North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-12-04

sau' NJ o1aiagnan thought with
Paplneau. Cote, Nelson, and DIR. Bou.
TELLER recounted these facts 10 me, and
guarantee them to be correct.
Papineau, from that lime, ceased 10 con.
duct the preparations against Canada.
Ne lson, who, till that time, had remained
quiet at Champlain, impelIed, he said, by
The dangerous condition in which were ola-
ced his country, his property, and his own
brother, came forward, and declared him.
sell chief OF The expedition which was then
organizing He caused me TO be enauir>
ed Tor at Plaitsburgh, by Chevaler De
Lorlmier. All the Canadians then united
al that place in their work. We took the
house oil man named Heath, a marble
cutter, which we used as workshop, and
we employed ourselves in the upper part
OF 1t, TO the number of twenty, thirty. or
forty, according to necessity or crcum-
stances.t
Cote, Madame Cote,t r. Nelson, Feuri-
mont ,Bouc, CourceIes, Malo, Joshua Bell,
Frs: DAMS. and two others, named DAMS,
OF the County of Two Mountains. Beau
drleau, and myself with The help of some
Americans,su as M. NJ. Sally 4 Sanburn,
Buck, father and son, made nearly eighty
thousand cartridges, or Whereabouts. We
obtained upon credit, great nor
ton Of the ammunition. We had only to
buy the trifing articles. Most of the hull
lets, lead, and powder were obtained from
small town, near Plattsburgh. The
Americans furnished US with sleiphs To
pass the lines. When we returned. on
our retreat to the United States, General
Wool, on the first Of March, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-eight, think
took all our arms and ammunition. There
were about fifteen hundred or two tbou.
sand stand OF arms. Most of the arms we
had procured from the arsenal Of Elizabeth
Town, State of New-Yofk with the bav-
onets; and they bore the distinctive and
open mark of being American arms. An
these arms were sent with the ammunition
TO the arsenal of Vergennes. A portion.
however, II J recollect rightly, with the
cannons, which were not there in time for
MS TO take over the frontier, remained with
one Game, of Swanton, an innkeener
The Canadians in the United States. sue
ceeded in collecting arms ia q considerable
Mr.. M'sKeemiiiani, lavern-keeper Of St.
Athanase, who thus collected more than
borough, Johnstown, and Swanton, each
furnished a piece of artillery. The towns
Of Montpelier and Middlebury also fur
nished carabnes and cannon SO well, that
in entering by Caldwe's Manor we found
at our disposal nine or ten pieces Of artIe-
ry, OF different sizes, which were reclaim-
ed by the different towns, on our defeat,
under the promise OF allowing us TO take
them again, in case Of our resolving TO re-
attack Canada. Bryant, of Bangor, in
the State OF Maine, was very active in our
service all this time. He is a sober, en-
terprising, bold man, and had been in SER
vice for some time in Texas, and has bis
mind filled with martial ardour. He was
the organ Of which the government of
Maine made use, in order to engage MS
secretly, 10 cause embarrassment to the
English Government, in Lower Canada,
whilst he engaged himself to obge Con-
gress TO exert itself Immediately in the
matter Of the disputed territory, and 10
cause plan Of it to be made out, with a
line in perspective. The Gov. of Maine
(Kent) hoped to cause rupture by means
of the disputed territory, and 70 serve our
interests by engaging the whole Union in
our quarrel. This is what Bryant said
before me, several times, in speaking to
Nelson, Cote and others.S When Lord
Durham came to Canada, the Canadian
fugitives who were opposed to all means
OF reconciliation, such as R. Nelson, Nal
hot & Cote, continued forming new plans
Of invasion. Desperate, at seeing all their
secrets exposed by the indiscretion of their
people, and having absolute need OF secre-
cy-as necessary quality in all those en-
| ployed in the conspiracy-they resolved to
establish an association, Of which the ex-
isience should be concealed, as well in the
United States as in Canada. will de-
DIR. Nelson did not declare himself chief Of
the expedition, which then organizing; but at
the urgent solicitations Of all those engaged 10 the
said expedition, who that PapineaU aban-
doning his old friends, he consented, on Cadwe's
manor, TO become their chief, and the traitor,
Brien, was one Of them who did then proclaim
Robert Nelson President Of Lower Canada.
The number is exaggerated. There we're
never than 20 persons at time working al
that place.
I Mrs Cote, the wife Of DR.. c. II. O. Cote, to
whom probably DIR. Brien alludes, has never made
any cartridges mentioned in this declaration.
Mr. Sally and MFR. Buck, the fsiher, never
made or helped to make any cartridges for the pa
trIois.