Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-09-20
The Patriots aud Van Buren,.
A SKETCH.

During the Canadian disturbances of 1878
CHARLES c. BoUcH, ofthe Lower Province, and
hfty-elght others. in one body were out Iawed,
and banished to New South Wales.
"Le jour viendra!" was the exclama-
ton of a fond wife and devoted mother as
she wrung the hand and kissed the damp
brow of the out-lawed and banished patri-
OF, husband and father. Ten years exile
from the slaughter fields of St. Dennis, St.
Charles and st. Eustache, and we witness
that once hero husband and proud father with
folded arms, and resigned but withered
heart, stranger upon the deck of the steam
boat Detroit vending his way through the
straits of Ste. Marie in search of that fam
lily. On Thursday, the 10th of August,
1913, he lands at the Saut, untelegra phed
and uuheralded, and in log cabin might
have been witnessed the reunion of husband
and wife, the meeting of the long separated
father and an interesting group of children.
How happy are they! Look at that wife
clinging round the neck of the toil-worn,
weather-beaten outlaw, and those lovely
girls clasping the knees, embracing the
hands and weeping over that father; whilst
yonder in the relief stands the son with
burning tears trickling down his manly
cheeks but without the power of utterance.
In that log-cabin stands the restored
CHARLES C. BOUCH, the Canadian Pa
triot, and his noble but suffering family.
They, who eleven years ago enjoyed wealth
and happiness! But we are unequal to the
task of describing this scene and we permit
the veil to fall: yet, oh inhumanity, oh
Canada, oh tyranny! the hour of trouble
and tribulation to those who governed thee,
draws nigh! Doomed are those who have
drawn the bloody tears! The patriot stands
upon freedoms soil and offers up a free.
mans prayer. That prayer will be heard
and you, too, shall be purged, regenerated,
and disenthralled. There shall be no more
monarchial influence left to the exercise of
petty tyranny on this continent. All, all
shall be alike free!
Martin Van Buren,, where are you now
You talk of free soil! 1t was you who
oppressed this man. England would have
trembled had you said the word. This
man and his compatriots would never had
been transported but for your temperising
and cowardly policy. Your power as the
head at this nation would have tempered
the judgement of the benches of the British
Government and reason would have tri-
umphed. But, there was nothing of the
J lofty humanity and iron soul of jackson in
your composition. What did you do
You renegade and deserter from your early
friends and principles-you, who are, te
descend to your grave with the brand Ct
migrate and traitor, what were you doing
when this man was inundated in the con
test for the freedom of the SOIL? You
President of the United States, the patror
: Republic of the earth! Why, sir, you de
nounced those who sought relief, refuge, ant
protection! You attem pied to brand them
and not only them but cast reproaches upo1
7 "every virtuous fellow-citizen" who eve
r sympathized with them; and well do yo
: remember the strong language Of one
, your best friends at one Of the greatest meet
] ings ever held in the city of Detroit; wher
e he admitted that you had a right as MAI
: tin Van Buren, to express in private COZ
e versation, what you might have formed o
r the subject of the Canadian troubles; bt
), told you that in your capacity as Chi
:, Magistrate of the United States, you ha
l. no right to enter in combination with IL
British authorities to cut down the up-lifte
1t hand of hberism in Canada, which W;
l. stretched forth to the freemen of our fro1
IL tier, beckoning that succor and aid whic
o had been extended to US in the dark da,
o of the revolution which gave us life al
IS being. That, as Executive of the feder
r Government you should preserve the Law
n' inviolate; but that there your duty ende
'e That you might have spoken in referen
j. to our own laws, but no further. That yo
b. meddling interference was undignifed