Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-03-10
MAUMEE EXPRESS.
SATURDAY. MARCH 10. 1888.
THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

| Never since the American hevolutlon,
has public sentiment in the United States
been more generally correct, than upon
the subject of the hostiities in Canada.
Never has the public press, in general,
spoken more unitedly, or more Judicious-
| ly, upon any matter Of equal inte-
rest With the utmost curiosity to hear,
the people have been slow to judge, and
when convinced that the Canadians were
ruled with an overbearing and tyranical
hand, they have felt that it was not for
them to arbitrate between the conflicting
parties. Anxious to disseminate all the
information concerning the movements
of the actors, the presses have foreborne
to add to the excitement by infiammato-
ry appeals to the passions or sympathies
of their readers, contenting themselves
with giving sound views of the duties of
the citizens Of the United States, as a
neutral power, and admonitory cautions,
to refrain from all improper interference
in matters not their own. The acts Of
executive authority have been approved
by both press and people, and the honor
OF our country, as an observer of trea-
ties, has been most honorably sustained.
| But it cannot be concealed that very
rapid change is taking placein public sem
timent every where around us; not in ia
vor of the Patriots, for we have no inte-
rest in their cause, but still against the
British Government, and especially a.
gainst theProvincial Government in Can
ada. The burning of the Caroline gave
the first wound toAmerican pride and the
subsequent glorying in that dastardly
deed, has had its natural effect upon the
public mind. Added to this, the often
repeated threat of demanding of the U.
States, the payment for damages incur
red in defending against attacks upon
Navy Island, and enforcing said demand
by an appeal to arms--the occupation
of the waters of the United States by
armed vessels-the clustering commu-
nications made to the officers of our ar
my entrusted with the duty of enforcing
our laws, by the bully McNabb and his
associates--the frequent threatening to
burn our towns. and invade our territory,
Carrying war amongthe peaceful citizens
of the United States, and, not least, the
sending by the British Government, of
large bodies of picked troops upon our
frontier, under the excuse of the un-
friendly tone of the President'sMessage
relative to the MaineBoundary question,
have produced a change Of sentiment in
the United States, far from favorable to
the mother country, or her government.
Other things have undoubtedly COM
bined TO increase the dislike of our citi-
zens for the British Government and in
sti.utions. They, in general, believe the
principles avowed by the Patriotic par
ty are correct, and analogous to those
under which were fought our own bat
ties of the revolution, and believing this,
they cannot look upon the tyrannical acts
of the Provincial Government--the sus-
pension OF the Habeas Corpus act-the
arbitrary Imprisonment Of hundreds and
thousands of peaceable citizens in loath-
some prisons, where they are daily fall
ling victims to hunger, cold and disease,
without trial, or even the form ofjustice,
without carrying their memories back
to the prisons Of Dartmoor, and the
loathsome Jersey prison ships, and the
thousands Of similar deeds practis ed up
on our fathers and our friends.
THE PATRIoTs.--So many reports are
in circulation Of the success and defeat
Of various bands of Patriot forces at
different points upon the Canadian from
tier. that it is perfectly impossible to dis
criminate between the true and false.
It's believed, however, that the army
which crossed the lake from Sandusky,
by the way Of the Islands, with the in
tention to cooperate with the forces at
Gibraltar. have experienced q like fate