North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-08-14

. "How shoFt-sighied, how wilfully blind
7 have been the rebels aud traitors, from the
! loves, mental TO their cowardly idol Papi-
neau. They have sacrificed hundreds oI
lives, have lost property, peace, content,
home and honor 10 effect that which
: time must inevitably give as a natural CON
sequence, provided we do not amalgamate
with the .a,riess igHehiag republicans,
TO the south ol the 45th degree of north
latitude, aud become Two States Of that
huge and loosely joinfed union, 10 be rent
IN pieces with contentious regarding slave
~, loco locoism, elections dcisuIters, whig-
ISM and democracy; thus would both
| French and English merge into the Ameri-
can race, and become part OF a people that
al the present moment are The contempt
and deriston Of eUerg honest man, part of
nation abounding ,giM robbers, pirates,
and Jrigaads " Forbid it honor, ana for
/ bad il shame. ""s'
Thus, when our lawless, stabbing,
hanging, lynchlng, roasting alive neieh~
/ bors, who are all Judges, jurymen, and ex~
eculloners, are hereafter racked with the
most calling anarchy; when the cOnten-
tons of part are so violent, that all civil
government is overthrown when slaves
who have been debased by the most degfad-
ing slavery, throw off The chains that bound
them, and take an Unsuitable revenge on
Their oppressofs when all those States |
shall become a house Of mourning, and /
democracy, rapine, and Righteousness are
stalking through their land when the
voices Of weeping and waing, and deep
bair h..r
life and honor are at the mercy of a brutal
raJdte in Canada, under the sovereign of
our own choice, (perhaps a descendant OF
our young and lovely Queen,) will every
man eat his bread in peace under his own
vine, and under his own fg-tree. Que
bee Gazette.
The ST. Adams Messenger of the Oath
instant states that three soldiers, in at
tempting to desert their posts at Misss-
quot Bay on the morning Of the 22d, were
hotIy pursued into Highgate, where two
OF them were taken, while the ihrd ran
INTO the lake and was drowned This is
another proof to those we already have.
mat our government has given instruc-
lions to Sir John CoIbornc to pursue de-
serters and brigands into the States, and
catch them wherever they may be found.
This system will! be death blow to ac- s
live sympathy, "-.MontreaI Herald.
Nightly and daily American soil is in.
Faded by the serls OF Coborne or an Ar
hur. And what Of il? The Caroline
vas burned 29th Dec. 1887, and ,ohat of
~ American citizens have been hanged I
~ Arthur for treason-and achat OF al i? {
Iolborne has had Instructions to pursue t
ieserters and brigandS into the States, and c
'atch them wherever they may be found i
and what oft ? Does not the silence v
If the sympathizers" give sufficient H. {
ense for all these things? ED. N. Al il
What have we hitherto had for Execu- u
I'VE Councillors? Mere official Clerks e
uperanuafed placemen, capital Judges of b
adelra and venison; who start from the n
nbJect OF popular privileges as though b
hey touched red-hot poker. Let us "
ave different men and, thousand guineas
dncat, peace and satisfaction would ;,
ign, where, now is, war, or something y
Ike it, and despair, or, something like it.
Montreal, Courier. cl
Judge Bedard and Mr.. Massue of this n
NY (Quebec) were passengers in The 80
r't'sh Queen.a The judges who have 70
zen suspended, and the hanging of whom J"
ouId have pleased many, are all renstated.
his rehabilitation has given rise to divers =,
mors about the fate of those who have '
ken the place of these judges. These 81
mors seem to US TO be too trifng TO be A,
ken notice of.-Quebec Canadien.
HE MARTYRS OF LIBERTYIN CANADA.
he approach Of death often incites peo- IN
10 reveal the secrets Of their souls. Weak tn
N are seen, who in the dread Of the blows il
1lcted on them by the hand of oppression, liz,
owe unIalthful 10 the cause which theyf ~
d TIL then defended with the hope of us
bveHIng the reign of the tyrants. ole
Among SO large a number of unfortu-
tie Canadians, condemned to death.
long twelve Of them executed bv the NJ,
nd OF despotism, we say it with pride. lon
Fry one OF them was deeply impressed -"
tn this holy truth, that the due obser- on
nee Of plIghted faith is more honorable the
j profitable than the frnls of treason adj
1 perhdy; they have made no revea I'M
n that might be obnoxious to their
'ihren implicated in the same cause: na'
l. tor