North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-09-11
this also remained unanswered.


To w. Rowan, Esquire, Civil Secretary
Sir,-0n the 9Th of this month had
the honor TO address to you letter to-
gether with petition TO the Governor
The sgners OF this petition wish me to
enquire from you whether you have re-
ceived my letter and the petition.
! have the honor to be &c. sc.
This letter also received no answer, from
which we concluded that it was a decided
plan with the government not to take any
notice of the requisilon o: the prisoners. We
were fully satisfied of the truth of our sus-
picion when sometime afterwards we
learnt that Sir John, when complaints had
been made against the physician of the
Jail, had said: i" If we listen to their COM
plants against the physician, they will al
forwards complain OF the Sheriff, then of
the jaer, and the turkeys, and there will
be no end to such complaints" II is the
Sheriff himself who very candidly reported
to US these remarks of His Excellency
22nd May learn that the corpses of
two patriots, Joseph Delpe & Toussaint
LavaIlee, killed at the battle of St. Charles,
have just been found under the rnin of a
house burnt by Wetherall after the battle
was over. In conformity to the Bishops
Pastoral Letter, the priest OF the Parish re-
fused to bury them in the burying ground.
This same abomnabIe conduct towards
the remains of honorable men, has been
observed towards all the other patriots
who died on the battle field at ST. Charles,
St. Eustache, or elsewhere. There are
people who laugh at this petty vengeance
Of His Lordship, and see in this vile act
Of the Bishop but another means of court
ing power. Many seem to be disposed to &C.
knowledge the power of the Bishop to
pronounce on the right that a man who
has left this unhappy and sinful world
has OF expecting happy life in the other;
and so might we, if we did not see
decisions absolutely in contradiction, the
80 ''.:-h 'hn other from atfarent chnrch-
men on the same topics. They cite as an
example, the funeral service that the French
Bishops perform yearly, with the greatest
pomp, for the victims Of the three days Of
July 1880, and they add Furthermore tina,
it was His Most Christian Majesty that
was dethroned by these men for whom the
Bishops now perform annual service. On
the contrary in Canada, they say, that il
the Canadians had it in their minds to de-
throne any one, it was hereto Queen
To this last reasoning, answer that it is
OF no weight with our holy Bishop who
is far from being a fanatic, and that hi
cares not for the person who occupies The
throne provided it is always an absolute
and despotic government. As psous {
r christian as he is, he would willingly obey
.Mahomedan Prince, according to thu
: doctrines promulgated in his infamous
i Pastoral Letter. The great secret of al
. this is mitre, gilded throne and veve
cushion. A famous casuist of this city
says that the case oil the French insurgents
r and that Of the Canadian Rebels are no
e exactly parallel, and the reason is very OBJ
vous; the former have been successful, ant
IRE have failed; consequently they hav
A rights in heaven that we cannot have
0 from the great principle acknowledged il
q all the human society, and which they pre-
tend is also an abiding rule in the othe
y world" woe to the vanquished." A
2 east such is the reasoning OF the great the
i illogical Doctors, the Bishop of Montres
# and the Superior Of the Seminary of 81
y Sulpice. Such profound reasoning ough
n to convince every one; Therefore submit
n TO ii. But have question to ask to tn
II great casnist. What became Of III
,r souls Of those killed in July 1880, from th
): moment of their death TO the moment tbs
Il the tricolored flag was waving on the Yer
o dome column, and to the time that Charlt
IS Y was obliged to leave Paris! L.
theologians discuss such questions whilt
we fight the battles ofour country.
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