North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-10-23

Il bUleNN Day iH %NfW sSbsAH " at~'
unwillingly h,nt si insincefi'y, as coupled
with the efforts OF any sect ol professors 81
humanity. bot the true answer must be
-" Nothing"
A gentleman who has Just arrived IN tins
CITY. on las return from Lower Canada
gives the following heau-rending account
of the worse than savage treatment and
reception 81 seventy brave Americans,
prisoners who were taken after the gallant
action ct The Windmill, Prescott; bad a
mock trial; and have lain IN prison ever
since.
| " Phev were preceded from Montreal
hv about sixty Canadians. in the British
| America and being heavily ironfd and
chained in couples, were removed 10 q
steamer in the river, commanded by firm
strong, late master Of Tie SIR Robert
Peel, and in the most sbiect, Illuminating
manner, conveyed to Quebec.
On their arrival at that port they were
all strpt naked, scrubbed and mopped,
their heads shaved as smooth as an apple,
their clothes bundled up and tossed over
board into the ST. Lawrence, and rcplac-
ed with canvass or due shirts and trow-
sers, coarse grey roundabouls, and oil
skin caps to cover their badness
They bore all with tolerate composure
until this last dSgraceinI and brutal, but
truly British, scene began tn be enacted
but it heegared all description, and brought
forth feelings and expressions OF horror
and disgust from all who witnessed il.
The convict Ca save) ship sent from
England TO transport them, is called the
Buffalo, in derision OF the people Of the
city Of that name"
Even The presses Of Canada, hardened
and vindiclive as their abandoned conduc
tors have shewn themselves, were touched
with compassion when they witnessed this
last outrage on humanity. The Mont
real Herald Of Sept. 9th says: 4" We are
told that the parting scene bet,ceen the
conpic.s and their relations, scds distress
sing in The ertreme, and caused tears TO
fo,c from all eyes rhich tcitnessed az, al
belt they Uere unused 10 The melting mood
twenty-five prisoners are to be released
on giving satisfactory security that they
will leave the Province in lortv-eight hours
after their liberation, and never return to
il again; two others, named Levesque and
Brien, are 10 enter into similar arrange
ment, with this difference, that they are
to remove six hundred miles from the
Province. 1t is an undue abuse of the
royal prerogative Of pardon TO show favor
to the most respectable, wealthy and in
fluential portion OF the rebels, who. are the
most Gu pable, and to punish the poor re-
bells for no other ostensible reason than
that they are poor, and cannot procure Sc
curiiy for their future good behaviour"
The Montreal Courier coniesses that " il
was a melancholy spectacle to see the em-
barkation Of these unfortunate men,"
Among the Canadian gentlemen who
had mock trial, and whose sentence OF
death has been changed TO perpetual, horri- |
bile slavery, we see the names OF Charles
Huot, Capt. MORN and his son, J. J. He
bert, Joseph and Louis DemoucheIIes,
David Gagnan, and Andre Papineau, dit
Montigny.
The Burlington Sentinel Of the 4th
states that the Buffalo left Quebec direc,
for Botany Bay, on Sunday the a9lh uIt.
This closes The dreadful scene, and who |
that has a heart to feel can refuse The tear
% sympathy and compassion TO such
fearful accumulation of human misery?
Among the three score from l.. Canada,
were DR.. Samuel Newcombe of Chateau
quay, in this State, aged Ga, and Mr..
Benjamin Mott of Aburgh, VI, aged %,
both having large families. "What re-
ply casks the Sentinei) would have been
made by any one of the ssges who grew
gray and care-worn in carrying our infant
nation thro' her life struggle with imperos
and blood-thirsty England, or what would
any one OF those veterans, whose blood
had been poured out like water on every
held where redcoat was 10 be me!, have
said, had he been told that within half a
century whole cargoes OF men would be
shipped from America into perpetual slave
y by the same power they had so fiercelv
eslsted; and that too far no other crime
han that they dared to strike a blow for
reedom! Think you they would not
rave cursed their whole posierity had they
20 lar degenerated as To have permitted so
ou disgrace To be enlaied upon Ameri-
"A? Would not blush Of shame have i
their honest, war-worn cheeks. :
onld they have supposed their descend ;
mis- capable OF witnessing such barbaritv
without at least an honest burst Of indigna- !
ion! Yet so it is. The accursed spir;t C
{ Mammon has so firmly rivetied its
hams upon this once independent nation, ,