The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-04-30

1JA Name correspondent of the Boston Atlas
under date Of April ~, writes follows in de-
fence of his State in reference 10 the Boundary sub
ject:
BY solemn treaty, made fifty six years ago, this
territory became ours. This is admitted by every
unpreludiced man, who has examined the sub ject
Maine has unustly been kept out of her rights
81 her territory for more than half century. When
she has attempted to exercise her jurisdiction
within the treaty limits, her citizens have
been seized by overbearing and insolent power,
thrust like felons into foreign jails, and tried as Of
tenders against His ajesty Il his government, &
sentenced as cuprits, or relescd with ignominy--
And this not once, but often. Lawless dopreda-
tors have been, from year to year, pundering and
stripping the territory aud one third part of this al
most empire State, great part OF which is the
most fertile and tempting to actual settlers of any
portion Of our territory, has been left dsolate
waste, unpeopled and untitled. In the meantime,
have urged and entreated the General Govern
ment to settle the dispute or assert our rights
have told them of wrongs and our injuries
have demonstrated the justice of our claim; aud we
have asked again and again, to have some definite
action to bring the matter TO close. We have
spoken to deaf ears and have appealed to mute
tongues. WE COULD NOT OBTAIN EVEN
A HEARING AS Mr. Evans told Congress, after
the outbreak last winter, he had warned and ex-
postnlated, but 1T had been to empty seats and de-
serted walls.
The truth is, Maine and her rights negec.
ted, and she could in quarter, obtain even de-
cen, listener to the story other wrongs She was
thus reduced to the alternative of either yielding
to the demands and encroachmens of the usurping
power of England, and quietly passing with her
citizens under a foreign yoke, or of asserting her
rights and maintaining them single handed, until
Shame, no higher motive, should drive the Union
to her support. She took her stand with noble
resolution upon the line Of the treaty of 1888, and
she determined to stand by that line, with unyied-
ing pertinacty She called once upon the
General Government to and establish that line,
and, if that Government neglected or refused to do
it, shedrected her governor to eau Sc to be done
yha I'M xuit ont and
constructed abroad into the territory and offered land
upon the Aroostook to settlers which eagerly
taken up, and settled upon. The Commissioners
were appointed and sent on to find the w. an
gle of Nova Scotia, and explore the treaty high
lands, which they did, to the satisfaction and con-
vIction of all. During the last W inter, information
was received that trespassers in large NUMBERS IL
of desperate character, were depredating upon the
land near the Aroosook River. civil force,
headed by the Land Agent, was sent on TO capture
expel them. These lawless men sclzed the Land
Agent and transported him to Fredericton, where
the deed was SO far recognized and approved, that
the civil officers of the province caused him to be
arrested and detained others had been before, as
an offender against her Majesty the youthful Queen
Thereupon Sir John Harvey issued his Proclama-
ton, and notified our Governor that he must with
draw his force from the disputed territory 10 whch
he claimed exclusive jurisdiction, he should
drive 1t off by force of arms. Now ask any man
whohas spark ofthe true fire ofthe flint, in whose
veins runs a drop Of Auglo Saxon blood, or who in
herits one principle or feeling from the noble army
of the Matyrs of 76, who is not far gone in
did calculations of pecunary profit the all abb
sorbing selishness of money changer, as to re-
gard national honor nonsense, and the firm
support ofjustice as fool-hardy rashness because
forsooth, you might, thereby endanger the hull of
schooner on the ocean, or derange for a time the
calculations of mercantile men, what would you do?
Would you humbly crave pardon of her Majesty
and her Governor, for thus audaciously daring to
assert title to your own property, and enforcing
jurisdiction over territory, which has always been
de facto under that jurisdictions Would you turn
and flee from the old line f'63, because UPRIGHT
eous claim was about 10 be enforced by military
power?
Buried .aLinc-Y Yesterday the remains of