" Samuel P. Jarvis—Above is the heart-rending detail of the slaughter of one of the finest youths then in Upper Canada by this hardened desperado. It is a simple tale of woe—written by a relative of the deceased, and published by his request, to ease the bosoms that have long throbbed with silent sorrow.—Had Jarvis observed that caution that would have become his situation, and not turned out as the leader of a lawless band of official desperadoes—this exposure of his bloody deed would never have appeared.—But when we see him acting the braggadocio, and following up a course that puts all law both human and divine at defiance—when we see palliating histories of his crimes published by the authority of the Executive government in the official paper—when we see him elevated to office, and swaggering through the streets, before an insulted community, arm in arm with Attorney Generals and Judges, instead of standing at the bar of justice before these officers, to atone for his high crimes—when he and friends have the effrontery to endeavour to stigmatise the Freeman as a "calumniator" for speaking the truth—then we think it is high time for the Freeman to put him and his faction at defiance, and to bring out facts that will make them [illegible] their heads. Let Jarvis and Boulton now come on, and account to a Christian community, if they can, for the innocent blood they have shed.—Let Henry Boulton show how it was that he, a settled man of 28 or 30—that he, the acting Solicitor General of Upper Canada—that he, the
second legal adviser of the Crown in this colony—was so unmanly—so base—so unprincipled in the first place to carry a challenge to a boy of 18 years of age! —Let Henry Boulton show how it as that he, so void of honour and manliness as to allow himself to be kicked out of a public office without [illegible] it, was the first to lead to [illegible], like a lamb to the shambles, an innocent youth [illegible] to have him [illegible]ed, according to the rules and principles of honour—rules and principles on which [illegible] so grossly [illegible] regardless!—Let Henry Boulton show upon what principle of honour he over-ruled Mr. Small, and compelled this boy to stand unarmed within eight paces of his cold blooded destroyer, to be shot down like a target—Let Henry Boulton, as he is a lawyer, give a reason, or show why he should not have long since been hanged by the neck like a dog for this conduct—Again let desperadoe Jarvis come out and answer for the blood of Mr. Ridout's [illegible] —let him show why he assaulted an unoffending boy, much his inferior in years and strength, in the first place—let him show how he thirsted like a [illegible] for his blood, and was the first to challenge—let him show how it was that he, presuming to call himself a "man of character"—could use such ungentlemanly, such ruffianly, language in the field—let him show, how it was, if he had not murder [illegible] in his heart, as it seems to us pictured on his brow, that when the boy's pistol went off without injury, and he ran up to him with open arms, he did not discharge his pistol into the air, and clasp hands with his father's god-child—Finally let
old Judge Boulton come out, and when this murder was [illegible], why he did not show that delicacy which he exhibited in Mr. Randall's case—and as he conducted the proceedings in which his son Henry was charged with murder, let him show, if he can, that there was a fair, impartial trial—If they cannot answer these questions satisfactorily, it is but right that the truth should come out and that the country should know the real character of the men who enjoy the patronage and confidence of our Colonial government.