Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-01-12

fleet during the night, but being satisfied thai
| had not been IN board, was liberated after
twelve hours detention.
So great were their suspicious that num-
Der of times have been arrested and cast into
prison for conversing with people whom they
considered were not as loyal as themselves, OF
those whe had imbibed republican impressions
Two of my brothers were imprisoned, one for
six months, the other during the war, for opin-
ions sake.
About the first of June, 1873 Col. Sartwright
told me that he had been informed thatI was
in correspondence withthe Americans and that
it was not proper, for the welfare of his Majes-
ty or his loyal subjects, that should be per-
mitted to go at large any longer: consequently
| was taken into custody, and thrust into pris-
on, to be confined, as they told ME, during the
war. Up to this time, | solenlnly declare,
had no communication with the army or navy,
or any individual, to my knowledge, by whom
any Information was likely to be conveyed to
the enemy to the injury of his Maje<ty's sub
jects or those in his realm. The only offence
which was proved or could be brought against
me was the bailing of se.eral unfortunate in
dividuals, who, like myself, were supposed to
be predlsposed in favor of American institu-
/ tions, or having opinions of their own in rcla-
ton to order, good government, &c.
Ziba Murphey, an American citizen, who re-
sided in the city of Schenectady, was on bus-
ness in Canada in 1912. He started for home
in the winter, and was overtaken on the ice,
when crossing the lake from Kingston towards
Gravely Point, and was carried back to King
ston and cast into prison--hs feet and legs
were badly frozen. In consequence of not
having the attention necessary in such case,
he lost both feet just above the ankle joints.
The baihng of this man out of prison was an
objectionable offence in the eyes of those big
oted slaves. Murphy, after he had recovered,
was smuggled across the lines by some of his
friends, and returned home. | bailed several
others who had rendered themselves obnox-
conversation with d---d Yankees as
they were termed.--Those acts ofhumanity,
as conceived them to be, were the only char
ges that could be brought against me at my
last arrest, and for which they exultingly de-
cared that must lay in prison during the
war. The same night was incarcerated for
the last time | broke gaol and went back into
the country for few days and found five
Americans who wished to cross into the States.
obtained birch bark canoe lS miles above
Kingston, into which all (six in number, J
slowed ourselves, and launched into the open
Lake, and on the second day, in the forenoon,
we went along side of the Madison, one of
Com. Chaunceys fleet in the port of Sackett' s
Harbor, distance of about 81 miles from
where we embarked.
The amount of property left in Canada by
me, which was coniscated by the Government
was as follows, viz: store of goods, for
which had paid, in cash, $4,000; house
and lot, and 4O0 acres ofland; the full value
of all the property was about $4,000, for
which have not received one farthing to this
day. ...
have now given some of the principle rea-
sons why | left Canada and took up my abode
in the States.
1t is true have s,rove to revenge the loss of
my property and the persecution of British tyr
ranny, which have been lavished upon me with
out stint for opinions sake; and as yet the
servile knee has not been brought to bow, nor
the lips to kiss the rod that has scourged me,
and for which / am denounced as pirate by
those who first robbed and then imprisoned
me without cause. If the commerce of one
nation is interrupted, and their property plum
dered by another, government seeks redress
for the grievances of its inhabitants. But
mine is a case where an individual is warning
against a nation, single handed, and only for
private wrongs.
took up arms Immediately for the United
States OIL my arrival IN 'Sackett's Harbor, and
was employed severally by Generals Brown,
WiIkerson and Commodore Chauncy, and
subsequently by the Presidents jackson and
Van Buren,, in the Revenue department of the
United States, until February of the present
year, when resigned the employment of Go.
vernment, and joined the Patriot cause; since
which time have been more famiiarly known
as Old Bill Johnston, the hero of the Tho usand
Islands, the Buccaneer or Pirate of the Lakes,
&c. &c., with how much reason, the public is
left to Judge, by their humble servant and we'll
wisher, VIM. JOHNSTON.
How TO GAIN SUIT.-'Tis not every law
yer that gains his suit. even with show of ar
gument on his side; the following case, there
fore, may be considered the more extraordlna-
ry, where there was not the slightest cause of
action. few days since black fellow came
running in breathless haste to the dwelling of a
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