Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-12-20
Vol. X....No. Is.


commenced in Upper Canada. There has
Oeen some fighting at Toronto, where the
reVolnt'onists are headed by Mckenzie, for
whose apprehension Governor Head offers
@lo''o' Reports continue to be various and
contradictory.
ANOTHER Accountability papors
otthe 10th, published slip from the ms.
master at Lewiston, u. C., stat;no p that
me LoyaIist troops and Radicals were
lighting, on the morning of the 9th ahont
ten miles from Toronto.-V. UyaIch
LATE FROM LOWER CANApA-Thx
Franklin Messenger (St. AIbans) owes
rumor that the Patriots have defeated the
troops IN battle at the Lake of Two
Mountains; Nlat the prisoners WHO were
taken to Montreal charged with treason,
have been prirate'y shot! and that nu-
merous arrests are sill made in the neigh.
horhood Of St. Cesairs p. S. The battle
is denied.-B
Below is the Declaration put forth BY the
revolutionists in the Lower Province h;u
given in the Telegraph as matter Of MIS-
tory which many wall desire to preserve.
From thcsst Adams journal.
ADDRESS ofU!e " Sons ofLibertu." of 1;ca-
tre0l, to the Young licn Of tho North
american Colonies.
Andre Ouiment, Geo. BuchprvilIe,
Francois Ta!crnIor, and Amabjc Simard.
have been arrested on the charge Of High
Treason for signing this Address.
BRoTHERs:--Whcn urgent circun-
stances in tue atlairs ola country make it
necessary for men to form themselves into
parties, or associations, a proper respect
FIR the opinions of society, demands from
them an explicit declaration ofthe causes
which have induced them to combine, and
OF the principles which they intent to ad-
vance by the power ofthe organization.
We consider that, next to the privilege
Of acting for himself, man possesses, from
the very foundation Of society, that Of unit
ing his energies with those of his fellow
citizens for all purposes of mutuaiintcrrst,
or defence; and that, therefore, the right
of association is as sacred ani inalienabc,
as the right Of personal liberty. We hold
benefit, and can only exist justly by the
consent OF the governed and whatever
may be the artificial changes in human
affairs, that government Of choice is an
Inherent right ofthe people. ItcanGot BE-
alienated, and consequently always be as
serted and exercised All governments
being Instituted for The benefit Of 4 whole
people, and not for the honor or profit Of
any individual, all pretenslons Of divine or
absolute authority TO rule claimed by,or for
any man or set of men, are blasphemous
and absurd. alike monstrous when incul-
Gated, and degrading when admitted. The
authority Of a parent state over a colony
can exist on y during the p leasure of the
colonists; Gr the country being establish
ed and settled by them, belongs to them,
of right, and may be separate from all for
elgn conaexion, whenever the inconYeni-
ences resulting from an Executive power
residing abroad, ceasng to .hArmonize
with local legislature, makes such a
step necessary to the inhabitants for the
protection o. life, libe 'ty, or tie pursuit Of
happiness.
The Young Mems Association Of Mon
treel, adopting the title Of " The SONS or
LIBERTY" is not intended 10 be private
cabal, or secret iuuto. but an active dem
dcra'lc body, comprising all young men
in the city, practically alive to the inter-
oSts OF their country, whatever may be
their creed, country, or the naiiou Of their
anc eslors.
The causes which demand, at the pres
h.
from young men, coming forward into as
tive life, heroic devotion to their coun-
try's cause, are manifold and Imposing.
At the cesson ofths Province in 1863,
with q view to consolidate British power
on the banks Of The St. Lawrence, certain
tights of property, religion and govern
ment, were guaranteed to the Canadians,
ani afterwards more fully confirmed in
l774, when the approaching noble revolt
OF the American States rendered cessions
to the new sub jects of the empire extreme
" polite The brilliant success of those
States, and the overwhelming movement
of revolution in France. having made
England tremb!c f.s the safety of her re-
naming American possessions, she pass
ed, in 1871. an Act called the "Constiiu-
tional Act" which divided Upper from
Lower Canada, and estab shed a Repre-
sentative Assembly in each. la 1912,
Cancellation was again rendered necessa-
~, by tn" declaration Of war with the
United States, These tines Of danger
have been lhe seasons Of seeming Justice of
Canada, while the intervening and sue
cetding periods furnish bit on long histn-
~ of r"p,4rtel injuries ATROCITIES, usurpa-
tons and wrongs Thus we have seen
B. itsh rulers, with cowardice and per-
hdy unworthy the representatives of