North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1840-06-10

most dial ant donb, - lnr, had he not been
app'ellensive of the troops leaving him al
~s' in'lHAsasnt CRISIS hot confirmed shr
blockade at Qnebcr. population (from
The best accounts have been able 10 col
lecil must inevitably have followed"
And, few lines further on, that experi.
eneet General speaks in Tie following
"The instance Of general Montgomery
q mention il, because il is a striking one:
--Ior a number ~ others might be addnced)
proves, that, Instead of having men %
take advantage Of ciSeums,ances,. you are
in manner compelled. rigM or wrong, 10
make circumstances yield TO a secondary
consideration. ..-...s..a ~
On The 9th June following, in a letter
frc M New-York, To the President of Con.
gress, General Washington attributes the
failure Of The American army in Canada 10
short en.stments, want of discipline aud
order, and Of money. He writes as fol-
lows (see page 1873, first volume) = 70
The situa,ion of our affairs in Canada,
as reported by The honorable commissions
ers, is truly alarming I: aud am sorry that
NY opinion OF the i'll consequences result
ing from the short enlistment of the army
should be but TOO well confirmed by the
experience they have had Of The want OF
discipline in our soldiery there"
Gen. Washington. in another letter da-
ted from New-York the Goth of the same
month, acknowledges that the want OF
money had diminished their credit With
The Canadians, and had caused uneas-
ness and dissatisfaction among their own
soldiers. He says, page ls8, LIST vol
uDe -
The silver and paper money designed
for Canada will be highly serviceahle, and
| hope will be the means Of re-estabIishing
oar credit there ID some degree with the
Canadians, and also encourage our men
100, who have complained in this instance.
When it arrives, | will send it forward
under proper guard"
Till now we have seen that the causes
Of The failure were-want Of discipline, or
der and subordination among the Provin-
cial soldiers, and in the next place, want
Of specie to pay their troops, and to meet
the payments due TO the Canadians, who
could not be induced TO take their Conti-
mental bills, 10 exchange for their produce.
We now come TO another cause OF the
| failure Of The expedition. We mean--the
| ill-lrcatmeni the Canadians received at the
hands oil the invaders. Were we TO support
our assertion only by British authors, our
readers might with some shadow Of reason,
tellu our testimony was eS-parte and par.
tial. But, on the contrary, we shall bring
the most Teputed authors ami authorities oil
the Uniied-States, 10 prove that the Can.
adams have been injured and IIl-trea,ed, by
those who pretended at !. first that they
were going into that country 10 project lis
powerless inhabitants against the oppres-
sive and powerful arm of Grea: Britain
When we shall have established the Tact
ia such manner as 10 leave no doubt
about il, what will The detraciors Of the
Canadians say, who have hitherto pre-
fended that that generous and kind-heari-
ed people did not wish 10 free themselves
from British bondage: r9 srs .aat OF,
! An impartial and unprecedented reader
will readily acknowledge that we have
| proved. in Triumphant, manner, that The
Canadians heartily welcomed the Ameri-
cans when they invaded Canada, both IN
der Gen. Montgomery and colonel Arnold;
we have also established the TACT that The
Canadians really joined and aided the
Americans. But what has been the re-
ward of that brave and generous people,
for their devotedness TO the proyincials'--
Let US quote American authors, who were
honorable enough not TO suppress the truth,
and 10 expose the torpitude and everias.-
ing shame OF those who, under the pre-
tence Of freeing people from the oppres-
sion and misrule OF foreign yoke, came
in their ture 10 cypress and harrass
them
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