North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1840-04-22

Filthy, That the acquisition Of Canada
and lis vast importance TO the Union were
duly appreciated by the leading men OF the
L. States. These positions we shall sup
port by extracts from Samuel Williams
History OF Vermont, Marshals' Life Of
Washington, Sparks American Biography,
Aliens Narrative, Bissel's Reign Of Geo.
III, Botta's History OF the American war,
Montgomery's letters to Congress, Private
Journal OF British officer, Washngton's
official letters to the President Of Congress,
Journals Of the Continental Congress,
Smiths History of Canada, Letters Of
Lafayette, Washington and John Adams.
We hope by the presentation of these
facts, TO silence forever, those ignorant,
mercenary writer's, who have laboured TO
stigmatize the Canadians for not aiding
the Americans in their noble struggle for
liberty, and we trust we shall be able to
prcsen. facts sufficient to satisfy our rea-
ders, that in the war OF 1912. between
England and the u. States, the Canadians
were as bameess as in the war of the Re-
volution.
To support our views on this subject
we have appealed to American authors,
whose testimony ought to be relied upon,
as they could not be supposed TO be pre-
JUDGED in favor of the Canadian people.
Sacred truth alone has compelled them
to record facts as they occurred. We have
also referred TO British authors who GER
tainly would have praised the loyalty Of
the Canadians If they had been true to the
crown, yet they testify not only that the
Canadians were disaflected, but that they
actually joined the rebel army. We have
likewise quoted from other authors, who
all agree that the Canadians were dissatis-
fed with the British government, and that
il sufficient force had been sent into
Canada, that Colony would have been
lost to England, so inveterate was the ha-
tired Of the Canadians against her.
The Canadians soelcomed the americans
when they inraded Canada.
In consulting the journals Of Congress for
the wear l775, we see that several secret
messengers had been dispatched from the
Province Of Quebec TO inform that honor.
able body that the Canadians had decided
not to take up arms against the Americans
in their contest with England. Whenthe
calm g. dispassionate reader comes to rehec
that the Canadians and Americans had mo-
the same origin, spoke different Ian
guages, and possessed adverse religion:
creeds, and that the year $50 was yet frest
in the memory of the former, that had il
not been for the aid and assistance afford
ed by the English Colonists the Acadiant
would not have been so numerically and
SO inhunanly annihiiated, and its gener
Gus, brave, and too coniding people scat.
tered TO the four winds of the world, we
asks il not surprising that the invaders
were welcomed by the people OF Canada
Our readers must know that the Canadians
were attached, by the dearest ties, TO the
Acadian people; a common origin, simi.
lar language and religion united these
people, and moreover they had belonged to
the same crown. But there was yet another
recollection fresh in the memory o! the
C anadians-they had been forced, by un'
comfortable circumstances, and by the
cowardce Of their French Governors, &c
submit TO the Crown OF England, fol-
which they had the greatest antipaihy
nor, as we have before said, had they for
gotten that the English Colonists had aid
ed England in subjugating them. All these
recollections were yet present to tie minds
OF the French Canadians; yet what wai
their conduct when the Americans appeal
ed to them for the mere obserUanee O
neutrality. They snswered-we will not
remain neutral; il you send into our coun
Try a large and respectable force, sufficient
to protect us from the oppression OF Eng
land, we will join you and fight in iht
sacred cause of liberty. All the entTea