocket-book containing in money
and drafts, $598,97, which they took from him,
but returned all his other papers without even
them. That the magistrates then
ordered him to be confined in the guard house,
where he was obliged to suffer the most vulgar
species of abuse from blacks, and without any
was reproached as /" d-d yankee
son of a b---h," and with the exclamation, as
by soldier with loose boot thrown
violently against his body. That in the after
noon ofthe same day, having had no sustenance
except such as was afforded HIM by Mr.. Bull
lock, and being answered whenhe asked some
thing to eat, that there was nothing for him,
hewas admitted to bail in the sum Of eight hun
tred pounds, on the security Of Peter Halves
Paxton, to appear at the September
lssizes, and returned bis money and draft, COM
,elling him to pay $2,75 cents cost. And,
he said Daniel s. Drake, doth further solemn
y swear, there was not the least Foundation
or tIe charges. preferred against him--that he