Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-01-13

CANADIAN NEWS.

Fdtrl0t cause IN CLeUetdnd.-On The
evening of the lst of January, pursuatt
to call posted up about the streets Of the
city, at an early hour the court house
was filled to overAowing by the friends
Of the Canadian cause.
On motion, Mr.. J. r. st. John was
called to the Chair, and Mr.Samucl Cook
assisted as Vice President. Mr.. Ing
raham and Mr.. Lawson appointed Sec
retaries. .'
After some appropriate remarks from
the Chair; the Rev. Mr.. Wiley address.
ed the meeting in an eloquent and ami
mated speech in favor of the Patriots.
General Sutherland, from the Patriot
Camp at Navy Island, was then announ-
ced to the meeting, and the loud, long
and enthusiastic cheers which welcomed
him, atlested the sympathy Of our citi.
zens with Ills cause in an able, clear
manner, he laid before those assembled,
the condition of the Canadas, their wants
and desires, and the hopes which anima-
ted them 10 the struggle for freedom
f.om foreign despoisln.
On motion of Mr.. Briggs, commit
tee of three was appointed TO report res
olutions, expressive Of the sense of the
meeting, and Messrs. Bolton, Briggs aid
Smith were appointed said Committee,
who, after few moments absence re-
ported the following.
Resolved. That the price of liberty is
eternal Vigilance, and that such vigilance
cannot exist without strong sympathy
with the Interests Of liberty in every
country.
Resolved. That we ieel deep solici-
tudein the struggle now going on in Can
ada, to resist oppression, and secure the
benefits Of a representative Government,
to the inhabitants OF that country; and
that we are called upon by the most pre-
cious ties of humanity to manifest our
solicitude in every form consistent with
our laws, for the encouragement and sup.
port of those who are engaged in this
sacred struggle. ~
Resolved, That we have just cause OF
alarm for the safety of our unoffending
brethren adjacent to the Canada f ontier
when we learn that large bands of blood
thirsty savages in their vicinity are slim
ulated to the indiscrininate exercise Of
their ierocity, by pecuniary rewards Of
fered for human scalps and when the
royal commander now concentrating his
forces within gun shot of our settlements
publicly approves of employing these
savages, as measure repIete with wis
dom, and expresses an Internal joy in an.
ticipaling the echoes of the warhoop.
Be it, therefore, resolved, as the sense
OF the people here assembled, That we
cannot discover in any law or treaty.
any provision which should forbid us from
actively expressing our sympa,hies BY
contributing provisions, clothing or mon
ey, TO mitigate the distresses of those
whose families ard homes have thus been
subjected TO the atrocities OF savage war.
are-warfare akin to that murderous
strife which these same tribes instiga,ed
by Tories still more savage, waged in
blood and fire and torture upon the from
tiers of these states, while struggling
for freedom and independence.
Resolved, That in thus plcdging our
efforts in the cause of humanity thus
contributing TO relieve the sutierings of
our neighbors, by money, provisions, or
clothing, we cannot believe that Great
Britain herself can tax US seriously with
violating law or treaty, by organizing
armies like those which were openly
formed on the British shores to subverl
the Spanish power in South America and
subserve her own interests notwithstand-
ing the treaties, existing between herself
and the Spanish nation.
| Resolved, That we learn with indig-
nant regret that our fellow citizens along
the Lower Canada frontier are threaten
ed with the murder of their persons and
The conAagration., Of their villages, for
exercising the sympalhes, hospitaiities,
and rights Of all American citizens, by
the minions of the same tyrannic author
ity wl,ichis paramountin in Upper Canada.
and that as we are Uncommon peril with
them, we wil,in every extremity make
their cause our own.
Resolved, Tint we learn with indig.
nation and alarm. the hostile attitude
which the t.oyalists have assumed in re-
ation TO our nefghbors of Buffalo, rem
dcring II necessary to raise anil main
tain an armed force in that city TO pro-
tect the property and lives OF our fellow
citizens from lawless and unprovoked